Due to the lack of dynamic story beats, "Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha" is a bad drama to marathon. The lack of anything happening can get to be tiring very fast. Yet the core concept still works well as character exploration in leisurely beats, and this episode features a fair amount of variety in service to the same thematic point. Hye-jin wears a Christmas dress to Chief Hong's birthday party. Afterwards we get the first real taste of actual conflict in their relationship, with Hye-jin trying to needlessly impress former classmates, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, Gong Min-jung, Kim Ju-yeon, Kim Seon-ho, Lee Sang-yi, Seo Sang-won-I, Shin Min-a, Sin Ha-eun, Woo Mi-hwa, Yoo Je-won, Yoon Seok-hyun, Yoon Seok-hyun