My Mister

March 21, 2018

Lee Ji-an (IU) arrives at an engineering company as a temp worker carrying debts she cannot name and a life she cannot escape. Park Dong-hoon (Lee Sun-kyun) is a middle-aged engineer whose quiet dignity is being slowly ground down. They do not like each other. Ssangmun-dong establishes the drama's world.

March 21, 2018

Dong-hoon's brothers — the three middle-aged men who drink together in a pojangmacha in Ssangmun-dong — are introduced. Their ordinary camaraderie is the drama's warmest thread.

March 28, 2018

Ji-an is paid to surveil Dong-hoon by someone who wants to damage him. She listens to him on a phone tap. She begins to understand who he actually is.

March 28, 2018

Dong-hoon's professional world — the project he is fighting to save, the colleagues who undermine him, the quiet competence that goes unrecognised.

April 4, 2018

The Ssangmun pojangmacha — the brothers' regular table, their shared beers, the ordinary ritual of men supporting each other without naming it as support.

April 4, 2018

Ji-an's world outside the office — her debt, her grandmother, the loan shark, the specific material weight of poverty in Seoul.

April 11, 2018

Dong-hoon's full situation — the cheating wife, the professional humiliation, the financial pressure — shown without melodrama.

April 11, 2018

Ji-an and Dong-hoon's connection — built through listening, through observation, through the specific intimacy of knowing someone's pain without being permitted to address it directly.

April 18, 2018

Ji-an listens to Dong-hoon on the phone tap and hears something that changes her completely.

April 18, 2018

Dong-hoon's brothers sense that something has shifted in his life without being able to name it.

April 25, 2018

Ji-an's first direct act in Dong-hoon's favour — risking herself to help him. The drama's moral centre.

April 25, 2018

The neighbourhood's response to Dong-hoon's situation — the collective care of an ordinary community for one of its own.

May 2, 2018

What the truth about the surveillance costs both characters.

May 2, 2018

Dong-hoon's response to everything Ji-an has done — his forgiveness as the most direct expression of who he is.

May 9, 2018

Ji-an's departure from Ssangmun-dong and what she carries with her.

May 16, 2018

The finale. IU's performance — the most praised of her career — and Lee Sun-kyun's quiet, devastating work. Winner of Best Drama at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards.