Pump Up the Healthy Love is one of the latest Korean dramas from actor Lee Jun-young after his success as Geum Seong-je in Weak Hero Class 2 this year. In this drama, he will act with Jung Eun-jo or commonly known as Apink's Eunji.
In the drama Pump Up the Healthy Love, Lee Jun-young plays a bodybuilder whose entire mind and time is focused solely on building muscle mass and his body. Do Hyun-joong (Lee Jun-young) is a bodybuilder at a gym.
His life is completely consumed by health and improving his fitness, so he often doesn't care about other things, including his romantic relationships. Do Hyun-joong's habit even caused his love story to fail.
However, on the other hand, he successfully transformed into a great bodybuilder in his field, one of which was by coming out as the first winner in the Mr. David Competition, which has become the ultimate dream for all bodybuilders around the world.
After winning the trophy, Do Hyun-joong seems to disappear from the entire competitive bodybuilding industry. He is found working at a fitness center as the owner and trainer of the gym. He struggles to make his gym successful and popular.
Unfortunately, Do Hyun-joong also has a habit of being too honest and unknowingly hurting other people, including his potential clients. So, his gym business is on the brink of collapse due to this bad habit.
In his efforts to rebuild a successful fitness center, he recruits several new members. Until one day at his gym, he meets Lee Mi-ran (Jung Eun-ji). Lee Mi-ran is a figure who is losing her identity. Since she was little, she has always been belittled by many of her male friends.
Her love life has always failed, which makes her feel that there is something wrong with herself. At her lowest point, Lee Mi-ran finds a flyer that Do Hyun-joong had distributed. She suddenly decides to enter Do Hyun-joong's fitness center, but instead receives a series of advice about herself.
At first, Lee Mi-ran did not believe all the advice and suggestions that Do Hyun-joong gave her about her body shape and lifestyle. However, she finally tried to believe by putting hope in her body changes so that she could be loved by many people.
As the two continue to spend more time together, they eventually discover the story of Mi-ran's lost self-confidence and Hyun-joong's unresolved trauma. On the other hand, the once nearly empty fitness center is now starting to be filled with a number of unique new members in creating a lively and supportive community.
With so many challenges facing them, such as financial pressure, competing with other gyms, and lack of self-confidence, Hyun-joong and Mi-ran begin to rely on each other. Pump Up the Healthy Love is one of Jung Eun-ji's comebacks after starring in Miss Night and Day (2024) and Work Later, Drink Now 2 (2022).
The drama Pump Up the Healthy Love is written by Kim Ji-soo (Birthcare Center) and directed by director Park Joon-soo. Pump Up the Healthy Love officially airs every Friday and Saturday starting May 1, 2025 on Viu.
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