What's Wrong With Secretary Kim? is a drama that I quite liked when I first watched it, but it didn't really age well for me. I tried re-watching it completely twice, but I can never finish it.

Now, this show is pretty enjoyable if you're looking for a rom-com that you can simply shut you brain off and relax. The lead couple have a nice chemistry and there's some quite funny scenes. Although the male lead mainly consists of your stereotypical chaebol, I think Park Seo Joon's protrayal paints the character in a much more entertaining light and makes the narcissism of his character instead of annoying and petty, very funny and charming. Park Min Young does a good enough job, nothing outstanding, though. But for me the best characters was still, by far, Yoo Sik. He was a nice comedic relief, even though he was facing constant trouble and personal life issues, while still giving pretty good advice. Also the whole dynamic between the vice-president team was interesting to see.

The story is nothing impressive. Quite cliché and to be honest I felt like they stretched some subplots more than they should, which made the narrative feel draggy in many moments. The whole dispute between the brothers was extremely annoying and boring. Both of them acted petty and honestly I feel like they tried to frame Sung Yeon as the "bad guy" in this situation in order for us to root for Young Joon and realise Sung Yeon is ot the gentleman we thought, but that was not the way I took it because it felt way too forced. This plot just felt pointless and made me annoyed at both male leads while I wished they'd just make amends with one another, specially cause whole ordeal in their childhood that started it all was their parents fault.

Talking about that childhood plotline, another boring thing. I just don't think it was properly approached in this drama. It was there so we would be convinced that the main couple were destined to stay together but for me it was pretty lame. Also not sure about this, but the way they portrayed their PTSD felt very superficial as well.

Something that really bothered me was the ending. I thought it was quite nice that Mi So wanted to quit her job in order to find herself and take care of her personal life, but in the end she just gave up on her self-discovery journey cause she was dating the vice-president and that secretary job was suddenly ok with her. It makes it seem the only reason she wanted to quit in the first place was because she was horny or something, and since she got herself a boyfriend all of her problems were solved and her independency just didn't matter at all, I guess. Not to mention that the vice-president acted like a bossy tyrant to Mi So for 9 years and only started treating her properly when she was about to leave him and she was somehow ok with this entire situation.

So, all things considered, a nice fluffy drama that most rom-com fans will enjoy, but don't expect anything wonderful as it's a bit generic and tiring at some points, but fun nonetheless.