A secret fangirl, a stony boss and fake dating: Why Her Private Life still sparkles.

Last updated: October 25, 2026 | 07:56

Park Min-Young and Kim Jae-Wook in Her Private Life.

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 Secretary Kim, which featured Min-young with a dashing Park Seo-joon—a couple so dashing that the writers decided that the drama didn’t need much of a story—you would see that Her Private Life, actually decided to provide some meat to the office romcom bones.

A fresh, sweet story with zing, with a fun premise: Sung Deok-mi (Min-young) is a poised art curator who runs headlong into Ryan Gold (Jae-wook), a stern, brooding artist who swans in as…