Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo Season 1 (2016)

What else could there be to life than barbells and heavy weights? Kim Bok Joo is a weightlifting phenom who has only focused on barbells her entire life while growing up with her father, Kim Chang Gul, is a former weightlifter. She attends Hanwool College of Physical Education, a university full of top-notch athletes who are driven to succeed in the hopes of representing their country in national and international competitions. Her best friend is Jang Joon Hyung, a competitive swimmer who is having trouble recovering from the trauma of being disqualified for a false start in his first international swim competition. Song Shi Ho is a fiercely competitive rhythmic gymnast who won a silver medal at the Asian Games when she was 18, but the pressures of her sport drive her to break up with Joon Hyung. Bok Joo’s tunnel-vision life starts to change when she falls in love with Joon Hyung’s older cousin, Jung Jae Yi, a former athlete who became an obesity doctor after suffering a career-ending injury. Will Bok Joo learn that there is more to life than weightlifting?