Key takeaways
- TVING's Make Me Tingle stars Nam Ji Hyun as a conservative marketer and Kim Jae Yeong as a sex-toy startup founder with opposing worldviews.
- The trailer reveals a kiss between them and Gong Yeon Su's confusion about whether her attraction is emotional or purely physical.
- The poster's tagline asks 'Is it my heart or my body that's trembling,' capturing her struggle to identify her true feelings.
TVING’s upcoming romantic comedy “Make Me Tingle” has released its main trailer and poster, introducing audiences to a romance built on philosophical opposition. Nam Ji Hyun stars as Gong Yeon Su, a conservative marketer from a traditional family who has always believed in love but never quite understood what that belief actually entails. Kim Jae Yeong plays Dokgo Dal, the confident founder of a sex-toy startup who operates by an entirely different set of values.
The network describes the result as a chaotic romantic comedy. That chaos emerges because the initial meeting, subsequent workplace intersection, and eventual romantic entanglement all occur against a backdrop of fundamentally incompatible worldviews about sex, intimacy, and what it means to connect with another person.
First Meeting: A Blind Date Arranged by Tradition
According to Soompi’s reporting on the newly released trailer, Gong Yeon Su and Dokgo Dal first encounter each other through a blind date arranged by her grandparents. The setup reads like a conventional romantic-comedy beginning—family arranges a match, opposites meet, chaos ensues. What distinguishes this pairing, however, is the nature of that opposition. Gong Yeon Su represents everything structured and conventional: she is the eldest daughter of an extremely conservative, traditional family, and she carries those values into her professional life as a marketer. Dokgo Dal, by contrast, moves through the world with a boldness that would seem reckless to someone with Gong Yeon Su’s background. He owns a company centered on sex toys and speaks about his business openly, without the shame or deflection that someone from Gong Yeon Su’s position might reasonably expect.
The trailer makes clear that these two have almost nothing in common in their baseline assumptions about how to live or what to prioritize.
The Professional Entanglement: Client and Marketer
Their story deepens when they meet again in a professional context. Dokgo Dal becomes a client, and Gong Yeon Su is assigned to handle the marketing for his startup.
The Assignment Creates Internal Conflict
For someone from her background, the task creates genuine internal conflict. She must navigate not only the commercial challenge of promoting products she has never been comfortable discussing, but also the discomfort of working alongside someone whose entire approach to sexuality and communication directly challenges her foundational beliefs. Dokgo Dal does not coddle her discomfort. According to Soompi’s account of the trailer, he tells her plainly, “I can’t entrust the promotion of my products to a marketer who is prejudiced against them.”
The Ultimatum Forces a Reckoning
The statement is not cruel, but it is uncompromising. He refuses to let her maintain her distance or her judgement. If she is going to work with him, she must work with genuine engagement, not reluctant tolerance. This dynamic forces Gong Yeon Su to examine whether her resistance to sex toys and casual sexuality comes from principle or from habit inherited from her family. For Dokgo Dal, the distinction matters. He sees sex as “just a part of communication,” whereas she does not believe in sex without love. Two fundamentally different frameworks collide in a professional relationship neither of them sought.
The Turn: A Kiss and a Question
The trailer’s pivotal moment comes when Dokgo Dal makes a playful but pointed challenge to Gong Yeon Su’s rigid thinking. He asks her, “If you drink beer and then sleep with me on a rainy day, will the sky fall down?” The question presents a simple scenario stripped of moral weight. Yet Gong Yeon Su’s belief system has always assigned weight to exactly such moments. Rather than engage in debate, Dokgo Dal kisses her.
When Gong Yeon Su recovers enough to ask, “Why did you kiss me?” his response is as simple as his action: “I just wanted to.” There is no elaborate reasoning, no seduction strategy, just directness that seems to confound her more than any manipulation could.
A voice-over moment in the trailer deepens her uncertainty. Someone asks her, “Was it good? There’s no way your body would react if you didn’t have any feelings!” The question forces her to confront the possibility that her body has registered something her mind is still resisting: that physical response might indicate emotional connection.
The Spiral: Noticing Details She Cannot Control
After the kiss, Gong Yeon Su’s perception of Dokgo Dal shifts in ways she cannot control. Details that should be meaningless suddenly capture her attention. She finds herself noticing how pretty his ears are, thoughts that feel both trivial and impossible to ignore. When she lies in bed at night, she scolds herself audibly: “Please stop thinking about it!” The internal monologue reveals a woman whose rational mind is at war with her body’s response.
Her Body Betrays Her Mind
The physical attraction refuses to be reasoned away. She cannot unsee what she has seen or unfeel what she has felt, and the internal division grows more acute with each interaction.
He Refuses to Let Her Hide
Dokgo Dal, meanwhile, does not let her hide from what is happening. He confronts her directly: “Were you attracted to me, by any chance?” The question demands acknowledgement rather than allowing her the comfort of continued denial. His boldness mirrors his approach to everything else in his life: he does not soften difficult truths for anyone’s comfort.
The Poster and the Central Question
The newly released poster shows the two of them walking side by side in the late night, a moment of apparent calm that contrasts with the tension driving their relationship. The poster’s tagline captures the drama’s central question: “Is it my heart or my body that’s trembling?” For Gong Yeon Su, this distinction is not merely philosophical. It represents her actual crisis. She cannot simply decide whether she is experiencing love (which her upbringing has trained her to pursue) or desire (which her upbringing has taught her to fear).
What the Trailer Promises
“Make Me Tingle” appears designed to explore the possibility that attraction can exist between people whose fundamental values seem incompatible. The trailer suggests that neither Gong Yeon Su nor Dokgo Dal will simply convert the other to their worldview. Instead, the drama seems poised to examine what happens when ideology meets genuine chemistry, and whether connection can survive when everything else keeps people apart.
Source: Soompi
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are the main characters in Make Me Tingle and what do they do?
Nam Ji Hyun plays Gong Yeon Su, a conservative marketer from a traditional family who works with clients through her job. Kim Jae Yeong plays Dokgo Dal, the founder and CEO of a sex-toy startup. They meet through a blind date arranged by her grandparents and later work together professionally.
What is the main conflict between Gong Yeon Su and Dokgo Dal?
Gong Yeon Su does not believe in sex without love, while Dokgo Dal sees sex as simply 'a part of communication.' This philosophical difference creates tension when they meet romantically and when they work together on marketing his startup, forcing Gong Yeon Su to confront her preconceptions.
What happens in the trailer's pivotal moment?
Dokgo Dal asks Gong Yeon Su, 'If you drink beer and then sleep with me on a rainy day, will the sky fall down?' and then kisses her without explanation. When she asks why he kissed her, he simply replies, 'I just wanted to,' leaving her uncertain about the nature of her feelings.
