What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

One of my all time favs, I've rewatched this multiple times.

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I love every episode of this show. The main characters are well defined and the story is well written. Just the right amount of dramatic yet funny.

What's Wrong With Secretary Kim is a drama mainly about a vice chairman and his secretary. One day, secretary Kim decides that she wants to quit her job as a secretary. Lee Young Joon, vice chairman, goes on a quest to find out why she wants to quit. Throughout this quest, the two begin to learn more about each other. They start to fall in love , hilarity ensue and there is a teeny weeny flashback and trauma

This show is for a casual

My main complaint from this drama isn't really the plot. As you can still have great k-dramas without complex plots. The thing that bothers me is the fact the characters are one dimensional (in addition to the simple plot). You can literally describe a lot of the characters in the drama in one word. I.e. You have a character who is the narcissist, one who who is loyal, one who is the klutz, another character who is frugal, and one who is lustful. There is very less character development in the show and the story is predictable.

It could be that I'm rating this a little low - but for 14 episodes I totally enjoyed with this sweet and fluffy romantic comedy. The last two episodes are where it faltered for me. Park Seo Joon (from Itaewon Class ..which i haven't completed watching yet ) was flawless here, and I can't complain about him in any way. And the comedy was gold. I wasn't disappointed with the final moments, but I would say that episodes 15 and 16 were pretty much completely filler material as they had run out of story and needed to stretch the time.
Again, PSJ can pretty much do no wrong in my eyes right now. He's pretty to look at, has good comedic timing, and his romance scenes were believable and tingle-inducing. Who else could make such an arrogant guy lovable and sweet? Park Min Young - started out really well. She looked sharp, had pretty smiles, and great bantering. But I wasn't always fully convinced of Mi So's affections towards Young Joon because of how PMY acted. Pyo Ye Jin as Ji Ah, was super cute, but she seems to have been typecast into similar roles now. I did enjoy her in this and hope to see her in more roles soon. Hwang Bo Ra as Bong Se Ra was a bit over the top in her comedy like she was trying way too hard. But both Ji Ah and Se Ra's office romances were very cute and fun to watch. Kang Ki Young did a great job in his role, playing Young Joon's employee and friend....but mostly his advice coach. Lee Tae Hwan, playing Young Joon's brother, was such a mild character that he was virtuously unnoticeable and fairly useless except as a plot device.

Despite the above shortcomings it is a good watch if you watching it casuallly inbetween other shows or work. The story was thin and didn't fill out the available time for the story, but because I was enjoying the romance it didn't become super obvious until the last couple of episodes. I enjoyed the banter and the comedy between the co-workers and the romance between Young Joon and Mi So. I found the sound effects hilarious and Mi So's side eye made me laugh every time. Although the secondary romances were fairly cute, there is little substance to this show, if I'm being perfectly honest. I am all up for fluffy and light when it comes to romantic comedies- so this fits that perfectly for that. If you expect a rom-com to be anything other than this, you will be disappointed and I wouldn't recommend it. I was happily entertained for the majority of the show, though, regardless of the plot. (I'm not difficult to please when it comes to rom-coms.)

The storyline wasn't something special but an overal good series to pass the time . The main leads have great chemistry together.

A loverly series. Both leads are great and have fantastic chemistry. I especially found the little sound effects and animations so adorable and funny. Nice music too.

This drama is a ball of fluffness and cuteness overall, with a few serious, dramatic plot points to really bring out and deepen the emotional aspect. Really enjoyed it.

I’m not a big fan of RomComs but there is something about comedic Kdramas that resets the bar, as demonstrated by this series. It is a comedy centred around a shared trauma, not two things you often see living comfortably beside each other in a series. The acting is great. The story is fun, and moving, and the whole experience is enjoyable. I gave this series a high 7 (really good) out of 10.

funny and entertaining most parts

I finally finished What's Wrong with Secretary Kim and I must say, it was entertaining, even though I would not watch it again.


➕ Positive: The acting is honestly quite good in general. The actors are obviously all very pretty. The overall aesthetic is pleasant. There are funny moments. I liked some of the secondary characters. It's cute.

➖ Negative: The storyline is very predictable. The drama uses a lot of K-drama clichés. The series starts to get boring around episode 10 and could have definitely been shorter. The characters are very surface level and there is no character development whatsoever.

All that being said, I still didn't feel I needed to force myself to finish it, so it wasn't that bad. I also think it's a great drama for language learning, as most of the vocabulary is daily life vocabulary. So if you watch it and enjoy it, I am sure it'll be a great drama to rewatch from time to time and evaluate your progress that way! (if you are learning Korean)

It was fun until midway. The childhood story was a bit too much for me. The last few episodes were more or less unnecessary, though kinda cute. Overall nice to watch.