What is “Job Proposal”, the most watched series on Netflix this week?

Once again, a Korean proposal wins the favor of audiences around the world: mixture of K-drama and romantic comedy, Job Proposal (Business Proposal) reached the top spot in the ranking of international series on Netflix with more than 23 million hours of viewing. In South Korea, meanwhile, the series starring Kim Se-jeong (Hunting for Evil Spirits) and Ahn Hyo-seop (Abyss) breaks its own audience record on SBS: on March 22, when its eighth episode aired, it earned a 10.8% rating of the country's households, surpassing the 10.1% that had achieved the episode six.

To the 15.9 million hours accumulated in the first week of its premiere on the global platform Proposa Laboral, it added another 7.5 million, and thus surpassed Twenty Five Twenty One (Twenty Five Twenty One), which achieved 21 million.

And they are not the only two Korean titles in the Top 10 international series: they are also in fourth place Juvenile Justice (Juvenile Justice, 17, 2 million viewing hours), in fifth We are dead (All Of Us Are Dead, 13.8 million), in the sixth The Inclemences of Love (Forecasting Love and Weather, 13 million) and in the thirty-nine (Thirty-Nine, 9.1 million).

With a performance by Kim highly celebrated by critics, Proposa Laboral develops a history of misunderstandings. Kim plays Shin Ha-Ri, a young employee of the GO Food company who is always short of money because her parents live in a chronic shortage. Her friend Jin Young-Seo (Seol In-ah), the only daughter of the president of another wealthy company, Marine Group, asks her a favor: could she go on a blind date, armed by her family, which does not stop in her willingness to marry her, and do whatever it takes to discourage the candidate? Young-Seo even offers to pay Ha-Ri for her time.

At the time of the meeting, Ha-Ri discovers with fright that the boy Young-Seo was supposed to meet is GO Food CEO Kang Tae-Moo (Ahn), a workaholic who has just returned to Seoul after studying and working abroad, whom his grandfather, who owns the company, also wants to marry as soon as possible. She tries to scare him off with all the resources she can think of, but the next day Tae-Moo calls her to propose.

More than in love, the boy is fed up with his grandfather, Kang Da-goo (Lee Deok-hwa), who doesn't understand that the only passion in his life is work. So, when he ran out of excuses to refuse the blind dates that the founder of GO Food made him, he decided to accept one and stay with the girl who went to that meeting, without further ado. Having a facade of romance would allow him to regain his peace and his time for family chaebol.

Among the many things that Ha-Ri said to Tae-Moo to scare him away was not the most obvious one: that she was not Young-Seo. Of course, the CEO didn't recognize the face of one of his employees. Thus the first misunderstanding was installed.

But when Tae-Moo discovers Ha-Ri's secret, far from wanting to change his plan, he simply perfects it: he proposes that she pretend to be his fiancée with a view to a fake marriage and will pay her 800,000 won for each appointment. Ha-ri begins to study his alleged background and learn more about Tae-Moo's life and the customs of his family, so as not to look bad before his grandfather. From that moment on, the entanglements multiply.

The series is currently in development and its first season, of 12 episodes premiering Monday and Tuesday in South Korea, will end on April 5.

Directed by Park Sun-ho, Job Proposal is based on a web novel by Hae Hwa, who participated in the script along with Han Sul-hee and Hong Bo-hee. Before the series there was a webtoon, called The Office Blind Date, and that's why the first chapter opens with an animation that merges into real action.

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