Thank you for the weecap @dramaddictally. I was looking forward to this drama but now I don’t know how to take what they presented, I feel manipulated into accepting half a story and having to use that to interpret the rest of the story is not working for me. This is the first time I was pulled out of the story in this way. I did not like the fact that we only saw her reaction but not what caused the change to being extremely cold so now when he presents as aggressively pursuing her it’s no longer sweet but harassment. Him describing her as a B**ch because she said she was dating the security guard was just wrong. The security guard looks like he is being used as there was no need to hug on the street he just looked awkward rather than happy to see ‘his girlfriend’ back from a blind date. If they were really dating she would have said to the blind date from the time she sat down ‘I am filling for someone else, only because when I told them I wouldn’t come it was becoming awkward and you know how it is with work colleagues’. That would have set the tone rather than listening to him put her down as if she could never be a viable consideration.

Also the whole mobile phone etiquette on dramas is ridiculous she could have responded to the call and texts by stating her lack of interest and that coming to her home uninvited at that time of night when she was out on a blind date is stalkerish and needs to not happen or she will report it.

I was also confused by her family turning up at her work place as that was never going to help build their relationship.

The work place bullying; verbally and physically was not a pleasant watch.

I will revisit when it’s finished and if after watching the second week’s episodes I am still not interested then I will drop. 2023 is the year of discernment so dramas that don’t meet expectation will not be given my limited time.

YYS and MGY have got to be to be the most boring couple ever because they literally have 0 chemistry between them. The ML's characterization is also not helping as he is coming across creepy rather than cute. With the drama titled as "Interest of Love", there is nothing interesting about the story or lovely about the characters. Dropped!

The bank employees and team and team leaders are so nosy and infuriating like How is it your business whom Soo-young is dating? The teammate literally pressured Soo-young to go on the blind date even though it was obvious she was only doing it to get rid of the rumors regarding her dating Jong-hyun. The scene where they were talking badly about Soo-young when she was about to enter the room made me feel for her. Despite all her hard work, the fact that she didn't go to college kept haunting her and causing her to get less than she deserved.
The four main characters are multi-layered and that is what makes the ride more fun. I am looking forward to what the drama has in store for us but I hope the drama maintains the interesting aspects it built throughout the whole run and not fall through midway.

I really wonder what she saw that made her change so much.

Another k-drama, another instance of positioning itself wrongly through the trailer. Ugh. I was so looking forward to the release! </3

I kept thinking it would be a secret, sordid affair between a junior employee & a team leader, who kept manipulating their colleagues into believing their 'smokescreen relationships' with the respective second leads. YYS definitely does not look like he could ever start off as MGY's junior unless he had a mid-life crisis & decided for a career-change. Which, clearly isn't the case.
Instead of a story about a covert office-relationship, this somehow became a preaching class on 'social difference'. And instead of a sexy push-and-pull, the ML is coming across as slightly stalkerish, and mentally juvenile. The last I had this reaction was watching Rowoon in that Lipstick drama (apologies to the fan-base here)... but even that show was less baffling than.... *this*

On hold for now... and potentially a drop for me. Meanwhile, off to write my MGY x YYS ff. :P

I genuinely loving it. It might be depressing so far. But i love the nuance. It seems they used bad workplace and social difference as obstacle. This is the first role i really love Yo Yun Suk. He is really nailing the nuance, something I don't see in his previous roles. Our ML and FL has some flaws they need to overcome and I'm loving it. Definitely my type of drama. It will categorized as melodrama.

The drama doesn't seem to want us to make snap judgments, but isn't giving us enough to root for our ML. I like Soo Young. I like that she made her home formerly "cold" home into something comforting and soothing. I hate that everything seems to be from the ML's perspective. I also really dislike her co-workers and the system that prevents competence from rising because of innate prejudices about who is more deserving. This drama intrigues me, even if I don't particularly like it.

I loved it. MGY's character is really intriguing - behind a sweet exterior, she seems cold, manipulative and narcissistic. In her position it is perfectly understandable - her female co-workers have her as a cautious tale and male co-workers either have a crush on her or are bitter she rejected them. Her walking a fine line to neither trigger nor give hope to her supervisors was painful to watch.

The main lead is whatever tbh. He likes her because she is pretty and kind. It's about time, he finds out that she isn't made of marshmallows and candies.

The one problem I had with the show is that it's difficult to take the class differences/social injustices seriously when everyone is a bank customer service desk employee. I love shows about people with down to earth, normal jobs, but the stakes here make it sound as if it is Go Jun Pyo deciding whether it would be better to marry the rich girl for the well being of thousands of his employees. What is the problem here exactly? Your mom will not be happy? Well, she will get over it. You wouldn't be promoted if you have a poor wife? Well, I am sure wife with a dentist dad would have been ~very~ useful in getting a better banking job. I frankly don't even get why the FL can't just get into some university. She is a smart woman and now she has an income that can cover her study expenses. Her co-worker studied fashion, so even by the show's logic any faculty would do.

I was only slightly curious about this drama and it still didn't give me that much to go on. the lack of chemistry between the leads is an issue for me when it comes to romance stories. and I just don't think there's enough story for 16 episodes without resorting to kdrama nonsense like amnesia/truck of doom/etc.

for a moment I thought the drama had mislead us with their photo teasers and the security guard could be her little brother LOL

Dropped. The drama is so suffocating. One major thing that annoyed me was the transition of FL. It also left me confused. I mean what exactly does she saw? Why couldn't she say that right to the ML's face instead of expecting him to magically understand what exactly she meant? Why does it have to be a big mystery?. I feel like this is just being too rigid or sensitive on her part. I am curious but I don't trust the drama to pull it off in a logical or reasonable way. I like YYS and MGY but their chemistry is zero here. MGY's acting felt so expressionless. Like another beanie it gave me "she would never know" vibes. SO much negativity.

I don't like that Yoo Yeon Seok acting too young for what he is in real life. Plot-wise, it is confusing. It's like they are deliberately making the female lead storyline look complex and I think it is unnecessary.
Sang Soo is borderline creepy. She denied his advances but he still waited in front of her house unannounced, just because he likes her.
I'll wait for the next two episodes whether this is what the scriptwriter/ director wanted to show that this is unacceptable. Or if they are just out of touch.

I really want to like this because I thought Mun Kayoung was so funny and exhibited such a range of emotions in Link. And I’ve liked Yoo Yeon Seok since Mr. Sunshine. So far the story hasn’t grabbed me though. I was trying to think why I found My Liberation Notes so much more interesting as they both deal with suffocating workplaces and characters who are looking for more meaning in their lives. I think there was more variety in characters in MLN (particularly the siblings) and there was also the mystery of Gu and where he came from that moved the storyline. There were also some very funny moments in MLN (I still laugh remembering the face of the company employee while listening to the pitch of the liberation club as an after worm club). There were some interesting moments in these episodes but not any humor or compelling storylines yet. I’ll try a few more episodes and hope it will get better.

Seriously toxic workplace. But I'm completely intrigued by what's going on even though I don't particularly like any of the characters as they are portrayed. Not sure where things are going, and not sure if I'll still be here at the end, but at the moment I'm still curious.

Watching both episodes was important in getting more insight into both leads.

Sang Soo is a little more clingy than I would like. He kept questioning Soo Young's responses. He waited too long already, 3 years....
He made a mistake by his lack of communication when he was late. He should have sent a quick text letting her know what was going on despite being behind at work. Well, she still saw his rushed attempt to the dinner date. I think the realization happened when she looked at her reflection and thought about her social status and the gap between her and him.

Kyung Pil said, "No secrets at work". So much gossip and nosiness, sheesh! A lot of uncomfortable moments for Soo Young.

I feel for Soo Young. The blind date dinner was awkward. She was brave for swapping in for a friend. She was brave for moving out to Seoul on her own and starting a new chapter in her life.

I disliked that she was under scrutiny so often. Just because of her beauty, people were jealous and liked to talk down to her. I'm interested in her character arc.

I wonder what is her dream? Her goals, if any? She thought she had an opportunity with this new bank job, but it turned into a rut when she realized she was stuck on one side of the line. She doesn't have a degree. She doesn't want to start from the bottom in a new position. Where does she go from here? She could be happy accepting her job as is. But again, people keep gossiping about her and her career.

She should have replied to Sang Soo after his calls/texts. He should have waited and not gone to her house. All this for the dramatic cliffhanger.

Really don't know how this drama will manage 16 episodes.

I’m probably the only one who struggled with this show. Yoo Yeon-Seok looks a little too old to be playing a smitten love-struck man. He’s almost 39 and he seems too mature to play a character this inexperienced and naive. I’ll probably get a lot of flak for saying that, but I found his behavior unbelievable in a man his age.
I’ve always liked him and respected his work, but he seems miscast to be pursuing a woman 13 years younger than he is and acting so wide-eyed and innocent.
What do you guys think?

I have just finished these first two episodes, and I loved them. I was really liking Sang Soo, I felt he was so real in his crush with Soo Yeong, he felt so helpless in trying to find the way to her heart, I thought he was cute and nice... until he become a jerk sending all those toxic texts to her just because she didn't give him a reason why she's nor forgiving him. Because right now I'm pretty sure he knows what he did to offend her.

I can say little after watching half of the points of view. I have the feeling we will get the other two leads' in next episodes.

I just love the quiet vibe the drama is giving. I have just checked and it's Brahms PD. I hope are spared of the total angst that drama was.

Anyway, I hope I can catch up with the episodes soon.

Great comments, fellow fans. Did anyone get vibes of "Our Beloved Summer"? We as viewers are tossed about as little snippets and "fake outs" about the relationships are presented. I am wondering what kind of interest I'll accrue from investing my time in this drama.

I honestly came out of the first episode convinced that she is simply tired of being harassed at work by men angry that she won't sleep with them since she must be sleeping with somebody and how dare it not be them. Especially with her being lower on the hierarchy than they are. Basically standard toxic masculinity.

If I were her I'd believe that he was the same as all the others and just Nice Guying her, especially when he turned so nasty at the end. In fact in the argument in the alley she basically said as much - that he was no different from the other men in the office, pretending to be nice and then turning on her when they didn't get what they wanted.

In fact, I found him incredibly not sympathetic throughout both episodes. I see no evidence he actually likes her as a person. The parts of the first two that were from his gaze framed her as being this passive, ethereal, untouchable object rather than a human being. And his response to her potentially dating somebody else was juvenile and sexist.

There are some people whose opinions I respect greatly who absolutely love this show. Maybe I just need to see a few more episodes but so far I'm just finding it frustrating. All I want her to do is quit and get a job where she doesn't have to deal with these people anymore.