Advice:
For those that like how the show starts and how the relationship develops, you can skip and just watch the endscene(last few minutes) of episodes 14,15 and 16 and around 90-95% of the scenes with the work colleagues after the first few episodes.


It's a decent drama that could've been one of those "must be watched"/"masterpiece"/"groundbreaking", but failed because of the lack of vision.

First off, I can be considered a westerner(EU native), but I understand most of the cultural things presented. That said, I couldn't understand many decisions plotwise regarding character decisions and how the story was presented regarding the workplace "issue", holding on, relantionships and all. Because of this I asked friends that are from that cultural group/place and that have lived there to see if it was appealing from a korean pov and they said the same thing as me:

Workplace:
- plot covers some discussions, situations but nothing regarding the actual resolution so it was poorly written on this part
- workplace colleagues, situations and reasonings are somewhat just about there without an actual substance because it's written/made to feel like one of those "you know what happens"/"read between the lines", but it's bad and even if it's just a filler for the whole show since the relantionship is the main act, it brings it down. Nevertheless it's so bad that when it interacts with the relantionship and the female lead "development"/decisions that it leaves you sense of "wtf is this?" It just hovers over grey lines without going to a resolution.

Relantionship:
- it is presented and done realistically and sincerely great for the first 2 thirds to say so
- the questionable decisions in these 2 parts can be reasoned in many ways so they give a more realistical feeling to the show, but are simply horrendous in the last part
- like the workplace stuff, in the last part of the show it just hovers on grey lines, questionable decisions without reasoning(the only reason that would make sense is that the FL is a masochist/wants to be sad and gloomy, but it isn't that so it's just conflicting with the whole story presented as it is)


The workplace stuff is just purely filler with no substance and because of how much of the show is workplace related, it's mostly a waste of time.

Relationship starts of great, but ultimately leaves you a feeling of "emptiness" because of how bad the plot unfolds(FL decisions without a proper substance behind them; partially the fault of how the workplace stuff is presented and how in the whole show they say one thing and the actions present something way different).

Gave an 8 overall because it kept me for the ride, but the last part of the show is complete crap with a "happy ending" done in like 2 minutes after 3 hours of unwanted and unreasonable emptiness/gloominess that brings nothing to the story. To explain it shortly, the FL is presented and "fighting", but in reality does nothing of the sort and towards the end they wanted to emphasize that she's "holding her ground"/"making though decision(s)"/maturing, but nothing of the sorts occurs. Sincerely it felt like a lack of inspiration either from the script or from the production team for not expressing anything there.(they ran out of work fillers and just prolongued the story with a relationshiop filler)

It just feels like someone that gets a lottery ticket with a medium(but very substantial prize) and throws it away because it doesn't want free money or anything less than the grand prize while they are in a situation of sleeping on the streets and starving because of some questionable "pride motive". While this setting(of pride) works great in a captivating story with good reasoning behind, it's just poorly used in this drama overall.