Lee Jae-wook becomes Jun's kingmaker in The Impossible Heir

23 January 30, 2024February 21, 2024

Lee Jae-wook becomes Jun’s kingmaker in The Impossible Heir

by tccolb

The promo train has taken off with a new poster and video teaser combo for Disney+’s upcoming The Impossible Heir, introducing the main trio at the center of our chaebol succession battle: Lee Jae-wook (Death’s Game), Jun (a.k.a. Lee Jun-young) (May I Help You), and Hong Su-ju (Sweet Home 2).

We open the teaser with Na Hye-won’s (Hong Su-ju) voiceover, when she asked, “Aren’t you curious? What each of us will appear to be, ten years from now?” But life hasn’t been easy for our three leads and every day is a struggle when you’ve been labeled as an outcast in so-called proper society.

Han Tae-oh (Lee Jae-wook), for instance, has been trying to hide from the world and we hear the salacious gossip in voiceover that Tae-oh’s dad murdered Tae-oh’s mom. Kang In-ha (Jun) faces constant rejection from his chaebol family, who sneer at In-ha for smelling different as an illegitimate child. All the while Hye-won tries to deny even having a mom, as she’s harassed by loan sharks for the money her runaway mom owes.

Similarly at a breaking point, our trio decide that enough is enough and a steely-eyed In-ha proposes “to take revenge on the people who looked down on us and made our lives difficult.” An amused Tae-oh chuckles that, “it’s a humble dream,” before revealing his grander – and more specific – plan: “We’re going to make you President Kang In-ha of the Kang-Oh Group.”

Immediately impressed, In-ha confesses, “This is why I can’t help but love Han Tae-oh.” Hye-won agrees to participate as well, revealing her ambition to make the Kang-Oh Group hers in both the present and the future. As she takes In-ha’s hand as his significant other, we then read the trio’s united goal in the appearing text screens, to rise from the bottom to the highest place.

Reassuring his friends, a confident Tae-oh declares, “Don’t worry. I’m going to make it happen perfectly.” We then watch as Tae-oh transforms from neighborhood cutie to slick corporate exec and the teaser closes as Tae-oh updates the team, “I’ll get straight to the point. Our plan has finally begun.”

Directed by PD Min Yeon-hong (Insider, Missing: The Other Side) with scripts by Choi Won, Disney+’s The Impossible Heir will be coming to our screens on February 28.

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1 peiyeelai

January 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM

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2 Midnight

January 30, 2024 at 7:08 PM

Omo, Jun is not a violent bully this time?? I can't wait!
Thd premise sounds quite kdrama traditional. I'm intrigued.

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3 peiyeelai

January 30, 2024 at 7:30 PM

Can't wait for this drama to start in February. This drama has all the elements of a traditional/epic K-drama that I love: Politics, birth secrets, revenge, business and bromance. I don't care if there are no romance between the main leads.

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4 Unaspirated

January 30, 2024 at 7:56 PM

With Jun and Lee Jae-wook, I don’t need to hear much more before getting on board. But I do think the rest of it sounds fun too!

Any word on Hulu/rare D+ availability?

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5 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM

This could be great, I saw a Japanese drama Trillion Game where a schemer helped two people who lacked confidence in themselves to build a company. The three of them were part of the company so gained from the process. In this situation Taeho is vulnerable so must have a particular skill set that means he is integral to the scheme going well otherwise he has nothing to gain from helping the other two to head up the cooperation. Too many times people change once they have the power/money so there is a risk ‘the couple’ could get rid of him once he has served a purpose. Hyewon is also vulnerable because Inha could divorce her to marry the daughter of a conglomerate to expand his reach. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

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abalyn

January 31, 2024 at 11:53 AM

Yes, I really like the lead threesome not fighting against each other and working together, but there could be some interesting complications.

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6 Flix_Crusin

January 30, 2024 at 11:25 PM

Oh, I've been waiting for this... it looks so, so fun. Drama! Scheming! Cooprate infighting! Count me in.

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7 DancingEmma

January 31, 2024 at 12:09 AM

“ Kang In-ha (Jun) faces constant rejection from his chaebol family, who sneer at In-ha for smelling different as an illegitimate child”. Reminds me of the sneering and commentary from the richies - child and adult alike - of the family in “Parasite” about the smelliness of the interloping family”. Just depressing beyond words.

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8 Kurama

January 31, 2024 at 12:32 AM

How Jun is in so many different projects?

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9 peiyeelai

January 31, 2024 at 12:42 AM

Plenty of corporate plots and schemes for my happy heart indeed!

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10 Britney

January 31, 2024 at 3:28 AM

As long as a love triangle doesn't develop.

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11 Diana Hansen

January 31, 2024 at 8:26 AM

Now this looks interesting! The only drawback is dumb old Disney so it goes on my "Hulu please show it" list.

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DancingEmma

January 31, 2024 at 12:32 PM

Disney+ is awful. I subscribed reluctantly and remain reluctant. I wish I could find these dramas elsewhere but alas. They don’t have a ‘coming soon’ feature and there is little clear indication of what they might show in each region.

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12 abalyn

January 31, 2024 at 12:07 PM

I kind of scratched my head the first time I heard Lee Jae-wook was in a chaebol show, as the original synopsis I read sounded pretty bland. The LJW I’ve seen doesn’t do bland. Now it is making more sense, and it sounds like it will at least have as much drama and birth secrets as the show his character was in on WWW, if not exactly the same. I’ll imagine myself like Lee Da Hee in the scene where she gasps “no” at his show’s revelation while eating popcorn.

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 31, 2024 at 12:36 PM

‘ it sounds like it will at least have as much drama and birth secrets as the show his character was in on WWW’👈🏾😆 NOTHING can beat that show for ridiculous storylines!

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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain

February 2, 2024 at 12:03 AM

Of course I'm watching this, but I'm going to have trouble getting past the way Lee Jae-wook's swept-back hair reminds me of the evil twin in What's Wrong With My Mother-in-Law. I want to be enthralled but I'll settle for snickering over my popcorn.

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Qingdao: likes scented candles

February 8, 2024 at 1:22 PM

LJW doing bland? I hope he lives up to our expectations. Check out his courtroom scene in "Death's Game"!

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13 DancingEmma

January 31, 2024 at 12:35 PM

What happened to that other Lee Jaeook historical drama in development/production which DB mentioned a while back? Kim Jaeook was also supposed to be in it.