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7/10
Entertaining and laugh out loud
phd_travel27 January 2024
The characters are endearing and the humor Is constant. The story comes together in a nice way and the story makes enough sense. Only thing is the birth secret is dragged out too long. But that is the crux of the story. If this had been 16 episodes instead of 20 it would have been tighter without some silly delay tactics and unnecessary painful jokes could have been left out.

Ji Hyun Woo is funny and mischievous. The role suits him perfectly and he even gets to show off his guitar skills. Lee Bo Young plays it serious but her stingy behavior is laugh out loud funny. The versatile Lee Si Young is the comic relief as a ditzy spoiled woman with an eating disorder. She does a great job. Not easy considering the story and director made her go over the top too often. Nam Koong Min is good at acting slimy. Can see why he was such a great villain in later series. The older generation are familiar to k drama fans and are all good.

Worth a watch for the laughs.
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8/10
Fun Romantic Drama
PalmBeachG18 December 2022
This is called "Becoming a Billionaire" on Viki TV Service. Enjoyed this older drama: the main male lead was adorable and played the role perfectly of a take charge young man born out of wedlock who is in search of his father that he believes is a rich head of a company since he was given a family crest type of necklace from his mother. There is always a villain rival in these types of romance dramas and I usually end up hating them, but for some reason I actually ended up liking the villain who was played by Namgoong Min - you just had to have a little empathy for him who was trying so hard to save his father's company because they were bullied all their lives by higher up companies. All in all a good drama and 20 episodes is about the right length. If I have one criticism it would be that they kept introducing new older male characters that could be the father after making you suspect the main 3 best friends. It just seems that some of the new characters introduced came a little late.
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5/10
Below average
rguddu_india5 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Story: Unlikely meet of a rich man and ordinary woman. The man leaves her with a necklace. Their son born later searches for his father with the necklace. As a young man he meets 3 rich oldies and a sick old man with some history between them. Among their offsprings, a daughter becomes his love interest, a son becomes his adversary, another daughter is a wavering amateur. A mystery man with some interest in the necklace's rare metal keeps following the guy. The guy works as the girl's hotel attendant, later is helped for his cancer treatment, later works as her coworker in office. All of them get involved in who is the guy's father, which is revealed finally.

Positive: Starts brilliantly, with how the parents of the lead actor meet in the past. The introduction of the guy's character from his school days as a confident person searching for his dad who he believes to be a rich man. The introduction of the girl's character as a confident proud business-woman handling a factory worker's protest. Some characters like the the hotel manager and the second girl were memorable.

Negative: too cliched and ordinary writing can be felt in most of the episodes (say from ep-04 onwards). A distinct feel of poor Hindi/Indian serials or drama. The chemistry between guy-girl was lacking, so the romance in later episodes felt awkward. The search for father and who was whose relative had gone too confusing and tiresome by the end. Many inexplicable/unrealistic plots.

Between 4-6 out of 10 should be fair.
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