What's Wrong with Secretary Kim? (2018)
Grade:
B-
16 Episodes, 70 minutes each
Viewing
Platform: Viki
Kim Mi So has worked her entire life to
help support her sisters through medical school and to pay off her
father's debts, and now that Mi So has finally made the last payment,
she puts in her resignation. Lee Young-joon, the vice-chairman of a
very successful company, won't simply stand by and allow his
perfectly trained secretary of nine years leave just like that,
though. After some prying, Mi So admits the real reasons she wants to
resign: so she can find love and get married, and so she can “find
herself” after so many years of only existing to help her family.
How will Mi So receive the vice-chairman's generous offer to let Mi
So date his eligible self? Will she find the oppa that helped save
her from a kidnapping situation from her youth? And how will
Young-joon's family react to Mi so piecing together their dark family
secrets?
*This kdrama starts off with a really
creepy vibe, as the viewer finds out what the kidnapped children went
through, and then the main conflicts resolve halfway through the
show. This made for a really slow-moving second half, which can
sometimes be nice, but in this drama, it feels like two different
shows. I didn't like the main theme song/music, the physical contact
felt too much like an American show (sex before marriage), and the
actor who plays Young-joon isn't my favorite. Plus, once a certain
fact is revealed, it doesn't seem like he actually changes or
develops as a character, since he was “always” that way. Mi so is
pretty cute, but I liked watching the secondary characters' love
stories more than the primary story arc. Not sure I'd watch this
again.*
