Movie Review: What's Wrong With Secretary Kim? (2018)

Hello movie fellas 🤗, my k-drama lovers please come and sit because I'm about to give you the hottest gist about an amazing movie. I just finished watching all the episodes of " What is wrong with Secretary Kim?" and I can't even get over the drama because it's so interesting, exciting and has a bit of suspense so I really have to share my thoughts about it because it was so enjoyable not just because it's a movie with a business or official setting, it's typically a movie that you can call "Love in the Workplace" 🤭. I really love official setting movies too since I'm an accountant-in-view and it's easily relatable for me. This movie doesn't only have to do with the acting but the storyline is so mind blowing and emotional at some point.

This movie is a South Korean romantic movie which was produced in 2018 staring Park Seo Joon and Park Min-young as the main characters of the movie, they acted as the Vice Chairman of a well flourishing family company(Lee Young-jun) and his secretary (Kim Min-so) respectively. Their acting was second to none,I was so glued to my screen throughout the movie that I forgot myself. The movie showcase love, emotions, humor, pain, self discovery, fear of the unknown, childhood trauma and balancing career with personal happiness. It was really intriguing I must confess, some part of the movie made me laugh, sometimes cry but sometimes I feel goosebumps all over me. All the casts in this movie really did amazingly well in everything.

PLOT

The storyline of the movie was inspired by a popular web novel by Jung Kyung-yoon. It all started with Lee Young-jun as the perfectionist vice chairman of a large family owned conglomerate called Yumyung Group. He is highly intelligent, wealthy, and handsome but also extremely self absorbing, he believes the world revolves around him and most people find him difficult to approach due to his arrogant and blunt demeanor. Anyway, despite all his flaws which he regarded as strength, he is extremely capable in his work and the company flourish very well under his leadership.

However, for nine years Kim Mi-so has been his dedicated and highly efficient secretary. She is known for her calm personality, professionalism, and problem solving skills, she often anticipates her boss’s needs before he even articulates them. However, despite their long working relationship, they have always maintained a strictly professional boundary until one day, Kim Mi-so unexpectedly announces her resignation, her decision shocks Young-jun, who cannot understand why anyone would want to leave the great opportunity of working beside someone as perfect as himself. Unwilling to let her go, Young-jun tries to stop her resignation in awkward and ridiculous ways, including offering her a raise, special privileges and even proposing marriage. However , his personality always betrays him as efforts come off as arrogant at first but it gradually becomes evident that he genuinely has feelings for her. Although he lacks the emotional intelligence to express them properly.

However, Mi-so continues to insist on leaving her job to focus on her personal life and finding her own identity, Young-jun begins to reflect on his own behavior and emotions and began to change little by little with the help of his friend President Park (even though it was funny ideas😂). Their relationship evolves from boss-secretary to friends, and eventually into romantic partners. However, their growing affection is complicated by a dark past they both share but do not fully remember.

The central mystery of the drama revolves around a traumatic childhood kidnapping incident that Mi-so experienced. She recalls being locked in a room with a young boy who comforted her during the ordeal. As she searches for the boy from her past, believing him to be Young-joon’s older brother, Lee Sung-yeon, the truth slowly unravels. It is eventually revealed that it was actually Young-joon who had been with her during the kidnapping, but due to the trauma, both had swapped and misremembered key details of the event.
As the truth comes to light, the emotional barriers between Young-jun and Mi-so dissolve, allowing them to confront their fears and traumas together. Their relationship deepens into a mature, loving partnership. The series ends on a joyful note, with the two characters not only healing from their past but also building a future together as they eventually got married.

REVIEW AND RATINGS

I really enjoyed the way the casts especially the main actors, they really did a great job acting their roles. The movie official settings, their outfits and behaviour really depicts their various roles and I must commend them for that. The painful scenes actually made me cry and I love their public display of love , friendship and communalism even in the place of work. Their oneness and ability to love each other despite the differences in their personalities is highly recommendable.

No matter how good the movie was, was still some short comings I would like to state:
It feels so childish to me to be having phobia for spiders as at that Mi-so age 😂. The phobia Young-jun has was still understandable because it was birthed out of trauma. Although, k-drama likes adding some insensible scenes to their movies to create humour but I would love it more if it was more intellectual humor scenes.

However the short comings, I will still be rating this movie 7 out of 10 because of the official settings 🤭.

Here is the link to the thriller of the movie: