Korean Actresses As Office Girls In K-Dramas
Whether they’re girl bosses or employees of the year, their characters make us miss the workplace
If you’re one of those who are still working from home due to the pandemic, K-dramas that show office settings may nostalgically strike a chord with you. Perhaps you couldn’t imagine that a day would come when you’d miss face-to-face team meetings, overtime, or even lunch and coffee breaks with your colleagues.
There are many office or workplace K-dramas. Maybe you’ve seen Misaeng: Incomplete Life or She Was Pretty before, but try watching them again, and they’ll surely have a different effect on you this time.
This 2022, there are two office K-dramas we’re looking forward to: Forecasting Love and Weather (starring Song Kang and Park Min-young, premiering on February 12) and A Business Proposal (starring Ahn Hyo-seop and Kim Se-jeong, premiering on February 21).
Forecasting Love and Weather features the people working in Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), with Park Min-young as Jin Ha-kyung (the general forecaster of KMA’s 2nd Division) and Song Kang as Lee Shi-woo (the one in charge of special reporting at KMA’s 2nd Division).
A Business Proposal centers on a boss-employee romance, wherein Kim Se-jeong’s Shin Ha-ri, an ordinary office worker, ends up going on a blind date with the CEO (Ahn Hyo-seop’s Kang Tae-mu) of the company she works for while she’s disguised as her friend.
Another one to be released in time for Valentine’s Day is a webtoon-based rom-com film titled Love and Leashes. It stars Seohyun and Lee Jun-young, who portray the roles of colleagues that start a three-month S&M relationship agreement.
The office setting indeed proves to be a rich source of compelling plots and an oddly romantic, exciting place where love stories bloom.
In the gallery below, we listed down the Korean actresses who played the roles of office girls in K-dramas from 2018 to 2021:
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Park Min-Young as Kim Mi-So in “What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim”
Occupation: Secretary of Yumyung Group’s vice-chairman (Park Seo-joon’s Lee Young-joon)
Photo Credit: tvN
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Yoo In-Na as Oh Jin-Shim in “Touch Your Heart”
Occupation: Top actress-turned-secretary of an elite lawyer (Lee Dong-wook’s Kwon Jung-rok)
Photo Credit: tvN
Photo Credit: tvN
Im Soo-Jung as Bae Ta-Mi in “Search: WWW”
Occupation: Director of top web portal company Unicorn’s search department
Photo Credit: tvN
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Park Min-Young as Sung Deok-Mi in “Her Private Life”
Occupation: Chief curator at Cheum Museum of Art
Photo Credit: tvN
Photo Credit: tvN
Jin Ki-Joo as Jung Gal-Hee in “The Secret Life of My Secretary”
Occupation: Secretary of T&T Mobile Media 1’s director (Kim Young-kwang’s Do Min-ik)
Photo Credit: SBS via Viki
Photo Credit: SBS via Hancinema
Lee Na-Young as Kang Dan-I in “Romance Is A Bonus Book”
Occupation: Former advertising copywriter-turned-temporary task support team member at a publishing company
Photo Credit: tvN
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Song Ji-Hyo as Noh Ae-Jung in “Was It Love?”
Occupation: Film producer
Photo Credit: JTBC
Photo Credit: JTBC
Hwang Jung-Eum as Seo Hyun-Ju in “Men Are Men”
Occupation: Leader of a webtoon planning team
Photo Credit: KBS
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Choi Soo-Young as Seo Dan-Ah in “Run On”
Occupation: CEO of a sports agency
Photo Credit: JTBC
Photo Credit: JTBC
Bae Suzy as Seo Dal-Mi in “Start-Up”
Occupation: CEO of a start-up tech company
Photo Credit: tvN
Photo Credit: tvN
Jung So-Min as Na Young-Won in “Monthly Magazine Home”
Occupation: Editor at lifestyle magazine “Monthly House”
Photo Credit: JTBC
Photo Credit: JTBC
Won Jin-Ah as Yoon Song-Ah in “She Would Never Know”
Occupation: Senior marketer at KLAR cosmetics company
Photo Credit: JTBC
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Song Hye-Kyo as Ha Yeong-eun in “Now, We Are Breaking Up”
Occupation: Design team leader of fashion company “The One”
Photo Credit: SBS
Photo Credit: SBS
Kim Da-Mi as Kook Yeon-Soo in “Our Beloved Summer”
Occupation: Public relations specialist
Photo Credit: SBS
Photo Credit: SBS
Kim Go-Eun as Yumi in “Yumi’s Cells”
Occupation: Accountant at Daehan Noodle company, who sidelines as a writer
Photo Credit: tvN / TVING
Photo Credit: tvN / TVING
Lead photos from JTBC, SBS, and tvN
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