Can someone who is watching this give an indication of the level of tension around the mystery/stalker levels. Compared to I can hear your voice and the drama I can’t remember its title but was about a tv anchor who can’t forget anything he experiences. I would class them as the far edge of my very limited tolerance levels

I wonder any who was watching had the same reaction I did after the first 4 episodes. Pre-body swap it was setting up as a pretty interesting business ethics scenario-the woman as the ruthless marketer, the eager intern as an animal rights activist who was impressed by the woman and thought he could turn marketing into a positive force. Her fall as a result of the expose of the cosmetics firm could have set up an interesting body swap because he would realize that another side of business practice was not just her unethical drive to succeed BUT also, the harassment and belittling of her work as a successful woman.

BUT I was completely thrown by the ending of episode 4. Why the kiss? The talk of wanting her and her soul seemed to suggest that he was a devil, or something, but that was preceded by him waking up in her body screaming, so he obviously didn't know what was going to happen. Anyway, I must admit I was a little disappointed, because I thought the first episodes were pretty intriguing, and even with the supernatural angle and the killer bunny I knew was coming it would still have made some interesting points. I'm going to keep watching it just to see what the story was, but the story could be wasted potential.

First, the short episodes don't work with this story.

Secondly, I didn't like the leads. Whatever happened in her life, she deserved to be fired, she knew about the researches on animals and burried it, used the intern to expel the people, etc. She doesn't have morals, she just wants to succeed. You can be good at your job and still have morals. The intern was boring and naive pretty much everytime and using his good looks to get excused was tiring.

I didn't understand the last scene. It was weird he would like to kiss her after everything she did. So if he knew what will happen, why was he so surprised at the hospital?

Until now, everything was meh...

I'm posting on what seems to be an already archived page to say that I've now watched half of this, and its not half bad! Although the mystery is half baked, and the business side has a several cliched characters, the gender swap is not overdone for overly broad comedy so far, and the connection between marketing, "framing,"and the way gender is portrayed in society is actually relatively thoughtfull. There are some episodes that will offend the culturally conservative, so that's something to keep in mind, but so far I'm enjoying it. I'll post a final assessment on a couple of weeks.

–I’ll make a few general comments about what I’ve seen so far, and then some thoughts about episodes 13-16.

I can say this show really is something of a cliched story—a female lead (Kang Na-eon) who is flying high, but then crashes and needs her comeuppance; a ragtag team, the lowest of the low coming together to make good; an evil male CEO who manipulates the jealous woman assistant by promising her that she will be the boss, and then the whole body swap fantasy with the naïve, and somewhat simple-minded male intern (So Eun-ho) as a conceit as a way to pull two opposites together.

But that last is really a joke, because I actually haven’t seen many body swap shows. Still, I imagine that the woman in the man’s body and vice versa has some really commonplace scenes.

Depending on the frankness of the drama, I think menstruation most be one. However, even though I doubt this is original, I liked that though that it wasn’t just played for laughs—it really was somewhat eye-opening to Eun-ho in Na-eon’s body, Also, I thought it was fine to link the issue to sex toys and the way women’s issues are slighted. It is true even in the U.S. that sanitary pads are often hidden away on shelves, as if this natural, commonplace process was shameful. And it is definitely true that condoms are more widely available in stores than sex toys. Of course, the comparison isn’t exactly one to one, but it was an okay point.

Referring to an earlier marketing case, I also liked the use of drag queens—talented men who act as women, both because of its reference to the body swap, but also because it highlighted the gay team member’s singing ability. I think that redeemed what is a stereotyped portrayal in this character, although I certainly know gay men who behave like that, but also many who don’t, which is the whole trouble with stereotyping!

However, the stereotyped character that I enjoy without reservation is Jenny, the parody of the young woman social media influencer. That character is very funny. In fact, I loved the last marketing case in episode 16, the caustic exchange of hip on-line lingo with the hostile daughter of the owner.

One final general thought—both actors, Park Solomon and Kim Ji Eun are great playing Kang Na Eon in whatever body she is residing. But I’ ve noticed that I only like Kim Ji Eun playing the character So Eun Ho—she is able to balancing his identities general good heartedness, with his vanity, his simplemindedness, and his occasional flashes of insight. So there could be several things:
1. its just easier to play a ruthless, hard-driving executive either man or woman
2. Kim Ji Eun might be a better actor than Lomon
OR 3. My bias prefers a woman playing a more stereotyped feminine role. That would be a little depressing!

Comments on 13-16 : I’m treating this drama as a conventional 12 episode one, with two episodes a week that I watch back to back. As a result, how the episodes are divided doesn’t make an impact on my viewing and I’m not really paying too much attention to how each episode ends except for every 4th one.

That means that the one weeklong cliffhanger for me was in episode 12 —will the woman in the man’s body kiss another woman; and the man in a woman’s body kiss another man. I figured that they wouldn’t, but I found it interesting that in both cases, it was the woman who repulsed the kiss, suggesting that the Na-eon in the man’s body would have had no trouble going through with the kiss, even though her identity is heterosexual. Perhaps the male body she was in shaped Na-eon’s desires? Or Na-eon is so driven to discover her attempted murderer that she was willing to sleep with anyone?

Speaking of kissing, the kiss that occurred between the two leads still in swapped bodies raised the interesting issue about kissing yourself, or at least kissing a physical image of yourself. The difficulty of doing so was apparent in their first kiss in swapped bodies, as they were attempting to reverse the body swap. This 2nd body swap kiss didn’t have the same disturbing impact on the leads, although that one seemed to result in temporarily switching bodies back to normal. This was actually not a bad way of showing the characters were falling for each other—they were able to see passed appearances and were attracted to the person within. Or, they just really loved themselves and wanted to kiss themselves!

The character I dislike the most in this drama are not the villains, but the presumed second male lead, who not only tried to kiss Eun-ho in Na-eon’s body, but also barged into her apartment and intended to spend the night there, even though he witnessed Eun-ho kissing Na-eon. But as with most things gendered in this show, we are supposed to see this character embodying not just unrequited love as part of a love triangle, but also male privilege with his assumptions about her needing him.

The switch back to their respective bodies was well handled, I thought, although again, I don’t like the way the Lomon plays the male Eun-ho. Also, just speaking in terms of the story, I was disappointed that Na-eon went back to her old cold and ruthless self, not rewarding the underdog team with a decent marketing assignment. It could be she actually knew that they would do well in this assignment, and she was pretending to go back to her old ways for the sake of catching the evil CEO.

Still, maybe the fact that they switched yet again shows that she has to learn her lesson, be more compassionate to those employees who are loyal to her before she gets to remain in her own body.

I think we deserve a link to the original story about a struggling shoes factory saved by drag queens and transwomen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-22940451
I have looked to see if I could find some of their advertising material but with no luck. If anyone finds it, please show me. :-)
Though of course, having your story made into a succesful film and an even more succesful musical ... franchise, even, is more advertisement than you could actually pay for.
Also, it's moving to read here that several people actually contacted this man to offer their support after having heard of the crisis of his business. One of these people were Sue Sheppard who specialised in "transgender specialist glamour wear".
(Though being a drag queen and a transwomen is not the same, I remember once seeing a transwomen in a café, dressed so elegantly I really wanted to tell her. She was in a fourties' kind of jacket and pencil skirt, ... just think of a beautifully filmed BBC WW2 film heroine and add a foot in height, that was how she looked. I see it so clearly in my head how she sat there, radiating vaseline-on-the-lens melancholy dreaminess.
I wanted to say how much I admired it, but was nervous I would say something wrong. With my present knowledge, I KNOW I would have said something wrong, but also that I could have done it better today, paying a compliment ("A pleasure to see so much beauty and style ...") without actually going faux pas (like " ... for a man") and ruin it.

I’ve now watched episodes 17-20. Although @ceciliedk suggested a couple of interesting ways the plot could turn, bringing out some of the admittedly submerged implications of the show, instead the story took a dramatic, and unfortunate turn, with the Male Lead out of nowhere revealing himself to be an enraged revenge seeker, determined to make the female lead “suffer for what she had done.” Now, of course there are other absurdities (which were always there) of what is causing the body swaps (the spirit of the dead woman, I suppose) and the readiness of the rival woman executive after overhearing a conversation between the leads--“oh that explains everything- they are body swapping!” But there are even bigger problems with the revealed revenge motive as far as I’m concerned.

1. First, it wasn’t at all clear why the FL was to blame for what happened to the ML’s friend. The FL apparently claimed a business idea of the ML disabled friend for a larger candle firm. But in the end, the FL is a marketer, not a candle maker. It’s the larger candle firm that is responsible for this business claim, isn’t it? Is there a suggestion here that businesses are just passive instruments in the hands of marketing consultants? That is not the way corporate capitalism works in my experience!

2. That leads to the latest case, which, according to the now revealed as vicious revenge seeking ML, is exactly parallel to the one for which he is punishing the FL. And yet this one seems like a simpler tech stealing case, which again, has very little to do with the marketing firm. Besides, have any of these small companies heard of patent infringement lawsuits? Sure, maybe a kind hearted disabled woman didn’t have the legal resources to protect her ideas, but certainly even a small tech company would.

3. Finally, as far as the business side of things, if the revenge seeking ML really wanted revenge, why would he single out one woman executive? Why not the whole firm, or why not the male CEO? Doesn’t he understand by now how the business operates? He’s seen the FL brought down with deception by the male CEO, and yet he still assumes that SHE needs to be punished.

And that brings up the truly unfortunate gender implications of this narrative turn...

I have no idea what story this drama wanted to tell :
- Grief : but it was absent during the most part of it ;
- Revenge : again the ML forgot it during the whole part of the drama ;
- Genres male and female : the body swap was barely brought in this terms, they had no issue to swap their bodies. The only thing they brought was the periods and it's all. There wasn't any comedy with it.
- Ecology : the ML started as very opiniated about animals rights, ecology, etc but completely forgot about it after.
- Romance : I have no idea how the leads fell in love with each other because they were very different.
- Fantasy : there were magic elements like the ghost part in the darkness that brought nothing to the story.
- Thriller : who tried to kill the FL? I didn't care at all. at the beginning, she was awful and didn't care about anything or anybody except that.
- David vs Goliath : the employees on the bottom of the scale who fight against the villain directors (It was not really a surprise that the woman was the villain, it's always the nicest ones who stabs in the back)

At the end, it tried a lot of things and failed pretty much everything.

The acting wasn't bad but neither super good and the style of the characters was pretty weird between the panda eye make-up and the weird choice of clothes like the final scene.

Before I begin, I’d like to thank @ceciliedk for her willingness to watch this show and comment with me, while also acknowledging @kurama as the other person who stuck this show out. My comments show the danger of Dramabeans opening a hangout space in which I could give free rein to my admittedly always lengthy comments, which I know frequently get this response from other commentators: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1070005-reaction-images

(For anyone who isn’t familiar with the Golden book series, this is NOT an actual children’s book, although I would have much rather have read this book to my kids than “The Roly Poly Puppy)

But, back to the show: it of course turned out that the FL was NOT guilty of the brand-stealing crime that the ML had plotted for 6 years to get revenge for, and furthermore his girlfriend had actually been killed by the real culprit of the whole thing, the highest ranking female executive, who was always the sinister power behind the throne. The bunny mask attempted murderer was indeed the 2ML as I had suspected almost from the beginning-- whose motive for the two attempts on the FL life was he liked her, and he was talked into doing it by the female executive, who apparently won him over with the argument “when she is dead, she’ll finally love you” which is good reasoning to a crazed serial murder, but since he was presumably a competent colleague with a crush did not make much sense. And while I’m on the topic of the murderous 2ML, he apparently got out of jail in less than a year for his two attempts at murder, suggesting that Korea has an incredibly lax justice system for men who don bunny masks and try to kill someone.

As far as the business lesson—the FL does learn to be kinder to her colleagues, and her ambition to become CEO is therefore realized. Apparently part of this kindness is to adopt an open floor plan, which I guess symbolizes a more democratic organizational structure, but would, I imagine be really distracting to most employees. She also changes the orientation of this branch of the firm to representing small business. Again, this reorientation is supposed to symbolize a more humane marketing model, although to me, it doesn’t necessarily follow that small businesses are more ethical than large ones. But, of course, despite its early hints, the show pretty quickly pulled back from any serious critique of marketing or business practices. The fact that the ML at the end opened a sustainable, no animals harmed business of his own I guess could be taken as a positive view of this type of business, but large cosmetic firms escaped the show unscathed, despite the show’s opening.

As for the romance, it ended with a kiss, so that’s something, I guess. But interestingly, it was the least passion filled kiss of the three romantic kisses shown. (There were several others--I do give this show credit for having kissing as the mechanism for body swapping, since unlike many DB commentators, I prefer kissing to hand holding as a way of expressing romantic affection.) The reason is that the late reveal of the Ml’s vengeful motive sapped all the romance and sexual tension from the body swap. It would have been good for the show to reveal that early, with the ML being shown as pulled toward a greater understanding of the FL by inhabiting her body, rather than him telling her at the end that was what happened. But also, despite evidence that she was not evil, it took extraordinary amounts of evidence—first a video where the FL was explaining what happened, then the admission of the evil Female executive—before the ML truly believed in the innocence of the FL, despite inhabiting her body. He never really deeply apologized for his assumptions and his attempt to bring her down, and then after saying “I’ll be by your side” he left her for a year, and she was pretty much fine with that. So a last scene kiss didn’t feel like a culmination the way it should. So, while the concept might have sounded good—lets have the revenger and the person he’s trying to get revenge on swap bodies so they can understand each other—the execution was off.

So, if anyone is still reading this comment, here is my final verdict. I remain convinced that this show had the germ of a good idea: the body swap of a man and a woman, in the context of a marketing firm which deals in images, and with an ambitious female executive as the FL. It could have used this fantasy to critique our stereotyped images of gender, and especially our view of ambitious career women as being somehow unethical because they deviate from traditional “feminine” standards. Instead, it made the villain an unethical female executive. Or, it could have taken its initial critique of marketing as a way corporations whitewash, or greenwash, their worst practices, and amplify that, Instead it ended up with the argument that marketing is fine as long as it pays more attention to small businesses. Or, in terms of human/romantic relationships, it could have illustrated the adage, “to understand someone, you should try to walk in their shoes” rather than have a late melodramatic plot twist that undermined the growing attraction that was the premise of several of the episodes.

But at no point did it fulfill my hopes for it. Was it therefore a truly awful show? No, it was actually pretty watchable, and you can easily zip through it, although fast-forwarding is tough -- once they start switching bodies, you need to know who is in what body to follow it. Would I recommend it? Not really.

The real question: was it worth the amount of verbiage I uploaded to this site? The answer to this is unequivocal: DEFINITELY NOT!