Man to Man tells the story of a mysterious and skilled secret agent who becomes the bodyguard (Park Hae Jin) to a top star (Park Sung Woong) who has made a name for himself playing villainous characters.
Park Hae Jin plays our secret agent Kim Seol Woo also known as Agent K. He’s handsome and charming and can go undercover as just about anyone and do whatever is necessary for a mission.
Park Sung Woong is our popular actor Yeo Woon Gwang. He’s a big personality that has the mix of a being a spoiled star who has a good heart. This is exactly the kind of character I like seeing Park Sung Woong play as he is just so much fun when he gets to be lively and animated.
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Kim Min Jung plays Woon Gwang’s number one fan and manger Cha Do Ha. Her life revolves around him to an obsessive level. But when the new bodyguard gets in the mix and turns his charms on her, she is left quite confused by her newly developing feelings for him.
Full disclosure, I wasn’t feeling well when I watched the bulk of Man to Man, so that definitely may have influenced my enjoyment of the drama. It’s one of those dramas that seems fine enough as a whole, but I just really didn’t care for it. I wasn’t that into it while I was sick, and then it never really clicked after that. I think by the time I was feeling better, I was so far into the drama that I just really didn’t care at that point.
The drama does have a really nice story that mixes secret agent spy action with romance and comedic elements. The actors all nailed their roles, and the drama looked sharp with pretty good cinematography.
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My favorite thing was the fun bromance between Seol Woo and Woon Gwang. They provide some very humorous moments because of the situation and their opposite personalities. Plus, I really enjoyed watching them grow closer in that brotherly sort of way.
I also really enjoy stories where an agent falls for his mark, which ends up being Do Ha. It always creates a fun dynamic as he leads her on and she falls for him, but then he in turn develops feelings for her. Which always presents multiple issues from compromising the mission to when the lies are discovered.
As much as I enjoyed that, I didn’t really feel the romance itself though. Park Hae Jin was quite sauve and charming, but I found Do Ha’s character to be a bit much. I just didn’t really like her. She does improve as the drama goes on, but I just never really felt any chemistry between the pair.
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So while on paper Man to Man seems to have all the makings of a great drama, it just felt kind of meh. The story had plenty of developments, but it was presented in a sort of confusing way. The pacing also felt slow. And since I didn’t love the main couple, obviously the romance portion of the drama felt weak. Mostly I was just bored though.
The drama does have plenty of positive elements to tune in for, so it’s definitely worth a look to see if it clicks with you. For me, this drama may have just suffered from being a bit average combined with bad timing.
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This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged kdrama, Kim Min Jung, Korean Drama, Man to Man, Park Hae Jin, Park Sung Woong. Bookmark the permalink.Man to Man was one of the dramas I was most excited about – for one reason only: Park Hae-jin’s return to our screens. Now, I have watched a lot of things I wish I hadn’t just for him (namely, Chinese dramas) but despite the fact that it’s not a horrible dubbed voice above his, it wasn’t enough for me to enjoy the drama. I thought I owed it to him and to this review to finish it, but man, it was a disappointment.
Man to Man is a classical kdrama in many ways: it’s mixing action, with Park Hae-jin playing a spy, and romance (the spy falls in love) and humour (everyone is sort of a comic). I feel like this is a big trend in kdramas, to mix both serious topics and light ones with humour. I’m of course thinking about Goblin but also Lawless Lawyers for example. But it’s not always easy to juggle with the different styles.
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To sum it up, Kim Seol-woo gets a job as a bodyguard of Hallyu star Yeo Woon-gwang (Park Sung-woong, such a good actor no matter his role!) and finds himself connected to Cha Do-ha, Woon-gwang’s number one fan now working for him. While this is happening, Seol-woo is also needed on the side for a dangerous black ops mission, using his bodyguard position as a front.
Strangely enough, when I think about this plot, I keep thinking I would have loved to see this story written in a serious and dramatic way. For me, it was really the constant comedy that killed it. It’s a genre I’m not a big fan of to begin with, and the fact that it’s not what I expected at all didn’t help. This isn’t something I found too fitting for an elite spy character either.
But if you’re into comic situations, extravagance and ridicule, I’m sure you’ll love it. The cast was good, and I cannot assess how much I like Park Sung-woong’s style as an actor. The story itself has a lot to say, but unfortunately, it was also dragging – but what kdrama doesn’t?Secret agent Kim Seol-Woo (Park Hae-Jin) must accomplish a delicate mission while pretending to be the bodyguard of Yeo Woon-Gwang (Park Sung-Woong), a whimiscal super star.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that setting your expectations too high will only lead to disappointment. It is also universally acknowledged that humans never learn so of course, when I heard of a fun-filled spy show starring Park Hae-Jin as a James Bond-like secret agent, I eagerly waited for a chance to watch what had to be an awesome drama.
, unfortunately, didn’t turn out to be the exception to the rule, and proved very disappointing very quickly in spite of both lead actors’ best efforts.
‘s selling point was the epic bromance the show promised between Kim Seol-Woo and his boss, the capricious Yeo Woon-Gwang. Had it been built up like any normal, credible relationship, I would have loved it, grown attached, and squealed like I did in front of other well-done bromances (coughcough Reaper and Goblin coughcough). In this case, Seol-Woo gets included in the Woon-Gwang clan so easily there’s no way this relationship could be anything but shallow, which ruins what little credibility the show had left by that point.
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By that I mean that the show seems incapable of deciding what it wants to be: is it a spy show? a romance? a comedy? While the first few episodes seem to focus more on the secret agent stuff, the rest takes a turn for romance rather quickly, before getting an hour and a half of some action and falling back into shenanigans. This uneven tone, coupled with characters who all live and work in rather unforgiving fields yet behave like four-year-olds, makes it really hard not to scoff every five minutes at this scenaristic tragedy.
Plus, except for the end of episode 8, the secret agent mission scenes are so bad it’s not even funny anymore. Between the dude who admires a stolen object while stood right smack in the middle of the owner’s lawn, the utter lack of effort on Seol-Woo’s part to conceal his face while on a “top-secret” mission in hostile territory, and the ridiculous schemes he has to come up with to get himself fired because, apparently, South Korea is the only country in the world to investigate car explosions, well… Let’s just say the general reasoning of the show makes as much sense as a screen door on a submarine.
Yet another issue lies with the bad English dialogue that pretty much destroys the pilot episode. I get that Netflix bought the show and the writers were probably trying to make it more international and accessible to the general, English-speaking audiences, but, well. I’ve found that weird English and bad white actors tend to make everything worse rather than better, really. I wish they’d quit it.
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As for the romance, what can I say? The female lead is unbearable. She annoyed me so much in the first few episodes, I started to
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