The setup sounds like it should collapse by episode two: a woman so desperate for a steady paycheck that she invents a husband and a child to qualify for a job on a baby-product company’s “Mothers Task Force.” Then her new team leader walks in β cold, allergic to rule-bending, and, of course, someone she already knows. Dynamite Kiss (ν€μ€λ κ΄ν ν΄μ!) builds its whole engine out of that one lie, and the fun is watching how long she can keep the plates spinning before the truth (or the feelings) brings them down.
This is a 2025 SBS rom-com that landed on Netflix worldwide, and it leans into the kind of high-pressure workplace farce where every meeting is a chance for the deception to unravel. If you came for the slow-burn antagonism that curdles into something warmer, you’re in the right place.
The premise
Our lead needs a job, badly, and the one opening she can get requires her to be a married mother. She isn’t either β so she fakes it. The role puts her on a task force at a childcare-product company, exactly the place where a fabricated family is hardest to sustain, and exactly where she runs into her by-the-book team leader, a former acquaintance who plays everything straight.
From there it’s a tug-of-war between her mounting cover story and the two leads’ growing pull toward each other. The premise is pure rom-com machinery, but the show knows it, and it keeps the stakes personal: every white lie she tells to protect the job is also a wall between her and the person she’s starting to want.
Where to watch
- Netflix β streaming internationally with subtitles, including the US, UK, and Australia among other regions.
- In South Korea it originally aired on SBS TV (it ran 14 episodes from November to December 2025, with the finale pulling the show’s highest ratings).
The cast
Jang Ki-yong plays the strait-laced team leader whose rigid professionalism is the perfect foil for a heroine built entirely on improvisation. He’s good at this register β the quiet, controlled type whose cracks show slowly β and the role gives him room to thaw without rushing it.
Ahn Eun-jin carries the trickier half of the equation as the job-seeker juggling a fake marriage, a fake kid, and a real attraction she can’t afford. Ahn is a sharp comedic actor with a gift for letting panic and warmth flicker across the same scene, which is exactly what a character living a double life needs. Rounding out the ensemble are Kim Mu-jun and Woo Da-vi. The series was directed by Kim Jae-hyun.
Filming locations
The best-documented setting is Jeju Island, whose coastal cliffs turn up in the show’s bigger emotional beats and are confirmed in both Wikipedia and Korean press coverage. If you’ve ever stood on Jeju’s columnar basalt shoreline, you’ll recognize the kind of dramatic backdrop the production was after.
Beyond Jeju, Korean fan and news location guides point to spots around Seoul β the Hanyang City Wall trail at Naksan, Yeouido Hangang Park, and the National Museum of Korea β plus Paju (the Mimesis Art Museum and a Lotte outlet) and Incheon International Airport. Worth flagging honestly: those non-Jeju sites come from fan-compiled location guides rather than an official SBS list, so treat them as reported-but-unconfirmed if you’re planning a pilgrimage.
Worth your time?
If you like your romance with a ticking-clock premise and a lead who’s one bad lie away from disaster, this one rewards the binge. It’s lighter and more farcical than a melodrama, but the central deception gives it real forward momentum β you keep watching to see how she gets out of it. Fans of workplace rom-coms where the icy boss slowly defrosts will find a lot to like, and Ahn Eun-jin’s performance alone is reason enough to press play. Pair it with another SBS-to-Netflix rom-com if you want to keep the streak going.
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