As a Park Min Young fangirl, I had to watch this. Her most recent work Forecasting Love and Weather was a total disappointment and I needed to watch her be redeemed!

Love in Contract, translation of the Korean title is Mon, Wed, Fri/Tues, Thurs, Sat is about Choi Sang Eun (Park Min Young) who works as a professional wife/partner and helps her clients out of situations where they need a wife. Pressure from parents, terrible friends, and many other reasons. She was Woo Gwang Nam’s (Kang Hyung Seok) beard for a bit and later became best friends and roommates. We soon learn why she went into this profession and her back story and sad childhood.

Sang Eun realizes that she developed feelings for her client of 5 years, Jung Ji Ho (Ko Kyung Pyo), a quiet and socially inept family court judge. He has trouble getting along with his colleagues at work and doesn’t have any other friends.

Right when Sang Eun is about to retire and pack up to move to Canada with Gwang Nam, she gets sucked into a situation where she loses all of her money and the opportunity to bring on a wealthy new client arises. Kang Hae Jin (Kim Jae Young) is a famous actor who needs to appear to be in a stable relationship to the public. Hae Jin also met Sang Eun when he was in high-school and has been in love with her since then.

The Review

This is a real love triangle. Every episode will have you rooting for both men. At times it’s really hard to tell who Sang Eun really likes. I had a really hard time picking who I liked better!

The show has a bit of a cartoonish feel. Of course the story is very unrealistic and the characters are a bit exaggerated. I mean everyone is driving an electric Audi.

What I liked…

Park Min Young can just bring it! When it comes to romance, she’s the queen. The success of her previous shows is 100% her hard work. She knows how to turn up the heat and she doesn’t even need to touch her costars. She definitely redeemed herself after the failed romance with Song Kang.

I have always loved Ko Kyung Pyo since Reply 1988. He knows how to move the audience and can play any character (asshole in DP to sweet boy next door in Reply 1988). He’s not as popular as other male K-stars but he can also turn up the heat. His character seems so dry and flat but he doesn’t need to say much or do much to get the point across and move the audience.

Who is this Kim Jae Young and why haven’t I seen him in more stuff? I actually watched all of Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life (even though it was pretty mediocre) while I was waiting for the episodes to come out because I wanted to see more of Kim Jae Young. He is one of those model turned actors and maybe that’s why I haven’t seen him in much. I’m putting Reflection of You and Hello Monster on my list to see more of him. His acting was also sincere and heartfelt in this.

Gwang Nan was the perfect gay character in this show. I would love for the Kdrama world to normalize gay characters instead of putting them into their own category of D production KDramas. Melo is My Nature is also a beautiful example of this. They showed Gwang Nam’s struggles as a gay man trying to make it in Korea without making him into a tortured soul or a walking stereotype.

What I didn’t like…

The story. At no point did I feel threatened by the villains. Their motive for trying to attack really didn’t make sense. The story was a bit far fetched but I took it with a grain of salt. It took me a while to get into this kdrama and it really didn’t pick up until about episode 8-ish.

Despite the lack luster and unrealistic story line, it did touch on the issue of childhood trauma following you into adulthood. All three lead characters hold on to things that happened to them as children that make it difficult for them to form proper adult relationships. I won’t go into too much detail and spoil it.

I enjoyed this show and definitely worth watching. You can find it on Viki. If I rate it out of 10, I would give it an 8.