Office hierarchies rarely survive a resignation letter as quietly as this one. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim turns a routine two-week notice into a workplace comedy about who actually keeps a company running.
What is What's Wrong with Secretary Kim about?
Lee Young-joon has spent years as the polished, exacting vice-president of his family's firm, the kind of executive who assumes the competence around him is simply how the world works. That assumption gets tested the moment his longtime secretary, Kim Mi-so, tells him she is leaving. She has managed his schedule, his temper and his blind spots for years, and her decision to walk away forces him to notice, seemingly for the first time, how much of his composure depended on her. The 2018 South Korean series follows the fallout of that single decision: an office thrown into disarray, a boss recalculating what he actually values, and a comedy that keeps circling back to the gap between rank and indispensability.
About the cast
Park Seo-jun and Park Min-young lead the ensemble, joined by Lee Tae-hwan, Pyo Ye-jin, Kim Hye-ok, Kim Byeong-ok, Kang Ki-young and Kang Hong-suk rounding out the company's staff and family circle. Together the cast carries the show's mix of boardroom farce and quieter domestic scenes, building the comedy on precise, reactive timing rather than broad slapstick.
Context & significance
The series belongs to South Korea's workplace comedy-romance genre, pairing a rigid corporate hierarchy with the lower-stakes comedy of two people who already know each other too well to still be strangers. That structure is common ground for the genre and part of why the show travels well outside Korea, since office politics translate even when the language doesn't. K-Time carries the series with Persian subtitles, keeping the original Korean performances intact for viewers following along in Farsi.
Watching What's Wrong with Secretary Kim on Ktime
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