The Spies Who Loved Me (2022) [+]
Jan 14 2026
The Spies Who Loved Me is a South Korean romance drama running sixteen 70-minute episodes.
Wedding dress designer Kang Ah-Reum (Yoo In-na) gets embroiled in an industrial espionage plot when her friend Sophie Ahn (Yoon So-hee) is murdered at Ahn's bachelorette party. For some reason Ah-Reum's ex-husband Jun Ji-Hoon (Eric Mun) was also there and insists on helping her out, maybe to get back together but actually because he works for Interpol Asia and is secretly investigating the case. Ji-Hoon butts heads with Ah-Reum's current husband, Derek Hyun (Lim Ju-hwan), who is a refined socialite working at the Koren Foreign Affairs office.
This is the third Yoo In-na series I've watched the last few months, after Touch Your Heart (2019) and True to Love (2023). Apparently she was also in Snowdrop (2021) but I only watched the first few episodes. She's kind of played the same sort of character in all three but she has that role nailed down. Sure it's the same character over and over again but my opinion of her keeps going up.
The series itself is entertaining. It's fairly high production value with lots of nice locations and attractive people. Park So-jin plays Ah-Reum's business partner and friend and she also was the lead's best friend in True to Love and a bigger part there than in this one. Both male leads I hadn't seen before and it's probably my viewing choices that I keep seeing the same female leads but the male leads are quite more varied.
I like that Ah-Reum is fairly skilled and assertive. She has some nice pick-up spying type skills and is willing to keep going when her investigations get dangerous even though she thinks she's basically doing it on her own. This is probably the best of her three characters I've seen simply because she holds her own skills-wise.
I enjoyed this series.
Wedding dress designer Kang Ah-Reum (Yoo In-na) gets embroiled in an industrial espionage plot when her friend Sophie Ahn (Yoon So-hee) is murdered at Ahn's bachelorette party. For some reason Ah-Reum's ex-husband Jun Ji-Hoon (Eric Mun) was also there and insists on helping her out, maybe to get back together but actually because he works for Interpol Asia and is secretly investigating the case. Ji-Hoon butts heads with Ah-Reum's current husband, Derek Hyun (Lim Ju-hwan), who is a refined socialite working at the Koren Foreign Affairs office.
This is the third Yoo In-na series I've watched the last few months, after Touch Your Heart (2019) and True to Love (2023). Apparently she was also in Snowdrop (2021) but I only watched the first few episodes. She's kind of played the same sort of character in all three but she has that role nailed down. Sure it's the same character over and over again but my opinion of her keeps going up.
The series itself is entertaining. It's fairly high production value with lots of nice locations and attractive people. Park So-jin plays Ah-Reum's business partner and friend and she also was the lead's best friend in True to Love and a bigger part there than in this one. Both male leads I hadn't seen before and it's probably my viewing choices that I keep seeing the same female leads but the male leads are quite more varied.
I like that Ah-Reum is fairly skilled and assertive. She has some nice pick-up spying type skills and is willing to keep going when her investigations get dangerous even though she thinks she's basically doing it on her own. This is probably the best of her three characters I've seen simply because she holds her own skills-wise.
I enjoyed this series.