Alaskan

I enjoyed Undercover Ms. Hong, primarily because Park Shin Hye was fun to watch, as was her mentor at the government agency. I also liked Bok Hui’s sassiness. Most of the other characters were over the top, including Kang No Ra and her hair and the villains Secretary Song (with her helmet hair and wobbly lipliner) and Chairman Kang (with his orange makeup that made him look like Korean Donald Trump). In sharp contrast was sluggish Go Kyung Pyo. I haven’t watched enough of his dramas to know whether he usually sleepwalks through his roles or was directed to act so that everyone would wonder what Hong Geum Bo origiinally saw in his character. If the latter was the case, he did a good job.

Although the drama seemed to be about good versus evil and ordinary workers versus corporate powers, the real theme seemed to be the old guard making way for the new. Perhaps Kim Bom also foreshadowed the generation after that? Maybe I’m thinking too much about this drama.