In the crowded Seoul International Airport, a striking young man walks with a perfect posture,
sporting a black business suit with well-made hair.
A girl, walking with a coffee in one hand, and talking on her phone with another,
bumps into the man and spills her coffee. At first, she rudely calls out to him, but upon
seeing his handsome face, she goes quiet. He walks away from her, without paying attention to her.
Seeing his demeanor, the girl gets offended, but behind her, someone assures her that she
wasn’t the one he responded rudely to. Turning back, she sees another handsome man with a
gentle smile and glasses. Flustered, she bows her head, the basic Korean greeting of respect.
The cold one out of the two men stares at an advertisement of dumplings, getting mad at the
fact that the dumplings cannot even be seen in the ad, which consists of the face of a celebrity. He
asks the man in glasses, seemingly his secretary, to call the agency in charge of this ad.
From the vivid view of the TV advertisement, the scene changes to a girl,
wearing a ‘GoFood’ white coat, making food. She gets a call from someone named Ms Yeo.
Shin Ha-Ri, the girl notifies them that she is on her way.
She gets her luscious brown hair out of her ponytail and rushes to meet the
person who seems to be her boss. The people in the lobby stray away from
her because of the smell of mackerel on her. Her higher ups spray her with perfume to mask the
smell. They are standing outside the ceremony for the inauguration of President Kang Tae-Moo.
The girl who smells is a researcher at the same company, or so it seems. The group of 4
people walk inside and sit near the back. 2 of them gossip about the new CEO that is to
join them, the girl claiming that she has heard he’s really hot!
The researcher who smells of fish jokes about the ugly chairman sitting in the front,
stating that the grandson cannot be attractive if the grandfather isn't.
The inauguration begins and the same person from the airport, the one who was wearing glasses
walks on stage. He introduces himself as Chief Secretary Cha Sung-Hoon, who is here on behalf
of President Kang. He is here to deliver President Kang’s inauguration address in place of him.
The crowd murmurs among themselves, the oddly rude action of the new CEO
seems to have everyone baffled. Cha Sung-Hoon reads aloud the message
written by President Kang, which includes him telling the important executives to
only meet him during business meetings and not for ceremonial functions.
The scene changes to a golf course, where an old man seems to be agitated during his play. The
people around him console him. It looks like he expected himself to be the next CEO, not President
Kang. The man, Mr Park receives a gift from one of the people surrounding him and they all laugh.
From the back, a man aims his golf ball and throws it right in the air,
the ball lands perfectly in its goal. Seeing this, the group of people scream.
There, walking to them in all his glory is the new President Kang, known as Kang Tae-Moo.
Kang Tae-Moo berates the older Mr Park for various corrupt activities that he
has been taking place in. In a threatening tone, he tells the man that he will be
looking at company matters more closely. Tae-Moo walks away, running a hand through his
perfectly made hair as the sprinklers turn on behind him, soaking the group of people.
Inside the GoFood building, the lady in red announces that they will be going to
Auntie’s Street Food for Ms Shin’s birthday. The girl who was cooking fish, known as Ms
Shin bashfully exclaims that they didn’t have to do anything for her birthday, but one of the
coworkers says the team should stick together. Ms Shin gets a text from someone, asking to meet
her later. MS Shin beckons Ms Yeo to come closer and asks if she can skip tonights team dinner.
Ms Yeo asks if its because of a guy, to which Ms Shin gets surprised, asking how she knew.
Ms Yeo cheekily says that Shin Ha-Ri’s soulless eyes are suddenly sparkling.
Ms Shin apologizes to her colleagues and promises to pay for the next dinner and leaves.
On the train to the guy she is meeting, Ha-Ri smiles shyly. There she gets a
call from her friend who apologizes for not being able to celebrate her birthday
and asks what she has planned. Ha-Ri shyly tells her friend that Min-Woo wants
to see her, so she is going to him. She has on a wide smile and seems very excited about it.
The two girls remember last year when it was Ha-Ri’s birthday and Min-Woo might have bought
her a really expensive necklace. But Ha-Ri declines the idea. However her friend thinks
that Min-Woo might want to change from being friends to being a boyfriend.
The scene changes to President Kang who enters the company upon being received by his secretary
and asks about the chairman’s reaction to him not being at his own ceremony.
Right at that moment, his father, the chairman, exits from the elevator and calls Kang a crazy
Bastard. His grandfather hits him while they are walking down the hallway, claiming that his
grandson thinks hes smarter than everyone. To which Kang replies that none of his projects
have ever failed. The chairman, looking pleased proposed another project to his grandson,
in hopes that he will do it perfectly. Kang surprisingly seems excited about the new
project and asks what it is, after a humorous pause, the chairman exclaims “marriage!”
That is something Kang refuses immediately. Kang states that he has no time to meet ladies nor
is he seeing anyone, the chairman, having a cheeky expression tells him that he has set several
blind dates for his grandson, with at least 20 elite, single ladies in the business world.
The old man’s alarm rings, and funnily enough, its a reminder telling him its time for his daily
drama. The old man sits in the office and watches TV, making Kang Tae-Moo sigh exasperated.
Shin Ha-Ri walks to her friend, Min-Woo and when she enters the restaurant
he works at, its really dark. There, in the light of the kitchen,
Min-Woo walks to her with a cake in his hands while all Ha-Ri can think of are her fiends words,
“friendship train to the boyfriend express.” Ha-Ri runs to her friends with imaginary
fireworks in her head, but as she gets closer she notices that the cake has
other people’s names written on it. She tries to stop herself from running,
but is unable to and bumps into the cake, ruining it. From the back, the guest couple
for whom the cake was for get frustrated. Ha-Ri walks to the bus stop, wearing a
disappointed look on her face. The friend she assumed would be confessing his love to her,
instead gave her tickets to her favorite singer’s concert.
Whats worse is that he emphasized the fact that they were expensive,
so she should go with a guy she is interested in, instead of her friend, Young-Seo.
Back at the company, Tae-Moo eats instant food as his grandfather lectures him again about finding a
wife. Finally have had enough, he gets frustrated and raises his voice at his grandfather.
Not phased in the slightest, the grandfather asks if Tae-Moo and his secretary,
Sung-Hoon are dating and only using work as an excuse to be together.
The secretary smoothly clarifies that he’s not interested in men, but even if he was,
the president is not his type, to which Kang looks at him and asks whats so wrong about him.
The grandfather’s alarm rings again, this time for his blood pressure medication,
something that Kang states runs in the family. After getting more frustrated by his grandson’s
straight-forwardness, the chairman holds his head in his hands and leaves.
Meanwhile, Ha-Ri helps out in her family’s restaurant, scolding her mother for not coating
the chicken well enough. She asks why Ha-Ri is in a bad mood, to which her father replies
that it is obvious she is in a bad mood, because she had to go to work even on her birthday.
Again, the scene changes back to the chairman, who seems to be in a hospital with Kang and the
secretary present in the room as well. When the doctor notifies them that the old
man is healthy, he pokes the doctor and makes up a bunch of issues that he had. Basically,
he wants to lie to his grandson about his own health for his own reasons. Tae-Moo
leaves the room after saying he has to go. At her family restaurant, Ha-Ri complains about
her parents giving the guests a discount, and even then they fill up free snacks in their bowls.
While her mother scolds Ha-Ri, asking if she has a boyfriend who can throw her a birthday party,
there is a ruckus outside. The restaurant in front of them is fighting with
Ha-Ri’s brother about leaving their restaurant trash in front of his place. The hot headed
mother loudly exclaims that the trash is full of fish bones, and they only sell chicken.
There is a little shoving back and forth with the trash and Ha-Ri accidentally
pushes a little too hard, making the man fall to the floor, while she stares wide eyed.
Back at the Shin household, they have a family meeting where they talk about the family’s anger
issues, minus Ha-Ri’s father. The mother scolds Ha-Ri,
saying that it was enough for her son Ha-Min to fight, but she did not have to join in.
Ha-Ri’s mother hits her and she angrily gets up and goes to her room. Inside the room she
remembers what Min-Woo said, while handing her concert tickets and sighs loudly.
She falls into bed, covering herself with a warm looking blanket for the night.
The next morning, Kang has breakfast with his grandfather. Before he can get a word in,
his grandfather cuts him off, saying that he got a call from Mr Park.
Tae-Moo tells him that he plans to fire Mr Park, against his grandfather’s wishes.
The chairman tries to stop it, but Kang is persistent. Finally agreeing, the old man
asks for something in return, for Tae-Moo to go on blind dates, something he agrees to.
Inside GoFood, the people get the news that Mr Kang is fired,
this sets in stone how strict the new boss is. Over lunch, Young-Seo, Ha-Ri’s friend hears
about the blunder Ha-Ri made last night and laughs about it incredulously.
Young-Seo gets a call from her father, he tells her about the blind date she has to attend,
something she is angry about. The girls walk to the date,
as Young-Seo tells her friend about her plans to marry the love of her life, instead
of being stuck in an arranged marriage. She asks Ha-Ri to go on the blind date instead
of her, and the girls reminisce about how Ha-Ri once pretended to be possessed, when she went on
a blind date in place of Young-Seo. After a lot of cute convincing,
Young-Seo offers to pay Ha-Ri, the offer which the long haired girl cannot refuse.
Kang’s secretary notifies him of the blind date he will be going to; a coffee shop at Imperial Hotel
with Jin Young-Seo from the Marine Group. Kang says hes busy, but his grandfather had
already seen that reply coming, and has asked Secretary Cha to cancel all
of Kang’s appointments beforehand. The secretary advises Kang to finally
marry so they do not have to face such discrepancies in their work schedule,
and hearing this, Kang Tae-Moo gets an idea. Young-Seo bring Ha-Ri to a clothing store to pick
out clothes for the blind date. After trying on several dresses,
Ha-Ri gets her makeup done by her friend and arrives at the coffee shop, looking dazzling.
Kang Tae-Moo arrives, and Ha-Ri cant believe she has to mess things up with such a handsome fellow.
But nevertheless, she starts her acting, pretending to be rude.
Until she sees his business card, thats when she realizes that she has met up
with the CEO of the company she works at. She excuses herself to the bathroom and calls
Young-Seo. Upon seeing her reflection in the mirror, she gets an idea of
running away. However she is unable to. Her hands shake as she goes on to pretend to
be a rude, rich woman. With an obnoxious voice, she says its getting too hot,
and takes her coat off, thinking to herself that no man likes a woman who shows too much skin.
Next, she pretends to be obsessed with the luxurious branded products she has,
thinking that men are turned off by women who are crazy about luxury goods.
But as she looks towards Kang, he is busy on his phone and didn’t notice her little act.
On to her final act, she loudly tells him that she is sad that he seems so uninterested in her,
and says that it makes Samantha and Rachel very sad, her ‘babies’ that she spent a lot
on afterwards laughing loudly. Kang Tae-Moo chokes a little on
his coffee and hides his smile, and then says that he likes how honest she is.
She sees that her acts aren't working and gets ready to pull out the big guns.
She flirtatiously makes a roaring gesture at him and tells him that if he likes her,
they should get a room. He stares surprisingly at her and then
to her feet, which are shaking. He smirks. Contrary to her plan to scare him off,
he actually does book a room, walking ahead of her as he smirks.
While following him up, she accidentally bumps into a woman who grabs Ha-Ri by the hair,
introducing herself as Min-Sik’s girlfriend. The woman who grabbed Ha-Ri claims that she was
in a room with Min-Sik an hour ago and now shes going with another man.
Even after seeing the proof on the woman’s picture, Ha-Ri denies the claim, but the
woman comes forward to attack her again. Kang stops her, telling her to keep her boyfriend
in check because it takes 2 to cheat. He then leaves with Ha-Ri and calls his
secretary. Ha-Ri realizes that it might be a good thing in fending off the blind date,
so she continues the act. The woman follows Ha-Ri and runs after her.
Ha-Ri bids Kang goodbye and runs, almost getting trampled over by Secretary Cha.
On the way back, Kang Tae-Moo gets a call from his grandfather asking how the date went,
and much to everyones surprise, he states that he is going to marry the woman he met tonight!
Ha-Ri tells Young-Seo of what happened tonight, and they have dinner happily.
After the dinner, the girls sing karaoke together when Young-Seo gets a call from her father.
She comes home with a numb look on her face and tells Ha-Ri that President
Kang Tae-Moo wants to marry her! Ha-Ri, surprised at the nears can
only muster up the words “huh…” Back at the office, secretary Cha
lectures Tae-Moo over what kind of woman he should marry, but he hears none of it,
saying that he likes the woman he met. Back at Ha-Ri’s house, her mother asks her
about the new CEO excitingly, but Ha-Ri throws a fit and goes to her room.
She goes to her room and gets a call from her friend, who is out hiding in a hotel room,
because after Kang agreed to a marriage with her, the families have been trying to get together.
Ha-Ri advises her to tell everyone the truth of the blind date,
that would stop the talks of marriage as well. She worries if she will run into President Kang,
but Young-Seo assures that a regular employee will never run into the chairman.
The next day while running to work to get to her room before her coworker does,
Ha-Ri runs into Kang, the chairman and the secretary, quickly turning her head
back before he sees and recognizes her. She hides her face with her hair and stands
in front of the men, quickly getting out on the 10th floor, but dropping her ID card
in the elevator. Kang Tae-Moo reads her name off of it and calls out to her.
She walks backwards and quickly takes her ID without looking back and runs away,
leaving an amused chairman and a confused Kang, who repeats her name after she has gone.
Inside his room, he searches her up and realizes that she was the employee that
came up with a successful business proposal. But the grandfather wants to talk about Kang’s
marriage and pushes the topic of a blind date. Tae-Moo assures his grandfather that he wants
him to have grandchildren, and then boasts about himself and how nobody will ever reject him.
Later, the old man talks to Secretary Cha about how Tae-Moo lost his parents at an early age,
and didn’t have many people to are for him, as he was growing up. Thats why he wants his
grandson to have a family of his own. He says the same for Secretary Cha,
telling him to get a girlfriend soon. Some time later, Ha-Ri calls Young-Seo and
asks her to clarify to the Kang family soon so she can get out of this mess.
After getting off the phone, Young-Seo bumps into a little kid at the department store,
who accidentally scribbles over her expensive suit. She does not get angry,
instead, she teaches the kid not to run around with a marker in a nice way.