{
  "id": 16428121,
  "title": "K-Drama Rewind, Her Private Life: Park Min-young and Kim Jae-wook’s zingy love letter to the office romcom boom",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/k-drama-rewind-her-private-life-park-min-young-and-kim-jae-wooks",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-25T03:56:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/k-drama-rewind-her-private-life-park-min-young-and-kim-jae-wooks-zingy-love-letter-to-the-office-romcom-boom-1.500722710"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Park Min-young and Kim Jae-wook star in the 2019 Korean drama Her Private Life. The romance between their characters, art curator Sung Deok-mi and stern museum director Ryan Gold, is tender and fresh. The show embraces classic office romcom tropes, such as fake dating and enemies-to-lovers. Deok-mi, played by Park Min-young, runs a K-pop fan site while Ryan, played by Kim Jae-wook, is a brooding artist. Their relationship includes tender moments and build-up, including a protective move and yearning glances. The drama also explores Ryan's parentage and K-pop storyline, but avoids making Deok-mi's fandom the punchline. Kim Jae-wook delivers a dry, near-deadpan performance as Ryan, contrasting with Park Min-young's sunnier register. The drama highlights the golden era of K-Drama office romcoms, where the workplace was an integral part of the story.",
  "summary": "It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Park Min-young could have chemistry with anything, even a rock. So imagine the combination when, in 2019, she starred in Her Private Life opposite Kim Jae-wook, who already had a versatile filmography behind him, from the flower-boy charm of Coffee Prince to the chilling killer of Voice . And, if you came to the drama, fresh after What’s Wrong with…",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}