Lee Junho Delivers a Storm of Emotion in Just Two Episodes of 'Typhoon Family'

By Jeeyoung, Jo

Oct 16, 2025

Lee Junho Delivers a Storm of Emotion in Just Two Episodes of 'Typhoon Family'
Lee Jun-ho is having a photo session at the production presentation of the new weekend drama 'Taepung Corporation' held at The Link Hotel in Guro-gu, Seoul on the 1st. Reporter Huh Sang-wook's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.10.01/



Lee Joon-ho caused a powerful emotional typhoon on the small screen in just two episodes.

tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama 「Taepung Corporation" (played by Jang Hyun, directed by Lee Na-jung and Kim Dong-hwi) drew enthusiastic reviews from the first week of the broadcast. Kang Tae-pung, played by Lee Joon-ho, was a youth who lost everything in the middle of the IMF in 1997, but stood up again, giving a strong impression by simultaneously giving laughter, tears, and a deep lingering feeling from the first week.

In the first episode, Lee vividly depicted the '90s youth Kang Tae-pung, a symbol of freedom and romance. The appearance of Typhoon appearing on the stage of a nightclub as 'Abstreet Boys' with friends, leaving his body to music and rhythm, and dreaming of his own world was the freedom of youth itself at that time. However, when the IMF's cold spell hit, the sparkling youth collapsed overnight. In the reality of having to protect the company amid the crisis of bankruptcy, Typhoon began to be reborn as a `real employee' who laid down dreams and romance and carried responsibility.




Above all, Lee Joon-ho freely changed the temperature of the character with one eye, perfectly expressing all the texture of youth. Sparkling in the eyes of free youth, desperation in front of the wall of reality, and sadness in the moment of loss. In particular, in front of the sudden death of his father, Kang Jin-young (Sung Dong-il), the shock and sorry that he could not accept reality were mixed, and more complex emotions were felt in the eyes where no tears flowed, which was conveyed to viewers. Afterwards, the scene where the typhoon, which was not sure whether to cry or get angry, burst into a longing that had been endured after discovering his father's 'Bankbook Letter' brought an emotional typhoon to the small screen, drawing praise that `Lee Joon-ho's eyes are narrative.'

Lee Junho Delivers a Storm of Emotion in Just Two Episodes of 'Typhoon Family'
In addition, at the end of the second inning, the typhoon lay down in front of a cargo truck heading to Daebang Textile with fabric to prevent the risk of failure. Then the snow began to fall, and the fluttering snowflakes looked like falling petals to the typhoon. One day, the father told his young son that the flowers fell quickly and were insignificant, saying, "'The flowers are not losing, but they are winning as best they can to bear fruit.'" Typhoon finally smiled in tears as he recalled his father's teachings. It seemed as if his current situation was winning the typhoon as best he could. And his eyes filled the screen left a deep aftertaste, capturing the complex emotions of crying and laughing. In particular, the scene was loaded with an OST sung by Lee Joon-ho himself, further raising the density of emotions.

Author Jang Hyun, who wrote the book `Taepung Corporation," said, `Kang Tae-pung is actually a character that is not easy to express. He is an Apgujeong Nalari who likes flowers, and he is a nice and handsome person in his filial piety, so he had to have both cuteness and toughness. I was wondering if it would be possible, but Lee Junho did it"As a joke on the first day I met him, I said, "I should be the son of the people, the boyfriend of the people, the president of the people, and I felt really great to see him do it all."




In fact, in just two episodes, Lee Joon-ho completed a three-dimensional youth narrative that embraces warmth and responsibility, romance and reality, and laughter and tears. It delicately depicts the hot face of youth enduring the times in the process of youth blooming like flowers becoming hard with fruits. This is why I am looking forward to the growth of the typhoon, which will learn to win in its own way without collapsing in the storm of the IMF, and the `national typhoon' that Lee Joon-ho will complete.

Attention is focusing on what kind of emotional typhoons Lee Joon-ho's eyes and acting will bring in the future, and "Taepung Corporation" airs every Saturday and Sunday at 9:10 p.m. on tvN.





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