Kdrama 2017

My Secret Romance (Kdrama Review & Summary)

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  My Secret Romance poster

  Genre: Modern Romance, One Night Stand, CEO Romance

• Release Date: 17 April 2017
• Origin: South Korea
• Kdrama: 16 Episodes

Cast

• Sung Hoon as Cha Jin-wook/ Gino Cha
• Song Ji-eun as Lee Yoo-mi
• Kim Jae-young as Jung Hyun-Tae/Jeffery Jung
• Jung Da-sol as Joo Hye-ri (Annie Joo)
• Lee Kan-hee as Kim Ae-ryung, Jin-wook’s mother
• Kim Jong-goo as Cha Dae-bok, Jin-wook’s father
• Park Shin-woon as Jang Woo-jin, Jin-wook’s secretary
• Nam Gi-ae as Jo Mi-hee, Yoo-mi’s mother
• Joo Sang-hyuk as Dong-goo, Yoo-mi’s little brother
• Kim Si-young as Wang Bok-ja
• Im Do-yoon as Kang Je-ni
• Lee Hae-in as Jang Eun-bi
• Baek Seung-heon as Lee Shin-hwa

This romance is so engaging because both lead actors are gorgeous, especially the male lead. I say shirt off all the time if you please. 🙂 Though he is number one in my best-suited list. He has a lovely body which muscles in the right places! 🙂

Anyway, the drama is about a romance that developed from a one-night stand between a rather uptight woman with a happy-go-lucky chaebol.

The girl was rather uptight because her mother used to be a star of top-shelf films, the semi-porn ones. She was horrendously bullied when she was in middle school because of this.

The guy is a chaebol, who was ‘abandoned’ by his mother, who he misses so much.  Because of this abandonment issue, he found it hard to settle down, whether with work or with women.

Not until he (Cha Jin-Wook) met Lee Yoo-Mi.  They had a one-night stand in a convertible overlooking the sea, which was pretty sexy.  🙂

Fast forward three years later.

Cha Jin Wook is now an active director in his father’s company.  His innovative design of men’s underwear had gone stratospheric and their company’s growth was due to effort.  He is now a serious salaried man.

Yoo-Mi is now a nutritionist who happened to get hired by Jin Wook’s company.

He first spied her one day by the elevator and that is how their budding romance started.  He never forgot her.

In the background, there is a cute little boy, who is supposed to be her brother.  But I reckon it was a child borne out of their one night together.

Episode 8 was slated to be shown last Tuesday but for some reason, it did not.  I was gutted because I have really grown to like this drama.  It is tender, romantic, and cute with likable cast.

Anyway, the reason why episode 8 was not shown was due to South Korea’s presidential election.  I wonder who won?!!!

Can’t wait for Monday and Tuesday for the next episodes?