Marking the start of our new 12 months in 2025 Korean dramas, we’re handled to a candy workplace romance that includes a stoic boss and her amiable secretary who begin on the incorrect foot but will quickly get attracted to one another and ultimately fall in love.
We’ve got some office politics to boost issues. However that’s the least of our considerations. Let’s simply comply with our lovable leads and see the place they’ll get us.
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“Change is frightening. However you’d fall behind in case you shrink back from it.”
Coming absolutely ready, we first meet our heroine, Kang Ji-yoon (Han Ji Min), as she chases after a gifted automotive designer (Cameo by Lee Hee Joon) to get him to stop his job and begin afresh at a brand new main firm. As Ji-yoon makes her case, the designer declares that he has no plans to stop his job. Nonetheless, via her meticulous analysis, Ji-yoon manages to persuade him in the long run. The deal is sealed and the information in regards to the designer’s current transfer makes headlines, including to Ji-yoon’s lengthy checklist of achievements.
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With one process off her checklist, Ji-yoon proceeds to a different candidate. However this one proves fairly difficult. Ji-yoon’s subsequent consumer is a developer who has labored on the similar firm for about 22 years. Unsurprisingly, the developer doesn’t appear a lot within the concept of shifting corporations at his age. And it’s right here that our leads cross paths for the primary time. You see, the duty of negotiating with the developer falls on none aside from our male lead, Yoo Eun-ho (Lee Joon Hyuk), a staff supervisor within the HR division on the similar firm because the developer.
Ji-yoon is all in regards to the wage and different advantages the developer will get on the new firm whereas Eun-ho makes use of a extra emotional strategy, arranging a dinner with the developer’s former colleagues, reminiscing collectively over the outdated days, and dropping snacks for the developer’s son’s recreation. Eun-ho’s strategy wins, and the developer chooses to remain on the firm. However this triumph is barely temporary. Earlier than lengthy, the developer begins appearing shifty, and the following factor we all know he’s about to board a aircraft and go to China to affix an organization there.
“Proceed your dialog together with her. However please give me an opportunity to talk afterward.”
Understandably, Eun-ho suspects Ji-yoon of being behind the developer’s sudden determination, calling her an immoral one that solely cares about ending her duties, even when it would convey hurt to the individuals concerned. Nonetheless, Ji-yoon has no hand in it. She even tried to dissuade the developer from making that call, since going overseas at this level may backfire on his profession. However the developer goes via with it, anyway. Earlier than the developer boards the aircraft, Eun-ho will get to satisfy him one final time, however there’s nothing Eun-ho can do at this level.
Since he failed his mission, Eun-ho’s direct superior, who has it out for him for private causes, jumps on the chance to provide Eun-ho the boot. Being a single father to his lovable daughter, Yoo Byeol, that is horrible information for Eun-ho, who begins to go looking actively for a brand new job however his nasty former superior will get in the way in which each time.
“Your willingness is what counts.”
Because it so occurs, Ji-yoon wants a brand new secretary ASAP after collapsing down from overwork. I imply, Ji-yoon’s mind is pleading for her to get some relaxation as a result of it will possibly’t deal with the immense workload Ji-yoon takes on by herself. So, discovering a brand new secretary is a should. It may be powerful for Eun-ho to discover a new job in his discipline however getting the job as Ji-yoon’s secretary at the very least received’t be as exhausting.
Operating into Eun-ho, Ji-yoon is shocked to study he’s her new secretary. It’s all due to Ji-yoon’s buddy, Search engine optimisation Mi-ae (Lee Sang-hee) who additionally occurs to be Eun-ho’s buddy’s spouse. Reaching out, Eun-ho asks Mi-ae to assist him discover a new job at her firm. However unluckily, there isn’t a vacant spot on the HR staff. Wait a minute. After a little bit of deliberation, Mi-ae realizes Eun-ho ticks all of the containers for the secretary place on prime of being skilled in HR. Higher but, he can deal with such a troublemaker as Ji-yoon. The proper candidate certainly!
There’s a minor drawback, although. Ji-yoon isn’t all that supportive of Eun-ho, who not solely causes her to fail her process but additionally offends her. Not that Eun-ho is thrilled about that concept, both. However the promise of spending extra time with Byeol and getting a increase feels tempting sufficient for Eun-ho to place up with the job. Additionally, in keeping with Mi-ae, Eun-ho solely wants to stay it out for six months. After that, she’s going to assist Eun-ho get no matter job he needs. We all know the place this arc is headed. However for now, let’s benefit from the trip.
“What’s it you don’t like about me?”
With Eun-ho’s top-notch expertise, it’s only a matter of time earlier than he earns the reward of everybody round aside from Ji-yoon, after all, who maintains her stance, ignoring Eun-ho and never giving him a single process. Confronting Ji-yoon, Eun-ho desires to know what precisely he did to grant this remedy. And Ji-yoon counters that she detests how low Eun-ho thinks of the headhunter’s work, snatching core skills and inflicting turmoil at different corporations. Apologizing to Ji-yoon, Eun-ho asks her to provide him an opportunity and train him how this discipline works.
Softening up a bit, Ji-yoon spends the night time going via Eun-ho’s resume to test his background. Concurrently, Eun-ho research exhausting to study extra about headhunting and discover a solution to get his powerful boss to love him. We will see some potential for this duo to work collectively in peace. However greater than all the things, it’s Eun-ho’s standing as a single father that received Ji-yoon intrigued.
As we come to know, Ji-yoon was once a cheerful child, residing fortunately together with her father. But, sadly, Ji-yoon’s father handed away, leaving her behind. That childhood trauma might be the explanation why Ji-yoon places on that chilly exterior and doesn’t permit individuals to get near her, frightened of being deserted as soon as once more.
“The secretary that I would like is one who solely does what I ask.”
With Ji-yoon’s father’s dying anniversary approaching, she appears to be like unhappy. So, Mi-ae asks Eun-ho to observe over Ji-yoon as she eats lunch. However Ji-yoon solely picks at her meals. Nervous about her, Eun-ho will get Ji-yoon some porridge and a painkiller since she doesn’t look high quality. However Eun-ho’s type gesture solely makes issues worse as Ji-yoon by accident spills water over some paperwork and scolds poor Eun-ho for meddling in, when nobody has requested for his assist. That’s not proper, Ji-yoon. The man did nothing incorrect to deserve that scolding.
In worse information, Ji-yoon receives a name that somebody goes round stealing the abilities she scouts, placing her in a tough place. As for the one behind it, it’s Ji-yoon’s former boss, Kim Hye-jin (Park Bo-kyung) who has it out for Ji-yoon and needs to smash her profession. (What’s with the drama and nasty superiors wreaking havoc on their juniors?) Unsurprisingly, Hye-jin was the one who manipulated the developer into going to China as properly.
Earlier than beginning her agency, Ji-yoon used to work for Hye-jin and the explanation why she needed to stop might need to do with a tragic incident the place somebody died and Ji-yoon received blamed for it. As we finish this week, Ji-yoon heads to Hye-jin’s workplace to name her out on enjoying soiled. Heading out, Ji-yoon will get reminded of what occurred again then and has issue respiratory. Fortunately, Eun-ho adopted her there. Recognizing her pale face, Eun-ho rushes over to Ji-yoon’s facet. Simply as he reaches her, Ji-yoon collapses in Eun-ho’s arms, marking the tip of our premiere.
Love Scout Opening Week Musings
A office drama that includes a tough-to-be-satisfied boss and a warm-hearted but competent secretary who is aware of how one can get the job completed with a smile and an opposite-attract romance story, the drama places collectively each single plotline I really like together with a stellar forged. Including to the thrill, now we have a task reversal right here with a feminine boss and a male secretary. What presumably might go incorrect?
Going into this, I had excessive expectations, and the drama didn’t disappoint despite the fact that the primary episode felt a bit gradual and was filled with setup. Nonetheless, the drama picked the tempo with episode 2 and received me hooked on the story of this may’t-be-more-different pair. Ji-yoon’s empty house the place she sleeps on the sofa and takes tablets for insomnia is the whole reverse of Eun-ho’s heat house, which is filled with smiles and laughter.
On the floor, Ji-yoon may sound like an unlikeable character who doesn’t tolerate errors and fires individuals harshly, however she is a lonely soul who needed to act powerful after being left alone on this harsh world. And whereas he may be all smiles, Eun-ho has it powerful too, having to take care of his daughter by himself. Earlier than taking a paternity go away one 12 months in the past, Eun-ho’s profession was thriving, however he needed to sacrifice his profession to take care of his sick daughter. And shortly after he received again to work, Eun-ho was fired by his nasty superior out of revenge.
Our leads may look completely completely different on the skin. However I can see them complementing one another in a manner nobody else can. What one facet lacks might be stuffed by the opposite facet and the 2 of them will convey out the perfect in one another. If this premiere is of any indication, now we have a candy and therapeutic romcom to heat up our winter nights and make us swoon. Give me extra!
Love Scout streams on Netflix each Friday and Saturday!
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