[Beanie Recs] Dramas with a helpful, wonderful secretary character
by DB Staff
Ahoy, Beanies! It’s time to gather your collective genius for a recommendation series that features you and your drama knowledge. We’ll drop a drama conundrum and leave it up to you to provide a drama rec, and the appropriate rationale behind it, be it long or short.
I know it’s not till next year but I’m already gunning for this Han Ji-min + Lee Jun-hyuk romance drama. Yes they are both great, but he plays her faithful secretary! And there’s a romance! OMG, I don’t know if there is a standard K-drama character I like more than the faithful secretary. So, are there any other dramas about helpful and wonderful secretary characters that I might be missing? All I can think of is The Secret Life of My Secretary. I need to pre-fill the void over here. It doesn’t have to be a romance, but it kinda should be, amirite?
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1 Seon-ha
November 27, 2024 at 5:34 AM
Unlock the Boss is probably the right vibe for this request, I should think!
But also consider Business Proposal and Hyena, which both have wonderful secretaries who are closer to sidekicks, or "partners in crime," than office assistants. Neither is about a romance between the boss and secretary, which I sometimes find can skirt the line of feeling creepy because of the power the boss does hold over the assistant anyway.
See, for example, Crazy Love.
"Going even-further-off-topic Beanie-style," might I also offer No Gain No Love as an example of a secretary who is hilariously the opposite of helpful and supportive? In retrospect, sassy, sexy Secretary Yeo was one of the highlights of that drama--and also of Spice up Our Love...
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HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
November 27, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Unlock the Boss is a great rec for this!! 😊
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2 Kurama
November 27, 2024 at 5:41 AM
There are Protect the Boss, Falling for Innocence (not sure if she was a secretary), What's Wrong with Secretary Kim with a love story.
There is the JDrama Rich Man, Poor Woman that was pretty nice.
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Midnight
November 27, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Protect the Boss! One of my old favorites!
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3 HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
November 27, 2024 at 5:56 AM
Lee Jun-Hyuk plays a sort-of secretary character in Are You Human Too? and totally stole all my attention in that drama 👀 No romance there, though. In Touch Your Heart, the FL works part-time as a secretary to prepare for a role (+romance). So I Married an Anti-Fan has one of my FAVORITE "secretary"-type characters (although he is the ML's manager, but it still counts, right?). It's a bit of a stretch, but the ML in Into the Ring plays the FL's secretary for a bit, and it's one of my favorite rom-coms in a drama. Perfect Marriage Revenge has a ~mysterious~ secretary who is also🔥.
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Kurama
November 27, 2024 at 6:20 AM
How could I forget about Into the Ring!
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Seon-ha
November 27, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Him, somewhat despondently, washing glasses at that sink...priceless.
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Midnight
November 27, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Lee Jun Hyuk in Are You Human Too! 🤩 I sometimes even think about finishing that show for him!
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4 Isa is always time travelling
November 27, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Memories of the Alhambra: Min Jin Woong as the faithful secretary of Hyun Bin.
Secretary Gwon (Yoo Sun) in Clean with passion for now.
Fated to love you. The FL is a secretary but only at the beginning.
And I have just started Jugglers. The FL is also a secretary.
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Midnight
November 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Min Jin Woong in MoA 💔💔
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Isa is always time travelling
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 AM
I loved his character and the bromance.
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5 🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 27, 2024 at 6:21 AM
My favorite Secretary drama has two names. 😅🙃😂
Reach of Sincerity also known as Touch Your Heart.
Yoo In-na sending notes to Lee Dong-wook written on pink heart-shaped post-its. What's not to love. 🩷
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6 miso
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Wherever there's a chaebol, there's usually also a secretary (helpfulness might be debatable!) Like the FL's assistant in Queen of Tears and the ML's secretary in The Beauty Inside. The latter was rather memorably snarky and funny.
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7 jerrykuvira
November 27, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Can we find opposite genders where they did not fall in love?
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Seon-ha
November 27, 2024 at 7:50 AM
This is a great question, Jerry! **Checks Drama Spreadsheet**
How about Divorce Attorney Shin? Lee Seo-jin is more Shin Sung-han's paralegal-without-training, but basically also secretary, right?
Also, remind me, didn't Han Sang-Jin (the older publishing boss) do the right thing and reject his young, flirtatious secretary in the end?? I could be mis-remembering that.
Lastly--I say this knowing it will be very controversial--what about My Mister?
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Seon-ha
November 27, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Sorry, Hang Sang-Jin was the publishing boss in Bora, Deborah!/True to Love.
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8 Midnight
November 27, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Confession has a rather unique situation of a lawyer and his very competent secretary, with Nam Ki Ae playing the secretary to Lee Junho. No romance. A bit better than romance. For me.
Memory, the only time I have liked Yoon So Hee's acting to date, playing a very competent secretary to Lee Sung Min, a lawyer succumbing to Alzheimer's. Again, no romance.
Agency, Han Joon Woo plays an exasperated competent secretary to Son Na Eun's flippant chaebol boss. Romance all the way, which I didn't like honestly. He should have ended up with Lee Bo Young's character, a self-made boss. He even had an inkling of a crush on her in the beginning.
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