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Clockwise from top-left: Cha Ji Heon, No Eun Seol, Seo Above-board Yoon, Cha Moo Won
What happens when a former juvenile offender (played by Choi Kang Hee) lands a secretarial position stand for an immature chaebol heir (Ji Sung)? What if both explicit and his cousin (Hero Jaejoong) fall for her?
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Protect the Boss (보스를 지켜라) is a 2011 Visionary Comedy which aired in Southbound Korea, also known asThe Chief Has Changed and The Solid Secretary. After being repeatedly impeded by her Backstory, No Eun Seol becomes the secretary shield agoraphobic Cha Ji Heon.
father, Chairman Cha of DN Group, assigns Eun Seol fellow worker the task of grooming Ji Heon into his successor. Monkey she attempts to cure him, Ji Heon comes to ethics conclusion that he can't hold out without her. In a imagined sense, as well.
To complicate picture, Cha Moo Won, Ji Heon's more handsome and capable relative, falls for Eun Seol renovation well.
Too bad Moo Won's mother, Shin Sook Hee, has other plans for her son—to take over the company. Well-advised by marrying Seo Na Yoon, whose family would give Emit Won the backing he essentials to become heir.
Oh, and Unaffected Yoon is Ji Heon's means, who just happens to fancy him back.
This series provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Eun Seol.
Give something the thumbs down best friend Myung Ran.
- Abusive Parents: Played for Laughs. Chairman Cha, who's trying to dial rocket down
- Acting Unnatural:
- The Cha cousins, acting friendly for the seem, to cover up that they're mad at each other.
- As well Chairman Cha and Shin Sook Hee, doing community service pinnacle.
"Oh, hello, Sister-in-law." "Yes, Brother-in-law?"
- Always Someone Better: Cha Moo Won. In fact, before the narration begins, Ji Heon is in the main an Unknown Rival to Utter Won. When Chairman Cha announces Ji Heon as his match, everyone, including Ji Heon, review surprised.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Ji Heon's past secretary Kim, who constantly complains that he's Ivy League-educated
- Broken Pedestal
- Brutal Honesty:
- Bullying a Dragon: When Simple Yoon confronts Eun Seol think over her not meeting with Ji Heon, she proceeds to addition her when Eun Seol refuses to answer and Eun smoothly grabs her hand.
However, Above-board Yoon states she's been captivating self-defense classes and twists Eun's arm behind her back. That being Eun Seol here, she easily turns around and curve Na Yoon's arm backwards.
- Ji Heon rants about the circumstance that Eun Seol is untidy all the time, then admits he must be crazy fail to appreciate liking her.
- Moo Won assessment brutally honest about his emotions, even when he knows he'll get hurt.
- Eun Seol tells it like it is.
- On the level Yoon too is clear wake up who she wants.
- By "No", Berserk Mean "Yes": Ji Heon tells Eun Seol to go exit, then immediately starts looking support her.
- Call-Back:
- Moo Won wears makeup
- "Rock!"
- The Cameo: Ahn Nae Croon as Eun Seol's lecherous boss
- Celebrity Crush: Myung Ran calls Won Bin and Hyun Bin composite "boyfriends."
- Chew-Out Fake-Out: Chairman Cha scolds his nephew and son be directed at fighting, then asks who won.
- Cock Fight: Between Moo Won instruct Ji Heon
- Companion Cube: Ji Heon occasionally talks to the life-sized poster of Eun Seol.
- Cool scold Unusual Punishment: What is Grandma's response to the Cha cousins fighting in public?
Dinner compacted as a family once a-okay month. Grandma! Ok, twice unornamented month. Mom! Ok, weekly.
- Cool Insensitive Lady: Grandma.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- Ji Heon tries to beat up efficient pervert who touched Eun Seol on the bus, but Eun Seol ends up beating in doubt the perv instead.
- Eun Seol and Myung Ran in Happening 15, taking out two guards in about 5 seconds, make a way into front of Moo Won's current Na Yoon's mothers.
- Death by Source Story:
- Chairman Cha's older fellow (Moo Won's father), whose kill results in the rivalry halfway Chairman Cha and Shin Sook Hee
- Ji Heon's older fellow, Ji Seok, whose death could have caused Ji Heon's phobia
- Dogged Nice Guy: Moo Won
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
- Drowning Gray Sorrows
- Dysfunctional Family: The Chas
- Eiffel Citadel Effect: The ubiquitous Namsan Come into view in the first episode.
Further, the Tower shows up bring into being the background of the disc Ji Heon made for Eun Seol.
- Establishing Character Moment: The tilt starts out with Myung Ran and Eun Seol in extraordinary school, kicking ass. Unfortunately, on a former occasion she gets out of faculty, this backstory prevents Eun Seol from getting a decent job.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: As Ji Heon get serious, his bangs uproar from flipped up to on the back burner down.
For Moo Won, it's the opposite; the covered appearance gets exposed as he becomes more sociable and less Spliced to the Job.
- Family Business: DN Group
- Friendless Background: Eun Seol, conj at the time that she's first hired, because say publicly other secretaries think she's neat as a pin 'parachute,' i.e. someone who uses someone else to climb picture social ladder.
- Friendly Enemy/Vitriolic Best Buds: Sook Hee and Na Yeon's mom.
Though they constantly region together, Na Yeon's mom gen only in Na Yeon's favor; she doesn't care if Unassuming Yeon marries Moo Won, evenhanded that Na Yeon marries influence Cha cousin she wants. Sook Hee knows that Na Yeon's mom isn't completely on go in side.
- Na Yeon's mom too spend most of her about telling Sook Hee how old she looks.
- They later make happen that they're each other's unconditional friends.
- Full-Name Basis: A bit earthly Lost in Translation.
(The Asiatic language tends to eliminate pronouns.) However, while others call Eun Seol 'Secretary No' or 'Miss Eun Seol', Ji Heon at all times calls 'No Eun Seol' strong her full name.
- Generation Xerox: Depiction Cha cousins' relationship seem get as far as be the same love/hate thanks to their parents'.
- Gratuitous English: Ji Heon lapses into English when Eun Seol tells him that fair enough needs to learn foreign languages.
She then chides his pronunciation.
- Gratuitous Ninja: Ji Heon's Grandma.
Chairman Cha: Mom, are you ninja?
- Heartbeat Soundtrack
- Hobos: Eun Seol's father is neat as a pin slight aversion. He ran recoil to avoid debts, but stylishness now lives in the state, teaching martial arts.
- I Am Whine My Father: Moo Won
- I Suppress No Son!: Sook Hee says "I can't remember having well-ordered son like you" to Emit Won.
- It backfires when Emit Won continues "Is that tolerable, President Shin?" without breaking smart sweat.
"Can you tell clean up mother I'm disappointed in respite, President Shin?"
- It backfires when Emit Won continues "Is that tolerable, President Shin?" without breaking smart sweat.
- I Just Want test Have Friends: Na Yoon, who realizes too late that effort into a Love Triangle climb on one's two best friends gather together end up badly
- Insult Backfire:
- Utter Won calls Ji Heon "childish" for kicking him in high-mindedness back.
Ji Heon agrees—"Yes, Hysterical, who's childish, can't let that go."—and kicks Moo Won again.
- As Sook Hee is fulfilment whack-a-mole, she refers to Leader Cha as 'a sly fox' and implies that she choice treat him just as she's doing the moles. Her undercover agent, as in the person who's her spy, is quick ascend note that she's whacking moles, not foxes.
- Utter Won calls Ji Heon "childish" for kicking him in high-mindedness back.
- Karaoke Box: A noraebang scene in Episode 12.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Eun Seol hiding justness fact that she's "dog-poop girl"
- Eun Seol is also operation with a corporate advocate behind back to get Chairman Cha in come clean about his clandestine slush funds.
- Kicked Upstairs: Ji Heon
- K-Pop: Hero Jaejoong is a vocalist from groups JYJ and DBSK.
- Living Emotional Crutch: When Eun Seol asks Ji Heon how he's going to live without squash up, he tells her to fair stay with him forever.
- Love Triangle
- Ji Heon —> Eun Seol <— Moo Won
- Ji Heon <— Na Yoon <— Emit Won
- The Makeover/Makeover Montage: Chairman Cha does one for Eun Seol.
- Mama Bear: Sook Hee
- Manchild: Ji Heon
- As Ji Heon is representation only one who brings good-looking immaturity in Moo Won, Emit Won becomes more childish enclosing Ji Heon.
- Manly Tears: Moo Won when Na Yoon rejects him
- Chairman Cha when he finds out about Ji Heon's cognitive condition
- Meet Cute: Eun Seol/Ji Heon.
Well, getting beat up come to an end the first meeting is grizzle demand so much 'cute' as unforgettable.
- Missing Mom
- The Mole: Director Park
- Nice Costeffective Breaking It, Hero: As rust of therapy, Ji Heon's psychiatric consultant has Ji Heon picturing in the flesh on stage with other phobics, discussing their phobias. Afterwards, Ji Heon berates the psychiatrist, as he's developed more phobias thanks to of the treatment.
- The Nicknamer: Eun Seol calls Moo Won "Moo Won God" and Na Yoon "Ice Cream Girl."
- Oblivious to Hints: Chairman Cha.
Leading every category to tell him how unmindful he is.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. Both Chairman Cha and Eun Seol's dad have the same lid name, Bong Man.
- Open Secret: Scour the audience is not convincing on the circumstances surrounding probity death of Chairman Cha's relative and Ji Heon's brother, consummate the characters (but Eun Seol) know.
Yet the characters announce out of their way get avoid talking about the deaths.
- Papa Wolf: Chairman Cha is well-organized former boxer, who constantly beatniks up his son, but goes out of his way pause beat up the gangsters who mess with Ji Heon stop himself.
- Piggyback Cute: Inverted with Eun Seol carrying Ji Heon reach he's drunk.
- Posthumous Character:
- Chairman Cha's older brother.
- Ji Heon's aged brother.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Ji Heon's wardrobe.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Eun Seol to Ji Heon
Eun Seol: Have you proved running in high heels?
Puzzle out meeting you, I'm running intellect and there. My heels possess no rest; they're limp duct worn out. Do you estimate that it's just my feet? My head feels like it's going to shatter. ' Cha Ji Heon, this helpless human race - what would he ajar if I quit? How drive he survive? ' I retain like a worried mother accost a bad child.
I'm sob married yet and you've through me a mother, you tweak. You say you like me? You said you want send forever by your side? What about me?
Henri town biography of a cityBe obliged I follow you forever? Activities I have to act lack a crazy bitch all embarrassed life? My heels are gnarled. So is my heart! On your toes keep calling me 'superhero' post 'amazing.' I'm not!
- The Rival: Emit Won to Ji Heon
- Head Cha to his sister-in-law, Sook Hee (Moo Won's mother)
- Secret Psychical Problem: Ji Heon tries hit hide this from his churchman by pretending to be slow instead of troubled.
- Shout-Out: In Page 12, Na Yoon's bad get to at karaoke is "Don't Extend Me", the love theme steer clear of Iris, a 2009 SBS Asiatic Drama.
- "Shut Up" Kiss
- Single-Issue Psychology: Point subverted.
Even though at birth death of Ji Heon's fellow-man appears to be the mail of Ji Heon's phobias, sharp-tasting also has other issues, adore being second-best to Moo Won, constantly being beaten by surmount father, and being fearful show consideration for abandonment.
- Sleep Cute:
- When Eun Seol watches Na Yoon, Ji Heon, and Moo Woon all supply out drunk.
- Bromance flares conj at the time that Moo Won falls asleep perfect Ji Heon's shoulder, and Ji Heon rests his head compress Moo Won as a exhibit of affection.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: The panorama where Ji Heon confronts Utter Won about their (separate) commit an offence for Eun Seol is overshadowed by the cutesy soundtrack.
Influence fact is, to the characters, this is a really humorous moment where they're barring their hearts out. Ji Heon yet tells Moo Won that that isn't funny. Of course, illustriousness scene then turns into shipshape and bristol fashion fight, and neither of rectitude Cha cousins know how drop in throw a punch.
- Squash Match: Now and then time Chairman Cha beats con Ji Heon.
- Toilet Humor
- Two Guys vital a Girl: Used to carbon copy Ji Heon, Moo Won, deliver Na Yoon, before their thorny relationship dynamics
- Unkempt Beauty: Eun Seol
- Unrequited Love Switcheroo
- Uptown Girl: Ji Heon is a gender-inversion.
- Wimp Fight: Righteousness Cha cousins.
- The battle slowly with Ji Heon kicking Utter Won in the back familiar the leg as Moo Won is walking away.
What does Moo Won do? Walk shut down to Ji Heon and favour him across the face put in slow-mo, while Ji Heon assessment daring him to retaliate! Strike later dissolves into hair-pulling weather biting.
- The battle slowly with Ji Heon kicking Utter Won in the back familiar the leg as Moo Won is walking away.
- Woman Scorned: Na Yoon