Season
A Good Day to be a Dog: Season 1
Overview
High school Korean literature teacher Han Hae-na suffers from an extremely unusual curse: If she kisses a man, she is doomed to turn into a dog every night, although she returns to human form in the morning. There is only one way to break the curse – and that involves receiving a kiss from the same man who kissed her...while in dog form! She has a crush on Lee Bo-gyeom, a colleague who teaches history at the same school. She is smitten with him, even claiming that he is the sole reason she wants to keep coming to work every morning. But she forgets herself one night, and drunkenly kisses him – only to discover that it wasn’t Lee Bo-gyeom after all...but actually Jin Seo-won, another male colleague. Unfortunately, although Jin Seo-won is extremely handsome, he is also terrified of dogs due to a traumatic event in his past. He also has a natural aversion to her. Now Han Hae-na must find a way to win his heart – and get him to kiss her – or spend the rest of her life as a pooch!
Details
- Series
- A Good Day to be a Dog
- Season
- Season 1
- Air date
- 2023-10-11
- Episodes
- 14 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Curse Begins
Hae-na has a crush on one of the male teachers at her school. After a few drinks at a get-together with the teachers, she discloses her feelings to him. However, after she kisses him, she realizes it's Seo-won, the man she can never get close to.
Episode 2: Unexpected Witness
Hae-na begs Seo-won for another chance to go on a date with Bo-gyeom and him as a group to lift the curse. Therefore, Hae-na, Seo-won, Bo-gyeom, and Chae-a end up going on a double date to play a room escape game. Seo-won tries to leave for the day, but Hae-na has to stall time until midnight.
Episode 3: Keeping His Secret
Hae-na finds out that Seo-won is afraid of dogs. It complicates things as she has to get a kiss from him while she’s changed to a dog. The vice principal brings his dog to work, making Seo-won panic. Hae-na secretly helps Seo-won so that no one finds out about his secret fear of dogs. Meanwhile, Yul witnesses Hae-na transforming into a dog.
Episode 4: Overcoming Your Fear
Hae-na decides to ask Yul’s help and let her into his place while Seo-won is asleep. She kisses him while she’s in her dog form, but the curse doesn’t get lifted. Later, Hae-na finds out that Seo-won has to be conscious when she kisses him for her curse to be lifted. To do that, she decides to help Seo-won overcome his fear of dogs first.
Episode 5: Overcoming Trauma
Seo-won witnesses Ji-won getting bullied by her friends. To secure the evidence of bullying, Hae-na steals the bully’s phone while she’s transformed into a dog. An anti-bullying committee meeting is held to punish the bully, Jae-hee. To take revenge, Jae-hee decides to falsely accuse Seo-won of sexually harassing her.
Episode 6: The Transfer Student
A new student, Ji-a, transfers to Garam High School, and she turns out to be a shaman. She notices a different energy around Hae-na and Bo-gyeom. Hae-na fails to kiss Seo-won, so she has to seek her chance during the school trip. Meanwhile, some of the students sneak out at night, so Hae-na ends up going outside to look for them, risking herself to be exposed.
Episode 7: The Confession
Yu-na’s ex-boyfriend posts Hae-na’s secret online. Eun-hwan, who used to bully Seo-won in high school, sees the post and covers the story. Hae-na’s mom finds out about her transformation and demands to know who Hae-na’s boyfriend is. Hae-na decides to tell the truth to Seo-won and ask for his help.
Episode 8: The Threat And Revelation
Kang Eun-hwan blackmails Hae-na, saying he’d expose her secret unless she gives him all her savings. Upon hearing what Eun-hwan did, Hae-na's parents invade his place and find the recordings and photos he took of Hae-na. After seeing what Kang Eun-hwan posted online, Seo-won goes to see him, but he gets tied up instead.
Episode 9: The Secret Dates
Hae-na and Seo-won start dating officially, but they can’t show it at school because of the recent PDA incident between the teachers at a neighboring school. Although Hae-na and Seo-won try to be subtle at school, a few people notice a romantic vibe between them. Meanwhile, Ji-a does a card reading for Bo-gyeom and finds out who he truly is.
Episode 10: The Unknown Story
The mountain spirit saves Lady Han who was being chased by government officers. During the chase, the baby in Lady Han’s womb dies, leaving her in despair. Mak-soon, Lady Han’s servant, stays by her side and looks after her. The mountain spirit and Lady Han grow closer as they spend more time together. One day, the mountain spirit senses swordsmen in his mountain searching for Lady Han.
Episode 11: The Reason They Were Cursed
Hae-na’s uncle, Dong-chul, comes back to his human form. Hae-na’s family finds it strange that his curse got lifted when he hadn’t gotten a kiss. Bo-gyeom reveals himself to Hae-na and tells her that he was the one who put the curse on her family. Then he goes on to tell her that he’ll lift the curse only if she gives up her love for Seo-won.
Episode 12: The Lost Memories
Instead of Seo-won's memories, Hae-na's memories of him get erased, making Seo-won despair. Seo-won does his best to win Hae-na's heart again, but it doesn't go as well as he expected. However, Seo-won finds out that Ji-a still has memories of him and Hae-na dating. Meanwhile, Ji-a visits the mountain she died in her past life, which upsets Bo-gyeom.
Episode 13: The Truth
Hae-na keeps getting reminded of the memories she had with Seo-won. After Seo-won kisses her, Hae-na becomes sure that she and Seo-won shared certain memories. The mountain spirit finally realizes what happened to Cho-young and that he was mistaken all this time. He decides to return the memories to Hae-na.
Episode 14: The Birthday Present
After finding out everything about the curse and their past, Hae-na and Seo-won realize how they feel about each other. One year has passed, and Seo-won’s birthday is only ten days ahead. Hae-na wants to give him a present that is unexpected but meaningful. She prepares a special present and plans to give it to Seo-won at the school festival. However, an uninvited guest appears at the school.