After 4 episodes, the romantic drama "Love Scout" surprised everyone with its content, acting, and viewership ratings increasing with each episode.
Opening with a rating of 5.2%, the drama increased to 6.5% in episode 2, and reached 10.5% and 11.3% in episodes 3 and 4.
In this week's rankings by Good Data Corporation, “Love Scout” also ranked 3rd in the drama list, while Lee Joon Hyuk and Han Ji Min ranked 6th and 7th in the cast list, respectively.
According to the media, compared to the disadvantages of Han Ji Min having a controversial work called “Magic Hand” or Lee Joon Hyuk not being a famous actor in romantic films, the achievements of “Love Scout” show that the combination of the two has broken the initial prejudices.
Explaining the film's success, StarNews highly appreciated the main couple's acting.
If Lee Joon Hyuk was "tailor-made" for the role of Yoo Eun Ho - a perfect secretary in every aspect - from appearance, personality to professional skills, then Han Ji Min transformed when playing the role of Kang Ji Yoon - a talented CEO at work but clumsy in real life.
Good looks and good acting are also factors that help the couple score points with the audience.
In terms of content, the film takes an old motif but is still attractive enough when exploiting the topic of the human resources industry, along with timeless stories: having to work overtime, deadline pressure, being oppressed by superiors, losing a job, being treated unfairly by colleagues...
Korean newspapers commented that although “Love Scout” is not emphasized as a story of healing the heart, the scenes and dialogues of the film have truly healed many people. For example, the way the warm and kind secretary Eun Ho enters Ji Yoon’s life and heals her past wounds.
As Han Ji Min shared about “Love Scout”, she hopes the audience will be very happy when watching the movie, while Lee Joon Hyuk hopes everyone will feel warm and sympathetic to the characters’ stories.
The actor also expressed hope that he will gain the nickname "perfect secretary" through this project.
