tvN weekend drama "Typhoon Family" (directed by Ina-jeong Lee·Dong-hwi Kim, written by Hyun Jang, planned by Studio Dragon, produced by Imaginus·Studio PIC·Tree Studio) has dialogue that is more special for a reason. The passionate survival story of ordinary people who preserved human warmth even during the 1997 IMF foreign exchange crisis continues to convey meaningful energy that helps endure crises even in 2025, and it leaves a deep resonance in living rooms. Here is a collection of memorable lines from "Typhoon Family," full of recognition, romance and emotion.
#. "We are more fragrant than flowers and more valuable than money." (episode 1)
The sudden blast of the IMF winter turned the life of Apgujeong troublemaker Kang Taepung (Junho Lee) upside down. Typhoon Family, hit directly by the foreign exchange crisis, was driven to the brink of bankruptcy, and Taepung's father (Dong-il Sung), who struggled to take responsibility for the company to the end, passed away. When Taepung went to his father's company to sort out the office, he found passbooks with employees' names written one by one in the safe. The monthly savings preserved his father's belief that the greatest asset was the "people" he worked with. In Taepung's passbook was a short passbook note showing monthly deposits of 300,000 won. The four-character sentence "What matters more than results is people. We are more fragrant than flowers and more valuable than money" stacked up in the passbook was his father's conviction and the last legacy left to Taepung. Bearing that meaning in his heart, Taepung joined Typhoon Family to continue his father's 26-year legacy and is growing into a true boss who values people over money.
#. "You fall and fall again, and then one day you'll fly." (episode 4)
The toxic clause incident involving Pyo Bakho (Sang-ho Kim), president of Pyo Sangseon, was the decisive reason Typhoon Family faced collapse again. Taepung had stored fabric at Pyo Sangseon's warehouse, but lost all inventory because of a clause hidden on the back of the contract that said "if uncollected within 72 hours, all goods will be seized·discarded." In front of the cold Pyo Bakho, who said, "As a businessman I only looked at money," Taepung realized he had been thoroughly used under the lie called "trust." Even so, when Taepung informed him that returns were possible on terms more favorable than cost due to the exchange rate increase, Pyo Bakho mocked him, saying, "You should give up the business. You will fail like this." Taepung did not give in. Instead he retorted, "I am learning how to fly from my father right now. You fall and fall again, and then one day you'll fly over your head, sir." Taepung ultimately rose from failure and delivered a satisfying reversal to Pyo Bakho.
#. "So it's gone? You mean you can't see it right now?" (episode 6)
Disgusted and enraged by loan shark Ryu Heegyu's (Jae-gyun Lee) dehumanizing treatment of people, Taepung eventually stamped a palm print on an IOU promising to sell 7,000 safety shoes to repay Park Yunchul's (Sun-kyu Jin) debt of 100 million won. Even Jeong Charan (Hye-eun Kim) clicked her tongue at his reckless choice, saying, "Where in the world is someone like you?" On that night, when it seemed humanity had vanished in an era reduced to money and transactions, Taepung called O Mison (Minha Kim) and sighed, asking whether there was no romance, love, affection or trust left. The pitch-black sky with no starlight that Mison briefly told him to look up at felt like his current situation. Mison then asked back, "(Just because the star isn't visible now) does that mean it's gone? You mean you can't see it right now?" That night, Taepung discovered a faintly glowing glow-in-the-dark star on the ceiling of a darkened inn room in Busan and quietly smiled. The romance that exists even when unseen was still burning somewhere in his heart.
#. "Even if you have no money and nothing else, having someone by your side is enough." (episode 7)
Taepung and Mison secured an export contract for safety shoes with a daring promotional video and fluent English pitching. But just before loading the goods onto the ship, Typhoon Family was blacklisted by a shipping company due to the scheming of Pyo Hyunjun (Mu-jin Seong), who could not stand Taepung's success. The difference between Hyunjun and others was that Taepung had people who supported him in every way. Charan personally persuaded the captain of a deep-sea fishing vessel, and the captain, recalling his past connection with Taepung's father "Caesar Kang," allowed the shipment. Loading a large volume of safety shoes onto the ship was made possible by the help of Busan market merchants who stepped forward as if it were their own work. A street vendor (Kwon-ah Nam) patted Taepung on the back, saying, "Even if you have no money and nothing else, having someone by your side is enough. No matter how much the world changes, living in that world is still about people." With the power and warmth of people who lift each other up in crisis, Taepung flew once again.
"Typhoon Family" airs every Saturday and Sunday at 9:10 p.m. on tvN.
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