The first two episodes were a disappointment to me. I didn't feel much for the leads or them together. The set up is also kinda snooze. The treatment would have made all the difference, but I don't see anything special about this. Having said that, I will still watch the next 2 episodes to see if the 'com' in the 'rom' is upped.
Right now, I don't really care for the side characters. The sister is the only one I am curious about. She is calmly menacing.

Our main lead seems perfect each other. They are gorgeous to look at :) I was disappointed by side stories . Her friend's doesn't seem enough to care for me. Hopefully It will improve at next episodes :) What kind of castle he was living in UK all by himself ??? :)

It was okay, not bad but not great either

I like Junho, so ill stick around till the end (unless it becomes really bad which i doubt)

The first two episodes were boring. I think there were parts that were trying to be funny but didn't quite hit the mark. Yoona is actually fine, but there isn't a difference between her fake smile and her real smile. I have already ranted on my fan wall about the lack of romantic organic chemistry. They literally manufactured it with her walking in the airport, even though she looks the exact same, just her hair down. The did the same for him walking to the interview, even though he looked the exact same with his hair up. I don't understand. I am really hoping this picks up for Junho's sake. Otherwise this drama is committing the one sin that should never exist for a drama, and that is being boring.

After the first two episodes, it is obvious that this is certainly not an artistic masterpiece, but I was well entertained and had fun. So just what I need on a Sunday evening to prepare for the new working week. Light entertainment with great looking actors (Junho in suits is to die for) and a plot that doesn't require much thinking.

The first episode was slow and uneven - the beats need to come faster from now on. There’s too much lingering on every starry-eyed moment and too much time spent setting up quick laughs; for example, there’s no need for three nightclub scenes, although the way the first two set up the kiddie club is mildly funny. Yoona’s phony smile is almost but not quite as irritating as expected, but at least the drama has the self-awareness to poke fun at it, which redeems it a little. Junho’s character has a weird split personality, played broadly for laughs in the intern and hotel scenes and then all melo-serious in the family-feud bits both before and after the time lapse. The prolonged, worshipful treatment of his chaebol strut is so over-the-top it becomes boring instead of funny or swoony (although the focus on his hands is no problem at all, none). Overall, so far, it’s King the Bland.

I was very pleased when I saw Kim Jae-Won! I really like him since I saw him as the young Cha Seung-Won in Our Blues and in Nineteen Otters.

For the rest, if I like both lead actors, I never was super fan and the whole struck by their beauty thing didn't work on me.

It's hard to like a guy who can't even make a simple copy... The whole thing about him being super rich was not funny not like in Gaus Electronics.

It's an easy watch and I will continue it.

I watched the first half of the first episode... and paused. It hasn't clicked with me yet, but on paper, it has all the elements I should like. But the interactions feel artificial (I LOLd at the FL's friend group reminding me of a Disney Channel original movie version of a friend group??), and Junho just seems grumpy... I think this one will work better for me as a bingewatch, so I'm going to catch up later!😁👍

@dramaddictally thanks for the weecap, like you I am just glad to have a proper rom com on the screen. I feel like Business Proposal was the last one, Sh**ting stars was much funnier but it had a couple of darker storylines that took away from the fun, safe, no brainer watch and I am hoping that this one will avoid going down that road.

The Downton Abbey style Stately home showed just how much money he has to throw about, he must love the cold as those houses are a nightmare to heat. I am grateful for the light watch as I have nothing on the week days to live watch and the next batch to drop look heavy on the thriller/tension inducing elements.

Thanks, Dramadictally. I get the feeling I'm gonna enjoy the ride more for this beanies' section. Sultry is as sultry does - love it, unnie. Your writing lifts my mood for this show. I hope they don't do full-on c-drama style where the side characters get equal mileage. The tuna head scene wasn't so funny. I like my tuna head; good thing they did not waste it. While many in the northern hemisphere may need a breezy lightness in the show, we in the southern hemisphere look for some warmth and good feels. On board for the ride...for now.

I was bored too. I am curious about the evil noona, but that's about it.

I've been looking forward to this drama since the leads were announced but the first two episodes didn't hook me in as much as I'd hoped. It got better in ep 2, but the flow and pacing of the ep 1 just felt jarring at times. And I wish the leads got to interact more, because that's when the drama shines the most for me.
Apparently the PD used to direct variety shows but I haven't found the comedy funny, especially the toilet humor which I just skipped entirely.
I'm here for Yoona so I'll keep watching and I'm hopeful the show will get better as it gets into a groove.

By the way if anyone is interested, there's a webtoon being released along with the drama that serves as a prequel and sequel for the main characters. It's also titled King the Land and the art is super cute.

I'm enjoying it so far. It's like an oldschool drama but with modern production values. I do wish it aired on different days than See You in My 19th Life, though.

On the bright side, as King the Land feels old and dated, at least we won't have to worry about serial killers because that wasn't a thing in the 2000s. On the not-so-bright side, the premiere week was boring.

I'm glad that Won has a friend, but this drama would've been more fun if the three of them, including Sang-shik, were interns, and Sa-rang figures out Won's chaebol identity. He can still be a prickly tsundere as a trainee.

The toilet scene was embarrassingly cringe. Doesn't he smell it? Why was he still standing in the bathroom? She wasn't even apologetic for using a guest's bathroom but got all defensive when he followed her.

Won staring at her at the airport and Sa-rang staring at him at the interview was unbelievable. I didn't like the time skip as I would've liked to watch Da-eul date her husband and have a baby.

But Episode 2, I found my reason to keep watching -- Kim Jae-won. How heart-fluttering is he!? So I'm just going to ignore the chemistry-less OTP and swoon over Ro-woon doing things for his sunbae/noona so Pyung-hwa doesn't get hurt.

Do they teach how to use copiers in England?

I only lasted halfway thru day 1, mostly because everyone who seemed to be an antagonist was the type of antagonist that I don't like watching -- strong evidence that the writer and PD are on the wrong page for my tastes.

Also, I could care less about the ML in suits.

And Yoona -- having watched K2, to me she will always be Miss Dances With Ramen. That was a career-defining moment, and not in a good way.

It is another drama where the characters make more sense in a webtoon than in a drama. A hero in slick suits, driving expensive sportscars is acceptable in a cartoon, but does not translate well for real people - it just looks like a car advert. I am sure the drama producers had no difficulty attracting commercial support with these two leads and they seem to make the most of it.

The jokes were a little too predictable and often not funny, but strangely enough, I was amused by the toilet scene even though toilet humour is not so much my thing. The use of the on-off transparency button was quite funny. Still, I did not understand that he stayed in the room!

I am also starting to like the two girl friends and the criticism of work situations, the manager being called out for snootiness and Lim Jae-won as knight in shining armour.

Choosing a light rom-com is a good decision for Junho and Yoon-ah after their last dramas. Please, PD and writer, make it now funny as well.

A very, very, very standard rom-com story line (brooding, moody, lost chaebol heir finds a hard working woman with common sense = fireworks.) It started off with comedic elements (several taken from previous works) and packed a lot of information into the first hour.

Gu Won seems to the the second marriage/affair son who has “lost” his mother and feels disconnected with the rest of his family. His sister, Hwa-Ran, is the the typical ruthless yet competent director that stands in the way of his inheritance. Coldness seems to be genetic trait between half-siblings. Sa-Rang has her two support friends while Gu Won has only his intern Sang-Sik who comedically knows his role as gopher-quasi-friend. Who is Han Mi-so that brought Gu Won back to Korea after 7 years? His mother? We still don’t have any info on Sa-Rang’s family except she has a grandmother. The appointment of Gu Won as manager means more awkward encounters for Sa-Rang and more sabotage from his half-sister. Since this has old school tropes, I presume that he is the product of his father’s affair with a staff member. That is why he cannot stand fake hotel staff smiles. I also get the cringe birth secret vibe that our leads are related. So far, the pace and comedic timing has been good.

I feel like any modern kdrama with KING in the title is gonna be trash. I’m getting flashbacks to THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH (2020). Anyway I watched both episodes and well if you had a long day and don’t want to think, it does the job. It’s basically pretty with no plot and hey I’m a simple girl, I’m here to soak up the prettiness

I watched the first episode of KTL immediately after watching the first episode of "See you in my 19th Life" and this suffered greatly by comparison. I"m liking this for Junho in suits, but struggle to see any chemistry or spark between the leads, I'm not a fan of the bathroom humor in this context and find the main female lead kinda boring (agree with whomever commented about not being able to see any difference between her real smile and fake smile). This feels a bit old-school and not in a good way. I may watch this when I don't have anything else to watch, but I was hoping for this summer's "Business Proposal" and this ain't it.

They could have started this show about 50-odd minutes into the first episode, when Won is having dinner with his family (again!), because that's the point at which there was some bare minimum plot movement. Everything else was uninteresting set-up, all of which could have been flashback vignettes.

I'm concerned about how much filler there was across both episodes with repeated scenes, repeated dialogues and already a lot of music-swells-but-nothing-happens 😑. Still the leads are pretty and so is the show so I'm willing to be entertained. Please get better show 🙏.

I actually knew from the very beginning this would get a lot of Dramabeans dislike, since there is a general distaste for tropey rom-coms on this site (totally understandable) and a very high evaluation of Junho (understandable given his looks--although I think he's somewhat one dimensional as an actor, but that's my personal opinion), the preliminary reaction being that he is lowering himself by working with YoonA and with this type of material.

But, despite the overall negative tone from much respected commentators, I am very much with @dramaddictally after the first two episodes. This was enjoyable and actually a lot better than I expected, given such recent disasters as Oh Young-shim, where I couldn't even make it past the first episode.

First, I have to give Junho credit for making fun of his previous roles and his looks--there were a few scenes that made me laugh just because of that. (Not just his model-like donning of his suits and watches, but also his sullen melancholy staring out of his UK estate, for example--almost as if he was a tragic Joseon monarch.)

Second, while this was no Business Proposal successfully satirizing the tropes, it is certainly self-aware enough that they are fairly well-handled. That means these first two episodes were unoriginal, but pretty competently done.

Finally, I did like the one serious theme brought out in these first two episodes, the indignities faced by those in the service industry, especially women, and the necessity of putting on a "happy face" even when the work is miserable. We'll see if that is developed any more, but even if not, I'll continue watching and hope it remains light, fluffy, and enjoyable to the end.

After seeing Sa-rang walk into the interview room in that manner, if I was an interviewer I know I'd hire her right away. Any other talks in-between are just formalities.

And his sister is terror. She breathes terror.