‘My Perfect Secretary’ Han Ji-min has stepped down from her position as CEO. The audience rating soared to a high of 13.9% due to her wonderful decision to protect ‘My People’.

Episode 11 of the SBS Friday-Saturday drama ‘My Perfect Secretary’ (directed by Ham Joon-ho and Kim Jae-hong, written by Ji-eun, produced by Studio S and Io Contents Group), which aired on the 8th, depicted a desperate crisis that befell ‘My People’. However, CEO Ji-yoon (Han Ji-min) was able to keep herself from collapsing thanks to Eun-ho (Lee Joon-hyuk) and the ‘People’ employees who were firmly by her side.

The viewership ratings recorded 11.7% nationwide, 11.6% in the metropolitan area, a peak of 13.9%, and 3.4% in the 2049 target, taking first place in the same time slot and among weekly mini-series.

When ‘Iconic Bio’ CEO Young-min (Go Sang-ho) embezzled 20 billion won in investment funds and disappeared, Ji-yoon of ‘People’, who was in charge of recruiting for the company, could not escape suspicion of investment fraud. Above all, when ‘Iconic Bio’ attracted investment, they actively used the names ‘People’ and Ji-yoon, and many people invested because they believed in the value of the name. With clients flooding in with search and seizure inquiries and contract termination inquiries, ‘Peoples’ seemed unlikely to recover its lost credibility. Ji-yoon, who decided that she could no longer conduct normal business, notified all employees to work from home.

There was also a problem with Ji-yoon‘s personal life. The ‘Iconic Bio’ investors somehow found out and came to Ji-yoon’s house in the middle of the night, causing a commotion. This time, the perfect black knight Eun-ho showed up, blocked Ji-yoon‘s door, and mediated the commotion. Then, he brought Ji-yoon home. There, the ‘Super Power Vitamins’ that Byul (Ki So-yu) made herself and the lullaby that she sang herself gave Ji-yoon a warm, healing night.

However, the next day, another article about Ji-yoon broke out. It reignited the controversy over the ‘Career Way’ investment fraud from five years ago. As Ji-yoon predicted, the only person who would do something like this was Hye-jin (Park Bo-kyung), and this was Hye-jin’s scheme to somehow bring down ‘People‘s’. She had caught Young-min’s eye, who was struggling with financial difficulties, and she had set a trap by sweet-talking him, who couldn‘t even pay his employees’ wages.

The reason Hye-jin was doing this was because of the truth from 5 years ago. Ji-yoon already knew that Hye-jin was the internal employee who the former CEO had covered up with his death during the ‘Careerway’ investment fraud case. Even so, Hye-jin didn‘t like Ji-yoon for not using this as a weapon to threaten her. That’s why she poked at Ji-yoon, who came to see her, saying, “You don‘t see your employees as people. Do you think people will still be by your side even after ‘People’s’ goes bankrupt? You know, we‘re all the same in the end.” Ji-yoon, who was looking at the empty company alone, felt her heart ache as she remembered what Hye-jin had said.

However, Ji-yoon, who thought she was alone, was not alone. One day, she went to a bookstore and found Eun-ho and Mi-ae (Lee Sang-hee) gathered there to come up with a plan, and ‘People’ Team 1 Yeong-soo (Heo Dong-won), Gwang-hee (Go Geon-han), Gyeong-hwa (Seo Hye-won), and Gyu-rim (Yoon Ga-i). They suspected that ‘Iconic Bio’ might have hired real employees as a trap to show their connection with ‘People’, so they went out and investigated the whole story themselves. Ji-yoon was deeply moved when they exclaimed, “‘People’, “We will protect you,”“ while digging up the connection between Yeong-min and Hye-jin. And I thought growing and maintaining a company was all my own work, but I realized that wasn’t the case.

In the midst of this, CEO Woo (Cho Seung-yeon), who had been watching the ‘People’ situation closely and said he would make a decision if it seemed like it would suffer losses, urged Ji-yoon to resign from her position as CEO. Business is done on credit, not facts, and Ji-yoon‘s company, which had already lost trust, had judged that it no longer had value as a search firm. On top of that, ‘Careerway’ Hye-jin expressed her intention to acquire ‘People’ in order to permanently disappear, and made Ji-yoon’s resignation a condition. From CEO Woo‘s perspective, who thoroughly weighs the pros and cons, there was nothing bad about it. Ji-yoon’s face looked troubled at the CEO‘s request to hand over the shares and management rights, saying that he would guarantee 100% employment succession for the employees.

Ji-yoon finally made a decision and sent a notice to her employees to come to work. But the first thing she said in front of the excited employees the next day was a shocking declaration, ”I will be stepping down from my position as CEO of ‘People’ as of today.“ Ji-yoon, who had never been close to anyone, meets the warm Eun-ho and grows into a real adult, and her decision to step down from her position as CEO of ‘People’, which she had passionately built up to protect her people, left a deep impression on Saturday night and raised expectations for the final episode.

The final episode of SBS ‘My Perfect Secretary’ will air on the 14th at 10 p.m.

Photo courtesy of ‘My Perfect Secretary’ video capture

Jo Sung-woon, Donga.com reporter madduxly@donga.com

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