Monthly Magazine Home (2021) [+]
Oct 07 2026
Monthly Magazine Home is a South Korean romance drama running 16 hour-long episodes. Desperate for a job, journalist Na Young-won (Jung So-min - Because This Is My First Life, 2017; Alchemy of Souls s1 (2022); Love Next Door, 2024) is hired as an editor at Monthly House, a sort of lifestyle and beautiful homes magazine recently bought by new owner Yu Ja-seong (Kim Ji-seok, supporting role in Kiss Sixth Sense, 2022).
Yu Ja-seong is a self-made real estate mogul and sees the magazine as strictly a vehicle to sell properties he buys (though it does have other articles). This puts him at odds with the regular magazine staff as they are more idealistic:
Na Young-won becomes Yu Ja-seong's personal editor, writing promotional articles for his properties, accompanying him on assessments and owner interviews, and editing to his exacting and boring standards (he's all about statistics and resale value not aesthetics).
Meanwhile she finds his YouTube channel where he gives financial advice to help people buy a home. She becomes his biggest fan (even though personally they don't have the best relationship) and is determined to follow his advice and save money for a home. She also uses the YT channel forum to write about her home buying experience and here is where Yu Ja-seong encourages her using an alt account.
Eventually Yu Ja-seong starts seeing Na Young-won not so much as a loser but as someone who is genuinely to be thrifty and save money for a home, which he sympathizes with. And so he starts being kinder to her and a mutual but secret attraction develops.
The ending is a bit off. There is a big reveal and Na Young-won decides to break up and leave Monthly House and one (or three) years later they happen to meet up and she's now an editor of her own small lifestyle YouTube channel (I think). They see each other, they smile, music, credits.
I do like the cool homes they showed off. All very big and expensive and each fairly unique. The secondary romance is between Yeo Eui-ju and Nam Song-soon though he has to go through a lot since he has a sweetheart who eventually leaves him because he took too long to propose -- he wanted to win a housing subscription first.
It's a mostly good series though I didn't particularly like the last episode when they have to break up. I finally got to see Jung So-min in a role where she's smiling a lot even though she's very good playing serious/somber characters and I've loved all her previous roles.
Yu Ja-seong is a self-made real estate mogul and sees the magazine as strictly a vehicle to sell properties he buys (though it does have other articles). This puts him at odds with the regular magazine staff as they are more idealistic:
- Choi Go (Kim Won-hae, lots of roles usually as the dad) - editor-in-chief
- Yeo Eui-ju (Chae Jung-an) - senior editor and Na Young-won's friend from college
- Nam Sang-soon (Ahn Chang-hwan) - editor who dreams of winning a housing subscription (I guess a lottery where the government helps you buy your first home)
- Shin Gyeom (Jung Gun-joo) - the new magazine photographer doing it as a favor to his good friend Yu Ja-seong, and he's secretly has very rich parents. Also falls for Na Young-won which indirectly causes one of their breakups.
Na Young-won becomes Yu Ja-seong's personal editor, writing promotional articles for his properties, accompanying him on assessments and owner interviews, and editing to his exacting and boring standards (he's all about statistics and resale value not aesthetics).
Meanwhile she finds his YouTube channel where he gives financial advice to help people buy a home. She becomes his biggest fan (even though personally they don't have the best relationship) and is determined to follow his advice and save money for a home. She also uses the YT channel forum to write about her home buying experience and here is where Yu Ja-seong encourages her using an alt account.
Eventually Yu Ja-seong starts seeing Na Young-won not so much as a loser but as someone who is genuinely to be thrifty and save money for a home, which he sympathizes with. And so he starts being kinder to her and a mutual but secret attraction develops.
The ending is a bit off. There is a big reveal and Na Young-won decides to break up and leave Monthly House and one (or three) years later they happen to meet up and she's now an editor of her own small lifestyle YouTube channel (I think). They see each other, they smile, music, credits.
I do like the cool homes they showed off. All very big and expensive and each fairly unique. The secondary romance is between Yeo Eui-ju and Nam Song-soon though he has to go through a lot since he has a sweetheart who eventually leaves him because he took too long to propose -- he wanted to win a housing subscription first.
It's a mostly good series though I didn't particularly like the last episode when they have to break up. I finally got to see Jung So-min in a role where she's smiling a lot even though she's very good playing serious/somber characters and I've loved all her previous roles.