TV
Promising Hollywood director Lee Do-gyeom punishes abusive critics
The first episode of KBS1's daily drama 'Woodang Tangtang Family', which first aired on the 18th, recorded a viewership rating of 13.9% (provided by Nielsen Korea, nationwide), ranking first among broadcast programs and signaling a good start.
From the first broadcast, Yoo Eun-seong (played by Nam Sang-ji) was an unknown actor full of eccentricity with his passionate acting with a mannequin, while Kang Seon-woo (played by Lee Do-gyeom), a tough man, left a strong impression with his righteous appearance that could not tolerate injustice.
Eun-seong, who has a dream of becoming a successful actor someday, put on a great acting show with her friend Da-jeong Lee (played by Woo-jeong Choi), using a mannequin as a man. The theater owner's daughter, Yang Joo-ri (played by Oh Chae-i), saw this and made a rude comment and ignored Eun-seong, but Eun-seong instead revealed fatal(?) self-love, saying it was because she was pretty.
Seon-woo, a promising Hollywood director who came to Korea, arrived at the meeting place with a displeased heart at the earnest request of CEO Kim (played by Cho Seon-hyung), who offered him a broadcast appearance. There, a critic who had made an appointment with him was abusing his employees, and Seon-woo immediately overpowered him and finally politely refused to appear on the broadcast, providing catharsis to the small screen with a refreshing blow.
Shim Jeong-ae (played by Choi Soo-rin), who has such a perfect son, boasted excessively about Seon-woo during a meeting with her friends, making them jealous. Afterwards, her friends asked her if she was no longer looking for her ex-husband Yoo Dong-gu (played by Lee Jong-won) in the Philippines. Jeong-ae, who remembered the past for the first time in a long time, thought about the children she had lost, Eun-hyuk Yoo (played by Da-bin Kang) and Eun-ah Yoo (played by Sae-byeok Joo), and her maternal love that she could not reach was heartbreaking.
Contrary to her expectations, Dong-gu was living in Korea, not the Philippines. He returned to Korea and lived with Go Chun-young (played by Kim Seon-kyung), who remarried, and ran Haha Chicken. The romantic Dong-gu returned from Baedal with a rose, but in the eyes of the stern Chun-young, it was just a luxury item. The sight of Dong-gu leaving sullenly after hearing his wife's harsh nagging captured the hyper-realism and made viewers burst into laughter.
At the end of the broadcast, Jeong-ae and Dong-gu passed by without seeing each other. Meanwhile, Jeong-ae lost Dong-gu's photo from 30 years ago, and Dong-gu's daughter Eun-seong picked it up. The suspenseful ending of Eun-seong looking at her father's photo in confusion and Jeong-ae snatching it up raised curiosity about the next episode to its peak.
Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr
