Hwang In Youp and Hyeri Reunite Around Unfinished Dreams in ENA’s Dream to You

ENA’s upcoming romantic comedy Dream to You is putting its central promise in plain view: a first love story that is also about returning to an abandoned dream. The drama has released a special poster featuring Hwang In Youp and Girl’s Day’s Hyeri, previewing a reunion that brings two former high school sweethearts back to the unfinished film that once connected them.

The series stars Hwang In Youp as Woo Soo Bin, a gifted film director who has achieved the kind of success he once imagined from a distance. Hyeri plays Joo Yi Jae, a reporter whose adult life has pushed her away from the hopes she held as a student. According to the drama’s setup, the two were each other’s first love 15 years earlier, when Yi Jae encouraged Soo Bin to pursue a creative path beyond the rigid future planned by his parents.

That background gives the newly released poster more weight than a simple romance teaser. It frames the story around a question familiar to many coming-of-age dramas but shifted into adulthood: what happens when the person who first believed in your dream returns after you have stopped believing in your own?

A reunion built around cinema

In the poster, Woo Soo Bin and Joo Yi Jae are shown working on a film set after reconnecting as adults. The image suggests that their old project, left incomplete during their school years, becomes the bridge between their past and present. Rather than presenting the romance only through nostalgia, the drama appears to use filmmaking as a practical reason for the characters to spend time together, confront old feelings, and reconsider the lives they chose.

For Soo Bin, the reunion carries a reversal of roles. As a student, he was the one encouraged by Yi Jae to imagine a future outside his parents’ expectations. As an adult director, he now seeks her out at a point when she is worn down by daily pressures and struggling to make ends meet. His return is described as a spark that brings back the ambitions Yi Jae had buried, making the relationship less about rescue than about recognition.

The drama’s production team has emphasized that the two characters once shone while chasing love and their dreams together. That description positions Dream to You within a familiar but durable Korean drama lane: romance powered by memory, regret, and the possibility that adulthood has not fully closed the door on youth.

The poster hints at romance and partnership

The special poster also leans into visual symbols of partnership. Soo Bin and Yi Jae are shown gazing at each other, a direct signal that unresolved attraction remains part of the story. But another image from the poster may be just as important: the pair sitting side by side in chairs labeled for their director roles, holding hands while looking in the same direction.

That detail suggests the drama is not only asking whether the two leads can rekindle a relationship. It is also asking whether they can stand on equal creative footing. Yi Jae’s chair, in particular, matters because the character has been introduced as someone who forgot her own dreams while trying to survive. Placing her beside Soo Bin as a director points toward a storyline about reclaiming agency, not simply becoming the muse of a successful man.

Hyeri’s casting adds another layer of interest for viewers who have followed her work across idol activity, variety appearances, and acting roles. Here, she is being positioned as a character whose warmth and earlier confidence have been worn down, giving the drama room to explore both comedy and melancholy. Hwang In Youp, meanwhile, takes on a role that combines polish, romantic persistence, and the burden of a past shaped by family expectations.

Premiere details

Dream to You is scheduled to premiere on July 13 at 10 p.m. KST. The drama will also be available on Viki, giving international viewers a route to follow the series with subtitles.

With its first major poster, the production is selling a clear emotional hook: two people who began with the same film and the same youthful sense of possibility meet again after life has changed them. If the series can balance workplace comedy, romantic tension, and the quieter story of Yi Jae rediscovering ambition, Dream to You could become one of July’s more closely watched Korean romance premieres.