title: the secret life of my secretary
case: kim young kwang, jin ki joo, kim jae kyung, koo ja sung
genre: romantic comedy
do min ik (kim young kwang) is a media director of T&T mobile, while jung gal hee (jin ki joo) is his secretary. he has a past that makes him can't trust any secretary for more than a year. while gal hee determined to get her contract renewed. she was disappointed when she found out that she was not getting her contract renewed. but sudden incident caused min ik to experience side effect from his previous aneurysm clip surgery. he suddenly couldn't see any face aside from gal hee's. but there's a trick. she has to wear her usual red cardigan for him to see her face.
since his position in the company might be in danger because of his condition, he persuaded gal hee to work back as his secretary and to help him to recognize faces. unfortunately, his mother tried to matchmake him and veronica park (kim jae kyung), president of cinepark, who came from even richer family than his. if they are getting married, veronica's shares could help min ik to become CEO, replacing his uncle. however, min ik's uncle intercepted the matchmaking plan, telling veronica to come to another matchmaking meeting, only this time with ki dae joo (koo ja sung), min ik's best friend as well as another director in T&T mobile. and funnily, veronica was intrigued by dae joo right from the start, so when she found out that she was in the wrong meeting, she told gal hee to take care of min ik.
gal hee then rushes to min ik, without realizing that she didn't wear her usual cardigan. she then realized he couldn't see her face and thought that she was veronica park. being former secretary of veronica, gal hee could impersonate veronica perfectly. unfortunately, she was good at acting since min ik started to fall in love with "veronica". gal hee tried to end things quickly, but she was caught by veronica later. veronica was forced by her mom to marry min ik within a month, meanwhile she was still trying to win dae joo. so she forced gal hee to keep impersonating her while she went on a date with dae joo.
this double veronica thing became confusing to min ik, as he fell in love with "veronica" and gal hee at the same time. he confessed to dae joo about having feeling to "veronica" as well, making dae joo furious of veronica. unfortunately, before veronica told gal hee the reason why she had to keep impersonate her, they both got into accident. min ik rushed to the hospital and torned, but decided to meet gal hee and confessed his feeling. gal hee was super happy but at the same time feeling guilty. the guilt was unbearable so she asked veronica to end things. veronica then decided to put and end to it. both confessed, veronica to her mother, gal hee to min ik. but before gal hee had the chance to confess, min ik found out that gal hee was veronica. he was feeling betrayed and fired gal hee.
veronica then told dae joo the whole dupe things and dae joo finally understood why veronica said she had a triangle love story with min ik without having meeting him. they both then went on several dates and then had to face veronica's mom since she was opposed the idea of veronica dating a nobody. meanwhile, gal hee found out that her sister's not away to america to study. instead, her sister met veronica in a casting and then veronica helped her sister joined a theater. later gal hee saw her sister's potential and let her keep joining the theater.
min ik then told his doctor the whole story, and the doctor scolded him for being a fool. he was complained that his brain must not working well since he fell in love with two girls. but now he found out that they were the same person. why should it keep bothering him? ain't him supposed to relieved that his brain didn't put a trick on him? in the company, there was another problem. lee eul wang, his father's former secretary, was apparently make an illegal group. she took the bribe that the company received as well as other funds and things that were not supposed to be received by the company, sold it, then used the money to pay compensation for contract workers in need. her first support went to dae joo, whose mother died while trying to rescue min ik's father fish. trying to save the other workers, she told CEO shim about min ik's condition, which then led to another stockholder meeting as he was not supposed to be a candidate if he had a health problem.
min ik got help from gal hee a day before the meeting and gal hee begged him to let her become his secretary again for one day. but min ik saw how important gal hee to him and then he confessed his feeling once again, tried to start a clean slate with her. unfortunately, at the company, the situation was getting worse. eul wang and all other workers started a hungry strike as a protest to the company. gal hee who was secured her position feeling sorry for other workers, so she joined the hunger strike as well, making min ik devastated seeing her suffer. he then made a plan to defeat his uncle. at the end, we saw that min ik didn't manage to become a CEO and let dae joo became a CEO instead. veronica and dae joo still hasn't got her mother's approval. and min ik condition was not getting better, but his relationship with gal hee still kept going.
what i like:
- lightweight romance story, a lot of laugh in this drama. perfect for gloomy days.
- no super evil person that would make you angry watching the drama. i believe dramas should make you happy, feeling better.
- how they pictured the main actress is not super pretty or sexy but still the main actor fell for her. though there are times when she duped veronica and became pretty, but at the end, they kept her curly and nerdy with glasses and all.
- veronica park. i believe she's the light in this drama. how can anyone forgot that she kept remember to say "nice to meet you, my name is veronica park" with her hand gestures every time she started to speak? and how funny her and dae joo?
what i don't like:
- typical boss-secretary love story. though the situation is real, you might get close to somebody that's very close to you, but still...
- another work abuse story. the reason eul wang started to embezzle dirty money is because of work abuse started by min ik's father then continued by his uncle. and i think min ik doesn't do anything to change that except he put dae joo as CEO as substitute to calm things over.
- another prosopagnosia story. it seems like it's easy to get this disease, while in real life, it might not as often to get that diagnosis.
- dae joo might not as innocent as he wanted to be. he didn't do anything when veronica unbuttoned his shirt. twice.
- how at the end there's no solution to min ik's prosopagnosia, while in the other drama, the main actor was completely cured at the end. not completely a happy ending
rating: 9/10
binge worthy: yes
recommended for: someone who love simple romcom story, don't mind another boss secretary love fling as another prosopagnosia diagnosis get in between.
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