Dating agency 'helps win lover's heart back'

Most Koreans are familiar with the 2010 domestic film, “Cyrano Dating Agency,” which focuses on an agency that helps clients win the hearts of the people they desire.

One company is trying to turn fiction into reality.

The agency “Dating Storytelling” coaches its clients on how to act in certain situations so that when they do meet their ex again, they’ll know what to say.

Clients meet with a consultant for a month, who figures out the best approach to win a former lover’s heart back.

Their method, dubbed “CR5 Storytelling,” reportedly bases its approaches on one of five elements: “mass psychology,” “animalistic instinct,” “jealousy,” “fate,” “provoking tears” and the “frame theory.”

A representative was quoted as saying that it is hard to get back with a previous partner and that “a method that involves a systematic storytelling device will maximize the reunion effect.”