Lee Junho Earns Praise for Transformative Performance in ‘Typhoon Family’
Nov 26, 2025
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With only two episodes left until the end of tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama Taepung Corporation (directed by Jang Hyun-jin, Lee Na-jung, and Kim Dong-hwi), Kang Tae-pung's narrative, which Lee Joon-ho drew as the end of his immersion, leaves a strong lingering image. From the immature Apgujeong Nalari to becoming the president of a company and the head of a family, it is evaluated that the emotions, changes, growth, and responsibilities of a person who has fully passed the weight of the IMF era have been closely accumulated.
Lee Joon-ho accumulated the emotional curves passed by a character named Kang Tae-pung in stages and depicted the face of the youth who endured the IMF in the most realistic way. In the beginning, he naturally digested the emotions of the free Apgujeong Nalari, 'Abstreet Boys', and after facing the sudden death of his father (Sung Dong-il), he poured out the confusion and fear of youth, which changed the weight of his life in an instant. Nevertheless, Yama got up again and exploded his energy with grit and spirit. The young man who loved flowers, as his father taught him, fought to bear hard fruits and gave him the convincing power that anyone could sympathize with him in the process of becoming a real boss.
At the center of the change were moments of realizing the president's weight and responsibility. I learned from Choi (Dokyung Lee), president of Safari Logistics, that a boss should do anything for his employees, and when I saw Goma-jin (Lee Chang-hoon) teaching Oh Mi-sun (Kim Min-ha) 'Basics of Sales', I asked myself again and again about the 'Basics of the Boss' when I realized that I didn't have a senior or a father to teach.
So, he ran harder to pay his employees, and even to Yoo Sang-joon (Mujinseong), who tried to destroy himself by setting fire to himself, he bowed down and asked him to sell the goods. And late at night, whenever I took a quiet breath alone, recalling the weight of my father in an empty office, Kang Tae-pung learned with his body and mind that the place of 'President' is a heavy place that can never be easily obtained.
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In particular, in a recent broadcast, Lee Joon-ho showed the peak of this immersive performance. In the scene where he bows his head to expression-jun, the president's desperate responsibility to put down his pride and do everything to protect the company is desperately captured. Since then, the scene where he visited the rice soup restaurant where his father was looking for and drank soju and swallowed his longing without hesitation also drew great attention. His performance, which threw up a mixture of regret, longing, and sorry, shook the hearts of viewers.
The moment I learned of the subsequent betrayal of Cha Seon-taek (Kim Jae-hwa), I overwhelmingly delivered the shock of collapsing trust between people. Anger, hurt, and despondency exploded in the eyes of resentment toward choice. Nevertheless, the typhoon rose back to its feet. In the scene of visiting Pyo Park-ho (Kim Sang-ho) and bluffing with an IOU, he simultaneously expressed the unwavering boldness and urgency behind it, completing the growth history of the real boss fighting again despite setbacks.
There are only two episodes left until the end of the show. Viewers' expectations are rising as to what kind of fruit the typhoon, which tries to protect people and companies to the end on the huge wave of the IMF, and what kind of resonance Lee Joon-ho will produce until the end. The 15th episode of 'Taepung Corporation' will air on tvN at 9:10 p.m. on the 29th and the 16th on the 30th.
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