Actor Kang Tae-oh has successfully returned to the small screen.

Kang Tae-oh returned to the small screen as the cold-hearted principled So Baek-ho in tvN‘s ‘Potato Research Institute’ (directed by Kang Il-soo and Shim Jae-hyun, written by Kim Ho-soo, planned by CJ ENM Studios, produced by Green Snake Media), which first aired on the 1st.

So Baek-ho, the director of the strategy planning office at Wonhan Retail, is a ‘capitalist grim reaper’ who uses mathematical judgment to tear down the team and reorganize personnel. On this day, So Baek-ho responded calmly to a situation where the person who was fired because of him threatened him with a weapon, and showed a strict side by pointing out the number of grams of A4 paper of the potato research institute, the target of the merger and acquisition.

The scene where So Baek-ho, who is the epitome of cold-bloodedness, collapses in the potato field brought great laughter to the viewers. So Baek-ho was attacked by a water magpie from the potato research institute and rolled around in the field. Even after receiving treatment at the hospital, So Baek-ho showed off his composure, saying, “I rolled around in a way that minimized my injuries.”.

The end of the first episode showed So Baek-ho, the ‘Rococo Free Pass Award’, holding an umbrella for Kim Mi-kyung (played by Lee Sun-bin), who was expressing her anger toward Wonhan Retail in the rain. So Baek-ho announced the start of a romantic comedy by saying, “I’m sorry for being a resentful son of a bitch.”

Kang Tae-oh dominated the 70 minutes with his appearance of going back and forth between cold and hot water, adding vitality to the play with his comedic spoon and his acting that threw his whole body into it. In particular, Kang Tae-oh garnered attention from the first episode by delivering long lines full of technical terms with precise diction.

Meanwhile, tvN‘s ‘Potato Research Institute’, which Kang Tae-oh appears in, airs every Saturday and Sunday at 9:20 p.m.

Photo=tvN ‘Potato Research Institute’Reporter Lee Seul-bi, Donga.com misty82@donga.com

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