Park Shin-hye, Go Kyung-pyo, Ha Yoon-kyung, and Jo Han-gyeol confirmed to appear in ‘Miss Undercover Boss’

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Park Shin-hye, Go Kyung-pyo, Ha Yoon-kyung, and Jo Han-gyeol have confirmed their appearances in the new tvN drama ‘Miss Undercover Boss’ (tentative title), joining the super special lineup that will revive the emotions of the end of the century.

Scheduled to premiere in the first half of 2026, tvN new drama ‘Miss Undercover Boss’ is a retro office comedy drama that depicts the hilarious events that unfold when Sammo Hung, a 30-something elite financial supervisor who only knows work, goes undercover as a 20-year-old high school graduate female employee at a securities firm where a suspicious flow of funds has been detected in the late 1990s.

Park Shin-hye will transform her acting by playing the role of Sammo Hung, who goes from being an elite supervisor at the Financial Supervisory Service to a high school graduate rookie at a securities firm overnight.Park Shin-hye will go back and forth between the cold-blooded career woman who only knows work to a fresh new member of society, comically unraveling the chaotic events that occur in the Yeouido financial district.

Go Kyung-pyo plays Shin Jung-woo, the new CEO of Hanmin Securities, a natural-born management consultant and corporate raider who believes that only numbers are honest.He is known as the ‘unofficial cold-hearted man’ in Yeouido who does not care about the means and methods to achieve his goals, and they become complicatedly entangled when he meets Hong Jang-mi, who has the face of Sammo Hung, a 20-year-old whom he once loved.

Meanwhile, Ha Yoon-kyung plays the role of Ko Bok-hee, the secretary to the president of Hanmin Securities and the older sister of room 301 of the dormitory where Geum-bo, who got a fake job, lives.Bok-hee is a character who struts around in fancy clothes in the middle of the colorless Yeouido, and is a cute tsundere character who survived in the secretary’s office with her own winning strategy.

Jo Han-gyeol gives a passionate performance as Albert Oh, the grandson of the chairman of Orange Tribe Hanmin Securities and a cinephile who crash-lands in Yeouido on a golden parachute.He has no interest in management, but he creates strife at the company and receives new stimulation from Geum-bo, an old rookie employee who has impressed him since their first meeting.

Director Park Seon-ho, who directed ‘Suspicious Partner’, ‘Wok of Love’, ‘Matchmaking’, and ‘Drunken Romance’, and writer Moon Hyun-kyung, who wrote the drama ‘Into the Ring’, have joined the production team, and the talented production team has joined forces to prepare to make a mark on the office comedy scene at the end of the century.

Regarding this, the production team said, “We are very happy to be able to work with actors Park Shin-hye, Go Kyung-pyo, Ha Yoon-kyung, and Jo Han-gyeol, whom we trust and watch,” and added, “Please look forward to ‘Miss Undercover Boss,’ which will penetrate the hearts of viewers with a lighthearted and refreshing story set at the point where the chaos of the end of the century and today’s reality meet.”


Reporter Kim Gyul- winter@donga.com

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