search:WWW

honestly, i was curious about this series because i saw a clip from this drama where the main actor teased the main actress. it's been awhile since i watched a romantic drama (this was after i watched crime dramas marathon from signal, tunnel and even the voice), so i became interested. but it's a bit forgotten until i have nothing to watch, so i decided to give this a try even though i never heard about it.

title: search: WWW

cast: im soo jung, jang ki young, lee da hee, lee jae wook, jeon hye jin, ji seung hyun

genre: romantic comedy, workplace drama

actually, i never see a drama that has so many main casts. usually there would be a couple of main cast with two supporting actors/actresses that would probably involved in a love triangle or love fight, but in this drama, there are three main actresses and there are three love stories as well. talking about something new.

anyway, there's bae ta mi (im soo jung), an executive in unicon, a web portal companies. she dedicated her youth to make unicon number one in web portal world. unfortunately, she got fired after a case involving deleting real time search rank regarding political issues around presidential election at that time. one of other director in unicon, song ga kyeong (jeon hye jin), is a daughter in law of a big corporate in korea (i forgot the name, KG group or KY group or something like that, and funnily, several other drama also use the same name to picture a big corporate in korea as well), whom mother in law is a supporter of incumbent. she ordered ga kyeong to delete the real time rank while ta mi against it.

long story short, ta mi was fired and she decided to cross boat. she joined barro, a rival of unicon in web portal companies world. she was determined to make barro number one, defeating unicon. there she met cha hyeon aka scarlett (lee da hee) that was against her at first, but later became her friends. shortly before her fate got worse, she met park mo gun aka park morgan (jang ki young) at a game arcade and being drunk, she slept with him and then met him again at unicon because apparently morgan was one of the music director that worked for unicon as well. sober this time, ta mi realized that morgan was way younger than her and decided to avoid him. but morgan was pretty insistent, and he won her heart later.

okay. i should talk about each couple separately since it's way too confusing to re telling it in a timeline. since ta mi is the main cast, let's talk about ta mi and morgan first. their relationship goes a bit bumpy because of two problems, their age gap and their view about marriage. ta mi realized that she was way too old for morgan, but she can't deny her feeling toward morgan. while morgan, madly in love, believes that age is just a number. however, ta mi consider career over marriage, and she saw that her career is nowhere near her goal, so marriage was not in her agenda. while morgan, though being adopted and found out that his mother is still alive and even remarried and had another son, was hopeful about marriage. he wanted to get married at some time. he believed that he might change ta mi's perspective about marriage. those differences made them fight over the same problems, and even though they were separated at first, but in the last episode we saw that both ta mi and morgan couldn't leave each other and decided to get back even though both of them realized that their problem is still there, nothing is resolved between them and that problem might arise. morgan's only argumentation was he was still young. he had lots of time to make ta mi changed her mind.

now move on to second couple. i think this is another drama that i root for the second couple more than the main couple (the other one is DOTS, i always like the second couple better than the song-song couple). cha hyeon was seemed fierce at work, but she was naive enough to be fooled by ta mi's ex boyfriend, pyo joon soo aka matthew. both of them worked at barro which makes thing a bit funny since ta mi tried to hide their relationship, while joon soo is a pain in the ass, narsissist bastard that dares to double date scarlett with another younger girl (later we'll see that joon soo chose his other girlfriend over scarlett). cha hyeon also adores ga kyeong since high school, and it breaks her heart when she saw that ga kyeong changed after being married. she was quite protective toward ta mi after realizing that ga kyeong was on the wrong side. however, we saw that scarlett is a fanatic drama lover, just like us. she was a fan of seol ji hwan (lee jae wook), an unknown actor that rise to his popularity thanks to a drama series. she met ji hwan accidentally and put him to hospital. their love story grew after that, but scarlett kept insisting that she was only a fan, while ji hwan couldn't dare make any move because he was glad that scarlett was one of his fan, the first fan in fact, but he couldn't deny that he had feeling for her. unfortunately, ji hwan had only a month before his mandatory military service, and luckily, scarlett confessed her feeling right on time. both of them were adorable until the end.

last, ga kyeong. her family was rich, but unfortunate thing happened and her family went bankrupt. to save her family's company, her father married her to the third son of KY group (or KG group or whatever), and both of them realized that their marriage is just a pact. ga kyeong's mother in law have kept her submissive and used her position in unicon for her gain. unfortunately, ga kyeong later found courage to fight her mother in law and demanded divorce. her husband agreed to her request, though both ga kyeong's parents were against it. later we saw how jin woo, ga kyeong's husband, had feeling for her and she realized it too at the end. he was preparing for the divorce even before she had the courage to say it. ga kyeong's decision made her mother in law furious as ga kyeong threatened to reveal that her mother in law was the one behind the deletion of real time search rank back then. at the end, we could see that ga kyeong went viral and told everyone to search for WWW in web portal to read all evidence around her mother in law corruption case. ta mi and scarlett was also seen to help ga kyeong ran away after her viral appearance in a tv station. however, there's no sweet end for this couple as jin woo kept his promise to make ga kyeong's divorce request came true. it's a bit ironic how they were divorced but they were just starting their relationship at the same time. 

what i like:

- this is a drama about girl power. this drama revolves around the life of three stong girls, and their problems. the men in this drama are just sweetener.

- fashion. gee.. lee da hee is something else. unicon was a strict company, so ta mi and ga kyeong's fashion are just around blazer and suits, while barro was pictured like google or apple, which was more relaxed, hence no fashion rule. so scarlett was pictured as fashionable person, which is suitable since she used to be a model. 

- this story brought up something new as the main problem in ta mi relationship is career over marriage. these days, there are so many girls that refuse to be married in order to be successful in their carrier, and not many parents accept that. so i guess this drama probably try to give some thoughts for older generation.

- love story between scarlett and ji hwan is hilarious. both of them are funny. i'd probably stop watching this drama if not for them.

- mostly the actors and actresses were good. the only one that i don't like is the mother in law. she was rich and powerful but she wasn't pictured as one in this drama. her clothing was too humble for a people in power. and her acting was a bit flat. but probably she was told to be expressionless. 

what i don't like:

- age gap between ta mi and morgan. oh my.. this is worse than lee jong suk and won bin's wife in "while you're sleeping" i guess.. though probably the age gap is similar. i don't hate couple that the woman is way older than the man, but somehow watching those two in the drama, is something else. 

future nike editing here: in the drama you could definitely see that ta mi is way older than morgan. but the second couple apparently has the same shocking age gap as well. both tami/morgan and ji hwan/scarlett has 13 years age gap! oh my.. either lee jae wook looks way older than he does or lee da hee is really good in making herself look young. i didn't realize this while watching the drama, but lately i googled lee jae wook, and i found out he was born in 1998 while lee da hee was born in 1985! oh my.. what a weird casting choice. 

- typical power problem. the rich controlled the poor and try to gain more power from government people. i guess it's the same everywhere, so it's a bit boring watching it again in a drama.

rating: 7.5/10

binge worthy: so-so

recommended for: people that like girl power story, those who don't mind watching big age gap between the main casts, don't mind rooting for the second couple rather than the first one, and watching a drama that has a bit open ending without solution for some of the problems.