- Fight For My Way: 16 episodes total / around an hour and 10 mins each. In the first ep, we are introduced to the Fantastic Four - Ko Dong-man (Park Seo-joon), a former taekwondo player who had a bright future ahead of him until a match ruined everything and made him a nameless fighter. Choi Ae-ra (Kim Ji-won), a department store employee who has big dreams of becoming an announcer and working for the major news outlet. Kim Joo-man (Ahn Jae-hong), a marketing manager trying to move up the ranks at the home shopping network company. He has been dating his girlfriend Baek Seol-hee , who works at the same company, in secret for six years. Baek Seol-hee (Song Ha-yoon), the pure and innocent one in the group who works in customer service at the home shopping network company and has been dating Kim Joo-man in secret.
As the series progresses, Ae-ra and Dong-man begin to move out of friend realm into being in a relationship and adapting to that change given their 20 plus years of friendship. That was sweet to watch because the dialogue between the two was so honest. It is hard not to be upfront to someone who has known you for more than half your life. On the flip side, Seol-hee and Joo-man are seeing the cracking in their six year relationship, especially when a pretty and young intern starts to aggressively pursue Joo-man. Although the main leads/couple was Ae-ra and Dong-man and their relationship and reaching their goals in life, Seol-hee and Joo-man's relationship was great to breakdown and analyze. Here was a couple who seemed perfect on the outside but were suffering and had issues. It was only after they split up did they go and find themselves and better their relationship. When Seol-hee confessed all she wanted in life was to be a good wife and mother, though it seems simple to others, it was so fitting for her and heartwarming. She was by far the sweetest and purest character and her change and development over the series was great to watch.
Overall, this was refreshing to watch for a number of reasons, the biggest one being there was no rich CEO, these characters were NOT well off and they dressed terribly. If felt very real to life or at least a snapshot of what life is like for 30 year olds in Korea. Yes some parts were a bit much (like the landlord being Ae-ra's long lost mother and the random adopted son storytelling) but hey this is still a K drama. The OST for this series was fun and had some great songs.
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