# Please Don't Date Him

Please Don't Date Him (Korean: 제발 그 남자 만나지 마요) is a 2020 South Korean romantic comedy television series, starring Song Ha-yoon, Lee Jun-young, Yoon Bo-mi and Gong Min-jeung. Directed by Oh Mi-kyeong, the story of this series revolves around Seo Ji-seong (Song Ha-yoon) a household appliances developer who dreams to live a life like a well-designed algorithm. The series was premiered on MBC Every 1 on November 10, 2020, and aired every Tuesday at 22:40 (KST) till January 12, 2021.

## Synopsis

An AI-controlled, household appliances developer in Pelican Electronics, Seo Ji-seong, has dreams of living a perfect life like a well-developed program.
Working on an Artificial Intelligence refrigerator with voice-activated features, she inserts a super sensor chip which was lost by National Intelligence Service into a refrigerator, and an "Ancestral Spirit" program that picks scums instead of telling the freshness of vegetables is developed. So, Ji-seong finds out that her deemed perfect fiancé Jeong-han was actually not her Prince Charming.
One day, Jung Kook-hee, a firefighter, with no social media record, whom the program couldn't analyze, shows up. Ji-seong is skeptical about him, as there is no trace of his past on the internet.

## Cast
### Main

* Song Ha-yoon as Seo Ji-seong, Manager of Pelican Electronics 'Voice Recognition Smart Home Appliance Ubiquitous Innovation Development Team' a programmer of the AI controlled home appliances.
* Lee Jun-young as Jung Kook-hee, Whale Fire Station Life Safety Rescue Team Firefighter for 3 years, no social media, no digital convenience.
* Yoon Bo-mi as Moon Ye-seul, Seo Ji-seong's friend, a Pelican quarantine staff.
* Gong Min-jeung as Tak Ki-hyun, owner of organic cafe near Pelican Electronics

### Supporting
#### Pelican Electronics

* Kang Mal-geum as Hwang Ga-eul, telegram girl, Pelican Electronics secretive girl
* Jeong Min-sung as Oh Byung-Gil
* Kim Ki-ri, as Jegal Su-won, team manager who always raises ideological problems
* Nam Min-woo as Ok Dong-jin, an employee of the development team, a coding man
* Kim Hyun-myung as Cho Yong-hwan, no one knows when he goes to work and when he leaves.
* Park Han-sol as Byun Ha-ri, a subjective intern who takes care of what he did not do.

#### Dentist friends

* Lee Si-hoon as Bang Jeong-han, the man likes Facebook, Dentist. Ex-boyfriend of Seo Ji-seong.
* Joo Woo-jae as Han Yu-jin, an Instagram-like man, dentist.

#### Tak Ki-hyun's husband

* Kim Tae-gyeom as Kim Sang-sik, Tak Ki-hyun's husband, old blogging man, an office worker.

#### Whale Fire Station

* Kim Gyeong-il as Gam Oh Joong, the man likes Tinder, from Whale Fire Station, has three children but always needs love, and finds that love outside.

#### Others

* Lee Ji-ha as Jung-han's mother
* Shin Ji-yeon as Nurse
* Jung In-gi as Seo Ji Seong Dad
* Hwang Young-hee as Lee Eun-hwa
* Choi Baek-gu as Kim Jin-soo

### Voice appearance

* Kim Myung-jun
* Kim Su-ji

### Guest appearance

* Jo Jae-yoon

## Production
### Casting

In June 2020, Song Ha-yoon was cast for her comeback series. Lee Jun-young was cast as the main male lead of the series in the same month. Later in October, Yoon Bo-mi and Gong Min-jung were cast to play supporting roles.

### Filming

The script reading was done in October 2020 as new stills were released. The first teaser was released in the last week of October 2020.