I'm Not a Robot (2017)

I am not yet done watching the drama, but I am already wondering as early as now as to why this didn't get enough attention in Korea. The drama is actually one of the best I have watched this year. I actually enjoyed this drama and its structure is really similar to Strong Woman:

1.) Very unusual plot (Except the plot here is a lot better and unique as compared to Strong Woman)
2.) Solid cast chemistry
3.) Laugh-generating show
4.) No real plot twist (So the rewatch value does not suffer)
5.) Feel-Good-Turned-Tear-Jerking-RomCom

Strong Woman gained so much attention and love from both Korea and internationally, so I was wondering why this show wasn't well received in Korea (cause it is adored by many internationally). I honestly thought that Yo Seung ho - Chae Soo Bin would look bad, and never had I been more wrong. Their chemistry was so good that I actually want them to date in real life now.

A lot could have been still improved in this drama, mainly the OST and the plot. But overall, it's a show that has been greatly underappreciated by many

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Apologies in advance - I’m still getting my bearings on this reviews thing especially since I love this drama so much!
Most people who have seen me in the comments section will know that I have no expectation of dramas when I choose what I want to watch and that I also don’t compare. I have compared only once before but looks like I’m gonna have to do it again. :D

First of all, I haven’t been able to complete a k-drama since Strong Woman and Go Back Couple which I watched whilst they were both airing. If you watched them whilst they were airing you’d know how long ago that is now.  My reason for watching this drama was simply because it was about robots (kinda) and that in the teaser they said it’s a romantic comedy.

I’m not gonna lie, in the first few minutes of the drama I noticed the female lead was also the lead in Strongest Deliveryman which I only watched as far as episode one so I was a bit like “oh no, not her. I hope she’s not horrible for no reason in this one too”. I had the idea in my head that she was gonna be exactly the same as her SD character so I continued watching just for the sake of completing the first episode. I will admit that I wasn’t in the best mood the first time I watched it so I didn’t pay too much attention to everything else that was happening. So the next day I gave it another go and I fell in love!

This drama is for anyone who loves cute and fluffy dramas similar to Strong Woman and Shopping King Louis. I was crying, laughing, smiling and even felt anger and guilt throughout the entire drama. I think this is the second drama I’ve watched that has strong messages about family, friendship and love.

The bad bits:
? There were little tiny itsy bitsy questions that I had by the end of the drama but I didn’t think we’d would actually get any answers for but hey that’s drama for you
? It made me cry 30 out of 32 episodes but I’m pretty much an emotional person. Have your tissues (or in my case sleeve) ready!
? Instead of SLS I had a bit of a soft spot for the actor Kim Min Kyu- he’s so adorable in this drama

The good bits:
? It’s super cute and fluffy and leaves you wanting more.
? In my opinion the speed of the storyline was just right, it didn’t feel like it was dragging or rushed. In all honesty I wish it was like a UK soap which never finishes unless the network cancels it.
? The ending for me, in a word was absolutely perfect. It didn’t end in the usual wedding and baby cliche which is where I thought it was gonna go but I’m happy that it didn’t.
? The OST - MY GOODNESS ME!!!! I could listen to the whole thing on a loop all day long - which I have!
? The cast I believe worked extremely well. You could feel their love and affection for one another. They really made me wanna watch more so I’m glad I gave it another go otherwise I would’ve missed out on such a fantastic drama.

Rewatching value for me is 100/10, I will never get bored of rewatching.

Well done to everyone in and behind the drama. I look forward to seeing more of their work, even if it’s not together. :D
Well done to everyone who hung in there with the weekly Tortures of Cliffhangers. It hasn’t quite sunk in yet that it’s over because I’ve not felt sad but I’m sure after a few days it will hit me like a ton of bricks. XD

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I am glad that out of all these good reviews about this drama a few reviews matches what i experienced. I don't know what went wrong with this one but i just didn't feel their chemistry and it felt too predictable after she stopped acting to be a robot. The side characters story wasn't that engaging , i just couldn't care less what they did. The story was stretched in the 2nd half. It started to feel a little dumb after sometime. And it was so predictable. I know everyone finds this cute and fluffy but it just felt like a chore to finish this one. So i wouldn't recommend it if someone likes to watch dramas with good plot and interesting characters.

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IT TOUCHED MY HEART IN A WAY THAT NO ONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED

I should say,"I am not a robot" is my favorite drama series ever i watched.I love it,it makes me so happy & i addict on it.this drama is amazing it makes me laugh and cry at the same time.Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin have done extremely well throughout the entire series.what I love about Yoo Seung Ho,when he's acting he's not Yoo Seung Ho,he's the character he's portraying.You'll laugh with him,you'll cry with him,you'll feel what he's feeling.He nailed the reset scene.Watch this series and you'll know what I mean.Chae soo bin is such a perfect actress.she stolen my heart.what I love about her,she is so cute and sensitive.I love her role as "Aji 3"I'm seriously telling this,her acting is the main reason to highlight the whole drama.I'm still watching this drama series for 1st time.I can't express my feelings for "I am not a robot" properly, you might feel I've done it in this review,but it's not enough for me.That's why I highly rated(10.0)❤️ this show.

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Yo Seung Ho acting here is absolutely incredible: he is capable to transform a superficial story to a real human tragedy. And somehow, although, the story seems an absurd, you can feel every main character's emotional impulse. It's really something when a guy who has to play a rich man with an unique allergy to the people and an affection to a robot girl, makes you feel it as a real thing. Only because of his acting it was worth to watch it and even to rewatch it. So, the story is more than ridiculous but the Yo Seung Ho's acting lifts it to a much higher level, even to an existential drama. But what can I say about the drama itself? Well, it's aesthetically beautiful and emotionally pleasant but other details are really superficial. However, the acting... ;D

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Silly But Fun

This drama was my first time seeing Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin in any drama so I had nothing to gauge their performances against, but I really loved both of them.

The premise is wild but it's unique and fun, albeit a little creepy. lol Getting to see her go from very robotic "robot" to realistic "robot" was really fun. The situations she got herself into were very sitcom-like but they pulled them off well.

I also really liked seeing the progression of Kim Min Kyu (Yoo Seung Ho) from anal, uptight, weirdo introvert to a more relaxed version of himself that can entertain guests without absolutely losing it.

The romance is cute too. It's sort of a unique twist on the enemies to lovers trope that we see so often, but it really works well.

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THE CUTEST, HEARTWARMING AND ADDICTING KDRAMA I KNOW

For the 4th time around this year I watched this drama again and the same feeling I felt after almost 5 years ago when I watched it the first time, I remember back then that I watched this 3 times in a row last 2019 and this is the first ever Kdrama I become addicted into, this Kdrama is the door for me in the kdrama world and being a kdrama addict.
I so love the idea of the story of this Kdrama, a Chaebol that has a human allergy and a hardworking or desperate inventor who pretended to be a robot and then fell in love, if we will be looking through this kdrama, there was really nothing that makes sense with the story but for a person who loves fictions, fantasy like me, that has an imaginations and dreams always going around, this is the kdrama for us , I am so obsessed with how the made every moments and scenes of this kdrama , every moments hit my heart big time and this kdrama made me like I am able to enter to JI A and MIn Kyu's world !
When Ji A pretended to be Aji 3 it was so so funny and fluttering , like when Sta Maria Team came up with the Chingu Modeu, it was so funny like all I ever wished is that Min Kyu will notice Ji A right away as I watch it instead of Ri El , Also it was so funny that MIn Kyu was so full of himself that Ji A always ended up being embarrassed thinking that MIn Kyu might done things for her, and I so like it when Min KYu was so cute as he smiles, he is literally my first crushes on Krama for real.
The reset part was the part that I cried so much about ! I dont know why that even I watched this for the 4th time around, they were so great at it that I felt it so much ! it was so sad , like I can relate so much with MIn kyu because I am also a person who always have a hard time letting go of people or things, and when MIn Kyu saw Ji a again after the reset and followed her it was so beautiful and sad and i had a mixed emotions .
About MIn Kyu's Human allergy, I think if this is not a fiction, that allergy might be like related psychologically, that the person whom that allergy has, must have someone who can earn their trust that the allergy will be healed , so anyways this is just my thoughts.
I so love the character progress here , the cousin of Min Kyu, and also those who 2 guys in black that was on the blue small van they were so funny and so love them too, also the main characters progress , also of Pai and Hong Baksa.
About MIn Kyu and Jo JI A's confrontation , It broke my heart like It was so sad and happy too that they had a chance to talk about it to each other, I really understand MIn Kyu, I was actually surprised that for some time he accepted JI A fast, well maybe because he loves her anyways , and I cried on that scene too !
There are so many things that I like about this drama, but I can' t tell it all here , I just wanna say that this kdrama is a legend for me and I believe , it is not only for me but also to the Kdrama world , I can never for get this drama, this is a top of my top lists everything was so cute, so heartfelt, so funny and fluttering and so love the story, love every cast definitely a 10 out of 10 for me !

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Took me a while to actually start watching this drama, but it had a nice setting and Seungho and Soobin were cute so I might as well. At first, I had to admit that the initial plot of having Minkyu have an allergy to human contact was a bit farfetched. But then I ended up looking up the internet for the possibility of allergies to have connection with mental illness, and surprisingly, there were some studies that imply the likelihood for something like that to happen!

Because of that, I had a renewed interest in this drama. Since it is an interesting scenario where someone could have developed such illness due to some extreme conditions and how one could try to heal someone from it. In that sense, it was actually logical to think that having an android that looked like a real person could help someone who could easily die from a simple touch. It's also an interesting scenario on how AI and robotics could be use to help people in need of help.

I really love Yoo Seungho in this drama. It really felt like he's a perfect fit to play Minkyu and it's hard to imagine someone else who could do this better. And Seungho was really good at playing socially awkward characters to the point of fondness. You just can't help being drawn to his character and sympathising at the kind of lonely life he had endured. And I like how his progress in getting better was written in a way that it was believable and wasn't sudden. I also love how it was depicted like a modern fairy tale on how love helps in healing an illness that was influenced by the mind.

Chae Soobin was really great in this drama, playing the human Ji-A, alongside the android Aji-3. Like you can really tell the difference when she was playing a person and when she's playing a robot. Uhm Kijoon was great as the scientist who created Aji-3, Dr Hong. Since he tend to end up playing villain roles a lot more times than he plays good characters, I really appreciate him not being a villain in this drama lol.

Have to say that as much as the corporate plot was secondary compared to the main romance plot, the former didn't feel like pasted on as some irrelevant background setting. Both of the story plot was pretty balanced and enjoyable.

For those who love the science fiction theme on how robots and AI would want to learn more about humans, this drama was a fascinating watch. As much as the android Aji-3 didn't really do much in the drama, the android was still shown to still be able to learn through the input given by Ji-a, who pretended to be Aji-3. It was interesting to see how all of the accumulated data that Aji-3 then leads to it deciding by herself to choose to return to its rightful home instead of allowing itself to be taken by bad businessman who seek to use her technology for military purposes.

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unique and different concept..

This is one of the 'feel good' type Kdrama..It's got a great storyline, timely comic reliefs.. it's about sci-fi, being human, time, memories, courage and trust. The seriousness and dark mode never lasted too long and it faded away with the best climax I have watched.

The main characters are just hilarious😁😁😁.... Yoo Seung-ho is indeed a great actor. His acting is flawless...
Each and every actor and their characters are awesome as they are done justice on till the end.

The ending of the story is beautifully and leisurely written which just warms your heart. If you are feeling sad after watching a sad story you should watch this for heal yourself. I love this wonderful drama with a happy ending...

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This was fantastic

I’m embarrassed to say that I put this one on hold after watching the first couple episodes. One of my biggest dislkes is someone pretending to be something they aren’t. So, once I saw where it was going I put it on hold.

I just went back to it and binged watched the rest of the 32 episodes in a few days. This was incredible.

I am now the biggest Yoo Seoung Ho fan on the planet. That man can act! This role required him to: 1) act like a cold and demanding boss, 2) act like someone who is lonely with no social skills, 3) act like a spoiled child, 4) act like a child experiencing happiness for the first time, 5) act like a child being inquisitive and learning new things for the first time, 6) falling in love for the first time, 7) being completely heartbroken, and 8) being intelligent and compassionate.

HIS EYES ARE THE MOST EXPRESSIVE I HAVE EVER SEEN. His crying scenes nearly broke me.

The rest of the cast did a great job too. This is one of the best I have watched.

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Don’t get me wrong, it’s a wonderful show and I want to rate this higher, I really do. But the anticipation of wondering if the main male lead was going to figure out of the main female lead was actually a robot or not was killing me and making me anxious. The other part that was killing me is the fact that he was falling in love with her, thinking she’s a robot but she wasn’t which is the point of the show but I just wanted them to be in love and happy which again, was not a problem but I actually felt so crushed that she was falling for this dude and couldn’t tell him. So I’m kind of bummed it took me 20 episodes to feel any emotion except for anxiety because I was hooked and loved the show but also I was like WHEN WILL YOI KNOW THE TRUTH AND FALL IN LOVE!!! So that’s my honest opinion though, with the watch, I didn’t want to skip through but also had to for my own sanity. I literally needed spoilers in order to get through this or else I was going to have a panic attack or something. But it kept me out of my seat; so yes, watch it.

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