It's your first time with Lee Junho, right? Typhoon Corporation starts wearing a new face
Oct 10, 2025
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Lee Joon-ho will return to the audience's side by appearing as Kang Tae-pung in tvN's new Saturday-Sunday drama 'Taepung Corporation' (played by Jang Hyun, directed by Lee Na-jung and Kim Dong-hwi), which is set to premiere on the 11th.
`Taepung Corporation' is a story of Kang Tae-pung, a novice businessman who became the president of a trading company with no employees, no money, and nothing to sell in 1997. Through various teasing contents released earlier, Lee Joon-ho's unique character transformation was predicted, from the free spirit of Apgujeong to the appearance of a first-time president running to protect the company, drawing keen attention from prospective viewers.
Lee Joon-ho captivated the small screen in 2021 by portraying an affectionate romance on MBC 's 'Clothes Sleeve Red Tip-dong'. In this work, which received a high viewer rating of 17.4%, he was loved by viewers not only by the weight of the real person, but also by delicately expressing the aspect of pure man going straight, and was recognized for his recognized acting skills by sweeping awards at various award ceremonies such as the MBC Drama Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards.
In addition, Lee Joon-ho has established himself as a global rock king by succeeding in succession with JTBC 'King the Land'. Thanks to his passionate performance, which unraveled the changing process of a rough character falling in love in three dimensions, the work recorded double-digit ratings and stimulated the excitement cells of overseas drama fans beyond Korea, and proved its global popularity by ranking first in Netflix's global TOP10 TV category (non-English).
Lee Joon-ho, who has shown an acting spectrum that spans the ages from historical dramas to modern times, melts into the IMF era with this 'Taepung Corporation' and heralds another acting variation. He reproduced the visuals of the 90s, such as bridge hair and colorful leather costumes, and made efforts to find data screens at the time and purchase costumes at his own expense, making a perfect transformation into youth at that time, drawing attention even before the show was aired.
In addition, Lee Joon-ho said that he wanted to express the spirit of the times when we overcame the crisis together as the most important historical evidence of the work beyond its external representation. Based on this authenticity, he will show another new face by depicting the change of a person who grows from an immature youth to a decent president in three dimensions. As he has proven his acting ability and box office success by giving acting transformations to each work, expectations are high for his performance that will continue his box office success with 「Taepung Corporation」.
Meanwhile, tvN 'Taepung Corporation', starring Lee Joon-ho, will premiere at 9:10 p.m. on Saturday, the 11th.
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