IN PHOTOS: Adapt These Lessons From Memorable K-Drama Office Sets For Your WFH Area

Lighting- Take Advantage of Natural Light

While working it is important to have the right light both artificial and natural. Hyde Jekyll, me (2015) with Hyun Bin features a handsome office with natural light to die for!

Photo Credit: Still from Hyde Jekyll, Me (2015)

Lighting- Use Desk Lamps for Task Lighting

Take your cue from Lee Min-Hoo’s office in Personal Taste (2010) where Artemide's Tolomeo lamp was used to as a desk lamp for task lighting.

Photo Credit: Still from Personal Taste (2010)

Lighting- Use Task Lighting

Still in Lee Min Ho's Personal Taste, a desk situated next to his bed is used for his work from home setting. The lighting here ambient, enhanced by task lighting, an important adaptation to make for your work from home spaces to ensure that you are getting ample light to get your job done.

Photo Credit: Still from Personal Taste (2010)

Lighting- Employ a combination of artificial light sources to illuminate your work space

In What's Wrong With Secretary Jim, the hardworking duo sees their jobs taking them from morning to night at the office. Similarly, in a work from home setting, it can be difficult to keep track of time, clocking in more hours a day when you don't have to peel yourselves away from your desk to commute home because work is already at home. Make sure you have multiple sources of light to accommodate working well into the evening. You can opt for a combination of desk lamps, pendant lamps, can lights and even floor lamps to light your working space.

Photo Credit: Still from What's Wrong With Secretary Kim

In She's So Pretty (2015), the office space benefits from natural light as well as ambient lighting and a desk lamp.

Photo Credit: Still from She's So Pretty (2015)

In The King Eternal Monarch (2020), the office area is outfitted in dark finishes, benefitting from multiple sources of warm lighting.

Photo Credit: Still from The King Eternal Monarch (2020)

Situate your desk in a bright area

Being in a bright place not only helps your vision. Natural light also wakes you up, making you alert. Go into full work mode with a desk that is properly located. When in doubt, make sure that you are in a bright location.

Photo Credit: Still from Itaewon Class (2020)

Choose a comfortable chair.

Photo Credit: Still from Itaewon Class (2020)

Choose a comfortable chair.

This ergonomic guide is a good reference for a comfortable work chair. Since not all bodies are created equally, make sure you don't just buy from a catalogue for the look of the chair. It is always advisable to try them out to ensure that you can withstand long hours sitting in the chair of your choice. Some ergonomic chairs provide for the presence of a lower rear lumbar support and an adjustable backrest, both vertically and back/forward. The chair must be stable, so better a star base, the important thing is that it is comfortable and in the right proportion for our body. The material with which the seat is made can be various leather, fabric, wood and depending on these characteristics the price varies.

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Choose a comfortable chair.

You may opt to have alternative modes of seating as options, to accommodate your body's varying positions and to encourage good posture. There are also other more particular seats that could be used as an alternative to the classic office chairs, especially for people who are currently working from home: the pilates ball and the wooden chair with dynamic seating. Gaiam's fitball chair is the most expensive and fits any work environment and is much more comfortable than a traditional office chair.

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Cozy up your work space with objects and plants.

Once you have established the position of the desk, chair and light, you need to reflect on what objects it is useful to have at your workplace (both at home and at work). However, there are objects that are good allies in every work situation. Some perform a function that allows you to better organize space and working times, such as brush carriers and the timer so as not to risk sitting in the same position for too many hours. Others, on the other hand, play a role in improving our physical and mental well-being. In fact, it is useful to have plants, humidifiers, air purifiers, environmental perfumers and water in your workplace or nearby.

Photo Credit: Still from Crash Landing On You (2019)

Cozy up your work space with objects and plants.

Yoon Se-Ri's office (Son Ye-Jin) in Crash Landing of you (2019-20) is packed with plants that require little care and also perform a purifying function. Another curious object that appears in Se-Ri's desks are hourglasses by Bitossi Home, both in the office and at home. This item is certainly useful to keep under control the break or the time you decide to allocate to a particular activity (for example, a few minutes to dedicate to some physical exercise or a small snack).

Photo Credit: Still from Crash Landing On You (2019)

Don't forget to hydrate!

One thing you should never forget is hydration during work, drinking water is essential, as Lee Min Ho taught us in the drama The King: Eternal Monarch (2020) where he receives energy drinks as gifts, while studying in Seoul library.

Photo Credit: Still from The King Eternal Monarch (2020)