Please Don't Date Him


Please Don't Date Him is a 2020 South Korean romantic comedy television series, starring Song Ha-yoon, Lee Jun-young, Yoon Bo-mi and Gong Min-jeung. Directed by Oh Mi-kyeong, the story of this series revolves around Seo Ji-seong a household appliances developer who dreams to live a life like a well-designed algorithm. The series was premiered on MBC Every 1 on November 10, 2020, and aired every Tuesday at 22:40 till January 12, 2021.

Synopsis

An AI-controlled, household appliances developer in Pelican Electronics, Seo Ji-seong, has dreams of living a perfect life like a well-developed program.
Working on an Artificial Intelligence refrigerator with voice-activated features, she inserts a super sensor chip which was lost by National Intelligence Service into a refrigerator, and an "Ancestral Spirit" program that picks scums instead of telling the freshness of vegetables is developed. So, Ji-seong finds out that her deemed perfect fiancé Jeong-han was actually not her Prince Charming.
One day, Jung Kook-hee, a firefighter, with no social media record, whom the program couldn't analyze, shows up. Ji-seong is skeptical about him, as there is no trace of his past on the internet.

Cast

Main

  • Song Ha-yoon as Seo Ji-seong, Manager of Pelican Electronics 'Voice Recognition Smart Home Appliance Ubiquitous Innovation Development Team' a programmer of the AI controlled home appliances.
  • Lee Jun-young as Jung Kook-hee, Whale Fire Station Life Safety Rescue Team Firefighter for 3 years, no social media, no digital convenience.
  • Yoon Bo-mi as Moon Ye-seul, Seo Ji-seong's friend, a Pelican quarantine staff.
  • Gong Min-jeung as Tak Ki-hyun, owner of organic cafe near Pelican Electronics

Supporting

; Pelican Electronics
  • Kang Mal-geum as Hwang Ga-eul, telegram girl, Pelican Electronics secretive girl
  • Jeong Min-sung as Oh Byung-Gil
  • Kim Ki-ri, as Jegal Su-won, team manager who always raises ideological problems
  • Nam Min-woo as Ok Dong-jin, an employee of the development team, a coding man
  • Kim Hyun-myung as Cho Yong-hwan, no one knows when he goes to work and when he leaves.
  • Park Han-sol as Byun Ha-ri, a subjective intern who takes care of what he did not do.
;Dentist friends
  • Lee Si-hoon as Bang Jeong-han, the man likes Facebook, Dentist. Ex-boyfriend of Seo Ji-seong.
  • Joo Woo-jae as Han Yu-jin, an Instagram-like man, dentist.
;Tak Ki-hyun's husband
;Whale Fire Station
  • Kim Gyeong-il as Gam Oh Joong, the man likes Tinder, from Whale Fire Station, has three children but always needs love, and finds that love outside.
;Others

Voice appearance

Guest appearance

Production

Casting

In June 2020, Song Ha-yoon was cast for her comeback series. Lee Jun-young was cast as the main male lead of the series in the same month. Later in October, Yoon Bo-mi and Gong Min-jung were cast to play supporting roles.

Filming

The script reading was done in October 2020 as new stills were released. The first teaser was released in the last week of October 2020.