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| My Bias, My Boss EP 3 Summary, Recap and Review. |
My Bias, My Boss Episode 3 turns Nam Da-Reum’s dream of working at her favourite celebrity’s company into something considerably more awkward. After years of following DNX member-turned-actor Lee Chan, Da-Reum finally gets a job at Appello, the fashion platform closely associated with him. The catch? Her new boss is Kang Ha-Gi, a sharp, demanding CEO whom she has already managed to embarrass twice before even becoming his employee. What begins as a fangirl’s dream quickly becomes an office romance comedy built on misunderstandings, bruised pride and one very unfortunate night in the CEO’s office.
My Bias, My Boss Episode 3 opens by taking a step back and showing just how long Da-Reum’s devotion to Lee Chan has lasted. She first discovered DNX during high school and attended one of the group’s concerts with her friends. Among the members, Chan immediately became her bias, and that choice apparently came with a lifetime subscription to every update, performance and career move he made.
Twelve years later, Da-Reum has completed a marketing degree and watched DNX disband, yet her admiration for Chan has never disappeared. Even after he moved into acting, she continued following his career. Unfortunately, her own professional life is considerably less glamorous. She is stuck at SE Trading, where she feels increasingly frustrated and starts seriously considering leaving.
When she tells Park Mi-mi and Lee Seul-a that she wants to resign, her friends are supportive despite being fully aware that her interest in Appello has at least something to do with Chan. Da-Reum applies for a position that same night, although her concentration briefly disappears when she starts watching videos of her favourite star instead of focusing on the application.
Her dream gets a major boost when Appello accepts her. But before she can even start the new job, she has another awkward encounter with Ha-Gi.
Earlier, Ha-Gi has been meeting with SE Trading executives about a potential investment. He quickly sees through their proposal, arguing that the company is simply recycling an old strategy rather than offering anything genuinely new. His blunt assessment does not go down particularly well with Kim Han-chul, but Ha-Gi is not interested in pretending otherwise just to make the meeting more comfortable.
Da-Reum, meanwhile, is celebrating her successful application when she literally runs into Ha-Gi outside the office. She apologises and races away in excitement, leaving a mark from her make-up on his shirt. Sung-wook, Ha-Gi’s secretary, finds the situation hilarious. Ha-Gi does not.
That evening, Da-Reum celebrates with Mi-mi and Seul-a at karaoke, naturally choosing DNX songs. Across town, Ha-Gi is having drinks with his friend Min-woo while continuing to work. Their evening becomes considerably less peaceful when Da-Reum and her friends arrive at the same restaurant.
Da-Reum spots a poster of Chan and manages to persuade the owner to give it to her. Her happiness lasts about five seconds. Min-woo accidentally tears the poster and dismisses Chan, which sends Da-Reum into full protective-fan mode. She tries to retaliate with an ice cube but hits Ha-Gi instead. At this point, the future CEO-employee relationship is already looking impressively doomed.
The following morning, Da-Reum arrives at Appello alongside fellow recruits Park Yeong-woo and Lee Mi-na. During their orientation, Marketing Team leader Kim Mi-yeong prepares them for their first meeting with the CEO.
Da-Reum assumes Chan must be the person in charge and becomes increasingly nervous. She has apparently rehearsed the moment in her head so many times that reality has very little chance of meeting her expectations. Instead, the CEO turns out to be Ha-Gi.
Her reaction is immediate panic. Then things become even worse when she notices a photograph of Chan and starts choking after taking the calming pill her friend gave her. Ha-Gi performs the Heimlich manoeuvre and helps her recover, leaving Da-Reum with yet another humiliating memory involving the man who now happens to be her boss.
Mi-yeong later explains the unusual structure behind Appello. Ha-Gi and Chan were once co-CEOs, although Chan now works as the company's director while Ha-Gi remains its sole CEO. For Da-Reum, this is a devastating discovery of the very ordinary kind: she has finally entered the workplace of her favourite celebrity, only to discover that the man she keeps embarrassing is the person signing off on everything.
Ha-Gi and Sung-wook also become suspicious of Da-Reum. Since she previously worked for SE Trading, Ha-Gi worries that her appointment could have a connection to the company's failed proposal. Sung-wook even wonders whether she could have been sent to gather information, prompting Ha-Gi to keep an eye on her.
The suspicion becomes more interesting when Ha-Gi encounters Han-chul at a business event. He accuses him of placing people inside rival companies, and Han-chul's response does little to settle the matter.
Elsewhere, Chan meets Ha-Gi at a private restaurant. The two discuss their personal lives, including Chan's recent breakup. Ha-Gi advises his friend to be more careful, suggesting that beneath their professional rivalry and contrasting personalities, the two men share a longstanding friendship.
Da-Reum spends the following days trying desperately to keep her head down. She avoids Ha-Gi whenever possible and concentrates on her work, but the series clearly has no intention of allowing her to enjoy a quiet start to her career.
The problem arrives at the company dinner. Ha-Gi initially refuses to join the drinking because he has an international video meeting later that evening. Da-Reum, meanwhile, accepts drink after drink until she becomes the unofficial star of the dinner. Ha-Gi notices how far things are going and tells Mi-yeong to wrap things up before the new employees become too intoxicated.
Da-Reum eventually heads towards Ha-Gi's office. Nobody seems entirely sure why.
Ha-Gi later finds her there, already asleep. He places her on the sofa before attending his meeting. After the call, he checks the office CCTV to understand how she ended up there. The footage reveals that Da-Reum was simply drawn to a photograph of Ha-Gi, Chan and their friends.
Rather than immediately sending her away, Ha-Gi tries to wake her. Instead, he ends up falling asleep beside her.
The next morning, Da-Reum wakes up inside the CEO's office with absolutely no useful memory of how she got there. She rushes out, calls Seul-a for help and changes clothes in the women's restroom.
Naturally, her friends immediately wonder whether something happened between her and Ha-Gi. Da-Reum has no answer because her memory has apparently decided to take the morning off.
She later learns that Chan had made an appearance at the restaurant while she was there, meaning she somehow managed to miss the one person she had actually wanted to see. It is almost impressive.
When Da-Reum eventually encounters Ha-Gi, she apologises for her behaviour despite remembering almost none of the previous night's events. She then drops her wallet, forcing Ha-Gi to follow her. Da-Reum panics and heads towards the lift, only to find herself trapped between Chan and Ha-Gi when the doors open.
That is where My Bias My Boss Episode 3 ends. The brief epilogue makes the situation even funnier. Earlier that morning, Ha-Gi wakes beside Da-Reum and hears cleaning staff approaching his office.
He immediately rushes to prevent anyone from entering, clearly aware that explaining why his new employee is sleeping in his office would be a rather difficult item to add to the morning schedule.
My Bias, My Boss knows exactly what sort of drama it wants to be, and Episode 3 makes that increasingly clear. This is not trying to reinvent the office romance. Instead, it takes a familiar setup — an ordinary employee, a powerful boss, a celebrity crush and an inevitable romantic triangle — and leans into the ridiculousness of putting these people in the same room.
The strongest element is Da-Reum, because her enthusiasm is both charming and occasionally exhausting in the way only a committed fan can be. She has spent years imagining what it would be like to meet Chan, only to discover that getting close to him professionally means dealing with Ha-Gi far more often. Her dream job therefore comes with the unexpected bonus of repeatedly humiliating herself in front of the wrong man.
Ha-Gi is arguably the more interesting romantic possibility at this stage. He begins as the stereotypically cold and demanding boss, but Episode 3 quietly gives him more warmth.
He helps Da-Reum when she is in trouble, looks into why she ended up in his office rather than immediately assuming the worst, and seems increasingly curious about her. The contrast between his controlled professional personality and the chaos Da-Reum brings into his life is where much of the comedy comes from.
The episode also makes the love triangle more intriguing by positioning Chan differently from what viewers might initially expect. In many dramas built around a celebrity crush, the famous figure is clearly positioned as the obvious romantic destination.
Here, however, Chan feels more like the fantasy Da-Reum has carried for years, while Ha-Gi is the person she keeps encountering in real life. That distinction could become important as the story develops.
The episode is not without its familiar ingredients. The drunken office encounter, accidental misunderstandings and perfectly timed lift doors are hardly revolutionary. Yet the drama understands that rom-coms do not always need revolutionary ideas; sometimes the execution just needs enough charm to make a familiar situation enjoyable.
My Bias My Boss Episode 3 largely manages that balance, even when Da-Reum's decision-making begins to resemble a workplace safety training video gone terribly wrong.
Reactions to My Bias, My Boss Episode 3 are likely to vary depending on which side of the central romance viewers are already leaning towards.
Lee Chan fans may enjoy seeing the celebrity figure finally become more involved in Da-Reum's working life, particularly after she has spent so long admiring him from afar. At the same time, viewers who prefer the more traditional boss-and-employee romance may already be watching Da-Reum and Ha-Gi with considerably more interest.
There is also plenty to enjoy in the comedy. Da-Reum's repeated attempts to appear competent around Ha-Gi have produced almost the opposite result, while Ha-Gi's increasingly bewildered reactions make their scenes some of the episode's easiest laughs.
The question now is whether Da-Reum will eventually stop treating Chan like the centre of her universe and start noticing the person standing directly in front of her.
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My Bias My Boss Episode 3 ultimately leaves the drama in a promising position. Da-Reum has entered the workplace she dreamed about, but the reality is already far stranger than the fantasy. With Chan and Ha-Gi now literally standing on either side of her, the love triangle is no longer something happening in the background — it is about to become impossible to ignore. And after that lift-door cliffhanger, the real question is simple: who do you think Da-Reum should end up with, Chan or Ha-Gi?