Idol FandomLove TriangleCEO Male LeadWebtoon AdaptationOffice Romance
Nam Da-reum has spent over a decade being unapologetically, financially, emotionally devoted to idol Lee Chan — the kind of fan who plans her calendar around his schedule. Then she lands a job at Appello Company, the fashion startup where her bias now works as a director, and My Bias, My Boss turns the fantasy of finally being close to your idol into a workplace comedy with an inconvenient complication: her cold, quietly attentive CEO, Kang Ha-gi, starts paying attention to her first.
An overseas company retreat turns a string of small misunderstandings into a full love triangle — Ha-gi reads Da-reum’s nerves as romantic interest, Chan reads them as something closer to hostility, and Da-reum is left holding a decade of devotion to one man while something new quietly builds with the other. It’s a premise built for workplace-rom-com comfort viewing, with just enough of an idol-fandom hook to feel fresh.
Episode Progress12 / 12 ✅ Completed
⚡ Quick Verdict
Everything worth knowing, distilled into one box.
⭐ Worth it?Yes — a rom-com that earns its ending instead of just coasting on the premise
⏱️ Commitment12 episodes · ~70 min each
💛 VibeA decade of fan devotion collides with an office romance, and the fandom loses gracefully
📺 Skip if…You need every corner of a triangle resolved with someone humiliated — this show is gentler than that
⭐ 8.1 / 10· MDL Score · 801 ratings
▶ Official Trailer
My Bias, My Boss Highlight
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My Bias, My Boss Teaser #3 – Kang Ha-gi
🎭 Cast & Characters
The fan, her idol, and the boss she didn’t see coming.
Nam Da-reum quits a stable job for one reason: getting closer to Lee Chan, the idol she’s stanned for a decade, by joining the company he co-founded. Her first day punishes that plan instantly, the man waiting for her isn’t Chan but CEO Kang Ha-gi, who already remembers her as the drunk stranger who gave him a nosebleed. To make it worse, she misses the one dinner where Chan actually shows up, leaving her the only employee without a photo with her own bias.
EP 02
Employee of the Year
Aug 4, 2026
Da-reum finally gets her decade-long dream moment when Lee Chan greets her by name, and the validation sends her straight into overreach — landing a spot on the company’s overseas training trip means courting the one man she’d rather avoid asking for favors. Her sudden generosity toward Ha-gi only deepens his suspicion instead of winning him over, and a misread glance between her boss and her idol convinces her Chan is already taken, turning a fangirl scheme into unexpected heartbreak.
EP 03
Twelve Years, Out Loud
Aug 10, 2026
Da-reum finally says the thing she’s carried for a decade — a full confession of twelve years loving Lee Chan, landing as genuine comfort rather than the awkwardness she braced for. Ha-gi and Sung-wook start eyeing her like a corporate spy given her SE Trading past, even as Ha-gi’s coldness keeps cracking into concern whenever she’s in trouble. A fashion-show crisis pulls her deeper into his orbit, while Da-reum misreads his attentiveness as a crush on Chan — who has no idea his ex is sabotaging his messages to her.
EP 04
An Afternoon With Her Bias
Aug 11, 2026
Da-reum finally gets what a decade of fandom was building toward: an afternoon at Chan’s place, comfortable enough that the fan-idol wall between them starts to feel optional. He leans into it too, warm in a way that reads as more than politeness. The timing is brutal for Ha-gi, whose suspicion has just started curdling into something warmer of his own — right as the woman he’s noticing spends her evening falling harder for someone else.
EP 05
Do You See Me As a Man?
Aug 17, 2026
A countryside business trip strips away Ha-gi’s excuses to keep his distance — an accidental hand-hold over kimchi, a chivalrous offer of his hands when her food turns out too spicy, small gestures that stop reading as nothing. Da-reum’s confusion shifts from Chan to whether she’s imagining things with her own boss. Sensing it from Seoul, Lee Chan drops everything to chase after her. By the time Ha-gi finally asks if she sees him as a man, the show stops hinting and starts asking directly.
EP 06
The Diary He Kept
Aug 18, 2026
The love triangle finally forces a choice: with both Ha-gi and Chan angling to drive her home, Da-reum picks Chan, and Ha-gi’s silent drive back alone says more than any dialogue could. Chan uses the ride to clear the air about Cho-yi — a breakup, not a betrayal — before admitting Da-reum means something different to him than any other fan ever has. The diary he pulls out isn’t a gotcha; it’s proof he already knows how long she’s loved him, and he hands it back gently instead of using it. They agree to take things slow.
EP 07
Caught With the Posters
Aug 24, 2026
The kiss leaves Da-reum rattled and Ha-gi infuriatingly composed — a mismatch that says more about him than any dialogue could. Lee Chan’s Los Angeles invitation pushes him to corner Ha-gi about why he keeps inserting himself into their relationship. At her apartment, Ha-gi finds the wall she’s spent years hiding: an entire shrine of D.N.X. and Lee Chan posters, the fan identity she never told him about. Da-reum admits who she’s actually been in love with, and a phone call at the very end knocks the wind out of her before she can say more.
EP 08
Confronting Intentions
Aug 25, 2026
The aftermath of the kiss and scandal leaves Da-reum in an emotional tangle, feeling awkward around Ha-gi even as Lee Chan’s LA invitation forces her to confront her shifting affections. The episode highlights her internal struggle between her long-held admiration for Chan and her growing connection with Ha-gi, a dynamic Chan himself escalates by directly questioning Ha-gi’s intentions. An unexpected phone call further complicates the love triangle, pushing Da-reum closer to a definitive choice.
EP 09
A Retreat and a Rival
Aug 31, 2026
They’re together now — quietly, carefully, still trading the same office. Episode nine is where a new relationship meets everything it hasn’t dealt with yet: an overseas company retreat that’s Da-reum’s one chance to be near Chan again, and a new creative director Chan has personally told to win Ha-gi over. Neither of them lies about it, exactly. They just learn how much a secret can hold before the people around it start pulling.
EP 10
A Rival She Can’t Name
Sep 1, 2026
Ha-gi’s first love doesn’t just reappear — she arrives as CEO of HAN, with a business reason to be in his office daily and a private one Lee Chan handed her: win him back. Episode ten traps Da-reum in the worst spot a secret relationship can build — watching a rival she has no standing to challenge, because no one knows there’s anything to defend. Then a discovery she wasn’t braced for lands, and the calm she’s faked all season cracks.
EP 11
The Day He Needed Most
Sep 7, 2026
A mole inside SE finally comes to light, and the fallout is not contained to boardrooms – Da-reum’s own proposal turns up looking suspiciously like a rival’s, with no one able to say yet who leaked it. Ha-gi takes the betrayal harder than anyone expects, skipping work for the first time all season and disappearing on the one day he is needed most. Da-reum does not chase an explanation – she just tells him she is staying, no conditions attached.
EP 12
A Door He Does Not Walk Through
Sep 8, 2026
Da-reum gets the kind of career offer that is supposed to feel like a win, but it is not what the finale actually sits with – watching Ha-gi with Jeong-yeon does that instead. She tells him plainly that what he has done has hurt her, and does not pretend she is fine. Chan’s ending is quieter: he visits the studio where D.N.X. is rehearsing to perform again, gets as far as the door, and stops – reconnecting to the music on his own terms, not necessarily to the group. Nobody gets a clean romantic-comedy bow here.
🏁 Ending Explained
Everything the finale means, spoilers and all.
⚠️Spoiler Warning — This section covers the full finale of My Bias, My Boss. Stop here if you haven’t finished the series.
What Actually Happened Ha-gi proposes on an ordinary park walk, not a grand set piece — he tells Da-reum he wants to be the place she comes home to every day and hands her the ring without a speech built for an audience. She says yes, and for the first time all season it is not complicated: no contract to hide behind, no secret to manage, no rival watching from the doorway. The engagement lands exactly where the slow-burn always pointed, once the show finally let the relationship survive contact with everyone else’s expectations.
The Paris Assignment, On Her Own Terms Da-reum still takes the Paris placement — the finale never makes her trade the CEO for the career, or the career for the CEO. She leaves with Ha-gi’s actual support instead of his reluctant permission, works the assignment on merit, and comes home a day early because proving herself was never about staying away as long as possible. It is the detail that keeps her arc from collapsing into just “she got the guy” — she gets the job too, months past the point anyone could say she used either man to land it.
The Ending Chan Actually Gets Lee Chan does not get Da-reum, and the finale does not dress that up as a loss. Roy finally comes back after nine years of guilt, and D.N.X reunites on stage as a full group, performing together the way Chan always wanted to close that chapter. His arc was never really about winning the fan who loved him for a decade — her devotion is what got him standing at that studio door in the first place, and the show lets him walk through it toward his actual unfinished business instead.
One Real Act of Conscience Choi Seong-wook gets the season’s smallest but most pointed redemption: exposed as the mole who leaked the proposal, he still holds the final version back from the competitors who would have used it — one genuine act of conscience after an entire arc spent looking like dead weight. Appello closes its partnership with HAN anyway, on the strength of Da-reum’s original pitch, so the professional stakes the show spent nine episodes building actually pay off instead of quietly vanishing once the romance resolved.
The KDW Verdict My Bias, My Boss ends by refusing the two easiest outs available to it: nobody gives up a career for love, and nobody who loses the triangle gets written off as collateral damage. Ha-gi’s proposal works because eleven episodes earned his ability to say something plainly instead of coldly, and Chan’s ending works precisely because it stops being about Da-reum at all. For a premise built on a punchline — fan gets job at idol’s company, falls for the boss instead — it closes with more restraint than the setup ever promised.
✍️ KDramaWorlds Editor’s Take
Our honest take — is it worth your time, and who’s it really for.
💼 CEO Bias Alert🎤 Decade-Long Fangirl💔 Love Triangle Incoming🏢 Workplace Rom-Com
My Bias, My Boss is banking on a premise that’s more self-aware than it sounds on paper — what actually happens when the fantasy of working near your idol collides with a real workplace, and a real, inconveniently attentive boss. It’s a spiritual cousin to the CEO-and-employee dynamic Business Proposal mined so well, except here the employee already has a decade of emotional loyalty pointed somewhere else before her boss even enters the picture.
Putting an idol character inside a rom-com love triangle instead of a straightforward showbiz satire like The Heavenly Idol is a different bet — the fandom angle here isn’t the joke, it’s the emotional stakes Da-reum has to actually weigh against something new.
Kim Hye-jun and Kang Hoon’s pairing pays off exactly the way the casting suggested it could — his ‘cold yet caring’ CEO earns the caring part scene by scene instead of just being told he’s changed. Cha Woo-min’s Lee Chan turns out to be the show’s real gamble, and it pays off differently than expected: he never becomes a real romantic option, but the finale gives him a resolution that has nothing to do with losing the girl.
👍👍👍 BEST FOR 👍👍👍
💼 Fans of workplace rom-coms who want the CEO/employee dynamic with a fresh twist🎤 Anyone who’s ever had a bias and wondered ‘what if I actually worked there’💔 Viewers who enjoy a slow-burn love triangle without deciding early who’s ‘right’
⚖️ Final Verdict
What works
•Kang Hoon’s Ha-gi earns the shift from cold to plainspoken instead of just being told he’s changed
•Da-reum’s arc keeps her career and her relationship as two separate wins, not a trade-off
•Lee Chan’s ending resolves his arc without punishing him for losing the girl
What to know first
•The Jeong-yeon rival stretch in the back half runs a little long before the proposal lands
•Viewers wanting a villain to lose decisively won’t get one — Seong-wook’s redemption is deliberately small
•The D.N.X reunion subplot matters more if you’re invested in Chan specifically
8.1 / 10— A workplace rom-com that trusts its ending enough to let both losers of the triangle walk away intact.
This review was written and fact-checked by the KDW editorial team — a small group of K-drama viewers who watch every title before writing about it. No screeners, no synopsis-only takes.
A decade of being ‘unapologetically, financially, emotionally devoted’ to one idol and then landing a job at the company tied to him is such a specific kind of chaos 😅 — the premise alone had me hooked before the first scene even played out. Curious if anyone predicted where the workplace dynamic was headed.
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A decade of being ‘unapologetically, financially, emotionally devoted’ to one idol and then landing a job at the company tied to him is such a specific kind of chaos 😅 — the premise alone had me hooked before the first scene even played out. Curious if anyone predicted where the workplace dynamic was headed.
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