My Bias, My Boss premieres tonight: idol fandom walks into the office rom-com
tvN’s My Bias, My Boss premieres August 3 at 20:50 KST with Kim Hye-jun as a lifelong idol fan, Kang Hoon as her CEO, and Cha Woo-min as the bias who pulled her into the fashion startup.
Mina Park
If your calendar still runs on bias birthdays, start here.
My Bias, My Boss (최애의 사원) premieres Monday, August 3 at 20:50 KST on tvN, then continues Mondays and Tuesdays for 12 episodes. Kim Hye-jun plays Nam Da-reum, a new Appello marketing hire who has spent about 12 years stanning Lee Chan of the idol group D.N.X. Kang Hoon is Kang Ha-gi, the young CEO who built the fashion platform and now has to manage the employee who drunkenly defended her bias at him before she knew he was the boss. Cha Woo-min is Chan, the idol-actor whose office presence is thinner than Da-reum hoped. ITZY’s Yuna plays Yoon Choi, an actress tangled in Chan’s orbit.
Studio Dragon, Studio N, and Npio Entertainment adapted Seong Eun’s Naver webtoon, which Wikipedia cites at more than 660 million global views. Lee Young and Kim Ji-an wrote the series; Park Ji-hyun directs. The premise is clean: she joined for the bias, the CEO noticed first, and an overseas company retreat turns approval-seeking into a full misunderstanding triangle.
Who this is for
Watch if you want office rom-com with actual fandom logistics, not a generic crush. Kim Hye-jun just came off sharper protective-thriller energy in A Shop for Killers Season 2; this is her soft lane. Skip the premiere stack if you are still mid-Married Woman Killer or Spooky in Love and only have one brain for appointment TV. Those stay Friday-Saturday. This owns the Mon-Tue comfort slot.
Where to watch
Domestic: tvN, with TVING and Wavve typically carrying cable titles in Korea. International: Rakuten Viki in supported regions, and HBO Max in select markets per August preview coverage. It is not positioned as a Netflix original. Confirm your app before you promise a watch party.
Our take
August already has assassin moms and ghost prosecutors on the weekend. Tonight’s ask is lighter: can a drama treat decade-long stan behavior as character, not punchline, while the CEO romance still lands? Sample the first two episodes. If the Appello badge and the lightstick share a frame without cringe, stay for the triangle. If the idol half feels like product placement, keep your soft hours for Spooky and come back when the ratings chatter settles.
