Why Am I Here

The Casts Outmached The Script

It was a fun show. The classic trope of cold boss and kind-hearted employee is easy to execute. It was quite intriguing with a great pacing and the combination with the comedy. Set at the office, this type of classic romcom rarely fails. It started really well and has a good pacing too. Additionally, the comedy quality felt fresh.

Shin Hae Sun really never disappoints! I also loved the development of her character. The pairing with Gong Myung was great, it brought a very nice chemistry. Most importantly, I really love the chemistry between Team 3: They were the star of this show. The whole cast really made this show far better.

Kim Jae Uck somehow felt like a waste talent in this show. Jeon Jae Yeol character felt too essential to be a supporting character, but too small for a second lead. He wasn't evil enough to be a villain, but not good enough to root for. Rather than keeping them evenly, the show switched focus multiple times between In A and Gi Jun and the office politics. The vibe changed drastically on every switch, even the comedy level was uneven. Park A Jeong was really annoying since her the reason for all she did was just "if I can't have him then nobody can". Shame her downfall was pretty soft, I was really hoping Jae Yeol could really reconcile with his wife so it would be more bitter for her. On the other hand, they never stated what was actually the problem with Haemu Pharmaceuticals and what was actually not. I mean what's so secret about developing a cure that they had to hide the financial report of the foundation?

Overall this was another office-themed romcom. It was nothing extraordinary, watch this for the casts and comedy.

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I like the prequel of this movie, but this one didn't meet the expectation: It isn't as good as its predecessor. It still had a fresh story, since it still tried to connect between a real-life secret agent and its so-called webtoon. All the animations were great, might be the highlight of this show. The comedy quality however is lowered a bit, some of it were forcefully inserted. For an action-focused movie, the amount of the action scenes was also low.

At the end, it's still a refreshing show for someone seeking the follow up of the first movie. But beware, don't put too much expectations on it.

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Romcom with Generous Amount of Comendy... and Misunderstandings

My Roommate is A Gumiho is a typical classic romcom kdrama. The story was about a university student, who accidentally tangled with a 999 years old Gumiho after she swallowed his marble. It's a very lightweight romcom and easy to enjoy, with a lot of swooning moments. The amount of comedy is generous, and for a kdrama it's quite consistent throughout the show.

Jang Ki Yong played as Shin Woo Yeo, the male lead, while Hyeri became the female lead Lee Dam. Dam was a very simple thinking and straightforward person, very easy to like. While both casts played each character well, I somehow felt the chemistry was missing. Not only between the couple, but also between Dam and her two friends, Jae Jin and Su Gyeong, and even with her other college friends as well. The chemistry was very thin, especially in the earlier phase. The only exception is the love line between Yang Hye Sun and Do Jae Jin, their chemistry was my motivation to keep watching.

Pacing is a big problem in this show: For a romcom, this show is too slow. Instead of focusing on something like Woo Yeo and Dam's story or how to became human quickly, the story was going all over the place. The problems on this show were always appeared due to same reasons: zero communications. They piled up misunderstandings, looks like the writer tried to insert anything to keep the story 16 episodes long. Gye Seon U character was a total a**hole. Even before tied with the red thread, he kept hitting on Dam, though she had rejected him multiple times and said she had a boyfriend. The fact that he had once treated the relationship as a bet, and decided to continue pursuing it made it looks more disgusting. At the end, they tried to made us pity him? Hell nah!!

So I think this is good to watch once, maybe if you don't have anything to watch or looking for some lightweight romcom. But should you rewatch it? I don't think so.

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The Idea Goes Right, Everything Else Goes Wrong

It has great concept and idea, and that's all. There's nothing more on this show. The idea about trying to save a building ownership by doing everything, including dirty work, seemed very good. This show was slow but promising at the beginning. However, it never reached the peak that promised. Everything went downhill after they killed the coffee shop owner. The characters kept making ridiculous decisions. For this genre, the pace is far too slow. Take out comedy from the genre, there was nothing there.

A lot of talents wasted in this show, especially Lim Soo Jung and Krystal. Lim Soo Jung rarely takes drama jobs, why did she choose this? Shim Eun Kyung is probably the best in this show.

This show had too much going on together, but failed to entangle them between each other. I wonder how stupid was Gi Su Jong who trusted Nam Sang Ho on their first meet. The police killed the coffee shop owner like there was nothing going on. Gi Su Jong went to met the coffee shop owner at the bridge, even though he knew the police was tailing him. Also why the police kept eye on Su Jong after the fire incident, but not on Yo Na, especially when they were targeting Real Capital? And lastly, how come they all didn't go to the jail???

Should you watch it? Probably no. There are hundreds and thousands better show to invest rather than this one.

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It was A Great Police Story.... At The Beginning

This show started off so well. A corrupt police officer with bipolar disorder, forced to repent by his second personality. It has a good pacing, and the first half of the show was really good. The mixture between action and comedy, specifically brought by the character "K" was also fresh. However, the writer decided to write the rest of the story like a fever dream.

There are two highlights in this show, drug cartel and Ryu Su Yeol's dark past. The writer forcefully tried to connect these two premises, and it caused a lot of makjangs. It would be more logical if Su Yeol was the one who were searching for his dark past. Instead, this villain out of nowhere poked Su Yeol memories. Su Yeol himself didn't act like a cop. He always came to the bad guys with nearly zero preparation, yet he always survived thanks to the ridiculous makjangs. There were a series of murder after murder following everything Su Yeol put his hand on, but the police never took any prevention. On the other hand, the kidnapping of Han Jae Hui was strange. She was very strong when fighting with Do Yu Gon's gang and many more events, but she was powerless against three druggies who would like to kindap her? Other than Su Yeol, everyone was missing the backstory. Su Yeol's fight scene at the very beginning of the show had zero meaning. Jae Hui was mentioned to lose all of his wealth, but nothing explored more.

As much as I love the cast, I don't think Lee Dong Wook is the correct cast for this. He doesn't seem to have a good fit to become a police. Wi Ha Joon performance is the highlight for this show. Han Ji Eun and Kim Hieora did pretty good too.

First part of this show is quite enjoyable, but the sudden shift in the second part could make you raise your brows.

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Underrated Action Show of 2025

Such an underrated show! As an action supehero show, I like how lightweight it is. They did a superhero theme without trying too much to highlight the superheroes. The story is, unlike superhero dramas in common, quite lightweight. It tells you a story about several ex-military forces accidentally living in the same neighbourhood. The highlight about a village daily life was so good. The mixture with comedy addition makes it more and more better.

For the performance, everyone did great here. Massive shoutout to Park Ji Yun as Choi Do Yeon, it was a really great performance for her. Also Jo Han Chul never disappoints! The soundtracks were great and it fit well with the theme. Also the visual effects were good, compared to a lot of shows who overdone it with AI lately.

Unfortunately as the story progressing, it revealed more and more plotholes. I didn't understand why everyone was so determined to stop the bomb in the church. The church looked empty, wasn't it more easier to just evacuate everyone nearby? The pressure from Sullivan to choose between exploding the village or Do Yeon was irrelevant, as Do Yeon brought her clay art to the site. Either way, it would blow up her. There was a lot of unexplored stories such as what is Choi Kang's trauma, why Jeong Hwan was so rich, and why Sullivan exploded his suboridnate (Rashid).

This show is so underrated that you have to try watching it at least once. Totally worth it!

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Life Through A Grey Decision

No Other Choice is what would happen if you put a dark character into a comedy. The story always revolves around grey area. You will ask yourself multiple times whether you should root for the main characters or not: "Ain't there really no other choice for them?". All the actions, characters and decisions are morally questionable. On top of that, they were still able to add comedic touch to the story, the unique comedy that isn't slapsticks. Visually, the cinematography is excellent, all of the dark agenda happened with minimum light. No need to talk about the casts, it's very outstanding here especially Son Ye Jin.

For a dark comedy that highlighted a harsh truth about job competition, I still feel this one only delivers minimum number of messages. I also don't like the storyline about doctor Oh that left out hanging.

I recommend this to be watched at least once, and enjoy the cinematography.

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Well, it's a great escape movie, very action-packed. The original idea was great, and the execution was as expected from an escape movie. There was a mixture of comedy, even though it was mostly actions. The story has a lot of plot armours. Two main leads pulled ridiculous moves and survived multiple times. However thanks to the good directing, they were able to cover it up and it was really thrilling. Jo Jung Suk did really well here, outshining everyone including YoonA. She didn't look like a female lead at all here, I must say. He even had a better backstory while YoonA's character didn't get at all. The storyline was missing the part why they both stopped climbing in the first place. I didn't get why they kept running with gas mask on when there wasn't any gas around, even when knowing the mask was limited. On the other hand, the visual effects team had done well here.

Overall it's a good show to watch if you're seeking an action-packed story.

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It's surprisingly fun to watch: A totally unserious gangster show. The original idea was great, where all the heirs refused to reprise the role as the leader. The casts were good, nothing could go wrong with a bunch of prominent actress. The comedy punchlines were good, I consider them not really cringe.

While the duration of a movie is always short, the story is still underdeveloped. They added characters such as Ji Yeong, Mi Mi and Yeon Im to bring more complication to the overall storyline, yet nobody of them got any closure. I mean it's alright if they didn't want to do it, but he made a promise earlier. Instead the closure was all about Hyeon Sik, whose character development was a bit questionable earlier.

I will still recommend this show for anyone who is seeking for a laugh, since it has a lot of comedy.

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Great Show with Higher Potential, Still Down to Drain at The End

This show has a very very great potential, probably the highest-potential-that-never-reached that I've ever watched so far. The combination of coming-of-age and police university is fresh and unique. I came with no expectations at all, but the story about university life is lightweight, heartwarming, and easy to enjoy. The first three episodes were heavy, in fact the first episode was very very heavy. Character development is really nice in this show. No stupid breakups, thankfully (even though they have another kind of stupidity).

I also have no expectations with the casts, but they were all actually great on it! Chae Soo Bin, Kang Daniel and all others suprisingly delivered the "students" character well! However, I didn't prefer to have Soo Bin play her teenager character herself.

It was all nice and great, until the writer decided to switch the vibe after episode 11. Disney tried so hard to put a western touch in to this show, but clearly they need to learn something: NOT EVERY SHOW HAS TO INCLUDE A MENTALLY-ILL VILLIAN WHO DOES CRIME FOR NO REASON. Now the audience would be confused: audience who were up because of the heartwarming vibe would find it difficult to enjoy the thriller part and vice versa. The chance of university students to collide with and take down a dangerous drug-political cartel was very low, yet they made it as close as possible. Wi Seung Hyun made a very ridiculous decision by confronting Han Sol alone, with the consequence of dragging his friends who watched the video. The amount of time skips in this show is too much! They were just a first year student, suddenly they were already having an on-site training at a station, then suddenly again they completed the training. A lot of things missed out from their void, they should even try to explore the "other side" of the seniors. Instead, they made the seniors disappeared in the later episodes.

In conclusion it's a great show to enjoy, although it's a bit confusing due to the vibe switch. Watch this if you can cope both.

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It's a fast-paced and lightweight mystery show. Unlike other heavy mystery shows, the murder plot is very easy to understand. The quality of story, acting, comedy punchlines and everything is just alright for me. I like how they put spotlight on suspecting everyone in the mart, but nothing really standout in that plot. I can't complain a lot, considering the number of episodes we got here. It's something possible to enjoy, but probably not something that could make you seat and binge-watch it. The cinematography was excellent though. Lee Kwang Soo performance was outstanding, probably outshined everyone else, except Ahn Se Bin. She is really a promising actress.

Things that are bothering me: I couldn't understand why everyone was trying to play righteous, especially why Dae Seong didn't report the slipper and stockings he found at the first murder location. While suspecting Gong San, they suddenly shifted focus to Meat because of Fish suggestion and suddenly they forgot about her for a while. I didn't undestand why because she was more suspicious since she visited more suspicious places and caught in wrong place wrong time several times. The reason why Meat bought tampons and who kept delivering random items to Lee Gyeong Ah remained unknown until the end. Finally, I didn't get the reason the killer murdered Gyeong Ah and Bo Yeon. What "control" did he refer to?

It's still a good watch to kill your time, since it's fast and very easy to enjoy.

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This show left me in a tight spot. If you look at the show summary, you can tell the storyline is lame. And it's actually lame, how the heck a student ends up with a shaman? However, they transformed the lame story piece by piece into a beautiful and fun parts. Each part of the story is enjoyable, and it has a generous amount of comedy. The comedy quality is really good and consistent here, thanks to Park Seong A, Pyo Ji Ho, The Flower Master Shaman, and all the casts playing them. Then when you try to think about all of it by connecting each piece of the show into one story you'll start to think it's lame again, especially on the last two episodes. Looks like they've lost it from there.

The casts delivered this story beautifully. Cho Yi Hyun was astonishingly excellent in this show, she played the highschooler and shaman very well and fun. Cha Kang Yoon also did a great job. Choo Young Woo was also good, although I prefer the Bong Su version of him rather than the original Gyeon U.

This show lacks of backstory telling. The backstory of each characters were rarely told, several even left behing. I can't understand why Seong A actual parents left her when she was their "moneymaker". They didn't told us what made Gyeon U family tied so hard to Yeom Hwa, and where's the closure between Gyeon U and his family? Pyo Ji Ho was often left behind, and even had no backstory. His parents didn't even attend his graduation, I wonder why. It looked like he had been put aside especially since Seong A left the school. Yeom Hwa accused General Dong Cheon of resenting her after separating her from her deceased baby, but what kind of "resentment" was never clear.

This show has good music. Overall it's very funny and fun to watch and rewatch, even though the storyline could make you scratch your head.

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A very quick romcom. The fighting phase is intense and the reconsiliation phase is swoonworthy. I feel the 30 days waiting time was too quick, they should've dive deeper about how they both fall in love again . They added too much cliche here. White Truck of Doom and double amnesia, but dang it, they made it important to the story. The comedy level is really good here, even though most of them were just slapsticks. Kang Haneul and Jung So Min both delivered it very well.

Overall it's refreshing to watch. Rewatch if you need a refreshment from your tense daily life.

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Not really my cup of tea, but still it's a great show. This type of romance is classic and conventional, puts a lot of focus on the romance side. Sadly, it's rare to see this style of romance shows lately. The early episodes were painfully slow to me. The comedy came kicking quite late. However it still has a refreshing and fresh comedy, thanks to the Company Five, Seo Dan's family, and Gu Seung Jung. The North Korean setup is an advantage, because it's difficult to verify whether something is realistic or not. I love the chemistry between Son Ye Jin and Hyun Bin, and the intensity the writer made by making their characters hanging by a thread because they could be separated at any time. They put a lot of goodbyes in this show. And the ending.... Two weeks per year didn't seem like a happy ending. The second couple also has a good chemistry.

The soundtracks are very good! Where are this type of soundtracks nowadays? The cinematography is outstanding, and the visual effects is somehow better than some later 2020s shows.

Although it's all sweet and swoon, I still feel it's ridiculous that they made Cho Cheol Gang came all the way to the South only to kill one person that wouldn't even bother seeing him again. It seemed like he won't gain that many by doing that, all just driven by the sense of revenge(?). He came to the South with sufficient preparation and full support from the North, meanwhile Jeong Hyeok's father sent the Company Five with nothing. Cheol Gang occasionally got updates and directions from his subordinates in the North, why couldn't Director Ri do the same? On the other hand despite knowing the danger, Yun Se Ri made almost zero effort on protecting everyone, apart from hiring some unknown Chinese thugs. I mean, with such wealth, she should be able to clean up everything under the table. She was able to fake a passport for Jeong Hyeok, why she didn't go further? The arranged marriage is also weird to me, it didn't seem anyone will gain any advantage from it. Dan's mom was probably the one who will gain most power, but she didn't really need it as she was already powerful enough because of her brother. Dan herself didn't seem interested in any power, but she frustratingly kept hanging on the promise despite being "cheated on". Jong Hyeok family didn't seem to gain anything. I wonder why they kept pushing this arranged marriage.

If you are a romance enjoyer, this is a must watch! Romance enjoyers may even want to rewatch this title.

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