Nam Da-reum’s dream job lasts roughly until she discovers who actually signs her paycheck. After twelve years supporting former D.N.X member Lee Chan, she quits SE Trading and joins Appello expecting proximity to her longtime idol. Instead, the CEO waiting upstairs is Kang Ha-gi, a man she has already covered in makeup, accidentally assaulted with an ice block, and thoroughly confused with her public celebrations.
My Bias, My Boss understands that this collision is funnier when Da-reum takes her fandom completely seriously. Kim Hye-jun plays her excitement at maximum volume, yet the performance rarely suggests that caring this much about a singer is itself the joke. Her behavior creates the comedy. Her affection for Chan remains sincere. The first two episodes then place that affection inside an office romance where everybody seems to possess exactly half the information they need.
The Chan Radar
Hye-jun has considerable physical comedy to handle. Da-reum races through the office after getting hired, attacks Min-woo for insulting Chan and hits Ha-gi instead, then nearly dies from a calming pill during her introduction to the CEO. The pill gag is wonderfully ridiculous because Ha-gi has to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre while Da-reum is still processing the horror of discovering that her newest humiliation happened in front of her boss.
I especially like the small jingling sound used whenever Da-reum senses Chan nearby. It functions almost like an audio point-of-view shot. Film and television usually establish perspective through what the camera shows us. Here, the sound briefly puts us inside Da-reum’s fan brain before she has even located Chan herself.
Her eventual elevator encounter with him is equally effective. Chan offers a perfectly ordinary handshake; Da-reum reacts as though the laws of physics have changed.
There is a danger in repeating this trick. Da-reum already has two drunken disasters across the opening episodes, including wandering into Ha-gi’s office to stare at a photograph of Chan and passing out on his sofa. The comedy starts reducing her to intoxication and embarrassment.
The workplace material offers a useful correction. She eagerly volunteers to create social-media content for Appello’s fashion event, then stays late rebuilding a presentation after the original mysteriously disappears. Mi-yeong’s praise of her work gives Hye-jun a chance to play Da-reum as capable rather than perpetually flustered. The series needs that version of her.
Look at the Boss
Kang Hoon has the less flashy role, which may be why Ha-gi becomes the more interesting romantic prospect so quickly. His suspicion of Da-reum has a reasonable foundation. She has arrived from SE Trading immediately after Ha-gi rejected that company’s investment proposal, and Han-chul already has a reputation for corporate spying.
What keeps Ha-gi from becoming another interchangeable cold CEO is the way the episodes revise his behavior after the fact. The epilogues are doing clever structural work here. An epilogue can simply attach an extra joke to an episode. These scenes instead change our understanding of moments we already watched. Ha-gi did not randomly encounter Da-reum after she worked late. He stayed behind because she was there, noticed the rain, carried an umbrella and arranged his departure hoping their paths would cross.
That knowledge makes their walk home sweeter without turning Ha-gi suddenly sentimental. He tells Da-reum that he also struggled as a rookie and encourages her after she blames herself for the missing presentation. Kang Hoon keeps the scene restrained, which suits a character whose affection appears through logistics before language. Then a speeding bike sends Da-reum pulling him into the obligatory romantic embrace. Some tropes refuse retirement. This one earns its pension for another week.
Bias Problems
Cha Woo-min gives Lee Chan enough warmth to make Da-reum’s devotion understandable. His most useful scene comes when he notices her necklace and remembers meeting her years earlier, when he had made the piece himself and quietly gave it to a teenage fan. For Da-reum, their elevator encounter feels like a first meeting. For Chan, it revives proof that somebody continued supporting him after D.N.X disappeared.
That imbalance gives their relationship something richer than celebrity wish fulfillment. Chan writing his phone number on Da-reum’s palm complicates things further. His invitation to dinner can be read as gratitude, curiosity or early attraction, and the series wisely leaves some uncertainty there. Da-reum later believing he has a girlfriend produces one of her most mature moments. She reminds herself that fandom does not grant ownership over Chan’s private life.
The weaker misunderstanding concerns rumors that Chan and Ha-gi are dating. Da-reum discovers a romantic note in Ha-gi’s office, hears Chan casually mention sleeping at Ha-gi’s apartment and constructs an entire unrequited-love theory from the evidence. The mechanics of the misunderstanding are neatly assembled, yet queer speculation being used primarily as comic confusion already feels shaky.
Still, the misunderstanding machine is running smoothly. Ha-gi thinks Da-reum could be a spy. Da-reum thinks Ha-gi secretly loves Chan. Chan is waiting for a call Da-reum believes she should never make. Cho-yi quietly deletes the evidence that could straighten one piece of this mess out. For now, My Bias, My Boss is having far too much fun tying those knots to start untying them.
My Bias, My Boss premiered on tvN on August 3, 2026, and is available for streaming on Rakuten Viki. The romantic comedy series follows a dedicated fan who lands a job at a fashion company, only to discover it is co-founded by her ultimate idol and run by a strict workaholic CEO.
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Full Credits
Title: My Bias, My Boss
Distributor: tvN, Rakuten Viki
Release date: August 3, 2026
Rating: TV-14
Running time: 69 minutes
Director: Park Ji-hyun
Writers: Seong Eun
Cast: Kang Hoon, Kim Hye-jun, Nam Da-reum, Cha Woo-min, Yuna, Yoon Cho-i
The Review
My Bias, My Boss
My Bias, My Boss takes familiar workplace-romance machinery and gets considerable mileage from timing, character chemistry, and Da-reum’s gloriously unreliable interpretation of everyone around her. Kim Hye-jun makes the fangirl comedy work because her embarrassment feels emotionally sincere, while Kang Hoon gives Ha-gi’s familiar CEO archetype a welcome softness through small choices like waiting at the office and carrying the umbrella. The repeated drunken mishaps need moderation, and the comedy surrounding queer rumors deserves greater care. Two episodes in, though, the romantic setup already has an appealing rhythm.
PROS
- Kim Hye-jun’s committed comic performance
- Strong Da-reum and Ha-gi chemistry
- Clever epilogue perspective shifts
- Effective misunderstanding-driven comedy
- Chan has promising emotional depth
CONS
- Too many drunken mishaps
- Da-reum needs stronger characterization beyond fandom
- Queer-rumor comedy feels uncomfortable
- Familiar romance tropes remain prominent
