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What a Boss Wants

보스의 노골적 취향
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01 / A closer look

The story, without the spoilers.

What a Boss Wants is a romantic comedy about a perfect CEO whose life runs on logic, and the indie singer whose voice breaks every rule he lives by. Kwon Do-hyuk is a chaebol heir, an entertainment-company boss and an AI genius who judges everything by data and principle. He sleeps badly, feels little, and trusts numbers more than people. Then he hears a woman's voice on an album, a voice that calms him in a way nothing else does, and he sets out to find the singer behind it. She is Lee Eun-chae, a call-centre worker by day who hides her real life from her family, and by night the vocalist Soo of an indie band. Do-hyuk uses her secret as leverage and hires her as his secretary for three months, and neither of them expects the line between a contract and a feeling to blur. It is a light, familiar rom-com, and for fans of contract romance and music, it promises an easy, enjoyable watch.

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02 / The watch guide

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12
Episodes
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04 / A closer look

The Oxfea take.

Oxfea Preview Score: 7.2/10 — Worth your weekend

Verdict in one line: Preview: a fun voice-hunt hook and a classic contract romance — familiar, but the music angle gives it a chance.

Oxfea Score: 7.2/10 (preview — judged on the premise, source material and cast only; no finished series to rate yet).

Why you will get hooked

  • A logic-obsessed CEO hunts the mystery voice on an album — and finds a secret indie singer.
  • A three-month secretary contract, a hidden double life, and a love triangle with a kind doctor.
  • Sung Hoon as the cold boss, Oh Se-young as the woman who disrupts his perfect system.

Story, in plain words

The voice is a good hook: a man who trusts only data, undone by something he cannot measure. Eun-chae's double life — ordinary worker by day, indie vocalist by night — gives the romance a secret worth keeping, and the contract setup is pure rom-com comfort food.

It is also very familiar territory, and the show will live or die on chemistry and comedy rather than originality. The AI-singer subplot could be clever or a gimmick. A promising, low-risk watch for rom-com fans.

What a Boss Wants: at a glance

  • Original title: 보스의 노골적 취향
  • Genres: Drama
  • Network / platform: MBN
  • Episodes: 12
  • First released: 11 November 2026 (announced; CMS date field blank)

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Sources: TMDB and the broadcaster official pages. Facts checked November 2026.

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