Our Dating Sim – K-Drama Episode 2 Recap & Review

Timing

Episode 2 of Our Dating Sim starts with Lee Wan on the rooftop of his apartment complex. He gets a text message from the CEO of Re: Try, Tae-oh. Tae-oh reveals that Wan is hired but the artist thinks about rejecting the job offer. However, Wan refrains from sending over the text and thinks back to the last day he was around Wan.

The episode flashes back to seven years ago when Lee Wan had rushed to the rooftop to take photos with Ki-tae and his friends on their graduation from high school. After taking pictures with his friends, Wan spoke to Ki-tae privately. When the two are alone, Wan tells Ki-tae that he likes him but the latter misunderstands that Wan meant platonic liking.

Ki-tae says that he likes Wan as well which frustrates the latter. Wan shocks Ki-tae by kissing him as he mentions his liking for Ki-tae was romantic. Ki-tae is shocked and pulls back from the peck which Wan assumes is his rejection of the proposal. Embarrassed by what he just did, Wan runs away from the rooftop and rushes back to his aunt’s house where his family has now moved.

The flashback shows how Ki-tae had been looking for Wan after the incident but Wan had rushed away leaving his camera with their pictures behind.

Present-day Wan shares how he abandoned his past life after the kiss and fled to turn his life around. A montage shows Wan working at his aunt’s restaurant along with his sister as he goes from being a university student to an artist who likes to sketch.

Over the course of that time, Wan fears running into Ki-tae but still somehow expects an encounter with his childhood crush. Meanwhile, Ki-tae missed Wan after he disappeared from his life. Ki-tae started working at Re: Try and used to think about Wan every step of the way over the last seven years.

After another company offers Wan a job, he fails to pass the interview because of his fixation on one of his characters. The interviewer told Wan that all his comics had the same face for the protagonists’ male love interest and that Wan needed to move on from that character in order to succeed at the job.

Wan had been looking forward to the job but the critical comment demotivated him. He still thanked the interviewer for his interest in Wan’s work as his fan, ‘gameboy’. The interviewer clarifies that he was not ‘gameboy’ and Wan is left confused. Just as Wan was coming to terms with the rejection, he gets a call from Re: Try who offered him a job.

Back to the present, Wan is about to reject Re: Try’s job offer when he reads a comment from ‘gameboy’ on one of his recent comic strips. Wan feels motivated about someone rooting for him and decides to overcome his embarrassment. He takes the job offer. The episode ends with Ki-tae at his desk at home where he is reading Wan’s recent comic strip.

He thinks about how it took seven years to find his old friend. Ki-tae moves away from the screen and the camera zooms into the recent comment from Ki-tae who actually is gameboy – Wan’s #1 fan and supporter.

The Episode Review

This show is so fluffy and romantic that it is heartbreaking that the episodes are so short. I wish there was more to the story of Wan and Ki-tae because this would make for such a fun K-drama. There is no angst or crazy plot twist but only one minor misunderstanding that can be clarified in the blink of an eye.

I feel so good about the fact that both Ki-tae and Wan like each other and I cannot wait for the moment when they finally confess their love for each other. For now, it will be fun to see the duo interact as office workers. While I do wish we got to see more of how Wan fell in love with Ki-tae, the epilogue after the end of each episode tries to do just that for fans with short, game-like clips.