About My Mister
My Mister, known in Korean as Naui Ajeossi, is a quietly acclaimed 2018 drama that aired on the cable network tvN. It centers on Park Dong-hoon, a thoughtful, soft-spoken structural engineer in his mid-forties who carries the weight of his family and his workplace with steady, uncomplaining patience. Into his orderly world comes Lee Ji-an, a guarded young temp worker at his company, and what begins as an ordinary office acquaintance gradually grows into one of the most tender portraits of human connection in modern Korean television.
The series follows the slow, careful way these two very different people come to understand each other. Dong-hoon offers Ji-an a kind of unconditional decency she has rarely been shown, while her sharp honesty and resilience quietly reawaken his own sense of self-worth. Around them, the warm, boisterous world of Dong-hoon's two brothers, the neighborhood bar, and the friends who have known one another for decades provides humor, comfort, and a deep well of everyday camaraderie. The show treats ordinary kindness as something close to heroic.
Written by Park Hae-young and directed by Kim Won-seok, My Mister is celebrated for its restraint, its luminous cinematography, and its belief that empathy can genuinely heal people. Anchored by a deeply felt performance from Lee Sun-kyun and a revelatory turn from IU, the drama earned strong critical praise and a devoted international following. It is frequently cited among the finest examples of the Korean healing-drama tradition, remembered above all for its gentleness, its dignity, and its quiet faith in human goodness.