Kdrama 2021
Monthly Magazine House (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Monthly Magazine House poster
- Genre: Real Estate, Business, Cohabitation, Modern Romance, Drama, Comedy
- Release Date: 16 June 2021
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama: 16 Episodes
Cast
- Kim Ji Suk as Yoo Ja Sung
- Jung So Min as Na Young Won
- Jung Gun Joo as Shin Gyeom
- Kim Won Hae as Choi Go (Editor in Chief)
- Chae Jung An as Yeo Eui Joo (Editor)
- Ahn Chang Hwan as Nam Sang Soon (House Subscription Guy)
- Yoon Ji On as Jang Chan
- Yoo Young as Yook Mira (homeless girl)
Episode 1
I love the first episode. Jung So Min is not only gorgeous but such a versatile actress as well.
She has got that vulnerable look and yet spunky at the same time.
Anyway, she plays Na Young-Won.
At the start of the episode, she was trying to prevent movers from packing away her belongings with all her might.
They were getting rather physical when a handsome man turned up and ordered to cease and desist from what there were doing.
He took Na Young Won to a nearby eatery and got her some food including a large plate of sliced pork (It looked delicious, I must look up for the recipe!).
She was just about to greedily start on the sliced pork when the guy told her to stop.
They had it wrapped as a takeaway. He then took her back home.
Na Young Won found that all her belongings had been pack in the truck. She could not believe that she had been had by the man who looked like he had understood her situation.
He was Yoo Ja Sung. He is a man who was from rags to riches background.
Episode 2
Save money to buy a house.
Episode 3
Yoo Ja Sung was especially nice to Na Young Won.
Episode 4
Embarrassed to death.
Na Young Won was embarrassed and upset when she found out that Shim Gyeom was rich instead of the poor photographer she thought he was.
Episode 5
I love this episode; It is so funny. The ending is just the cutest.
Yoo Ja Sung won an award for the monthly magazine. While accepting the award, he said that winning it was all his work.
After the ceremony, he invited his staff for a drink but they all said that they were going to a funeral.
But then, later on, he overheard them moaning about him in the next room in the Japanese restaurant.
Yoo Ja Sung left and ended up in a bookstore. He was looking for a book on how to fire staff. But then he ended up with a book called Compliment can make a Whale Dance.
The staff realised that the boss overheard them and they got so nervous especially when Yoo Ja Sung started complimenting them one by one.
His staff worked so hard and Yoo Ja Sung laughing realised that humans are so simple. Compliment them and they’ll work hard.
Na Young Won was assigned to write an article about Yoo Ja Sung.
She found it rather daunting at first because she can’t find anyone who can say anything nice about Yoo Ja Sung.
But then she started digging deeper and she found that he was actually a good man and she wrote this in an article which she sent immediately to Yoo Ja Sung for approval.
He complimented her for having learned for estate agent information but he said what he said about him in the ending was so cringe-worthy. She doesn’t have to compliment him.
But she told him that she was complimenting him because he was truly a good man.
Yes, Yoo Ja Sung was also a simple human after all.
He was so chuffed with the compliment he let himself go and dance with the women doing Zumba to Momoland’s Boom Boom.
Kim Ji Suk was such a good dancer. He was so sexy.
Episode 6
I really love this drama. It makes you appreciate that you’ve got a four-wall and a roof over your head.
Anyway, Na Young Won thought she was getting closer to Yoo Ja Sung but then again he changed to being cold again almost immediately. She does not know whether she was coming or going with him.
Anyway, from watching Ja Sung TV Na Young Won was inspired to think about the kind of house she wanted to buy.
She realised that her present abode actually ticks all the boxes of what she wanted
She told JaSung about wanting just like the apartment she was renting from him.
Ja Sung said that she can buy the place, he will not sell it to anyone and would wait for her until she was ready.
They are so happy together helped by bottles of sake.
But then the flat on top of Nayoungwon’s apartment had a bust pipe which started dripping in Nayoungwon’s place.
She called JaSung and with the help of Eunjoo, Nayoungwon received 500,000won from Jasung for her to stay in a hotel while her house is being dried and repaired.
But when Nayoungwon did not have a place to go as the money she got was given to her mother who was begging for money again.
Seriously why does Nayounggwon gives money to her mother who abandoned her when she was a baby?
So Nayoungwon went back to her dripping apartment and fell asleep.
Jasung let himself in looking for his mobile phone and picked Nayoungwon’s phone instead. Then he saw her asleep in a corner.
Jasung obviously, and rightly so, went ballistic which woke Nayoungwon.
Jasung told her that he does not like being conned. He gave her the money to stay somewhere else and yet here she was.
Nayoungwon told him that she had to use the money for a more pressing matter.
He told her that if something happens to her in the flat while under repair it will be on him. He then left furiously. He noticed the new text of the phone he was holding
It was from Nayoungwon’s mother who was thanking her daughter for the money and apologised for asking more money yet again.
Jusung suddenly grabbed Nayoungwon and brought her to his house where he told her she can stay at while her flat was being repaired.
She woke up the next morning in bed with a very surprised Jusung.
They are so cute.
Loving this drama.
Episode 7
This episode is so hilarious to start with.
They woke up both confused to be sharing the same bed together.
But Jusung told her that she was feverish when he came to check on her after he heard her moaning.
He was so tired himself so he fell asleep while he was wiping her brow down.
the next day, at work Jusung told Nayoungwon not to mention to anyone that she was staying with him.
However, it was Jusung who was jumping at every comment even the innocuous one. He started telling his staff that he and Nayoungwon are not living together. So hilarious.
Another scene that made me giggle so much was when Nayoungwon was trying to get back to the house to cook a special dinner for Jusung, Shin Gyeom asked her to go to dinner with him but when she told him that she was going to see her mother, he offered to drive her. She told him that she was going by bus.
He then drove her to the bus station and hoping for him to go and then she can sneak out. Instead, he bought her a ticket and insisted to watch her leave on the bus. So funny.
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
This is really just the cutest drama. It is really laugh-out-loud.
The antics of everyone are hilarious. Especially Jasung and Na Young Won who was now in a relationship.
Jasung and Nayoungwon had to hide it for now. This means they were finding it hard to go on a date. Their dates are always sabotaged by someone they know or by circumstances.
But still, they are so delighted in knowing that they are in love with each other. So cute.
Episode 11
Jasung and Nayoungwon were so deliriously happy after their first kiss.
And they finally had their first date as a movie night Jasung’s. Hilariously sexy.
Shim Gyeom was planning to confess to Nayoungwon and even started fo thinking of buying a house but he saw Nayoungwon being hugged by Ja Sang. He was heartbroken.
Poor Shim Gyeom ended in the hospital.
Jasung who was celebrating his birthday with Nayoungwon was told about it.
He raced to the hospital without telling Nayoungwon where he found out the cause of his accident.
He got upset from learning that Jasung was now dating Nayoungwon, who he had like for a long time.
Poor Jasung was in a quandary
Episode12
Wah It is not looking good for Jasung and Nayoungwon.
Jasung was feeling so guilty that he was taking happiness away from Geom.
So over hotpot, he dumped Nayoungwon. His reasoning was that she was taking away his edge from work.
They were both very sad about it. Nayoungwon tried to make up with him or at least tried to get the real reason but he said he weighed things out and his job came up first over her.
She tried to forget him but find it hard as she sees him everywhere and everthing.
Gyeun found out that Jasung dumped Nayoungwon. He went to see Jasung and gave him a good talking to.
Gyeum and Eui Joo with Sang Soon took her away for the weekend to cheer her up.
Meanwhile, Jasung went to work and was cleaning the whole office. He was helped by a perplexed Choi Go.
Choi Go later spoke to Jasung that he knew he was going through something, he told Jasung that the more he tries to forget the more he can’t forget.
He said to just let it happen, feel it because time will take away the feelings about it.
Later on, Jasung read about Nayoungwon’s blog about being away from home to forget but all she wanted was actually to be home so she could let all the tears to fall in privacy.
This made Jasung cry in the darkness of his house.
Episode 13
Mira was found out to be homeless and living at the Monthly Magazine office. She had been living there for two months.
Meanwhile, Nayoungwon had reached rock bottom and now could only go up so she decided to forget her feelings for Jasung and get over him.
She was almost back to her bubbly self at the office and brave enough to inform Jasung that she was over him so he doesn’t have to walk on eggshells around her anymore.
Sang Soon was finding it harder and harder to be with Eui Joon once he found out that he was crushing on her. He even overlooked the fact that he was planning to sabotage the wedding of his cutie pie.
Shin Gyeom confessed to Nayoungwon. He said that he was going to give her time to heal her broken heart.
But she overheard her talking to Eui Joon about finding it really hard to get over Jasung.
Meanwhile, Jang Chang told Shin Gyeom that Jasung might have broken up with Nayoungwon because he doesn’t want Gyeom to feel down now that Jasung was dating Nayoungwon.
Episode 14
Jasung was doing everything to get back with Nayoungwon but she told him that she was over him and not to talk personal things during business hours just like what he used to say when she tried to ask him the real reason why he broke up with her.
Even Gyeom told her that Jasung loved her but Ja Sung sacrificed his love for her for Gyeom.
Episode 15
Ja Sung and Youngwon reconciled and they had fun as a couple but they tried very hard to hide it from the staff.
Jasung thought that Chief Editor Choi Go found out about the relationship but it turned out that Eu-Joo and Nam Sang Soon were dating.
Chief Editor Choi Go made Sang Soon’s life hell and he was also paying for Jasung’s loving gesture to Youngwon as he became the suspect all the time.
Mira confessed to Gyeom. I am really glad that Gyeom turned her down because I would have been upset if the drama had to pair him up to her just to get him a partner.
Episode 16
I am not really happy about this final episode.
Why did they have to insert something nasty as the very end which then ended this drama in the will they, won’t they get married?
Yap, the love-up Jasung and Youngwon separated for the umpteenth time because it was revealed that it was Youngwon’s father who swindled the young Ja Sung of all of his money.
The father had the most influence in making Ja Sung what he was, a lonely man who does not trust easily.
Youngwon was feeling so guilty she broke up with Ja Sung and then vanished from the face of the earth for three whole years.
Later, It was revealed that she had built her own house. And Ja Sung was happy with his own house.
So it doesn’t looked like either of them are happy to give up their individual houses to live in one house.
At least there was a happy ending for Eun Joo and Nam Sang Soon. They got married and promised to live a good happy simple life together.
The End