It had its moments, but falls short in execution for me. For a South Korea-Thailand "collaboration" it was missing any real sense of collaborating. The Thai male lead communicates solely in Thai and that is the extent of the Thai-related anything and him being Thai doesn't influence the plot really at all. It would really change nothing about the story to have him be from somewhere else, even just somewhere else in Korea. Like it is resolved so quickly with the ear pieces that it doesn't even take advantage of the potential misunderstandings that could come from not speaking the same language. And it never really seemed to explain how/why his assistant and manager apparently both understood Thai, but didn't speak it. Just as he understood Korean, but didn't speak it. Overall, it just felt half-baked. There was so much missed potential, it's hard to just focus on viewing it for what it is and not what it could have been.

Also, this feels like a weird complaint, but their traumas both felt fairly light for the amount that it seems to affect them. Like a stray dog that used to be friendly, growled and snapped at him once and that's why Piuno is terrified of dogs. I mean, it was a stray. It could have been hurt or protecting its puppies. It's not even like it even actually bit him. He also saved the dog in the beginning because it reminded him of that dog, so he clearly still cared about it. And then Dae is afraid of love because he and his ex got outed as being a couple and his ex thought it would be better for them to break up. It was giving "Nobel Idiocy" trope, not betrayal. I mean, if they got outted and then ex ghosted him and then he spotted ex on a date with a woman, then I could see it a bit more. But this felt like the ex saw that Dae loved to sing and might want to pursue that career and didn't want to stand in his way. But, maybe I've just seen too many of the more angsty dramas where you have people who were SAed by someone they should have been able to trust (stepparent/friend/partner/etc), born and raised in a secret room with nearly no human interaction, watched one or both parents die, been kidnapped, almost been murdered by relatives, etc.

The reality TV show seemed a bit odd to me. And the woman was frustrating, but also seemed incompetent. When she saw the dog come back and they were reunited the other woman in the van was in tears and she was really like "ugh this won't get views" like...are you dumb or just clueless? And then she proved she was both by ignoring the contract they'd signed which could get her fired/sued.