'Typhoon Family' Lee Junho colored Saturday night pink and fluttering with a confession of "I love you" to Kim Minha, who was drawing a line.
The 11th episode of tvN weekend drama Typhoon Family (directed by Lee Najeong and Kim Dong-hwi, written by Jang Hyun, planned by Studio Dragon (Studio Dragon), produced by Imaginus (Imaginus), Studio PIC and Tree Studio) broadcast on the 15th recorded nationwide household average ratings of 8.5% and a peak of 9.8%, metropolitan area household average of 8.7% and a peak of 9.8%, ranking first in its time slot across all channels including terrestrial broadcasters. The 20-49 target rating also ranked first across all channels including terrestrial broadcasters with a nationwide household average of 2.4% and a peak of 2.7%. (Based on paid platforms combining cable, IPTV and satellite / provided by Nielsen Korea)
Looking for a stable, reliable business that could also rake in money, Kang Taepung (Lee Junho) turned his attention to "government work" and came across the Public Procurement Service's international cooperation team project "Prairie of Hope." It was a government-led project to send aid supplies to build schools and hospitals in African regions. However, major items had already been claimed by large corporations, and the only item left was surgical gloves, which did not even have a domestic production factory. The only person who could save Typhoon Family, lacking public projects experience and the capital to put down a deposit, was former director of operations Koo Myeonggwan (Kim Song-il), the only one with real-world experience.
But Myeonggwan had taken a wrong turn. After leaving his job and failing to find success, he fell into a cult that advocated Y2K doomsday theory. Taepung and Oh Miseon (Kim Minha) chased after Myeonggwan, who was handing out leaflets for a special prayer meeting on the street, and tried to persuade him, but were instead driven off as "Satan." To make matters worse, they received a notification from the Public Procurement Service banning them from participating in the bid, leaving them on the brink.
At that moment, Myeonggwan stepped in to save Typhoon Family. Knowing the habits of public officials well, he told them to file an objection over procedural problems such as unclear participation eligibility restrictions and discrimination against small and medium-sized enterprises. Thanks to that, Cha Jusa at the Public Procurement Service (Jung Sooyoung) had no choice but to allow the unheard-of Typhoon Family to participate in the bid. But when Taepung went to submit the bid application at the Public Procurement Service, he ran into Pyo Sangseon's Pyo Hyunjun (Mujinseong). Determined to bring Taepung down someday, Pyo Hyunjun changed his company's item to the same surgical gloves as Typhoon Family, and the two companies ended up facing off in a lowest-price open bidding competition.
Preparing the bidding documents was a continuous tension that allowed no mistakes. They even struggled to obtain a keyboard that could type in French from an electronics market to submit the surgical glove technical specifications translated into French, but a disaster occurred when the printer software failed to recognize French and all the fonts printed out garbled.
With little time left before the deadline and no solution in sight, Myeonggwan once again stepped in at Taepung's earnest plea, "Please help Typhoon Family." Wearing arm covers, he wrote the technical specifications in an instant with measured spacing and handwriting more precise than a computer. Having lived in the era when documents were handwritten, he was indeed "the old hand is the master." It was a moment when the tree rings — symbolizing the steady time of a tree that provides shade in summer, covers with leaves in autumn and firewood in winter — in other words, "veteran experience," demonstrated its strength.
On the way home after a whirlwind day, a turning point came in Taepung and Miseon's relationship. Earlier Miseon clearly drew a line between work and personal matters, telling Taepung, who kept taking care of her kindly, "Let's only worry about each other in work." But Taepung realized he could not do that. So he sincerely confessed, "I love you, Oh Miseon, it's unrequited love. This is my first unrequited love." Taepung's straightforwardness, honest in the face of Miseon's desire to focus on work and her caution, intersected, and hopes swelled that the two-person romance might become, like the episode's subtitle, "Tomorrow is (mutual) love."
Meanwhile, the mystery surrounding the IOUs between Typhoon Family and Pyo Sangseon was peeled back another layer. Cha Seon-taek (Kim Jaehwa) reluctantly accepted money from Pyo Bakho (Kim Sangho) because her husband's business was struggling, and, unable to find the IOU, tore out the page from the 1989 cashbook showing that Pyo Sangseon had borrowed money. Nevertheless, when Pyo Bakho tightened the screws by even bringing up his son, she panicked, and she became frantic to find the IOU, subtly trying to probe Taepung. Taepung, noticing Cha Seon-taek's habit of filing documents from right to left by date, sensed an odd current. What secret might be hidden in the IOU, the tension before the storm deepened.
Typhoon Family episode 12 will be broadcast today (the 16th) at 9:10 p.m. on tvN.
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