Please Don't Date Him

Please Don't Date Him
Promotional poster
Hangul	제발 그 남자 만나지 마요
Literal meaning	Please Don't Meet That Guy
Revised Romanization	Jebal Geu Namja Mannaji Mayo
Genre	Romantic comedy Science fiction
Created by	Yoon Sung-ho
Written by	Yoon Kim Kim Jeong-hee Jung Jae-in Songpyeon
Directed by	Oh Mi-kyeong
Creative director	Choi Yoon-jeong
Starring	Song Ha-yoon Lee Jun-young Yoon Bo-mi Gong Min-jung
Theme music composer	Kang Ming-uk Lim Hyun-ji
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producer	Song Jae-young
Running time	70 minutes
Production company	Corner Stone Pictures
Original release
Network	MBC Every 1
Release	November 10, 2020 – January 12, 2021

Please Don't Date Him (Korean: 제발 그 남자 만나지 마요) is a 2020 South Korean romantic comedy television series, starring Song Ha-yoon, Lee Jun-young, Yoon Bo-mi and Gong Min-jung. Directed by Oh Mi-kyeong, the story of this series revolves around Seo Ji-seong (Song Ha-yoon) 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 on every Tuesday at 22:40 (KST) 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, 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 always raises ideological problems
• Nam Min-woo as Ok Dong-jin, an employee of the development team, 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

• Kim Tae-gyeom as Kim Sang-sik, Tak Ki-hyun's husband, old blogging man, an office worker.

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, finds that love outside.

Others

• Lee Ji-ha as Jung-han's mother
• Shin Ji-yeon as Nurse
• Jung In-gi
• Hwang Young-hee as Lee Eun-hwa
• Choi Baek-gu as Kim Jin-soo

Voice appearance

• Kim Myung-jun
• Kim Su-ji

Guest appearance

• Jo Jae-yoon

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

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

Original soundtrack

Please Don't Date Him
Soundtrack album by Various
Released	2020 - 2021
Genre	Soundtrack
Language	Korean English
Label	Danal Entertainment

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Ratings

Average TV viewership ratings

Ep.	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		Nielsen Korea
		Nationwide	Seoul
1	November 10, 2020	0.2%	—
2	November 17, 2020	0.3%
3	November 24, 2020	0.2%
4	December 1, 2020	0.4%
5	December 8, 2020	0.6%
6	December 15, 2020	0.3%
7	December 22, 2020	0.4%
8	December 29, 2020	0.2%
9	January 5, 2021	0.2%
10	January 12, 2021	0.2%
Average		0.3%	%
The blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.