#2023 Round Up Day 3 : Side Character Who Stole the Show…
Ma-pi : Unlock My Boss.
Based on intro, Ma-pi is the tough guy you’d not want to mess around with. First thing you should know about him : Never owe Ma-pi money cause Ma-pi will ensure he collects his money to the last penny. Infact, that’s the introduction I remember of him. He fought off the minions attacking our female lead so he can ask how far she is trying in sourcing out the money she’s owing him. For as long as she owes him, she’s an asset and nothing better happens to his asset.
As Unlock My Boss unfolded, there was so much to love and learn about this guy. One thing, he’s loyal. As loyal as you can define. And for those he regards as family, he goes to any length for them(this sentence is bring his painful to watch demise back to memory🤧🤧🤧). I didn’t bother watching episode 11 &12 after he died. I just couldn’t. But I did follow through with the recaps.
Back to the task at hand, as I said earlier there was so much to love about him. There is a way kdramas tend to show us this tough exterior fluffy interior that kinda tones down the tough exterior and make us forget he’s a tough guy at heart as well, like they are trying to tame the tough person in a character. Ma-pi was written differently in this regard. Whilst giving us unending tastes of his tough exterior, we get to meet a tough man who has a child’s palate and can’t eat spicy food 🤭🤣(I was shocked as you are at the oxymoron); whilst keeping his tough exterior, we get to meet a man who accumulates money but has never wondered about what he’s going to do with it(this part especially left me thinking out loud); whilst never losing his tough exterior, we meet a man who decided to try to smile for a cute little girl and believe me, it was very funny to see.
All these foils were gently peeled off Ma-pi but it didn’t change the fact that he is and remains a tough man. It didn’t tone down his toughness, neither did it miraculously vanish his tough exterior. Instead, this foils help to provide a mirror to the emotional part of him that he, and I as an audience, didn’t know he could emote.
Plus, do you think you can’t fall for Kim Sung-oh’s delectable iris.
Honorable Mention…
Secretary Kim who rocks spectacles the best in this second half😎:Perfect Marriage Revenge
Kim Sung-oh is really an awesome choice. Also so very well expressed. 👏
While we have been watching him since his Secret Garden days when he was Secretary Kim, Ma-pi was indeed special.
Your honorable mention of Perfect Marriage Revenge’sSecretary Kim is not only coincidental but also very apt. He was also in Unlock My Boss. This definitely seems like Byun Jun Seo’s breakthrough performance.
jerrykuvira
December 2, 2023 at 10:40 PM
#2023 Round Up Day 3 : Side Character Who Stole the Show…
Ma-pi : Unlock My Boss.
Based on intro, Ma-pi is the tough guy you’d not want to mess around with. First thing you should know about him : Never owe Ma-pi money cause Ma-pi will ensure he collects his money to the last penny. Infact, that’s the introduction I remember of him. He fought off the minions attacking our female lead so he can ask how far she is trying in sourcing out the money she’s owing him. For as long as she owes him, she’s an asset and nothing better happens to his asset.
As Unlock My Boss unfolded, there was so much to love and learn about this guy. One thing, he’s loyal. As loyal as you can define. And for those he regards as family, he goes to any length for them(this sentence is bring his painful to watch demise back to memory🤧🤧🤧). I didn’t bother watching episode 11 &12 after he died. I just couldn’t. But I did follow through with the recaps.
Back to the task at hand, as I said earlier there was so much to love about him. There is a way kdramas tend to show us this tough exterior fluffy interior that kinda tones down the tough exterior and make us forget he’s a tough guy at heart as well, like they are trying to tame the tough person in a character. Ma-pi was written differently in this regard. Whilst giving us unending tastes of his tough exterior, we get to meet a tough man who has a child’s palate and can’t eat spicy food 🤭🤣(I was shocked as you are at the oxymoron); whilst keeping his tough exterior, we get to meet a man who accumulates money but has never wondered about what he’s going to do with it(this part especially left me thinking out loud); whilst never losing his tough exterior, we meet a man who decided to try to smile for a cute little girl and believe me, it was very funny to see.
All these foils were gently peeled off Ma-pi but it didn’t change the fact that he is and remains a tough man. It didn’t tone down his toughness, neither did it miraculously vanish his tough exterior. Instead, this foils help to provide a mirror to the emotional part of him that he, and I as an audience, didn’t know he could emote.
Plus, do you think you can’t fall for Kim Sung-oh’s delectable iris.
Honorable Mention…
Secretary Kim who rocks spectacles the best in this second half😎:Perfect Marriage Revenge
To the pictures…enjoy🙃
Midnight
December 2, 2023 at 10:56 PM
Awww this was sweet.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
December 2, 2023 at 11:20 PM
Kim Sung-oh is really an awesome choice. Also so very well expressed. 👏
While we have been watching him since his Secret Garden days when he was Secretary Kim, Ma-pi was indeed special.
Your honorable mention of Perfect Marriage Revenge’s Secretary Kim is not only coincidental but also very apt. He was also in Unlock My Boss. This definitely seems like Byun Jun Seo’s breakthrough performance.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
December 3, 2023 at 4:20 AM
I love both your picks!!!!