It’s always refreshing when a K-drama’s setting moves away from the concrete confines of Seoul. It gives viewers insight into how working-class Koreans live, and gives us a look at architecture, social categories, and all sorts of small-town stuff you just can’t get from a city-based story. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha is based in a tiny shore town, and the quirky people that populate the town are as much a part of the story as the central meet-cute couple is. Read on for more.Hye-jin takes good care of her, but she’s called into her boss’ office anyway; the lead doctor tells Hye-jin that she needed to offer more implants to the patient, as she was going to need them eventually anyway. Hye-jin refuses, and decides to speak freely about how her boss is overcharging patients in order to keep the business going. Before her boss can fire her, she throws down her lab coat and quits.After buying the expensive shoes she wanted, despite not having a job, Hye-jin drives to Gongjin, the seaside village where she had some of the best memories with her father and now-deceased mother. She puts the shoes down in the sand and walks the beach, only to see them disappear. However, a surfer returns one shoe to her. We’ve seen this surfer before; Hong Du-sik (Kim Seon-ho) works as a fisherman and he seems to know and help everyone in town, especially its seniors. He is so helpful, he’s earned the nickname “Chief Hong”. He gives her the bathroom slippers he took from a local raw fish restaurant.