Business Proposal (also known as The Office Blind Date) is a 2022 South Korean television series based on the webtoon of the same title by HaeHwa, starring Ahn Hyo-seop, Kim Se-jeong, Kim Min-kyu, and Seol In-ah. It aired on SBS TV from February 28 to April 5, 2022, on every Monday and Tuesday at 22:00 (KST) for 12 episodes.
Shin Ha-ri (Kim Se-jeong) goes on a blind date in place of her friend, Jin Young-seo (Seol In-ah), whose father had arranged it. Young-seo had not wanted to attend and asks Ha-ri to go instead with the goal of having Ha-ri 'getting rejected' by her friend's prospective partner. However, the plans go awry when the prospective partner turns out to be Kang Tae-mu (Ahn Hyo-seop), the CEO of the company where Ha-ri works.
Tae-mu decides to marry his blind date partner without knowing she is fake Jin Young-seo or that she is his employee, which she tries assiduously to hide. The fake identity (but not her employment status) however is soon exposed after the real Jin Young-seo gets into a parking incident with Cha Sung-hoon (Kim Min-kyu), Tae-mu's secretary, who at that moment was acting as Tae-mu's driver.
After the fake identity is exposed, Tae-mu asks Young-seo to call Ha-ri to meet him immediately, in turn asking her for her real name. Ha-ri, not wanting to let her boss know that she is his employee Shin Ha-ri, says that her name is Shin Geum-hui (similar name to female lead name in the fictional television series that her parents watch) which she uses during fake dating and when meeting with Tae-mu's grandfather.
Tae-mu who, like Young-seo, is being pressured, in this case by his grandfather, the Chairman of the group Kang Da-goo (Lee Deok-hwa), to go on blind dates with suitable marriage partners, bullies and bribes Ha-ri into pretending to be his fiancée in exchange for a payment of 800,000 won per date.
This is money the cash-strapped Ha-ri desperately needs to bail out her consistently impecunious parents. Tae-mu and Sung-hoon give Ha-ri a fake background and she uses this and her acting skills to make, at least initially, a good impression on the Chairman, but her relationship with Tae-mu starts out frosty and uncomfortable.
Meantime, Young-seo moves out of her father's house to escape his demands to attend blind dates and finds, in a comic moment involving a marauding cockroach, that she is now Sung-hoon's neighbor. While she is attracted to him, he is upset with her for deceiving his boss. The drama is also available for streaming on Netflix in selected regions.
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