Netflix’s “Our Sticky Love”Filming Locations in Yecheon, Cheongsong, Dangjin, Pohang & More
Netflix’s Our Sticky Love portrays the heart-fluttering cohabitation of an elite prosecutor with amnesia and a boxing coach who insists he’s her boyfriend.
Like yeot (엿), Korea’s traditional taffy candy, it’s a story of love that’s both sweet and sticky.
Actor Jung Hae-in plays Jang Tae-ha, a former youth boxing champion and gang member currently working as a small-town boxing coach.
He described the role as the purest embodiment of devoted love among the characters he’s played, saying that his character’s determination to protect the person he loves in any situation made him look “cool.”
Jung Hae-in also shared that because his character has no dating experience, his clumsy, awkward way of handling relationships ended up feeling charming rather than off-putting.
He revealed that “the scenes with Ha Young felt like a romantic comedy, but the scenes with senior actor Heo Sung-tae felt like noir — it felt like shooting two or three different projects at once.”
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Our Sticky Love Cast
Jang Tae-ha (played by Jung Hae-in): A former youth boxing champion and gang member currently working as a small-town boxing coach. Once a promising young boxer, he became a gangster before leaving the organization to live as a boxing gym coach. On his final assignment before leaving the organization, he encounters his destined first love, Go Eun-sae, who has lost her memory — and begins a life-risking lie…
Go Eun-sae (played by Ha Young): A prosecutor who suffers from amnesia. A prosecutor in the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, trusted exclusively by her seniors for her standout track record. While chasing a golden opportunity for career advancement by tracking a violent crime organization, she is involved in an incident that causes her to lose her memory, and wakes up in an unfamiliar rural hospital, where she encounters Jang Tae-ha, who claims to be her “boyfriend”…
(Before losing her memory, her name was “Go Ji-won.”)
Baek Sang-gil (played by Heo Sung-tae): A crime syndicate boss in the drama. Believing he had completely eliminated prosecutor Go Ji-won, who held evidence of his weaknesses, he becomes entangled in an unexpected turn of events.
Character Relationship Chart for Our Sticky Love
- Go Yeon-hong (played by Kim Young-ok): A traditional yeot (taffy) artisan
- Hong Do-yeop (played by Jeon Bae-soo)
- Do Jeong-hwa (played by Seo Jeong-yeon)
- Paeng Hee-ja (played by Jang Hye-jin)
- Jo Maeng-sook (played by Cha Chung-hwa)
- Na Geum-hyang (played by Kim Mi-hwa)
- An Ki-jun (played by Lee Jae-won): A neuropsychiatrist and Tae-ha’s high school classmate
- Min Su-ji (played by Choi Yoo-joo)
- Ju Min-jong (played by Kim Jong-tae)
- Gwak Chi-hyun (played by Kim Seo-ha)
- Kim Song-wol (played by Yang Jo-a)
- Kim Pil-seung (played by Moon Seong-hyun)
- Park Hyo-jin (played by Oh Kyung-hwa)
- Gyeong-pyo (played by Eun Jong-geon)
- Lee Chang (played by Lee Guk-young)
- Rural hospital doctor (played by Choi Dae-hoon [special appearance])
- Rural hospital grandmother 1 (played by Seong Byeong-sook [special appearance])
- Rural hospital grandmother 2 (played by Cha Mi-kyung [special appearance])
- Rural hospital grandmother 3 (played by Shim So-young [special appearance])
Our Sticky Love Plot Summary
It begins two weeks earlier, when a woman is found unconscious on a remote road with no CCTV in sight.
Even her fingerprints have been damaged, making identification impossible, and she has lost both her memory and her name. That’s when a man shows up at the hospital claiming to be her boyfriend. His name is Jang Tae-ha.
“Your name is Go Eun-sae. You work part-time at a yeot (taffy) workshop, we’ve been living together for two years, and we’re about to get married” — but Eun-sae simply can’t bring herself to believe it.
Still, seeing that Tae-ha even knows about the triangular mole on her hip, she reluctantly, half-doubtingly, follows him to a rural yeot-making village.
The drama then rewinds to three weeks earlier and reveals her true identity. Her real name is Go Ji-won — a prosecutor who had been investigating a bribery collusion between Baek Sang-gil and the mayor.
She’s caught trying to seize the evidence on the scene and left half-dead, and that’s when Tae-ha appears. Tae-ha, just before leaving the organization, had been given one final assignment: eliminate this prosecutor. He was a division chief at Mirae Eden.
But it turns out this prosecutor happens to be his first love!? Unable to bring himself to kill her, Tae-ha secretly spirits her away and blows up her car to fake her death. In other words, the person Tae-ha deceived wasn’t Eun-sae — it was the organization.
In fact, Eun-sae had long been Tae-ha’s first love, carried in his heart for years. Back when he was a promising young boxer, Eun-sae was the bold high schooler who came to watch his matches, and eight years ago in Japan, when Tae-ha nearly died at the hands of the yakuza, it was Eun-sae who rescued him on a motorcycle. “Go Eun-sae” wasn’t a fake name Tae-ha made up — it was her real name, written on her mother’s health record book, and the couple’s Polaroid “evidence” and even the detail about the mole on her hip were all things shared during that brief encounter long ago.
Even so, the present-day Eun-sae still can’t fully shake her doubts, and through a friend’s account on social media, she learns that her real name is “Go Ji-won” — and that Tae-ha used to be a gangster.
In episode 4, Eun-sae feels like everything has fallen apart, and she’s at rock bottom. In the middle of it all, she acts prickly at Tae-ha’s grandmother’s 80th birthday party and gets properly scolded by the villagers, and in the end declares, “I’m not living in this godforsaken town anymore,” and heads up to Seoul.
She finally meets the friend she’d seen on Instagram, but it turns out to be a friend she once hurt in the past, so the friend deliberately lies and abandons her. She tells Eun-sae that the man really is her boyfriend, and that the luxury items in the photos were all gifts from him.
Hearing this twisted “truth,” Eun-sae doesn’t know what to do and collapses onto the street, crying — and that’s when Jang Tae-ha shows up again.
Tae-ha doesn’t even get angry that she ran away. He simply brings her back home, and the two grow much closer than before.
Afterward, through the gym coach, we learn why Tae-ha had no choice but to become a gangster. He was skilled enough to have become a national team boxer, but the grandmother who raised him — not his biological grandmother, but the one who took him in — fell ill, and the medical bills kept piling up. Once he could no longer manage with the money he had, the Baek Sang-gil group reached out to him, and he was pulled into that world out of necessity.
Once the grandmother learned the truth, she lost her mind, and Tae-ha spent a full 14 years living numbly in the gang world before one day deciding this wasn’t right and returning home.
Meanwhile, hearing that Tae-ha is at the police station, Eun-sae rushes over with the coach. There, she finds Tae-ha with nothing but injuries from being beaten by another man.
To keep his promise to Eun-sae, who despises violence above all else, he never once fought back, even as the man kept hitting him relentlessly. T_T Seeing this, Eun-sae finally decides to trust him, and as her heart gradually opens, episode 4 comes to a close.
Realizing that her past isn’t as impressive as she thought, Eun-sae begins to choose Tae-ha’s sincerity in the present over her old life. The moment their feelings finally become mutual comes when Eun-sae, having learned that Tae-ha hates rain, gives up on going to Seoul and quietly holds an umbrella over him. But at the same moment, in Seoul, Chairman Baek notices that Go Ji-won is alive and begins to move against Eun-sae.
The two of them, while caring for each other more than anyone, keep missing each other in opposite ways. Eun-sae looks forward to marriage, while Tae-ha pulls back, saying, “If your memory comes back, I’ll have to let you go” — which Eun-sae misreads as, “Was he just keeping me around out of pity?” After the misunderstanding is resolved, they fill the yard with pale pink roses and even take wedding photos with the villagers, but after An Ki-jun contacts Gwak Chi-hyun, Chairman Baek ultimately appears directly before Eun-sae.
From here, the story unfolds why Chairman Baek doesn’t kill Eun-sae right away, what bitter history ties him to the gym coach, and what circumstances forced Tae-ha to become a gangster — and one by one, the scattered pieces begin to connect. Finally, prosecutor Go Ji-won, having regained her memory, takes matters into her own hands, and the drama heads toward its conclusion.
Why Baek Sang-gil Let Eun-sae Live
The core twist is clear. Everyone expects Chairman Baek to kidnap and kill Eun-sae, but instead he doesn’t lay a hand on her. The reason isn’t simple revenge. What’s truly dangerous to Chairman Baek isn’t Go Ji-won being alive — it’s the evidence of his bribery that Ji-won secured and hid away somewhere during her investigation. If he kills her now, he’ll never learn where the evidence is, and worried it might surface later, Baek Sang-gil keeps Go Ji-won alive and works to restore her memory instead.
Meanwhile, Tae-ha deliberately pushes Eun-sae away in order to smuggle her to Japan by boat. On the day of the smuggling, Tae-ha’s fellow gang member Kaito (Lee Jun-yeong) forces Eun-sae onto the boat, while Tae-ha stands alone against Chairman Baek’s men and ultimately chooses to go down in an explosion together with Chairman Baek. The moment Eun-sae witnesses that explosion from a distance, all of her memories come flooding back.
Why Tae-ha Became a Gangster
Through the young Baek Sang-gil, we see the roots of his twisted inferiority complex.
In his youth, Baek Sang-gil was also a boxer, but he was caught hiding an illegal weight in his glove and was directly disqualified and expelled by the gym coach himself. Left behind as a disgraced former student, years later he sees the coach describe Tae-ha in an interview as a “student he cherishes like a son.” He himself was the abandoned student, while Tae-ha was the beloved one. Baek Sang-gil approached Tae-ha because he wanted to drag the coach’s most cherished student down into the same world he’d fallen into, to prove a point.
Tae-ha, too, never wanted to become a gangster from the start. He was a promising young boxer dreaming of the national team, but the grandmother who raised him — not his biological grandmother — fell ill, and he couldn’t cover the medical bills. Right around then, Baek Sang-gil reached out, and he had no choice but to enter that world. Once the grandmother learned the truth, she lost her mind, and Tae-ha spent 14 years living numbly before one day deciding this wasn’t right and coming back. The coach says it plainly to the end: “Tae-ha is different from you.” Baek Sang-gil uses his fists to kill people, while Tae-ha uses his to save them — the outcomes may look the same, but they are entirely different people.
The Cruelest Final Twist: Baek Sang-gil Is Tae-ha’s Biological Father
With Baek Sang-gil’s arrest, everything seems to be resolved. Eun-sae returns to being prosecutor Go Ji-won, retrieves the evidence she’d once hidden inside a sneaker, and brings Baek Sang-gil to justice, while she and Tae-ha become a real couple who meet every weekend.
But right before the ending, the drama repeatedly returns to the word “family.” The grandmother who embraced Tae-ha’s mother like her own daughter despite sharing no blood, the gym coach and the villagers of Yeot Village who welcomed Tae-ha and Eun-sae as family — the drama first shows us the answer that “it’s not blood, but love” — and only then reveals the real twist.
Having escaped from the transport vehicle right before being sent to prison, Baek Sang-gil heads to Tae-ha’s grandmother’s house. There, by chance, he sees an old photo album from Tae-ha’s childhood and realizes that the son he’s spent his whole life searching for is none other than Jang Tae-ha himself. The cruelest truth of all: the son he believed to be nothing like him turns out to be his own flesh and blood.
Our Sticky Love Ending
In This Sticky Love, a Fake Boyfriend Becomes a Real Husband
The story heads toward its final showdown in Yeot Village, between Baek Sang-gil, who has taken the grandmother hostage, and Tae-ha.
Believing he’s come for revenge, Baek Sang-gil instead learns that Tae-ha is his biological son, and after a lifetime of wrongdoing, he ultimately takes his own life. Tae-ha never learns the truth about his own birth, and the story ends there. Eun-sae succeeds in bringing down Baek Sang-gil and the mayor with the recovered evidence, and with the amnesiac Eun-sae and the fake boyfriend Tae-ha both gone from the picture, the two of them finally begin a real relationship — not an act. And once everything is resolved, they hold a wedding and become a true family.
Starting as first loves, recognizing each other after three separate encounters, going from fake lovers to real ones, and finally becoming husband and wife — like the title suggests, a love that was once tangled up like sticky taffy ends up, instead, bound together just as inseparably.
Collection of Filming Locations for Our Sticky Love
Dangjin Woori Nursing Hospital (now closed)
Dangjin Heart Pond, Goljeongji
Address: Seongsang-ri, Myeoncheon-myeon, Dangjin-si, Chungcheongnam-do
Dangjin Ami Art Museum & Sunseong Cherry Blossom Trail
Address: 160-1 Seongbuk-ri, Sunseong-myeon, Dangjin-si, Chungcheongnam-do
Yecheon Geumdangsil Village
Address: Sanggeumgok-ri, Yongmun-myeon, Yecheon-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do
Cheongsong Deokcheon Village & Songso Historic House
Yeongju Culture Street, 365 Market
Sungkyunkwan University, Humanities and Social Sciences Campus
Anseong Jukjusanseong Fortress
Other Miscellaneous “Our Sticky Love” Filming Locations
- Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office: Address — 1724 Hyeopdong Sanup Industrial Complex, Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul
- Address: 41-5 Pyeongnae-dong, Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do
- Sanggeum Market Street: Address — 547-3 Sanggeumgok-ri, Yongmun-myeon, Yecheon-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do
- Pohang City
Netflix’s Our Sticky Love
- English: Our Sticky Love | Japanese: 恋は飴模様 | Chinese: 我的荒糖戀愛
- KOREAN 이런 엿같은 사랑
- Genre: Romantic comedy, drama, crime
- Episodes: 12 episodes
- Release date: Scheduled for release on Netflix in the third quarter of 2026
- Source: Original
- Broadcast format: All 12 episodes released simultaneously (Netflix original)
- Director: Kim Jang-han who helmed Do You Like Brahms? (2020) and My Demon (2023–2024) / Screenwriter: Mo Ji-hye
- Cast: Jung Hae-in, Ha Young, Heo Sung-tae, and others
- Cinematography: Kang Yoon-soon
- Filming period: Principal photography began on April 10, 2025, through November 18, 2025
- Production company: Studio S
- Streaming: NETFLIX
- Rating: Korea Media Rating Board — 15+
