Kevin C. Wong

Clean with Passion for Now (2018) [+]

Clean with Passion for Now was a South Korean romance series that ran 16 episodes each over an hour long. Jang Seon-kyul (Yoon Kyun-sang) is a tall, meticulous, mysophobic (fear of germs and contamination) who is CEO of a small cleaning company, Cleaning Fairy. Gil Oh-sol (Kim Yoo-jung) is a messy post-high schooler who can't keep a job.

They've had a couple of unfortunate run-ins but somehow Oh-sol is hired at Cleaning Fairy and turns out she both loves the job and is good at it, though outside of work is still clumsy and messy. Seon-kyul and Oh-sol continually clash but are slowly drawn to each other and it turns out Oh-sol's presence mitigates Seon-kyul's mysophobia.

One obstacle Seon-kyul's grandfather who wants to both cure the mysophobia and control his life by having Seon-kyul take over the family conglomerate. A second obstacle is the mysterious boarder at Oh-sol's house, Daniel Choi (Song Jae-rim) who turns out not only to be Sen-kyul's secret psychiatrist but has love Oh-sol from afar for several years. And a third obstacle towards the end is that the Jang conglomerate indirectly caused the death of Oh-sol's mother...

Seon-kyul is rather annoying for the first few episodes but he eventually becomes a sympathetic character. Kim Yoo-jung is very charming and shows off how she can cry on command (she's been acting since she was 4). Production is good. I found this series quite entertaining.