I've been reading the webcomic for this, and it's so interesting to see what they've changed and what they've kept the same. Despite all the differences, I'm enjoying their chemistry, humor, and story, and can't wait to see what happens going forward. I like that everything's different enough that I can't anticipate what's to come. Especially with the Tae-mu and Sung-hoon romance, since that's already gone off the rails!

As for Minwoo, you're not alone in your gripe, so I'm just going to repeat what all the commenters in the manhwa keep saying: "F*** you, Minwoo!" 😂

I still like that Ha-Ri and YS are having an expressive good time with their characters. I like the idea of grandfather warming up to Ha-Ri almost immediately. (I think he sees through the awkwardness to know his grandson is scamming him). I also liked Ha-Ri using Tae Moo’s own business principles against him by saying that going forward with a fake relationship is bad when a real one would have better long term results.

Ahn Hyo Seop’s acting or lack thereof is still troublesome for me. The second lead double bump/ I am your neighbor coincidence is over-the-top but expected for this drama. I get no traction so far with this set up which is sad because I like YS character a lot.

I thought the time jump to first anniversary was bad. It showed no incremental character growth. Nothing happened for a year to our wooden ML? It would have made more sense to have it their 100th day anniversary, the first real milestone for a Korean dating couple (as grandfather would attest through dramaland.). If one year had passed, it would have been clear that a) the main couple's awkwardness would have been gone as they now know their acting parts and b) grandpa would have had his future daughter-in-law fully vetted by his investigators to know who she really was (the same would be true for Tae-Moo since he would have been constantly working with Ha-Ri in product development.)

The whole lack of recognition of Ha-Ri was an obvious script weakness now cured by convenient the wallet drop. But I will fail to see the humor of Tae-Moo getting mad at being faked out by Ha-Ri when he contrived the whole scam to fool his grandpa.

Also, the couple humor seems to get muted when the story line romance start to turn serious. The secondary characters can take the lead on the comedy for only so long.

The FL dropped a lot of things in 2 episodes : her phone, her wallet, her handbag/purse, her high heel, her eye patch, the grandfather... Is it an illness at this stage?

I'm happy that the ML knows finally the truth, because it was becoming very hard to believe that a genius like him didn't see the connection between the two (face, shape, voice).

It's nice to see a lovely grandpa who protects his grandson. He's really fun.

"the peripheral vision of naked mole rats"
"vertically challenged garden fence"

Nice to see right at the start that our recapper is fully into the spirit of the show.

"trope god’s ire" That would be a fitting title for a kdrama. (Or a Dramabeans feature?)

This recap is as funny as the show! Kudos 👏👏

I was having trouble buying the ML falling for the FL so quickly so I'm (almost?) glad he has a reason to be mad at her again. This show is so much more fun when it's leaning into SHENANIGANSSSS than when it's being romantic. Also I ADOREEEE Grandpa. He's a hoot.

This write up had me laughing almost as much as the episodes @daebakgrits

Episode 4 was sidesplitting, there were so many delightful moments.
The falling trope with Haraboji had been so well set up before that I also fully expected it to be a lips plant, but also poor grandpa ended up in the napa cabbages. When he came out of the toilets in his "shorts" - priceless. Then his acupuncture! His serious issue - hypochondria.

Lee Deok-hwa has to get best supporting actor this year, especially after his irascible King in Red Sleeve.

ROFL at "lipstick on a pig" and the tiger underpants - showing too much of himself
Ha-ri's delivery disguise - v cute
Her slip up, "was he injured that badly?"
The clothes buying trope and Ha ri's comment about the cliched vibe - how self-referential it was

The father's serve, "If only I'd hidden my love for you back then, you wouldn't be living like this"

Best of all the encounter between Jin Young-seo and her boss/cousin, "Your face changes every time I see you" and "Is ramyeon an organic superfood?"

So many delightful moments. Next week is too far away.

I love Kim sejeong!!! She brings this energy whenever she is on screen that it’s contagious!! What a gorgeous bumblebee who can act the hell out of any character given to her ❤️

Indeed it's pushing it, even for this show for me, that he didn't put 2 and 2 together to realise her sham before the reveal at the end of 4, but my real question is how she got her phone out of the stormdrain grate... 😅😅😅

Lee Deok Hwa is class, I love him.

Show is awfully charming and providing me sweet respite from world affairs. (My family will attest they can hear me braying with laughter from two floors away.)

What's the deal with Kang Tae-mu and Cha Sung-hoon's relationship? Sung-hoon is clearly close enough to give Tae-mu stick about looking like an archaeopteryx and Tae-mu de-stresses by cleaning and cooking for Sung-hoon. But I would've NEVER guessed they grew up together.

It's all very well to Grandpops to refer to them as his plural "grandsons" but the fact remains that Sung-hoon is in a subservient position to Tae-mu. My questions include:

(1) Why isn't Sung-hoon a director in his own right—especially since the old man fired all the other family members who posed a threat to his only surviving heir?

(2) Why does Sung-hoon have a different last name if he was adopted into the family?

(3) How come the boys don't use "hyung" when we see "work families" use that term?

(4) Can any Korean speakers tell me if the boys use banmal?

@daebakgrits, your recap is absolutely hilarious. Your writing is as concise and funny as this show. You’re truly the best person to do write-ups for this.

THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD!! Much like Tae-mu, I’ve fallen hard very quickly before even fully realizing it. It’s definitely not the best or the deepest show currently airing, but it’s so fun. It’s been so long since I’ve had so much fun watching a drama. Business Proposal is a gem. Even it’s objective weaknesses don’t bother me. Maybe it’s too early to be so definitive, but if it keeps up the shenanigans and meta humour, this will be in my top ten of the year. I’m completely, utterly smitten.

For starters, I'm imagining Park Seo-joon as male lead and the force is so strong with this fantasy, it's distracting.

Second, I'm really disappointed in this drama. For me, it retains nothing of the source material apart from the premise and the characters' names. But it goes beyond whatever expectations I might've had. It's tropey and the characters are behaving like people in their early twenties. All my faith in Ha-ri's character sunk when she let granddad fall into that basin. For Tae-moo, it was when he chased her through the office building for that slipper hitting him in the head in an earlier episode. Seriously, who above their teens behave like this? For me, the only saving points are the friendship between the female leads and the cute grandfather and that's not enough for me to keep watching.

Love love love.

Thanks for the additional laugh @daebakgrits by ending your witty wee-cap with a gif of grandpa in his lion mask! Can't count the number of guffaws these eps brought but the borrowed glasses + face mask + sneeze disguise was a hearty one. Who else would show up on a scooter in a bear suit (with earrings) toting fried chicken? Our FL is making me exhausted with her double life.
Minwoo will get a celebrity-bighead and end up loosing both Ha-ri and his current ex, but will serve nicely as a competitor for our ML. This show is so fun!

I am so glad he know and we can dispense with that. The fact that he didn't figure it out before was done for drama purposes but it makes sense in a weird way. He didn't expect the the employee he has only seen properly in a picture once to be his date, so he didn't "see" her. That is my take anyway. Kim Sejong is so fun in this role and I continue to be amused by her shenanigans. I also love how insightful her character is. Sweet without being a candy. I love that she likes food even though they don't show her eating all that much. My new happy place on Mondays is this show.

This show is hilarious. And the recap just makes it even funnier. Grandpa's costume change before heading to the hospital. O.M.G

Two questions:
1) Did Ha-ri pick up the phone from the drain??
2) Why does anyone need two full bottles of insecticide to kill one roach. That was a bit much.

My first impression of "Business Proposal" was too tropey and cliché for my taste but by the end of episode 1, I'm sold on how the drama "found a way to poke fun at the trope while unabashedly leaning into it" as @daebakgrits writes. I am actually more vested in the second lead couple Sung-Hoon and Yeong Seo more though. I hope that Kim Min Kyu will receive more attention and more lead roles after this. I first saw him in Because This Is My First Life and fell in love with his dimply smile. After the fake first anniversary date, I'm sold on Tae-mu and Hari's chemistry. The drama is very well-paced with the discovery of Hari is Yeong-seo's replacement and Geum-hee is Ha-ri.

“The peripheral vision of naked mole rats”! @daebakgrits you crack me up!! 😂 That’s awesome! Where do you come up with these lines?!
I second most of the comments that have already been made. This show is a gem.

I liked Ahn Hyo Seop's acting more this week. He looked better when he softened and relaxed his face. Showed some emotions besides the cold look. The cake and fireworks moments were super sweet and natural.

Y'ALL. The whole roach scene had me laughing so hard!! I love the twist of Sung Hoon being nearly as scared of the roach as Young Seo was. I continue to adore Young Seo too. She isn't aggressive about making Sung Hoon fall for her, but just wants them to at least be neighborly. Her frustrations about him stomping on her pride was funny. I'm already creeped out by that new neighbor guy. I hope she handles him just fine without Sung Hoon coming in to save her or whatever.

The pace is moving pretty fast! That's a good thing, but I'm also wanting to savor every bit of this fun drama.

As much as I love the hilarious set-ups and tropes that bring our leads together I really appreciate some of the more subtler scenes between the leads that show their budding romance (like the scene when he gives her the medicine from his grandpa, how he just wanted to make sure her eye was healing well, and the scene where Hari was genuinely interested in Taemu’s talk about work during their date).

I like how they’re somewhat friends (?) but now Taemu finding out her her true identity has thrown a wrench in that so I’m really excited and interested to see how their relationship progresses next week.

Yes - absolutely having fun with the trope-poking, plus the PPL- poking too. I particularly laughed at the scene where Hari's brother wwas commenting on the PPL (clothes shopping scene ), followed immediately by the "actual" PPL (clothes shopping) during their fake date.

Since everyone has already beat me in leaving praises for this show, I have nothing to add, except that I have never seen a face mask that looks cute, especially on a Haraboji😂😂 which makes for a more tempting PPL than the skincare stick.

Thank you for wonderful recap. I I was eagerly waiting for it . Such a talented cast to make such a boring story amazing. I read your comments and I just wanted to say Tae mu needs more love :) He is the guy who has serious communication problems and has a poker face so I tend to think it is not because the actor not good :) Our FL is amazing. I remember watching part of School 2017 and she was also very talented there. My favourite is the Grandpa. He makes such a big effect to the story. I didn't know he was the old King , in Red Sleeve . Super transformation . He is already got my 2021 best actor award :)

Finally Tae Moo got to know Shin Guem Hee's real identity. Phew! I was waiting for this one, because most times, these things get revealed very much later on and its super frustrating to watch. With the preview for next episode, Tae moo is going to make Shin Ha Ri's life hell making her switch between Ha Ri and fake Guem Hee. He is so going to make her say it with her own mouth.

I think he has the right to be mad this time, because she is his employee after all.

I really liked how soft he is becoming and the ice is melting. In ep 3-4 he is actually a very considerate person which was quite a surprise and i really liked that about him.

This is a drama I didn’t think I would watch - but anyway I checked because Kim Se-jeong is wonderful in The Uncanny Counter….

Four episodes in, the verdict is what’s not to love! We need more dramas like this when the world is getting tougher and tougher.

I was surprised Young-Seo put up with neighbor guy's unsolicited and slightly gropey "coaching" on proper form at the gym, and even faked a slight smile in response. I mean, her focus was obviously elsewhere at that particular moment, so she maybe didn't realize how inappropriate it was? Still, although she clearly didn't actually enjoy his input, the implied sexism of his behavior was infuriating to watch and deserved a much stronger rebuke to my mind.

I wasn't going to watch this one. I really wasn't. Then I finished watching episode 8 of Forecasting Love and Weather, and then I saw Business Proposal and I thought I'd just watch the first episode since I had nothing else to watch. And it was so funny. By episode two I was definitely invested, and by episode four I was in love.

I was expecting Tae-mu to be another Lee Young-joon from WWWSK. I went into it with a lot of skepticism, but by the second episode I was invested, and by episode four I was in love. It's fresh and not at all what I was expecting. Sure, it's got several of the tropes that we know and love (or hate) but it utilizes them so effectively, and subverts them so well that it's truly a delight to watch.

Tae-mu is aloof, but not immature. I can't help hut compare him to Lee Young-joon. He's not your typical chaebol man child. He's respectful, doesn't overstep his bounds, and treats Ha-ri in such a manner that I can't help but be impressed by him as a character.

And the friendships. So beautiful. No antagonism, whatsoever. At least not yet. And the grandpa? He's got to be my favorite character on the show. He's so awesome.

Lastly, I like the tongue-in-cheek references to the usual tropes that can be found in chaebol hero meets candy heroine romances.

It is the kind of shows I need right now. It’s a delight to watch- so fun, hilarious, romantic (a little bit, maybe?). With great acting on the FL part, the show keeps on delivering OTT moments which are so hilarious. I love it that it made me laugh so much since ep1.

As I posted my comments elsewhere, I didn’t like the scene when she didn’t grab grandpa’s hand to help him not falling. It was cruel to watch even knowing that she needed to disguise her identity. And I couldn’t help feeling so sorry for grandpa since I believe he had to ...(redacted) in that Napa cabbage water since he was in need of a toilette and fell down unintentionally. Pfft..

I know that show is playing with all the tropes, but I found the fact that the ML didn’t recognize Ha-ri’s face while he was watching the footage of the company’s video very unbelievable and out of character. I understand that this was to make fun at the face blindness trope, it isn’t in character of the ML.

Besides everything I’ve mentioned, I’m loving the show so much!!! ♥️♥️♥️ Now I’m waiting eagerly for TM’s revenge on poor Ha-ri.

This drama is making my week! 😍

My wife and I both love this show- a lot. It is a real comedy- it is a rom-com and full of rom-com tropes but deployed so very effectively. But please note how deftly the writer has avoided the trap of adding an extraneous political corruption/family greed/corporate politics story to this drama: Yes it is true that Tae-mu’s parents died in a car accident “and there was a rumor that relatives had something to do with it” but, before we can tense up for the seemingly inevitable makjang coming we find out that Grandpa kicked all of the relatives out of the company: The relatives have been neutered and the writer has headed that plot line off at the pass. Think how much better DALI AND GAMJATANG could have been without the scumbucket former fiance and the political corruption nonsense- even if a villian was needed the art thieving drug addict cousin was more than adequate for that role.

What I love about this show is not just that the tropes are deployed well but also we were given dramatically logical backstory for our two male leads this week: It turns out that Tae-mu and Sung-hoon are essentially brothers, raised together since boyhood. Although Sung-hoon is not formally adopted into Tae-mu’s family Grandfather actually does see him as one of his grandsons. This may become an even more important plot point towards the end of the drama as a fact that may make Sung-hoon acceptable as a husband for Young-seo in her family’s eyes: While Tae-mu will inherent the greater bulk of grandpa’s estate I bet we will find out that Sung-hoon is also an heir. But at this point in the story the importance of this relationship serves to explain why Sung-hoon is not willing to give the smitten (and very beautiful) Young-seo the time of day: She messed with his brother. At the same time, we can see that Sung-hoon is not just a gorgeous hunk but in fact a very high quality man- in fact we have to ask why some other really smart lady has not already snagged him. Bottom line for Young-seo- she has actually picked the right guy but she is going to have to work hard to get him.

Next fun part- now that Tae-mu knows who Hari is, we get to have the fun Chaebol torturing his lady trope. That is always good for a few laughs. But it too is also a logical in the way this story is put together.

I agree with DaebackGrits in not liking Young-seo’s creepy neighbor. However, we have to have at least a few villians and antagonists to flesh out the story- and perhaps this is even the bridge by which Sung-hoon can finally connect with Young-seo, who really needs someone like him in her life, just as he really needs someone like her. Better a creepy neighbor than some DALI like stupid corrupt politics/ evil Chaebol family nonsense. I too dislike Min-woo’s jealousy but also find it logical and understandable.

At this point this may be one of the best written rom-coms I have seen in a long time. I just hope it continues.

“ Grandpa, you know you’ve got no business judging other people for their fashion choices!”

TRUTH 🤗🧐😂

I'm thinking his anger at Ha-ri is just petty. After all, she tried her best to not go out with him, and tried as well to avoid him at work. Poor thing seemed so unlucky, and that's why we all like shows like this. The coincidences pile up like crazy, which is sooo much fun!

This is kind of the safe comfort-watch for me - I'm not kept on the edge of my seat and the plot/characters/dialogue are nothing groundbreaking , but I know what's coming and I can just sit back and enjoy the occasional fun moments.

The main couple are very cute, especially when they're connecting over food. (I adore this!! Like the scene in the restaurant when they geeked out together over localising kimchi.) And I don't have major issues with AHS' acting - I feel he's serviceable in the role.

I find the second leads slightly boring...?

I'm glad l love all the leads (which very rare for me) and really hate the 2nd/3rd ML here which is Min woo for the same reason as yours. He doesn't give me a good impression since the beginning and this episodes just makes me hate him more (the character, not the actor)

Tae Moo hate rain.. maybe because their parents died in the rain? well .. that usually what drama gives but I'm not sure anymore since they make granpa fav makjang as reference for all their drama cliché XD

and more thing that I curious .. will the archaeopteryx hologram change once they realize about their feelings? Ha-ri so freak out whenever archaeopteryx 'come out' from her phone screen but it won't be once she finally accept her feeling .. right??? :D

Aww, I didn't want Tae-mu to find out like this. I wanted him to figure it out on his own or fall for Ha-ri because he admires how good she is at her job. Or for Sung-hoon to realize it first since he's observant like how he's aware of Tae-mu's feelings. I understand Tae-mu feels betrayed because he was starting to like Geum-hee who doesn't even exist and was playing him for a fool.

Are we sure Min-woo doesn't like Ha-ri? I know she caught him kissing his ex-girlfriend, but I assumed his note at the concert was leading to a confession, "She comforted me when I broke up with my girlfriend and had to go to the army... but she doesn't know I like her." Ha-ri's crying was gut-wrenching, and I love that Tae-mu heard it to sympathize with her, but it would've been fun to see him get jealous of her crush.

After Sung-hoon fumigated Young-seo's apartment with bug spray, my first thought was she'll have to stay at his place because how can she sleep there with that smell? Thank goodness Grandpa was okay after that fall. I love how he loves Sung-hoon as his own grandson.

Rewatching the two episodes (because I am smitten with the show and cannot stop thinking about it), what stuck out to me are the smaller, more personal moments between the leads. The scene where they talk about localizing kimchi and Tae-mu just starts ranting about this very hyper-specific interest of his felt very realistic and something I’ve definitely done myself on dates myself without realizing it. For all that the show is excellent at wacky hijinks and calling out the heightened reality of a romcom universe, it’s also very effective during moments like these. The leads feel like they’re actually bonding outside of just proximity and being forced to spend time together. It shows that when we eliminate the employer/employee relationship, mistaken/fake identity mishaps, these are two individuals who would actually be quite compatible together. I just find that very sweet. It’s something that’s surprisingly not very common in romcoms, which tend to prefer emphasizing how different fictional lovers are, but how they fall in love anyway. Tae-mu and Ha-ri are definitely different, but it’s their similar interests that make them compatible. Okay, I’m done now.

Thank you for a hilarious weecap! ❤

Keep going show
Please be as fun next week as you are now .
Am waiting eagerly😍