O Iubire ca-n Afaceri (2022)

a good intro into kdramas...

What a cute drama! Although I was dissatisfied with some of the chemistry, I did enjoy this when I was watching. Strangely enough this felt like twelve 30 minute episodes rather than twelve hour long episodes. I can't even confidently say that it this would've improved if it followed the sixteen episode format. I suppose it just feels like this because of the way it didn't flesh anything out besides the mains ? It doesn't feel like a well rounded story but I understand that its supposed to be a short series so it makes sense.

The soundtrack itself is so good?? I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. There's so many good songs in the soundtrack that I found myself liking over two thirds of the song choices, which is pretty rare for me.

I really do think this is the perfect drama for someone that is just getting into kdramas. Its lighthearted, adorable editing, great soundtrack with a cute story. Overall, a simplified joy.

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TOP 1 DRAMA OF ALL TIME

i watched it bcuz of the viral video of Samantha and Rachel on Twitter and how people called Sejeong "Korean Emma Stone" i just had to watch it.. i have wacthed this drama 6 times in total; myself 2 times and other times with my freinds and siblings to rec them. ive made almost 10 people watch it haha... i didnt thought thier chemistry would be good enough as im an manhwa fan who had read the manhwa of this. And when the poster came out i was so hopeless about this drama and thought it would be plain boring... but damn they proved me wrong. it was so funny it gave me another reason to live, i loved the cast, the plots, the scenes, the osts, etc at the top!!! definitely the best kdrama of 2022

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Wholesome Kdrama

I’ve been a fan of Sejeong so I was so excited to hear about her new drama. I may be biased but this was so cute and heartwarming! The friendships between the two males leads and females leads were adorable. This definitely brings me back to when I first watched kdramas.

It has that cheesyness and cliches that all of them do but done in the right way. Sejeongs acting was phenomenal! She played such a bright character so well. Let’s not forgot about her iconic lines!

Of course like everyone else… I agree that the ending was rushed. Like what ever happened to the grandpa? Other than that I really enjoyed the drama :)

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Well, despite not really feeling like I fully embraced this K-drama, I really did enjoy it. I do not watch and enjoy many Korean romance dramas, which is the reason. Surprise, right? But still, I would say I enjoyed it on a minimal level. It definitely had an old-fashioned, romantic K-drama vibe, which I kind of love.
The fact that I dislike tricking someone I am dating and that it was glaringly obvious that his girlfriend and his employee are the same person are two major reasons why I may not have enjoyed this drama to the fullest. You cannot tell me that wigs and makeup, especially the kind that was applied to the lead female character, will completely alter someone's appearance. I suppose I really cannot say because it might change in some circumstances. But like I said earlier, it is actually a good K-drama.
Consequently, this is a must-watch for anyone who enjoys Korean romantic comedies.

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A Must Watch

A great RomCom.

Comedy: Well written/acted/presented comedy scenes.

Story: is good. A simple well known story. They did not try to do too much with the story. Kept it simple. Sometimes less is more. For this show it was more than enough.

Acting: Very good. Especially FL. Supporting Female Actress was a good find.
ML did a decent job to carry the show.
Seo Hye Won was funny as hell. I rewatched her scenes few times. Cute and Funny.

ScreenPlay: Very well done.

Love the show.

This is one of the show I thought it could have more episodes.

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Just let some things go and you will enjoy.

Business proposal is a fun, yet frustrating rom-com. The writing is good but at times it gets in the way of the bright, entertaining cast.
In the entire series, main actress Se-Jeong (Shin-Hari) stands out. There were times in the story when her talents were underutilized at crucial moments. As a whole, the story was entertaining and fun, but halfway through it became repetitive and redundant. There was a feeling that they were trying to stretch 130% beyond the main theme. As the series went on, this improved towards the last three or four episodes. Yeong-Seo, the best friend of the main character Shin Hari, seemed to have more chemistry with her boyfriend than she did. Now I see why they shared the best couple award. Business Proposal provides some fun laugh out loud moments. So, I do recommend it. You just may have to try and not take it too seriously...

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Show de bizarrices no início com final comunzão, descompassado demais

Esse é um dorama que eu queria gostar, porque tem diversas partes que eu ri muito, acertam bastante na comédia.
Mas o jeito como essa série começa é de um exagero intragável, parece que foi feito por pessoas que acabaram de descobrir como mexer nos efeitos especiais de um programa de edição, misturaram tudo quanto é situação desconfortável e artificial, juntaram a um milhão de cores, animações e efeitos escalafobéticos e o resultado é um show de bizarrices de mau gosto.
Ao menos nos primeiros episódios, porque depois, também de forma bizarra, a série abaixa o tom e vira um drama comum, com um bom desenvolvimento, bons personagens, cenas comuns, mas totalmente fora de tom do início cheio de superlativos.
Parece até que "Pretendente Surpresa"começa com um time de produção e direção e termina com outra de tão descompassado que o fim é do início.
Se quiser rir um pouco, acho uma boa pedida, mas não espere muito mais do que isso e tenha um pouco de estômago para o início e as situações cringe.

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Every modern rom-com cliche ... all in a comic, graphic novel type package

The plot covers two romances:

Plot A: the perfect billionaire grandson who falls for a pretty, silly and loveable girl from a humble background
Plot B: the rebellious billionaire daughter who falls for a serious, earnest, and secretly hot man with a bit of a past

The plots carries along with hijinks, and secrets, and slapstick humor. Never too stressful, serious, or well, unexpected.

Comparisons to Secretary Kim are inevitable. But in Secretary Kim, the power balance is much more subversive.

The acting is competent all around, but the chemistry between the two main leads was a bit lacking. Common for the genre, but they both were like two teenagers with a crush. The secondary romance was much more naturalistic and lived in, and they had good banter and physical chemistry. I enjoyed that romance a lot more.

Music didn't really register, no need to really rewatch. I grade on other criteria:

Complex Themes: 5
Follow your heart and be earnest and everything will work out. Lies are always found out.

Character Growth: 4
Really, none.

Interactions between Women: 6
The main female lead genuinely engages with her female coworkers about developing products and succeeding at their goals. While interactions with her mother and best friend are often centered around men, they are not always, and the main lead has plenty of screentime with other women.

Production values: 7.5
At this point, I expect more. While with a larger budget than dramas of 10 years ago, the clothing and style was a bit lackluster, as were the sets. There was little to no creativity attempted with the filming.

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Is it so hard to do it right?

There are so many K-Drama Adaptations of different manhwa's. I was so looking forward to watching this drama, I was upset when they extended the date for the release, and happy when I heard about this drama.
But when I watched this adaptation, I realized, they aren't faithful to the original story AT ALL!
It was so irritating to watch them remove all those little details which made the story interesting. They just made it typical and cliche. The character's personalities changed a lot, which ruined the story quality imo. the grandfather acting like your typical stuck-up rich parent who gives cash for the FL to break up with the ML, and Taemu acting super narcassictic and cocky with his trauma backstory. You might say, "thats the way they show character growth". They just copy and pasted WWWSK and just changed the name, they didn't keep the characters original and unique. So many characters were changed for comical relief, which is really upsetting.
I watched 6 episodes while they were releasing, then I dropped it. Then I lied to myselfa year later that the drama doesn't associate with the manhwa at all, and that made me enjoy the series. I really liked those cute moments between the leads, and despite them changing 97% of the story which I HATED , I give this series a high score of 9.0.
If you told me to write a review for this series last year (2022) I would write:
"Before the adaptation was released, I read the Manhwa in 2020 when the chapters were only released. The manhwa was infinity times better than the drama. The casting was super off, and they changed everything. I never finished watching the drama, because I was too irritated to continue watching something that was made incorrectly and they just made a basic boring cringe annoying story that has scenes from every business romcom drama."
BUT!! This time I say that this is a good drama, because they made everything enjoyable for viewers, everything is so aesthetic and cute, and the main leads are beautiful and played their role perfectly, with perfect chemistry. ( Although main leads aren't too accurate to the manhwa) IF you decide to watch this, and you read the og manhwa before this, then prepare to watch something with the same name but different storyline. I totally reccomend this drama if you didn't read the original story and want to watch something light hearted.

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Is Business Proposal an outstandingly written Korean drama or just so so run-of-the-mill?

Business Proposal is a very well written Korean drama. If you did not get that, each person has his own taste, but I think that you missed something. Many seem to have missed the intricate nuances from this great concept drama. Business Proposal is a real-time parody of the melodrama being viewed by the grandfather on the television at the same time the Korean drama we are viewing is running concurrently. As the grandfather watches the over-the-top melodrama on Television, the real-time action of the drama Business Proposal becomes more over-the-top, while parodying that action seen on TV. I have not seen this concept in a Korean drama. Do you understand how hard it is to write two dramas in one and intertwine them seamlessly into one cohesive drama (like with Extraordinary You)? This was not a run-of-the-mill drama. If you did not catch the parody of the TV drama being acted out real-time in the main drama that you were watching, you might want to watch this drama again with a different lens.

The girl in the TV melodrama the grandfather is watching does not get the approval of the rich TV parents, because she is the daughter of the owner of a fried chicken shack. Not only is the lead female of Business Proposal the daughter of a fried chicken shack owner, the lead female even takes the name of the lead character (Shin Geum-hui) as a pseudonym from the TV drama the grandfather is watching. Also the rich son wants to marry for love and wants to be free from parental control and choose the person he loves. The grandfather exclaims, “It is hard to get married these days”.

Secondly, Business Proposal has several reverse Korean drama tropes or tropes formally acted upon by the male lead which in this drama is acted upon by the female lead.

The female lead holds the umbrella over the male lead first. The female lead kisses the male lead first, but calls it an accident. This is when the male lead asked if his mouth was a light pole that she could just run into by accident? The female lead was the one escaping abroad in the break-up instead of the male lead trying to escape the relationship through break up and moving abroad. The female lead pinned the male lead to the wall, instead of the reverse, all adding inventiveness to the story. I thoroughly enjoyed the Korean drama Business Proposal and it was in my top five for the year 2022 for its acting, editing, all star cast, and comedy relief. Some may want to give Business Proposal a second look.

Whenever you see the TV melodrama the grandfather is viewing, please look for that action to be played out in real-time action in the main drama in scenes to come. If a Korean drama speed is going too fast to read subtitles and view the action, there is no shame in stopping the action and reading the subtitles then rewinding the drama to view the action again. Sometimes, the action does go to fast and I don’t have a problem using the pause button.

Whenever I want to convince a nonbeliever that Korean dramas are the way to go, I use the Korean drama Business Proposal. Viewing this drama always makes a new Korean drama convert. Because of the top notch hilarity in the drama, you may want to clear space around you for rolling all over the floor before viewing, however.

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Gostei mas não amei

Cliché antigo que todos conhecemos, o famoso CEO e a menina pobre. Apesar de ter gostado bastante desse dorama e não ter achado muitos defeitos, não posso dizer que amei completamente. A história é uma clássica onde uma menina simples por algum motivo acaba presa em uma confusão com um CEO rico e herdeiro de uma família muito importante, eles começam com um relacionamento falso e acabam se apaixonando mas não tem a aprovação da família, resumidamente e sem muitos detalhes essa é a história do casal principal. O casal secundário não foge muito do cliché também, tirando o fato do relacionamento falso e invertendo os papéis, já que nesse caso a mulher é a rica e o homem o simples. É claro que a história vai além disso com toda a confusão da falsa identidade da Hari, mas não passa disso, e eu acho que é por esse fato que não dou nota 9 ou 10, a história é um pouco rasa e fica presa em círculos durante todo o dorama, não tem mais nenhuma história fora do que é apresentado nos primeiros episódios para segurar mais a atenção, mas acredito que isso não fez tanta falta assim no geral, os atores são incríveis e todos os personagens tem cenas bem engraçadas, e esse é o maior ponto forte do dorama, a comédia muito bem feita, e a química dos casais também é de se elogiar. O final deixou muito a desejar, e na minha opinião foi crucial para a minha nota abaixar, achei que foi tudo meio corrido e deram um final bem simples, eu esperava no mínimo um casamento, já que no dorama esse era o assunto principal, e achei todo o plot da suposta traição e a viagem no exterior bem desnecessário. Ao todo é um dorama bom, mas não diria ótimo por não se destacar em nenhum aspecto, é apenas um cliché bem feito.

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