King of High School Episode 1-4 Review

I am in love with this show. Seriously. tvN has another hit with it's great storyline and cast! If you had any reservations about this show before, drop them because it's a GREAT rom-com already!

Episode 1

Seo In Guk plays Lee Min Seok, our main character, is a popular high school student that plays on the ice hockey team. The story starts off with him rushing between work and making it to school in time for his hockey game. However, for some reason, there is no clear indication of a time jump because we are thrust into the past showing how Lee Min Seok becomes a director at a company in place of his brother. His brother, Lee Hyun Seok is supposed to return home from Germany to work at Comfo, however he doesn't show up. He calls Min Seok to tell him to take his place at the company for just 2 months, for some reason he can't return home. And of course, this must be kept secret for his sake. Min Seok agrees and so the shenanigans BEGIN!

Lee Hana plays Jung Soo Young, a contractor at Comfo who eventually becomes Min Seok's secretary. She's a little quirky and...weird but cute in her own way. She's competent at her job but she's the socially awkward screw up, especially in front of her love Jin-woo. She doesn't know that Min Seok is a high schooler but their fate intertwines when she confesses her love to Jin-woo only to be rejected (awkward since those two just met) and drowns her sorrows in alcohol. Min Seok sees this and tries to take care of her. Later on, her drunken fits and unrequited love becomes a source of entertainment for Min Seok. We have yet to find out how Soo Young learns of Min Seok's double identity scheme.

Lee Soo Hyuk plays Yoo Jin-woo, son to the president of Comfo. He has a terrible relationship with his father. He's not right off the bat the typical rich jerk because we see he does have issues, but he does reject Soo Young rather harshly. Since he is supposed to be Min Seok's rival in the company we can see him as a type of antagonist in the future.

Lee Yeol-eom plays Jung Yoo Ha, Soo young's younger sister who is in love with Min Seok. She's crazy. Very clingy, but she's not Min Seok's official girlfriend. This will obviously complicate matters in the future because she is related to Soo Young for romantic and problematic reasons in general. She is annoying but her love for Min Seok is genuine.

The show already establishes the main and minor characters so you get to see each character's perspective in every episode. I am rooting for Soo Young and Jin-woo mainly because Min Seok and Soo young don't fit together romantically. PLUS he's 18, very awkward. I'm also interested in Jin-woo's character and how he will develop. This show is extremely funny, it's not over the top silly like how 'Witch's Romance' was. GREAT SHOW LOVE IT!

Episode 2

Min Seok has to balance and adjust to his new life now. He has to skip school in order to get to work but also portray himself as a genius to fill in for his brother. Min Seok is quite dumb. Therefore, when his colleagues find out that he is not Hyun Seok but rather his younger brother, they begin to have a hard time trying to cover for him. Min Seok of course doesn't make it easy for them. President Yoo likes his brazen and arrogant attitude but Min Seok's team members are dying. The interactions between them are HILARIOUS. This episode is mainly shenanigans and trying to cover up his identity from his high school friends and family, but of course it gets more difficult...

Episode 3

One word:HILARIOUS.

There is more character development here but of course more comedy as well. Min seok gets himself in a pickle by accidentally taking Jin-woo's idea during a project meeting. President Yoo likes Jin-woo's idea however, since he hates his son, he points out the negatives about his idea presented in a negative manner. Min Seok accidentally interjects with foolish commentary but President Yoo likes it, so Min Seok has to do a presentation over Jin-woo's potential project. GREAT. Min seok and his team members are of course reeling by this news and they have to come up with a presentation in a short amount of time. But the day he has to present is the same day as Min-seok's scrimmage game. He can't miss anymore practices or any games so this is a slight problem. The scrimmage game goes over time because of the referee's injury. So after scoring one point, Min seok quickly leaves and arrives pretty late to the presentation. He kills it however and everyone loves it. SAFE!!

Min Seok and Soo Young grow closer as Soo Young and Jin-woo grow farther apart. Jin-woo makes it clear that her presence makes him uncomfortable. Min Seok, like us the audience, ships them together so he tries to make opportunities for them to like each other however, he oversteps and hurts Soo Young in the process.

We see vulnerability behind the stoic Jin-woo and the socially awkward Soo Young so we can't help but pity them. At the same time though, we look forward to the shenanigans!

Episode 4

The pressure of keeping up his double identity is beginning to build up even more in this episode.

Min Seok's two best friends show up after being threatened by Yoo Ha at his company demanding to know what's going on. He eventually tells them without throwing a scene and to keep them quiet, HE USES THE COMPANY CARD TO BUY THEM THINGS. This scene was hilarious. They shop and eat EVERYTHING. Later on however, a man who works at Sehwa, Comfo's rival company, asks Min Seok to drink with him. Since his brother had relations with Sehwa, and you can't say no to a senior, he agrees to this. Big mistake. Min seok and his friends drink and noraebong with the director and it's bad. Someone from Comfo sees that Min seok is having drinks and relations with Sehwa...uh...oh...

A couple of days later, it's revealed that Sehwa stole a project idea that Jin-woo introduced. The blame is put on Min seok, causing everyone to worry about him being a spy. However, it's revealed that one of his team members is wrongfully investigated by Jin-woo. Min seok stands up to Jin-woo in a charismatic and sexy showdown, marking the beginning of their rivalry.