This spring's K-drama Semantic Error is centered on two university students. One is reserved and rule-bound to a fault, the other is carefree and irresponsible, and their first encounter is as disastrous as can be expected. But following the conventional romance formula, opposites attract, misunderstanding transpires, and they discover that they are in love.

That makes Semantic Error sound like generic small-screen entertainment, but the show offers a key difference from the usual Korean boy-meets-girl stories: the two main protagonists are male.

One of many online episode recaps of the Korean drama Semantic Error