Bobcat

Boys playing CEOs

The series has a good guy, a bad guy and a girl. The ML is a spoiled brat that only wants to have a good time and he gets into a fight with another spoiled brat, who becomes the villain. The ML parents come to the police station, but tells him how disappointed they are with him and the father walks away,but the father, rival of the ML's father, of the boy he was fighting gets everyone out.
Soon after that, the ML's father, who owns Typhoon Trading, dies and the ML, who idolized his father, as he passes out bonus checks to the five employees he decides to try and save the company. He's attracted to the girl on the bottom rung, who seems to be the most qualified of the five and talks her into helping him.
The series is based on South Korea's IMF bail out in the late '90's when small businesses were going bankrupt and Typhoon Trading was not only having financial trouble, but the 'villain' was doing everything he could to have them go under. That is what became boring, in that one episode the 'villain' would do something, which the next episode they had to fix.
The ML and FL were supposedly the romantic plot, but in reality the supporting cast couple wound up being the couple that had chemistry together.
Overall, I enjoyed the first couple episodes, then he became boring I only watched it hoping it'd get better, which IMO didn't happen.

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Run, No Transport away from this Drama

The first 10 or so episodes were a 5, then either they changed writers, or the writer had a fight with his bossed and felt like he'd ruin the rest of the episodes and he succeeded. The actors did their part and were good. The music was awesome, even mixed English with Korean. The characters left a lot to be desired.
Spoiler from here on:
Start with the ML's (Male lead) Mom. Not sure what her problem was but she had a hissy fit that her son didn't follow in his father (who left her just after she got pregnant) foot steps (he became a prosecutor). The FL (female lead) father was killed in a hit/run accident and she saw the accident . The driver was the daughter of a powerful Assemblyman and the ML father (prosecutor) altered everything to have someone take the blame. The plot basically now is that the FL tries to right that wrong. Growing up the FL and ML go to same school and ML is a 'hottie' that all the girls love, even the FL. The ML lead discovers that the FL has incriminating evidence to prove the ML's father altered the hit/run and while stealing the evidence, the FL lead is hit by a car. The ML now realized he caused it and stops trying to following in father's footsteps and he now is a famous teen idol, but discovers he's got a terminal illness.
Where everything goes haywire, the FL loves the ML, but he's so-so, the next episode the ML loves the FL, but she's now in love with a another guy, then the next episode the FL is in love with the ML, but he's now treating the FL like crap, but she now seems to have no self esteem and keeps crawling to him. At the end the ML shows the FL a house that he built for them and they finally get to live together, while he loses more of his mind. He dies in the end, but I knew , like his own mother raised a child by herself, that we were going to find out the FL was pregnant and the ML would 'live' on. IT NEVER HAPPENED!!!!

A part that I didn't understand was when the ML was locked in his bedroom, by his stupid manager. What house, other than this one, has a lock on the out side (like a prison cell) of the door and not on the inside (to keep people from coming in)?

What bothered me the most was how well the beginning of the story unfolded and then they just didn't know how to finish it. I'm not sure what the writer's point was, but he should only be limited to writing the first part of any of the dramas..

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Strong start messy ending

This story started off as a kdrama worth watching over and over again and then is well all over the place. The main theme is an executive of a food company and has a daughter from a first wife and two step children from a woman who built the company that he's the CEO. He's afraid that the two step children will destroy the company that his wife of one year , who died in an accident,
He always hires women as body guards and the FL after an impressive job interview is hired. As the story develops we learn the CEO has 6 months to lives and develops a plan to marry the FL, 40 years younger, and has her sign a contract giving her all his majority shares and having her prove the step daughter murdered his daughter.
The plan is for the FL to hide in a city without rail or air connection from Seoul. This is where the plot starts having holes, confusion, and really should have gotten new writers, instead of 4 episodes and I'm done writers. Her hiding becomes known to some of the towns people, then known to the bad people. The ML is a single strawberry farmer in the hiding town with a kid. Of course, that means they have to become involved with the baddies. The kid sees what he thinks is his real mom, so he gets in a car to 'chase' her. The car stop 2 blocks from where we see the back of a woman go into a store. After finding the kid, no one wonders who picked up the kid? The FL is a black belt and whenever she fights, where the baddie is to get away, she of course loses in two swings. She has a gun on a guy and he kicks it out of her hand. What kind of body guard would she ever have made?
It always seem in these Kdramas that the bad guy has and army of 10 or more to the good guy's army of two. Also it seems that day and night seem to be 10 minutes apart. We see a scene where something happens and it day light and the person drives away and 10 minutes later it's night or it''l be night time and the next scene it day light even those it's a continuous scene.
The story line might be good for a 2 hour movie, but for a 12 episode series, they had to do a lot of fill in, which made the viewer wondering what just happened or why is it dragging on.
Watch at your own risk as you'll be scratching your head after episode 5 on.

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Excellent but some confusing parts

Overall the acting and story line was very well done. The story concerns a wife who was supposedly murdered by her husband, and buried alive, but lived and was found by a noble woman, who was sent to a religious institute, and her maid. The noble had been beaten and was treated badly and succumbed to her injuries. The wife assumed her other woman's identity and along with the maid vowed to avenge herself as well as the woman who's identity she assumed.
It was confusing in that the two didn't look anything alike, but since the noble was sent away when she was 10, they dismissed it as she changed while away. When the husband and family met the returned 'noble', they all almost fainted as she was a twin of the wife he supposedly murdered.
Of course, the wife/noble avenged everything, but now the confusion. The noble and her sister were both in love with the same guy, even tho one was 10 when sent away the other was when her sister was sent away. We're suppose to believe that everyone was still having the same feelings? The fake was saved by an investigator, Duke, and he was the Emperor's right hand man, even thou the two met 8 years ago,, when bother were about 8 or 9 years old. Every one are adults but the time lines don't match.
Lastly, at the end, the Emperor sends Duke to the north flank to save that border, but it looks as if he failed, but the closing credits we see a horseman (legs only no face) riding towards his wife (the fake one), but not sure if he was still alive or it was his wife's dream/vision?

If you can get by the timeline of the different characters, it's well worth watching as there are some awesome plot twits that you don't see coming.

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