Semantic Error () is a 2022 South Korean streaming television series based on a homonymous BL web novel by Jeo Soo-ri, starring Park Seo-ham and Park Jae-chan. It premiered on February 16, 2022, on Watcha. The series is the first BL to achieve a major success in South Korea. The series became a social phenomenon and introduced the BL genre to the mainstream South Korean audience, which resulted in a rising production of South Korean BL dramas and films. The series was included on Teen Vogue's best BL dramas of 2022 list.
The theatrical version of the series, Semantic Error: The Movie, was first screened at the 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and commercially released in August 2022.
A less well-known anime version of the same source material appeared in 2021, produced and streamed by Laftel.
Synopsis
Computer science major Choo Sang-woo (Park Jae-chan) is the embodiment of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. While working on a liberal arts group project with freeloaders who don't put in any effort, Sang-woo decides to remove their names from the final presentation. But he didn't imagine how involved he would become with the person whose plans to study abroad were messed up because of that project. The involved person, the popular campus star who everyone knows, Department of Design's Jang Jae-young (Park Seo-ham). He has everything from skills, looks, family background and good relationships, except for one big problem, Choo Sang-woo. What happens when an engineer and an artist whose personalities are like oil and water, have to work together? Jae-young is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Sang-woo. Will Sang-woo be able to debug this?
Cast Main Park Seo-ham as Jang Jae-young Park Jae-chan as Choo Sang-woo
Supporting Kim Noh-jin as Ryu Ji-hye Cha Jae-hoon as Lee Dong-gun Song Ji-oh as Choi Yu-na Kim Won-ki as Go Hyeong-taek Jung Joon-gyo as Ted Hyung
Guest Lee Kyoung-yoon as waiter (Episode 5) Kim Jong-hyeong as a customer (Episode 5) Kim Se-hyeon as a customer (Episode 5) Jeon Min-gyu as a customer (Episode 5) Ryu Gi-seok as a customer (Episode 5)
Awards and nominations +Name of the award ceremony, year presented, award category, nominee(s) of the award, and the result of the nomination Award Year Category Nominee(s) / Work(s) Result APAN Star Awards2022Best Couple AwardPark Jae-chan and Park Seo-hamPopular Star Award (Actor)Park Jae-chanBest New ActorPark Seo-hamBlue Dragon Series Awards2022Park Jae-chan and Park Seo-hamPopular Star Award Brand of the Year Awards2022Acting Idol of the Year (Male)Park Jae-chanGrand Bell Awards2022Daejong's Expected AwardKim Soo-jung (Semantic Error: The Movie)New Wave Award (Actor)Park Jae-chan Korea Best Brand Awards 2023 Best Drama Actor/Artist Park Seo-ham Seoul International Drama Awards2022 Outstanding K-Pop IdolPark Jae-chanOutstanding Korean Actor Park Seo-hamOutstanding Korean Drama OSTColdin ("Romantic Devil")
Earlier anime Laftel adapted the story into an anime series format. This version consisted of only four episodes, each four minutes long. The series aired between March and April 2021.
Notes
See also
List of BL dramas
References
External links
(anime version)