Han Myung Wol (Han Ye Seul) is an elite spy from the North. She and her partner Choi Ryu (Lee Jin Wook) are on a mission in South Korea to kidnap top superstar Kang Woo (Eric). And as expected, Myung Wol falls in love Kang Woo.
Spy Myung Wol started on a good note. It had a good mix of action and romantic comedy. But as the series progressed, Han Ye Seul and Eric didn’t have the right chemistry to keep me interested with the series. The love team of Lee Jin Wook and Jang Hee Jin, who played an actress and granddaughter of the bad guy in the series, had better chemistry than them.
Eric didn’t have to try hard enough to play Kang Woo, who is a Hallyu star. Ye Seul was good in showing the emotions of her character but I just can’t sympathize with her. Plus the story is just too preposterous to start with. Instead of focusing on the spy stuff, it was more of a typical rich boy/poor girl romance drama.
Then tragedy struck the production when Han Ye Seul suddenly fled to New York, which caused the delay of the filming. Whether she had a good excuse or not, the damage has been done. The direction of the story changed and the plot became too messy and unbelievable. It took me a while to finish the entire.
Spy Myung Wol ended with a wedding. Talk about a cliché ending. I gave it a chance because it had good action scenes but that’s all it had to offer. If only it was more of a spy drama than the romance then it would have been a better series. It is an inconsistent story that you should avoid at all costs.
