INTRODUCTION

This is another recent drama that I’ve just started watching. Clean with Passion for Now (일단 뜨겁게 청소하라) is a 2018 South Korean television series starring Kim Yoo-jung, Yoon Kyun-sang and Song Jae-rim. It is based on the popular webtoon of the same title by Aengo, which was first published in 2015 by Comico Korea. It airs on JTBC’s Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:30 (KST) , starting from November 26, 2018 for a duration of 16 episodes. Synopsis: Gil Oh-so, an employee at a cleaning company, meets Jang Seon-gyul, the boss of the company. The two are diametric opposite when it comes to cleanliness. With the help of Oh-sol, Seon-gyul faces his mysophobia and falls in love with her. Starring: Kim Yoo-jung as Gil Oh-sol -A positive and obtuse girl with a quirky personality. She doesn’t really care about dirtiness and possesses a strong stomach endurance. Yoon Kyun-sang as Jang Seon-kyul -A good-looking and wealthy CEO of a “Cleaning Fairy”, who has mysophobia. Song Jae-rim as Mr. Choi -A mysterious man who lives on the rooftop of Oh-sol’s house and is known for being a free spirit. He has a one-sided love for Gil Oh-sol. ——————————————————-SPOILER ALERT———————————————————

EP.1 Thoughts and Feelings

First of all, before the actual drama came out, Yoo Jung and Kyun Sang went on Knowing Brothers the variety show to promote the drama, and I decided to watch their drama because their real life chemistry and personalities both seemed really nice. So I went and did some research about the drama, and in both the behind the scenes or  the press conference the actors seemed very comfortable and playful with each other, which made me even more expectant of their chemistry in the actual drama. In the first episode, we start with seeing two kids at a playground. The little boy is Seon Kyul, and the little girl digs out a huge booger from her nose, and flicks it towards Seon Kyul. Scared, Seon Kyul screams in terror and the booger lands in his open mouth, and at that exact moment the adult Seon Kyul wakes up sweating, thank god that was just a dream or else that would have been really gross, I mean, even I felt a tad bit of nausea watching that booger fly into the poor kids mouth. Then comes the complete process of how clean freak Seon Kyul starts his morning, firstly his robot cleaner(pictured above) is on 24/7, and after he gets up he washes his hands thrice, then sanitises his hands, then takes a shower, then checks if there’s dust or dirt on every single inch of his huge apartment. He does NOT touch ANYTHING with barehands and uses a cloth to cover all unavoidable surfaces. I could never imagine being that obsessed with germs, to be honest I kind of relate to Gil Oh Sol instead, just because I’m lazy sometimes and skip some ‘sanitary procedures’ sometimes. We then continue to Oh Sol’s morning, and the contrast between the leads are shown very clearly. These two characters are the complete opposite of each other, and I think that this will be a typical ‘opposites attract’ type of story probably.  Oh Sol goes to her part time job on a crowded bus where germs are easily spread and she sleeps without a care in the world on the bus. Wearing clothes that haven’t been washed for days, she meets her best friend Joo Yeon and here is where we meet the cleaning fairies as well as Oh Sol’s crush for the first time. . The guys in the pink coveralls on the right are the ‘Cleaning Fairies’ aka the employees of Seon Kyul’s cleaning company, and the guy in the middle called Dong Hyun is famous for his good looks which is helping the company sell their services very well. And now this guy here is Oh Sol’s crush, her ‘sunbae’ meaning person who started at her university before her basically called Do Jin, and he takes care of her is nice to her and smiles at her which made Oh Sol fall in love with him. So what happens is, Seon Kyul’s beloved robot cleaner escapes, Oh Sol picks it up finding it in the garbage pile, and Seon Kyun sees her taking the robot cleaner on a nearby CCTV, and he posts flyers everywhere offering a 1000000won reward to anyone who brings his robot cleaner back to him yet not posting a picture of Oh Sol taking it which just seemed strange to me but oh well. So apparently the robot cleaner named Gum Ja Ssi was a present from an actual woman called Gum Ja Ssi, and she was the person who took care of Seon Kyul in replacement of his mother when he was a child, but she passed away already, which is why the robot cleaner is so precious to Seon Kyul. Seon Kyul receives an anonymous call for him to go to an alley where he will get his robot cleaner back, so he drives over looking for the exact spot. On the other hand, Oh Sol’s dad accidentally hurt his back, and Oh Sol replaces him for a day at work as a street cleaner. In the middle of clearing trash away though, Oh Sol bumps into Do Jin and in a panic she grabs a horse head mask nearby readily place in the trash pile, pulls it over her head and runs so that Do Jin doesn’t notice that it’s her who’s doing these kinds of jobs. Oh Sol runs for her life with Do Jin and his friends chasing her, Seon Kyul keeps driving on the road, Oh Sol runs head on to Seon Kyul’s car, wasn’t able to put on the brakes properly and all the trash in her cart flies over her head and onto Seon Kyul’s car. Seon Kyul gets mad and asks for compensation from Oh Sol, but as she is in the mask he can’t see her face, and Oh Sol only uses body language to communicate in fear on Do Jin recognising her voice. She tries to escape by leaving Seon Kyul with a note that has her phone number on it and tells him to contact her later, but Seon Kyul gets even more angry and at last pulls the mask off. Do Jin and Oh Sol’s brother both witness the incident and Oh Sol is embarrassed to death. The video of her running in a horse mask goes viral, yet her best friend invites her to go to Do Jin’s party to congratulate him for getting a day job at a television program for home shopping. Oh Sol says that she doesn’t want to face Do Jin after the mess, yet she still goes because she likes Do Jin and would never lose a chance to see him. Do Jin pretends like nothing happened in front of everyone else and makes Oh Sol fall even more in love with him, and later we’ll see more of him as well. To be honest, except for my idols, I have yet to experience love in reality with someone I know, so the way people act when they’re lovestruck in dramas is quite unfathomable to me as of right now. I understand it, but I’ve never felt it. I guess that’s why I like romantic things maybe, because I know nothing about it. So just a quick mention this is Oh Sol’s neighbour? or should it be tenant lol called Mr. Choi and he lives just above where Oh Sol lives. He doesn’t appear much in the first two episodes, but he’s one of the main leads, so we’ll see how his character plays out. Seon Kyul contacts Oh Sol through the number she gave him before, and asks her for 3500000won as compensation for accidentally pouring trash on his car, but asks her about the robot cleaner at the same time, and even though Oh Sol keeps pleading him for a discount Seon Kyul is adamant that Oh Sol has to pay him by the end of the month. At the broadcasting station, Oh Sol was planning on confessing her feelings to Do Jin, who asked her out to lunch the day before. She buys underwear as a gift and writes a card asking Do Jin to go out with her. She arrives but finds that things are not what she expected, Do Jin only asked her to come to help be a model for the home shopping segment, and he assumed that she would help just because she was a nice person who wouldn’t refuse. This made Oh Sol see Do Jin clearly as a person, and she tells the jerk off as deserved and walks off tears rolling down her face. Out of the blue, she sees Seon Kyul standing there on the way out, and he actually witnessed the whole scenario. Oh Sol returns the robot cleaner back to Seon Kyul, and walks off dejectedly. Back home, Oh Sol realises that she put the confession gift to Do Jin inside the same bag as the one containing the robot cleaner, and her face is priceless lol. Seon Kyul opens the package, and the elephant underwear appears, instead of the expensive underwear Oh Sol bought, so that’s something to think about, Seon Kyul gets a shock, Oh Sol moans in despair, and the episode ends there. For the first episode it was the typical character intro and the romantic comedy feelings were there, so I’m looking forward to how both the romantic scenes AND the comedy scene will roll out in future episodes. Seems worth watching so far and I will update more soon.