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Shows I could not finish – dropped the Lees again!

Agency (2003)   Lee Bo-young is a wonderful actress, and that worked against this show for me.  She was so intense, portraying Go A-in fighting her personal difficulties and so naturally fighting office politics with her own manipulative shrewdness and scheming.  That was more angst and politicking than I wanted to endure.   lovely queen swats away the company snakes It all got far worse when Han-na ( Son Na-eun ) and the rest of her Kang family appeared.  The grandfather is ridiculously biased and full of himself, the father is so unsure of himself, and the brother is a pathetic victim of the silly practice of pitting the children against each other.  Han-na is thinly delivered, annoying, childish and strangely styled.  What was up with all those huge bows in her hair?! no match at all for the queen Special mention to Han Joon-woo (dead fiance in Be Melodramatic ), playing Park Young-woo, young man with brains and ability but...