Kdrama 2017

Radiant Office (KDrama Review & Summary)

Jachebalgwang Opiseu

Radiant Office (Jachebalgwang Opiseu)

• Genre: Business, Office Life, Illness, Romance
• Release Date: 2017
• Origin: South Korea
• Kdrama: 16 Episodes

Cast

• Go Ah Sung as Eun Ho Won
• Ha Seok Jin as Seo Woo Jin
• Lee Dong Hwi as Do Ki Taek
• Kim Dong Wook as Seo Hyun
• Hoya as Jang Kang Ho

“Life is a series of blockings and openings.”
– Eun Ho-won

This drama has been consistently enjoyable.

I started watching this Korean series after having just seen two dramas: Drinking Solo and Something About 1%.  Both dramas starred Ha Seok-jin.  I enjoyed both dramas tremendously, so I invested more viewing hours on this new one having put my faith on the lead actor, Seok -jin.  Good investment. 🙂

Radiant Office shows work culture which is universal around the world. 🙂 🙂 🙂  How the newbies had to kowtow to their seniors.  They had to find their wings and develop thicker skin pronto in order to survive.

Why the drama is called Radiant Office?  I can only hazard a guess.

I think, interns, as well as the seniors, had to continuously excel in their jobs to secure or keep permanent positions.

Employees must radiate competence and cheerfulness to be deserving of their positions.

Anyway the story is about three interns who started working at Hauline, in its furniture division.  The interns have something in common, they were all treated for attempted suicide in the same hospital at the same time by an emergency doctor, who happens to be a chaebol, being the second son of the owner of Hauline.

At that same night in the hospital, all three individuals inadvertently heard a rather alarming post-suicide prognosis that one of them has a terminal illness and not much long to live, probably 6 months max.

The three did not wait to find out who was actually had the illness.

That same night, Eun Ho-won, one of the three, played by Go Ah-sung, got a text message that she passed the interview and now going to be an intern at Hauline.  Finally a result after rejections totalling to 101 job applications.

The next time the three met again was at Hauline as interns competing for a single permanent position. By that time the other two male interns had gone back in the hospital for a good check-up.  By power of deduction, it must be Eun Ho Won, who had not gone for a check up yet, who is the ill one.

Eun Ho-won, has been emboldened by her ‘illness’ that she is more confident and feisty, thinking she had really nothing to lose.  Often she would blurt out the machinations and the ails within the sales and marketing departments, contravening office politics. 🙂

The actors are amazing in portraying their respective roles.

This is a 16-episodes series and would finish next week.  What a shame.  I am going to miss it.

It is a drama-comedy.  Highly recommended.