Set towards the hyper aggressive world of headhunters, the premiere of “Love Scout” is already spectacular with its refreshing tackle gender roles and dynamics. Han Ji Min’s CEO Kang Ji Yun means enterprise. She is terrific at her job, however she is tough to work with and struggles to nurture relationships. Yu Eun Ho (Lee Jun Hyuk) is her tremendous competent secretary, who just isn’t solely an ace at all the pieces he does however is tremendous in style with folks. As their ideologies and ethics are completely different along with their views towards life, the 2 conflict. Right here’s what you’ll be able to count on from the premiere episodes beneath!
Warning: spoilers from episodes 1-2.
Yu Euh Ho, the endearing “Mr. Repair It”
Yu Eun Ho begins out as a part of the HR division at Hansu Electronics. He’s good at what he does however is consistently gaslighted and humiliated by his boss. The explanation? Eun Ho had taken a yr lengthy paternity depart on account of his daughter’s psychological well being. His supervisor had caustically advised him that his baby just isn’t that particular for him to forsake an project that would assist his profession. Nonetheless, Eun Ho, undeterred, responds that for him his daughter is essentially the most particular and to see her smile is his greatest victory. Feeling betrayed by Eun Ho’s sudden break, his supervisor continues to taunt and humiliate Eun Ho, who stoically retains working. However someday, he’s falsely accused for leaking official knowledge and is requested to go away.
Nonetheless, Eun Ho doesn’t let his skilled worries and challenges ever come between elevating his seven-year-old daughter. As a single father, he has labored exhausting in offering his daughter with a protecting and completely satisfied house. When he’s advised his daughter was displaying indicators of despair, he takes a depart of absence from work and devotes himself to her remedy and counseling classes. From taking her to high school and play dates to cooking enjoyable meals, and tending to her wants, he’s the final word cool dad. Eun Ho can be very fast together with his reflexes, and when you’ve a younger baby at house, that’s a essential ability set.
Issues get messy earlier than he leaves Hansu when Eun Ho has a not-so-pleasant encounter with Kang Ji Yun, the boss of a headhunting agency, when she tries to position an worker from his group in a rival firm. After a heated alternate, the battle strains are clearly drawn between the 2. Sarcastically, after dropping his job and regardless of his earlier group giving him horrible references, Kang Ji Yun’s second-in-command co-worker feels he would make the proper assistant for her.
Eun Ho is aware of the repercussions of their encounter however zealously works exhausting and reveals his aptitude. Although Kang Ji Yun ignores and makes her dislike obvious, he has no qualms in saying he wants the job and has the expertise she requires for her firm. It’s cute when he’s seen taking books on the way to get alongside together with your boss to grasp what extra he must do to get on Kang Ji Yun’s good facet. One can not assist however applaud the person’s resilience and conviction in being calm and in management regardless of having a troublesome boss round.
It’s an absolute deal with to look at Lee Jun Hyuk within the romantic style. He slips with ease into the character, articulating Eun Ho’s compassion, his energy to adapt to conditions, and sustaining composure. His character is simply infectious.
Kang Ji Yun, the no-nonsense boss
Han Ji Min’s Kang Ji Yun means enterprise. She doesn’t mince her phrases and is aware of the way to get the job executed. A headhunter working her personal agency Peoplez, Ji Yun lacks folks expertise essentially the most. When she’s requested what she seems for in a candidate, she sharply responds that it must be somebody who can earn their maintain and justify the worth connected to them. When she is advised that that is cringe, she shrugs and says that in hardwired capitalist instances, to not earn your maintain is prison, and she or he’d slightly be cringe than prison.
Ji Yun is so centered on work and what she does that it appears she is proof against everybody round her, which additionally contains emotions of her workers in addition to taking good care of herself. She will be able to by no means keep in mind the names of her workers, nor can she keep in mind which automotive she was pushed in or the place she has stored her issues. On high of that, she comes along with her personal quirks, from the espresso needing to be a sure temperature to papers being stapled at a selected angle. It’s no shock that she has been unable to maintain an assistant, with a number of having resigned days into the job.
When her makes an attempt at signing a candidate from Hansu Electronics to a different firm are thwarted by Hansu’s HR supervisor Yu Eun Ho, she just isn’t amused. Eun Ho tells her that loyalty and worth matter over small-time features, and it’s clear Eun Ho sees her and headhunters as selfishly motivated people who would do something for their very own achieve and fee. She tells him clearly that she hopes they by no means meet once more, solely to have him in her workplace as her newly appointed assistant.
Ji Yun is a girl who can maintain a grudge, and she or he sees via Eun Ho, wanting him out. However he obstinately stands his floor. The one time one sees a flicker of emotion in Ji Yun’s face is when she asks him why he took paternity depart on the expense of his profession, to which Eun Ho says his daughter means the world to him.
Ji Yun just isn’t as sturdy as one thinks her to be. She suffers from acute insomnia and tends to work herself to the bone. It’s a lot in order that she lands on the hospital for having overworked her mind. Ji Yun remembers her personal father, who had died in an accident. Seeing Eun Ho’s devotion towards his personal daughter, she will get riled up and remembers her personal father, who had advised her he would by no means depart her. It’s clear she is carrying baggage from the previous. Ji Yun additionally has a rival, her former mentor (performed by Park Bo Kyung), who’s out to destroy her. Haunted by an incident of the previous, although Ji Yun refuses to just accept defeat, it appears there are those that have set her as much as fail.
Han Ji Min shines because the “butter gained’t soften in her mouth” boss. Although she showcases a troublesome exterior, she guards her susceptible facet. It’s clear that is additionally a girl who has been wronged and had no selection however to show into an emotionally hardened particular person.
A refreshing tackle gender roles
Who doesn’t love a very good workplace romance? There have been a number of dramas the place the good-looking, boastful CEO is swept off his ft by his kind-hearted and meticulous secretary. Nonetheless, “Love Scout” cleverly upends gender stereotypes. Now we have the profitable boss, Kang Ji Yun, who’s formidable and unapologetic with regards to her ideologies. She runs her agency with an iron hand, she research and personally will get shoppers recruited, and it’s crucial for her that people know their value. She has no qualms in sacking an worker who has manipulated paperwork, and she or he performs by business guidelines, even warning her rival that if she performs soiled along with her, she might be taken down. It is a lady who lives by her guidelines and by herself. However evidently with regards to feelings and relationships, she has locked them away.
Yu Eun Ho, although a promising supervisor within the HR division, doesn’t suppose twice earlier than taking a piece sabbatical, though he’s warned he would face repercussions. As a single dad, he has taken it upon himself to offer his daughter a nurturing and completely satisfied setting. He’s an excellent home-maker, excels in childcare, and is equally good together with his job. Eun Ho tries to take care of a wholesome work-life stability and is a faithful dad or mum. Irrespective of if he has a nasty day at work, he makes certain his daughter doesn’t see via his struggles.
In instances the place ladies are sometimes burdened with tasks at house in addition to work, “Love Scout” cleverly reveals that whether or not within the work area or at house in addition to with parenting, it doesn’t must be restricted by boundaries of gender. Seeing a girl in a decision-making function and her assistant, who’s an equally confident man, is a heartening sight.
One can’t wait to see how the connection between the haughty boss and her amiable secretary takes off from right here. As Kang Ji Yun extends her hand in the direction of Eun Ho, might he properly be the one to convey normalcy in her chaotic life? We’ll simply have to attend to seek out out!
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Puja Talwar is a Soompi author with a powerful Yoo Yeon Seok and Lee Junho bias. A very long time Ok-drama fan, she loves devising alternate eventualities to the narratives. She has interviewed Lee Min Ho, Gong Yoo, Cha Eun Woo, and Ji Chang Wook to call just a few. You possibly can comply with her on @puja_talwar7 on Instagram.
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