love in contract (2022) : appreciation post | choi sang eun's outfits

Park Min Young as Choi Sang Eun

LOVE IN CONTRACT (2022) dir. Nam Sung Woo

Do you like chic, sexy, cute or innocent?

This couple nailing all the above

Miss Sang Eun, thanks to you I have people visiting in the hospital

The opposites attract trope isn’t necessarily my favorite, but Sang Eun and Ji Ho just makes it so cute. I do think every introvert deserves an extrovert that will take them to places. I’m glad Ji Ho found his. 

Just live in the moment

I love Jiho, he might be awkward and might not know how to interact or talk to people, but he’s so sweet in his own way and so kind and reliable and respectful. He has a lot of good things going for him that would make him a dream husband and it’s pretty obvious that Sangeun is attached and attracted to him. I have no idea how they’re going to include a love triangle in this because so far Haejin has struck me as an irritating and entitled brat, and it really pissed me off how he just shoved her into that situation without her consent. While Jiho did something similar in the concert (when he called her his wife), he did it when he was flustered and put on the spot, so it looks like he did the first thing he could think of. And Sangeun happily played along!

I mean I absolutely love seeing Go Kyung Pyo in this role and he does awkward-slash-endearing-slash-jealous so very well but I don’t think I’d want the already interesting dynamic and chemistry between Jiho and Sangeun messed up by a second lead who inspires no second lead syndrome at all. Right now I just want to see Jiho and Sangeun happy, and I think they’re really good together. No need for unnecessary love triangle drama when the other guy feels like a plot device to insert comedy and conflict.

I was Gwang Nam. You were Gwang Nam. We were all Gwang Nam at THAT moment ✨

ps: no constructive criticism, thanks.

What's Wrong With Secretary Kim (2018) x Love In Contract (2022)

I think the fact that Madame Yoo is Saung Eun's birth mother makes ieverything worse. She raised her own daughter as if she were a product to be sold to a company, without affection, just for profit. She acted as if Saung Eun was a thing in every episode.

Her redemption seems too forced and hasty. Madame Yoo's motivations were all selfish and cruel, I don't want everything she did to her own daughter to be forgotten so easily.

one thing about park min young is... if she's the lead then her character will WORK

Sundays are used just for me.

Time is going so fast today

Do you remember the first Monday you came to my house? That day, I wanted to cancel our contract. When I got home after signing the contract, I was worried I was being too hasty and unreasonable. I waited while having those thoughts. But you came and said you were really hungry. You wanted to have dinner together because you didn't eat anything. You asked what should we eat. You asked me so brightly and I was flabbergasted. The food we had together that day was scrumptious. I thought for sure it would be uncomfortable and awkward. But strangely I felt very comfortable. So, I couldn't take back our contract.

Love in Contract

i really love the slow burn romance of the main couple but it’s disappointing that the creators are STILL trying to push the love triangle angle AND the ex returning plot device. we already have haejin (who i’m starting to feel sorry for, seeing how his affection os definitely one sided and stems from his own trauma and envy), now we have the ex-wife in the picture, too. i get that these two (plus madame yoo) are tied to the main leads’ past and traumas that made their characters what they are now, but it feels a little heavy-handed and disruptive to the development of their relationship in a very plot device-y and inorganic way.

tbh haejin and sangeun could very easily be good friends who can relate to each other, but sangeun ends up being an object of affection for haejin to latch onto, and she’s weirdly passive about it (vs how she is with jiho). the ex-wife didn’t need to literally come back, their story could have been used to bring the leads closer through an honest conversation about their pasts, but they really literally brought her back into the picture, red suit and nails and all.

the two leads already have enough on their plate to work with, so having the sources of their trauma (or at least, in haejin’s case, him being related to it) actually pop up in their lives to add conflict to their already very very slow burn relationship is really frustrating. pity because minyoung and kyungpyo have the acting chops to explore their characters’ relationship without all that and i think they’re already doing exactly this, which is probably why the added stuff seems to be annoying viewers. I still really like the show but I think with episode 8 they’re going too far in stretching these elements of the plot when halfway through the show it’s already too late to insert credibility to the love triangle, let alone add another to make it a square.

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