Hyeri, who appeared in the Coupang Play series ‘Office Workers’, attracted attention by mentioning the ‘fun’ battle.

The Coupang Play series ‘Office Workers’ is an office survival story of MZ people who are becoming ‘sandwiched’ between AZ and GenZ, set in the midst of a crisis at a small and medium-sized marketing company DY Planning.

The released first episode began with the first day of work of Hyun Bong-sik, a new assistant manager with a surprising visual born in 1984 who joined DY Planning, a marketing company led by CEO Shin Dong-yup. CEO Shin Dong-yup, Manager Kim Min-kyo, Section Chief Lee Soo-ji, Assistant Manager Hyun Bong-sik, Supervisor Kim Won-hoon, Employees Ji Ye-eun and Cha Jung-won (Car the Garden), and Intern Shim Ja-yoon (STAYC Yoon) successfully hunted laughter from the moment they walked to work, showing off their creepy synchronization with real-life office villains whom we‘ve seen ’where have we seen them before?‘

In particular, new Assistant Manager Hyun Bong-sik, who had just transferred to DY Planning, made people laugh by looking at the empty DY Planning office from his first day at work and wondering, ’Did I really make the right move?‘ Supervisor Kim Won-hoon, who had been dawdling because he didn’t hear the alarm, seemed to barely avoid the issue of being late with his clever thinking, but ended up sweating profusely after being attacked by his ‘arch-rival’ junior Cha Jung-won. Even this was not enough, during a planning meeting, their junior Ji Ye-eun was subjected to a parade of verbal abuse, and the eight cast members perfectly transformed into the ‘Kkandae’ MZ generation to the ‘No answer’ Gen-Z generation office workers, captivating viewers. Furthermore, the scene of the DY Planning executives and employees trying to get a raise for their manager Kim Won-hoon using their guns, but ‘Cutting him off’ with a wink from CEO Shin Dong-yup, perfectly portrayed the real-life hardships of office workers, stimulating the viewers‘ ‘Hello and sad’ empathy.



Actress Hye-ri, who visited DY Planning as the first episode’s guest and the advertising model for the ‘Slow Aging Lunchbox’, also stood out. Hyeri shook up DY Planning with her unique chemistry with the cast members who had transformed into real office workers through their push-and-pull banter and bold ad-libs. In the commercial shoot that followed, she made everyone laugh from the first episode with her passionate acting that spared no effort, even striking professional poses despite the rough filming conditions at DY Planning.

In particular, Hyeri caught everyone‘s attention when she spoke about the ‘fun’ battle. On that day, Shin Dong-yup asked, “Hyeri, you don’t drink, so have you ever regretted posting something on SNS when you were drunk?” Hyeri replied, “no.”

When Kim Won-hoon added, “It‘s really ‘fun’ when you do it sober,””,” Hyeri replied, “I think you should just say it’s fun when it‘s fun. “It’s not fun right now,” he said embarrassedly.

Kim Won-hoon then asked, “So when something like that happens, did the CEO of the agency call you or say something?” and Hye-ri responded, “How old are you? You seem so clueless,” causing laughter.

The comment was referring to the incident in March 2024 when Hye-ri, who had been in a public relationship with Ryu Jun-yeol in the past, left a comment on SNS saying, “It‘s fun.”

Meanwhile, ‘Office Workers’ is released every Saturday at 8 PM on Coupang Play.

Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com

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