See You At Work Tomorrow Episode 10 opens on a much lighter note than where it ends up. Si-woo runs into Ga-eul at a vinyl store, and she takes the opportunity to apologize for how rude she was at the wedding. Si-woo, to his credit, forgives her without much fuss. It’s a small scene, but it matters, because it clears the deck for what comes later when Na-ri decides to cast Ga-eul, whose music career has apparently taken off, as the lead for their web series marketing campaign. Nice bit of connective tissue there.
Meanwhile, Si-woo meets up with Ji-yoon at her father’s repair shop so they can work on fixing his vintage speaker together. It’s a quiet, domestic kind of scene, and it’s here that Si-woo asks whether they should finally tell her father they’re dating. Ji-yoon isn’t ready. She tells him it’s not the right time, and honestly, given what we already know about her father’s temper, I don’t blame her for wanting to wait.
A Business Trip, an Old Friend, and a Very Loaded Dinner
At work, the team shifts focus toward getting their Home AI products into retail stores. They pitch a store vendor on the idea of a dedicated Home AI zone where all their products could be showcased together, which sounds smart on paper (we’ll see later why it isn’t so simple). Si-woo then announces he needs to travel to Pohang to meet a potential buyer.
Here’s where things get interesting: Ji-yoon calls Si-woo that evening, and he tells her he wrapped up his Pohang meeting and is now having dinner in Busan with an old college friend. That friend turns out to be Jeong Hyeon-u, the same man who met Soo-jin on the day of the product demo. Si-woo catches him up on the divorce and his new relationship with Ji-yoon. This dinner feels like a throwaway scene in the moment, but stick a pin in it. Busan, Si-woo, that same night, that same city Soo-jin happens to be in. This detail comes roaring back later.
The Burglary That Changes Everything
Ji-yoon comes home to discover several apartments in her building have been robbed. Understandably shaken, she texts Si-woo, and he immediately tells her to come stay at his place instead so she’ll feel safe. He rushes home to be with her and even suggests she look for a new apartment altogether, something she admits she’d already been considering.
Back at the family home, Young-mok and Hye-kyung notice Ji-yoon’s been acting differently lately and start wondering aloud if she’s seeing someone. They have no idea how right they are, or how close this is about to blow up in their faces.
The Proposal (Sort Of)
Si-woo and Ji-yoon go apartment hunting, but the best one on the list is way outside her budget. So Si-woo lays out her options, one of which happens to be marrying him. She asks if that’s a proposal. He says he’s ready, but he doesn’t want to pressure her into anything. She tells him she needs to think about it.
That night, once she’s moved her things into his place, Ji-yoon sits with the question and can’t quite figure out why she’s hesitating. The next day at work brings a complication: she and Kee-tae both get recommended for a special promotion, and while she’s thrilled, she immediately starts worrying that getting married might get in the way of her career momentum. This is a genuinely relatable conflict, and it’s one of the stronger emotional beats of the episode for me.
The Home AI zone pitch also hits a wall around this time. The department store tells Ji-yoon and Kee-tae the exclusive zone isn’t feasible since it would disadvantage competitors. Afterward, Kee-tae talks to her about marriage, describing how conflict is simply inevitable in any relationship, and in the middle of that conversation, he accidentally lets slip that he already knows about her and Si-woo. Oops.
At home that night, Ji-yoon tells Si-woo about Kee-tae’s seesaw approach to marital arguments (basically, taking turns giving in), but Si-woo just says he’s happy to do things her way. Sweet, but also a little bit of a non-answer, if you ask me.
Senegal, Doubt, and a Toy Ring
The next day, No-ah spots a notice for a global talent program hiring specialists for positions abroad, and she tells Ji-yoon she’s tempted to apply for the Senegal posting, where French is the primary language. This connects nicely to No-ah and Jae-in’s earlier subplot, where No-ah helps a French couple with directions before the two of them head to Jae-in’s place for tutoring that turns into something else entirely.
Ji-yoon, meanwhile, opens up to Ji-yoon… sorry, to No-ah, about wanting certainty that she and Si-woo won’t break up before she commits to marriage. That night, Si-woo gives her a toy ring, no pressure attached, just a token. It’s a small gesture, but it lands. This is Si-woo in a nutshell: earnest, a little awkward, completely sincere.
The Scandal Manager Ko Has Been Cooking Up
Things escalate fast from here. Manager Ko confronts Si-woo and threatens to take him down, and Ji-yoon separately realizes that company policy bars couples from working on the same team, with the junior employee always being the one forced to transfer. Ji-yoon also runs into Soo-jin, who subtly reveals she already knows about the relationship and thanks Ji-yoon for everything that happened involving her mother.
On the department store front, Ji-yoon comes up with a compromise: give competitors a themed zone too. When she brings up the transfer policy to Si-woo, he tells her flatly that he’ll be the one to switch teams, not her. She also lets him know the burglar’s been caught, so technically she could move back home now. Instead, she asks him to stay with her since she’s still scared.
Then the surprise visitors show up: Young-mok and Ji-yoon’s brother. Young-mok is furious and demands to speak with Si-woo alone. Over drinks, Si-woo tells him how deeply he cares about Ji-yoon, but Young-mok remains firmly against the relationship. He gets drunk, and Si-woo ends up taking him home, greeting Hye-kyung along the way without revealing who he really is. When he finally gets back to Ji-yoon, he reassures her everything will be okay. She gives him her answer: she’s not ready for marriage yet. He tells her he’s happy to wait.
The Hotel Bills That Blow Everything Up
And then Manager Ko’s scheme detonates. An anonymous post appears on the company forum revealing that Si-woo and Soo-jin used to be married, and worse, it insinuates they’re having an affair right now, even after Soo-jin’s remarriage. Two hotel bills from Busan get posted as “proof” that they spent the night together.
Si-woo and Soo-jin immediately go to HR to demand the post be taken down. As it turns out, they were both in Busan that night (remember that dinner with Jeong Hyeon-u?) but had no idea they were staying in the same city, let alone the same hotel. HR suggests going to the police, but Si-woo pushes back, insisting the bigger issue is figuring out how internal company receipts leaked in the first place.
The gossip doesn’t die down, and Ji-yoon wonders whether she should just come clean and say she was with Si-woo that same night, since her apartment was the one that got burglarized. Her friends talk her out of it, especially with her promotion on the line.
Ji-yoon’s Public Stand
Then it happens. Ji-yoon is headed downstairs to find Si-woo when Manager Ko gets there first and starts taunting him about the affair in front of a crowd of coworkers. Ji-yoon steps in immediately. She says she was with Si-woo that night. She reveals they’re dating. She holds his hand in front of everyone. Si-woo asks if this is her answer to his proposal. She says yes.
I actually gasped a little at this. After an entire episode of hesitation, doubt, and career anxiety, this is exactly the kind of decisive, unguarded moment the show needed.
My Take: A Proposal That Earns Its Emotional Weight (Mostly)
Episode 10 pushes Ji-yoon and Si-woo’s relationship into genuinely new territory, using the burglary as the catalyst that forces them under one roof and, eventually, toward Si-woo’s proposal. And what a proposal it is. It’s blunt, it’s a little clumsy, it has zero flowery language, but it’s completely him. This show has built Si-woo as a man who says exactly what he means, and the proposal scene reflects that perfectly.
What I appreciate most is how considerate he is throughout the episode of what Ji-yoon actually wants, rather than what he wants her to want. The toy ring, the “I’m happy to wait,” the constant compromising while they’re living together, none of it screams grand romantic gesture, but it adds up to something quietly convincing. Si-woo’s version of romance is patience, and the show trusts us to recognize that as romantic in its own right.
Ji-yoon’s arc tracks with the grounded, realistic tone this drama has leaned on since episode one. Her hesitation isn’t written as cold feet for the sake of manufactured drama; it’s tied directly to real anxieties about her career and the promotion she just earned. So when she instinctively steps in to defend Si-woo in front of the entire office, it lands as both logical and deeply romantic at once, which is a tricky balance to strike.
That said, I did raise an eyebrow at the closing dialogue, where Si-woo directly links her public declaration to an acceptance of his marriage proposal. It’s a slightly odd narrative choice, honestly, since going public as a couple and agreeing to marry each other are two very different commitments. The show conflating them in one triumphant moment feels like it’s reaching for a bigger payoff than the scene actually needed.
Beyond the central relationship, the office politics are getting louder, and I have mixed feelings about that. Manager Ko’s scheme and the resulting scandal are going to eat up more screen time in these final stretches, and while I understand the narrative need for external conflict, it’s not where this show has ever been strongest. See You At Work Tomorrow thrives when it’s being a low-key, slice-of-life romance between two believable adults. Here’s hoping the last two episodes don’t let the office drama overshadow the charm that got us all invested in the first place.
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