- Strong Woman Do Bong-soon: 16 episodes total / around an hour and 10 mins each. Do Bong-Soon (Park Bo-Young) was born with superhuman strength; passed along only to the women in her family. She dreams of working for a video game company and developing her own game based on a character with her super powers. She secretly has been crushing on her long time friend and cop In Gook-Doo (Ji Soo) who has no clue she is interested in him. Along comes rich gaming company CEO Ahn Min-hyuk (Park Hyung-sik), who witnesses Do Bong-soon strength one day and hires her as his personal bodyguard since he has been getting anonymous treats and blackmail to his business. While all this is happening, a series of kidnapped women in Do Bong-Soon's neighborhood is going on and there is business with gangsters and high school kids treating Do Bong-Soon like their master.
This was my first attempt at a Korean drama and I was on the fence. I only started it because the premise and the interaction between the two leads was interesting. I enjoyed the strong female character who was trying to figure out how to use her powers for good and basically not hating the fact she had this special gift of incredible strength. The interaction with the mother, who was powerless, and her father and twin brother, added another dynamic. The mother had lost her power because once it is used for personal gain or if someone innocent is harmed, the strength is removed.
The strongest part of the series had to be between the two leads - Do Bong-soon and Anh Min-hyuk. Their fondest and growing attracting to each other was just a joy to watch and you couldn't help finding yourself grinning and smiling like a doofus. They were just so stinking cute and not in an annoying way. Park Bo-Young is so small and adorable she played the role perfectly and Park Hyung-sik was goofy and oddball at times that the two were a great match. It was refreshing to see the male lead act like the female, being all silly and giddy and at times insecure with his affection and love for Do Bong-soon.
The weakest part of the series was the endless goofiness of the mother and her friends visiting the fortune teller, the endless gangster interactions, the pointless conflict with the gaming director and the high school kids who worshiped Do Bong-soon. Those all got tiresome very quickly. Thankfully the main leads saved what could have been a disaster of a series. As for the OST for this show, it had a few good tunes but nothing I found myself listening to all the time.
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