📺 Korean Tv Series Review: The Secret Life of My Secretary (초면에 사랑합니다)

Do Min Ik is the young and brilliant director of T&T Mobile Media...he's known for his strong faces and names memory as well as his almost dictatorial behaviors in confront of his poor secretary.

Jung Gal Hee has no choice but to be Do Min Ik's minion: her older brother is blind and she desperately wants to send her younger sister to study abroad, in order to have a higher job position when she'll be older...that's why she accepts his bossy boss.

There only catch is that Do Min Ik never keeps a secretary for more than one year and so Jung Gal Hee gets fired.

One night, on his way to meet with his best friend Ki Dae Joo, Do Min Ik is victim of an assault and, after falling from a balcony, loses his ability to recognize faces. He seems to recognize only Jung Gal Hee and so he re-hires her, asking her to never leave his side.

Things get complicated (and, from a viewer's PoV, HILARIOUS!) when Do Min Ik's mother sets him up for a blind date with no other than...Cinepark's CEO, Veronica Park. She's known for being a great judge when it comes to movie success, but she's also a troublemaker and impossible to work with.

Due to a misunderstanding, Veronica Park ends up meeting with Ki Dae Joo and Do Min Ik with...his secretary, pretending to be Veronica Park.

Jung Gal Hee intended to do it just once, to see how it feels like to be powerful and respected, but things as always happen slip away and she's 'forced' to play the double role...

The background story is also compelling, as it's about bribery and 

unfair working hours and conditions.

My Opinion👍👎

Every K-Drama has at least two love stories going on: sometimes I happened to like more the 1st leads' one, some other times the 2nd leads one (‘High Society’ for instance), but with this series, I couldn’t help but love both!

Do Min Ik and Ki Dae Joo are good guys, I especially appreciated Ki Dae Joo's honesty and kind heart, while Do Min Ik wasn’t afraid to lean on Jung Gal Hee and show her his fragilities...which is a rare thing in dramaland.

But, truth be told, to me the real star of the series is her: Veronica Park! Her character is so loud, over the top, and goes all-in when she sets her mind on something…or someone. She's basically the Asian version of The Devil Wears Prada's Miranda Prisley and she shone from the second she enters the scene...I love her and Kim A-Jung, the screenwriter who invented her. 

I was always impatient for new episodes every week and this can only mean one thing: 

the series was fresh, fun, and positive. 

Perfect to start the summer off right!

Ranking: 4¾/5

Ph: kpopmap.com