Turning Point of Lee Jongseok in Seocho-dong
Aug 10, 2025
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Lee Jong-seok, who came as an office worker in tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama 『Seocho-dong" (played by Lee Seung-hyun, directed by Park Seung-woo), is drawing attention to the ending with a work life moment that meets the turning point every moment.
▶ choice of stay
The last meal with a quitter, the theme is directionality as well. So, in the imagination of Ahn Ju-hyung (Lee Jong-seok), who has been in the 9th year, would you like to open a business?When asked 'I don't want tothe determination of the mold to reject " Can I only do what I want to do if I open a business. He was close to rationalism, stabilityism, and tranquillism, saying that an office worker who handled given cases and received a salary was perfect for his aptitude. The first turning point to consider the direction is the resignation of an old colleague. Joo Hyung's appearance of choosing to stay at the point where he thought of 'Maybe' and opened it, added to the sympathy and reality of office workers living with resignation letters every day, and led to the transfer of a person named An Ju-hyung. Lee Jong-seok came with a new face of a realistic office worker in a work environment. His daily acting transformation, which came as a person like my colleague who seemed to be around for some reason, was enough to catch the attention.
▶ It's the first year we met in our 9th year
The appearance of Hee-ji (Moon Ga-young), a new lawyer who shows full trust in her client's words, somehow seems to see me in the past. When Ahn Joo-hyung was a newbie, he listened to his client with a tearful wind, was deceived by his client's lies, and he became a lawyer who unintentionally deceived the victim together, and now that he has become a career in the wind and waves of time, he only looks at cases and facts without expecting anyone. He, who did not betray his conscience but was not affected by his recognition, began to look at his client again. The new lawyer's words that my client should be a good person became a turning point that reminded Joo-won of the complacency of 'then', which also stayed, and became a turning point for growing the spark of change. Lee Jong-seok clearly caught two rabbits of professional Lee Jong-seok and romance, who trust and believe in Ahn Ju-hyung's change of mind as a lawyer in his 9th year.
▶ the inconvenience of 'familiarized inconvenience'
You can't just do what you want to do. However, there are also situations where you feel that 'this is not right' My job that I can't take. The moment I feel a decisive skepticism as an office worker, the moment I feel that the criteria for choice are different, and the moment I look back on whether I am right for this position. There came a moment when such moments came together, and cracks began to form in the mind, and made the discomfort that had been hidden out of the mouth. Joo Hyung's changed mind, which began to face the inconvenience of the events chosen only by the fee, rebelled against the inconvenience he had become accustomed to, and pulled the trigger for change. Within Lee Jong-seok's extended acting spectrum, from the daily life and professional meetings of Anju-hyung, the viewers developed empathy in each episode, and the immersion of the play was raised to the highest level by substituting my situation for Anju-hyung's situation.
▶ unconditional good intentions
Today, unfamiliar to Ahn Joo-hyung, who broke the inconvenience, Ahn Joo-hyung faced a turning point of worry and growth amid new meetings and conversations. The emergence of a person who devotes himself to other people's work, away from his own interests. Faced with a newcomer who worked hard for his client, he created a change in the lawyer's complacency type, while the client with "unconditional good will" awakened a new change in the human complacency type. His last story on his way to work is raising viewers' curiosity and expectations at the same time about how the direction of a new life given by the opposite person who meets after breaking the inconvenience of looking at the representative who chooses a case based on profit with just the fee will end tomorrow's Ahn Joo-hyung.
Lee Jong-seok led the turning point of Ahn Joo-hyung to empathy and understanding. The viewer's mind synchronized with his change came from trust in Lee Jong-seok. The power to understand and follow the heart. Lee Jong-seok, who has become a senior actor as much as Ahn Joo-hyung with nine years of experience, also showed a new turning point for Lee Jong-seok's drama regardless of genre by opening up the new legal, everyday, and office drama 'Seochodong' as an extension of a new area that makes him trust and watch.
Interest in 'Seochodong' ahead of the final episode is also hot. The 11th episode, which aired on the 9th, recorded an average viewership of 6.6% for households in the metropolitan area, up to 7.7%, 6.4% for households nationwide, and up to 7.2% (based on paid platforms that integrate cable, IPTV, and satellite / provided by Nielsen Korea), breaking its own highest ratings. It continues to make headlines by ranking first in cable and general service channels at the same time. The final episode of 'Seocho-dong', which features Lee Jong-seok's last commute to work, will be broadcast on TVN at 9:20 p.m. tonight.
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