Chief Kim (2017)

It's super funny and contains many life lessons

The acting ! My Goodness ! The lead is a top class actor for sure. The cast was spectacular and the bromance !!!?? ooof! No wonder they won the best couple award, which is hilarious ahahah
There was no boring episode. The OST was really cool. The characters, everyone really, had so much depth which indicates a really good screenwriter. I am genuinely so impressed and happy to have watched it.
The lack of romance was just perfect for the genre of the drama. You could tell who the final couple was and there was no force fed romance, just a lot of amazing human relationships, friendships and warmth of a family of non-blood-related people...I cried many times and I never get emotional in the dramas ahaha

The ending cartoons were hilarious and super duper cute though!

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Good Manager (2017) - Corporated greed and corruption

The Korean society must have quite a big number of issues ... especially with hirarchy, based in the old feudal structure of the Korean society which seem ro be manifested till today and despite a functional democracy.

The story evolves around the TQ Group and its corrupt and power and money greedy CEO.

Namkoong Min as Kim Sung Ryong paired with Nam Sang Mi as female counterpart Yoon Ha Kyung and Lee Jun Ho as capitalistic sociaphat Seo Yool and Jung Hye Sung as enthusiastic undercover agent Hong Ga Eun give a wonderful set of characters which develop quite well in the story line and acring their alias.

Accounting is the key to uncover even most creative strategies and placing numbers in imaginairy companies/accounts. Slush founds/black money and labour rights and abuse of employees is the theme in this white colar crime story.

Sung Ryong and Sang Mi seemed to be the love affair of this story ... with Seo Yool as the rival? ... but arn´t. But sparks flew. Even with their counterpart Seo Yool ... incl. homoerotic flashes acted against a bit homophobic, taking in accounting the ridiculous anti LGBTQIA+ attitude and lack of womensrights in ultraconservative Korean society. Jokes made on the back of LGBTQIA+ is still not to accept and won´t!
Sang Mi distrusted Sung Ryong but got convinced by his fight for what is right, as she herself cna´t stand injustice, especially done by her company she is working for.
The back and forth bewtween Sung Ryong and Seo Yool is one of the highlights in this show for sure

Some bosses for real think they are the masters of desasters, or better a godlike given entity to whom everybody has to obey and bow.

Decisions are made ... with an good end the revenue is privatized and if its going wrong ... the result is socialized and empolyees are "set free", succed out and spewed out like waste. the Financial Crisis of 2007/08, in which we still are, has shown this drastically and paved the way for the far right poppolists (populists) which fish/ed among the vast numbers of losers. Which by far did not drink too much latte ...

The show shows us protesting employees for beeing succed out and lousy paid for and other employees even not paid. And the reaction of the boss? Angry and still sitting on its slush fonds, which ruined not only one of the subsidiaries.
The reations Sang Mi gets from the rivaling department and the ladies fight in the canteen but pictures too the disrespect of women as equal to men ... and the sispite 2017 when staged.

The film is a loud cry against corporations behavior and missing respect for their employees who create the lavish lifestyle of the chaebols and their family.
Here the son (Dong Ha Park Myung Seok) and heir is going a similar way as the main male heros Sung Ryong and Seo Yool from prick and sociophat to getting a social concience. His arrogance is based as usual on missing education and here accounting in special. Tzhe brat got his lecturwer in Sung Ryong. He ends as the key figure for saving his mother´s corporation.

When the guys in the cellar and Seo Yool unite their forces the team of not so white knights start to walk the winners lane ... and its a fun to see them acting one step ahead of the bosses blended by their greed in incompetence.

Only one couple does found itself as a sideline during the fierce battles ... but okay. GOOD MANAGER is not a love show.

The original CEO is ending with his croonies in front of the bar and is sentenced and even then can´t see and accept his guilt ... like so many CEOs and company owners when going down the gurgler because of fraud, shitty decisions. We can use their cases as tapestry for our homes.

Therefore we need more and stricter control mechanisms to prevent cases like pictured in GOOD MANAGER and strong and effective unions for employees.

The show staged 10 years after the ww Financial Crisis, starting 2006 with the Subprime Crisis and collapse of LEHMAN BROS. in 2007 calls for regulations of corporations. Not only for their employees, but for the nations economy and with that the ww economy.

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I was introduced to Namgoong Min through Remember and I was woah! I need to see this guy more. Good manager had been in my watch list for soooooo long, and then one day I saw that he and seo yool got best couple award, so I decide to watch this. And damn! I was blown away! It is such a good drama. It had everything - comedy, suspense, thriller and a good message. All I can say is that guys, u have to watch this drama.

The plot, story, characters, cast everything was so gud. Especially the character development.....how each of the characters changed was amazing!

And I seriously loved the acting! It was so gud!!!! Namgoong min was so eccentric playing chief Kim. His insanity, OMG! Even seo yool did such a gud job, showing those minor emotions evrytime he saw ha Kyung. And park myeong! Wow what an actor he is! I saw him in suspicious partner and. here again. He definitely deserves more dramas where he is the main lead.

Although seo yool and ha Kyung didn't get much screen time, I ship them so hard. They are such a good couple and I was so glad when they finnaly came together in the end.

The climax was as gud as everything else. Usually, when there's a fight between the weak and the rich, the end is just somewhat ubrupt. But not for this guys.... The writers did such a gud job, slowly making chief Kim weaken all the stumps of TQ and then the bull's eye, the chairman. It was so elaborated, but in the right amount so u don't feel too rush or don't get annoyed seeing it. It was just perfect.

Honestly, the only reason I gave this drama 9 for re-watch value was because of chief Kim's wacky attitude and seo yol and his bromance. Once again, u just can't get enough of them. You would really wanna watch it again and again and again.

All I can say is that u will be missing something if u don't watch this drama.

P.S. Chief Kim and seo yol are seriously such a. Good couple! Their fights in the start and chief Kim's somewhat gay-ish actions in the end were really gud.

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Worth a watch!

I'm not overly interested in comedies, I have never really been able to get stuck in any.
Until I found this, Drawn by the actor Namkoong Min, his action roles have always caught my attention, his acting is perfect.

Surprisingly I was able to watch the whole drama without getting bored or distracted. It made me laugh/giggle non stop.
This drama also has a couple of 'serious breaks' between all the comedy, This really helped keeps the plot and kept the story going forward so it never felt like it gets stuck in an endless loop.

The sound affects in this drama are hilarious. the cartoony blips and bonks fit so well and made me laugh even more.

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The highlight of this drama is definitely the back-n-forth between Kim Sung Ryong & Seo Yool, played by Nam Goong Min & Lee Jun Ho, respectively. They put their all into their parts and it’s hilarious to watch both of their characters start off as unlikable goons and slowly, almost accidentally, just to spite the real bad guys become the heroes their company needs. Theirs is a real hero’s journey.

Another thing I loved was Dong Ha in one of his very few good guy roles. He plays psychopaths so well that he rarely gets to play a positive role which is a real shame because he truly shines here as the spoiled brat who becomes a good, decent man and a loving son. So lovely.

I wish the series was a bit shorter - 20 eps were too long, IMO, so the middle part dragged a bit and the good guys suffered almost too many setbacks - but that’s my only complaint. There’s no romance in this, it’s all about friendship, how to be a decent person and how to stand up for what’s right. And it’s also quite hilarious. Nam Goong Min is truly in his element here.

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Definitely the consistently funniest comedy that i've seen in Korean Drama. Nam Goong Min, who i've always seen play the evil psychotic bad guy brilliantly well proves that his range is as broad as it needs to be in this role as what I can only describe as "Dennis the Menace of the office world", taking on a much funnier role.

There's no romance here of note at all, maybe a couple of whispers in the background but if you're looking for Romance that's not the reason to watch. If you're looking for a fun story, fun characters, laughing moments in every episodes but at the same time some serious character development (it's always nice to see bad characters course correcting) then you'll enjoy this one.

Music was fun and bouncy to go with the general styling of the show.

After Sung-Ryong, I think Ga-Eun - who is an undercover prosecution detective - was probably my next favourite character and was glad they made her a main role and not relegated to a support role. Her character was fun to watch.

The comedy is good and easy, it doesn't stray into slapstick at all and generally makes use of character comedy, some funny as heck cringe comedy and plenty of insults thrown around to wind each other up.

Brilliant, definitely a good antidote to a dose of too many romance dramas to lighten the mind with some laughs.

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The drama that got my parents hooked to kdrama

I just finished watching it nd am full of emotions so lets share my feelings nd thoughts . So anyone who is thinking to drop this drama ,, noooooo don’t b like me cz i hv been doing the same but guess what this was a jewel 💎 a biggg jewel. This drama is first one that i watched with me parents nd siblings, nd now they r slapping me for not showing them this masterpiece before. 1. The storyline is good ***. Totally a family oriented comedy sitcom (BR a cherry on top). it shiws u how the big groups in korea work nd i learnt so much about all the buisness stuff and corruption nd how hierarchy in work has people bound to obey their seniors even beingon right track . It deals with heavy aspects nd each episode is consistent and plot develops smoothly. 2. Acting was just superb , top notch. U cant help but end up liking each character . It shows a cute side of everyone yes even some villains if u watch u will know. Each actors was perfect for their role.nd our main leads were unmatchable with their intelligence nd were pro in their field . Our ML TQpsycho has never ending collection of facial expressions. Nd his bunsan swag style was epic. Throughout the story he kept making us laugh until we had joker 😃 smile lines. Our ML glutinous sociopath had aggressive feisty attitude always for more power. But he looked so hot in that attitude . Story shows how like give u accident to turn good from bad as happened with our male leads. 3. Romnce betweenFl nd Ml was to zero .ah but hate/love Bromance was soooo good that even my little brother kept shipping our mr.righteous nd mr prosecutor , side character also hd very cute romantic moments. _Special notice- R u sad? Just watch this drama. * R u happy? Just watch this. *. R u tired? Just watch this. wanna die happily /no regret? Just watch this

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Just go for it !

This is one of the must watch Kdramas !! I was a little skeptical on picking it up , but wanted to give it a try after watching lot of junho and seonho dramas ! Though they both did a good job here , but the highlight was definitely manager Kim !

I have deducted 1 point only coz in the middle the drama became quite too technical for a non-techie to understand , but that lasted for 2-3 episodes only , and i think that was required to give the a build up ! There is dramatic and comedic ending to each and every episode which makes it even more hilarious !

Namkoong Min did an awesome job , as a crazy and righteous manager ! He was too cool to handle ! His bromance with GM and seo yul both were very cute ! The way he irritates seo yul is just beyond adorable everytime !

Junho was a rookie here ! Though he did a good job with all those evil expressions , he dint came across natural to me . I felt he was putting too much of an effort at some places , at others he was cute as usual ! Going frwrd I really feel negative roles would suit him better !

FL had hardly any good scenes , the detective was better than her !

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