She found a bishounen in a box and called it self-care.
A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her of her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college returns.
Acting
Jang Keun-suk commits fully to being beautiful and pathetic.
Costume
The man literally wears a collar. Costume design said 'yes.'
Director
Kim Byung-gon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Yayoi Ogawa's josei manga 'Kimi wa Petto,' this adapts the 2003 Japanese drama that made Matsumoto Jun a household name. The Korean version amps the comedy and softens the heroine's edges.
Jang Keun-suk was 24 playing a 20-year-old dance prodigy; Kim Ha-neul was 33. The age gap mirroring reflects the source material's deliberate gender flip on typical noona romance power dynamics.
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