Please be advised that this review contains significant spoilers about the plot and characters of ‘Love Scout.’ If you have not yet watched the drama, we recommend viewing it first to avoid any spoilers.

A driven CEO of a headhunting agency has guided her small company to success. But her workaholic personality has a price.  She is chaotically disorganized, suffers chronic insomnia, and is often difficult to get along with on a personal level.  Which is why every secretary she has ever hired has quit.  But when her office manager and only real friend hires an efficient, well-tempered single dad as her newest secretary, everyone hopes for the best.  And although the CEO bristles in the beginning, he is determined to win her over with his thoughtful skills of office and personal management.

3. Mi Ae:

Mi Ae was a fun character.  First, you have to respect her as the only person who was willing to approach the prickly Ji Yun and offer her friendship.  I loved their interactions.  But I also loved her relationship with her husband, Kang Seok.  They didn’t have a lot of screen time together, but the few scenes they did have reflected a mature, honest relationship and the open communication about having a baby was well handled. 

‘Love Scout’ ends our rivalry story and leaves our couples on the road to happiness.  First Hye Jin, with the help of Chairman Woo, takes Peoplz away from Ji Yun.  But her joy is short lived, when first she shows up to a complete deck of resignation letters from all Ji Yun’s employees.  And then the police show up to arrest her for investment fraud.  And with the bad news out of the way, we see Ji Yun taking some much needed R&R, to sleep in and go on lots of dates with Eun Ho and Byeol.

And when she is ready, Ji Yun starts a new chapter by opening a new business, working out of her apartment.  And she has a whole crew of unemployed workers knocking on her door!  She rehires everyone except Eun Ho, who becomes her first client, as she sends him off to a job more fitting of his skills and experience.  And they aren’t the only ones dating,  Jeong Hun and Su Hyeon finally make their relationship official as well.  And Jeong Hun is able to finally join his father’s company on his own terms as they take baby steps toward some kind of reconciliation.

One year later, we see Ji Yun’s new company has moved into an office with an open design that has her side by side with her employees.  Byeol is a happy elementary school student and although Ji Yun and Eun are still not married, Ji Yun has become an integral part of both Eun Ho and Byeol’s life. Official or not, they have become a family.  

‘Love Scout’ is a slow-burn office romance drama.  Ths drama does a nice job of flipping the gender stereotypes by showing the struggle between work and raising a child from the side of a single father, while the woman is the workaholic CEO.  The mature romance steers away from unnecessary relationship drama and shallow miscommunication to give us a realistic love story with just enough real life bumps to keep the plot going.  The drama has a warm, comforting quality that feels like a pleasant cup of tea.

Let me repeat, this is a slow-burn.  The pacing feels inconsistent, with some definite drag in parts.  The plot is a bit predictable and the villains are one-dimensional and not well developed.  For an office romance, the business scenes feel strangely watered down and irrelevant.  These things may frustrate certain audiences, but I really did enjoy this drama and it’s efforts to teach work/life balance and healing.  I give ‘Love Scout’ an 8 out of 10.

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