Coupang Play series "Office Workers (directed by Kim Min, Kang Na-rae)" season 2, buoyed by surging interest with each episode, has released behind-the-scenes shots of the "office workers' office survival" that feel more realistic than an actual office.
Coupang Play series "Office Workers" season 2 is a real office survival story unfolding at DY Planning, whose true employees dream of being paycheck bandits and leaving work on time, amid psychological battles with star clients! Upon release it climbed to No. 1 among Coupang Play's popular works and set a record with viewership surging 1,023% compared with the first week after release. The released behind-the-scenes shots captured details more realistic than a real office and the "true office worker" tension that continued off camera in places.
A name every Korean knows: Shin Dong-yeop! His other identity is that of a "businessman." Entering the passion-filled DY Planning office, from the brutal organizational chart to notices bearing the touch of CEO Shin Dong-yeop, the details that evoke a real company provoke laughter. On the office wall is a phrase embodying the CEO's philosophy that brainwashes "a sense of ownership," and the CEO's office, despite being on the verge of restructuring, is full of bragging rights such as the Small and Medium Business CEO Popularity Award and the DY Planning advertising model contract. The CEO's "self-love max level" image — doing everything even in a crisis and bragging all the more — squarely targets the wry smiles of real office workers.
The paycheck-bandit employees of DY Planning have only one wish: to do less work and get a bigger paycheck. At DY Planning there aren't just the rules the CEO wants; there are also "confident rules" created by the employees themselves and posted for the CEO and bosses to see. If only these three principles are followed — "no KakaoTalk after leaving work! no calls after leaving work! don't look for me after leaving work!" — it would be a perfect workplace, but DY Planning's family's "MZ commandments" are even more detailed. The survival manual is full of items that any real office worker will relate to 200%: "don't criticize without alternatives," "don't ask what's hard," "teach even one thing properly," "don't ask 'when will it be done?' " "if you have nothing to do, go home," and "leave us alone."
Another charm point of "Office Workers" season 2 is the star guest problem-solving project. DY Planning employees' clumsy but earnest solutions deliver laughter, empathy and revelation at once. Cha Jung-won joked, "This is a trivial show," but to DY Planning's staff solving stars' problems was never trivial. The sincerity is fully reflected in the results that fill the office walls: "problem-solving posters." Seeing the various ideas printed and hung as they are prompts the reaction, "Wow, aren't these real marketers?" and makes you clap your knee; by this point DY Planning is truly an idea bank!
At the DY Planning office, all employees fully own the "true office worker" vibe. The moment you hang an ID badge around your neck, pride in belonging to DY Planning levels up sharply even if your monthly pay stub smells of hardship. The real laugh button is behind that. Behind-the-scenes stills reveal not only ID badges but the details of office life everywhere. The whiteboard in the meeting room is full of free-form notes from cleaning assignments to doodles. Even though it's a company, a dart game scoreboard appears and elicits absurd laughter, and in the pantry refrigerator there is a "Sooji lunch" note that Director Lee Soo-ji posted to protect her drink — realistic details that don't appear in the main work were revealed.
DY Planning is not just a "pretend office." The office in "Office Workers" season 2 is the pinnacle of hyperrealism. From Shim Ja-yoon (STAYC Yoon) to Lee Soo-ji, just turning on each employee's computer monitor exudes a real office worker vibe. Messages like "Shh! paycheck bandit at work" and "Anyone who messes with Intern Jageun will get fried" are set on monitor screens, provoking laughter at first glance. Each DY Planning employee's desk features items reflecting their personality and work style. In particular, assistant manager Cha Jung-won's desk, seemingly untidy, is filled with unique items from a basketball player figurine to a singing bowl for office survival.
Kim Min, the main director, said, "The production team only set the basic framework of a work space with a hyperrealism concept; most of the details that filled the actual space came from the cast's ideas. The cast, immersed in their characters according to their positions, naturally expanded the world." He added, "That's why the realism is so alive that any office worker would think, 'Isn't this our company?' I think this raw reality is the secret weapon that draws the unique laughter and empathy of 'Office Workers.'"
Filmed in a space that recreates an actual office landscape, Coupang Play series "Office Workers" season 2, which delivers refreshing empathy and big laughs to true office workers through method ad-lib performances, is released exclusively on Coupang Play every Saturday at 8 p.m.
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