Chef Lim Yoon-ah, who put the tyrant to sleep, leaves and Apgujeong Nalari Lee Jun-ho is coming..1997 IMF Typhoon Wobbles (Taepung Corporation)
Oct 02, 2025
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tvN's new Saturday-Sunday drama 『Taepung Corporation』 (directed by Lee Na-jung and Kim Dong-hwi) depicts the struggle of Kang Tae-pung (Lee Joon-ho), a novice boss who became the president of a trading company with no IMF, no employees, no money, or nothing to sell in 1997. Among them, the pre-announcement video of the first episode, released at 9:10 p.m. next Saturday (11th), draws attention with the contrast between Kang Tae-pung and Oh Mi-sun (Kim Min-ha), who were walking on the opposite trajectory just before the IMF.
Kang Tae-pung is a youth who enjoyed freedom in the abundance of his parents' generation. The scene of dancing and singing in harmony with 'Abstreet Boys', which stirs Apgujeong whenever it appears, shows the free spirit of the youth in the 1990s. Night clubs and station studios of that era, which appear in an instant, go beyond a simple background and evoke memories for those who remember the time. Unlike Kang Tae-pung, Oh Mi-sun is a young man who works at Typhoon Corporation for 11 hours every day. He is as meticulous and solid as his ability to handle calculators, enduring a tight daily life, and is carrying the livelihood of his family as a K-first daughter.
However, a huge storm soon strikes the daily lives of the two youth. The foreclosure notice I found at the home of a friend who fled at night and "Don't trust people too much. The warning, "Money and people are paid for..." makes one realize the shadow of the IMF to come. The scene of Kang Tae-pung running through the rain and Oh Mi-sun embracing her family in tears raises tension, heralding the beginning of an era of crisis that she will face with her whole body.
Above all, Kang Tae-pung, a young man who enjoyed freedom, and Oh Mi-sun, a young man who has silently endured reality. It adds to the question of what choices the two people who have lived completely different lives will make and how they will rely on each other in the face of a common crisis called the IMF. tvN's new Saturday drama 『Taepung Corporation" will premiere at 9:10 p.m. on the 11th, which will capture the hot growth, empathy, and laughter that will bloom in the middle of the crisis.
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