Geum Sae-rok strikes gold with her Iron Family

7 September 5, 2024September 5, 2024

Geum Sae-rok strikes gold with her Iron Family

by lovepark

Puns abound in this mockumentary-style teaser for KBS’s upcoming weekender Iron Family. Parodying the broadcaster’s long-running series Screening Humanity, the newest subject is a third-generation dry cleaning family with a very odd secret.

The teaser introduces the three generations working at the cleaners from grandpa Park In-hwan (Heartbeat) to daughter-in-law Park Ji-young (Love Next Door) and finally, the show’s namesake, granddaughter Lee Da-rim played by Geum Sae-rok (Soundtrack #2). Her name sounds similar to “iron” in Korean, and that’s exactly what Da-rim does despite not being able to see.

When the filming crew asks her if it isn’t dangerous for someone with visual impairments to iron, she tells them that it’s fine since she has been doing this from a young age. The crew then calls cut, but at that moment, a strange noise draws their attention. The camera whips to the side and catches grandma Kim Young-ok (The Pork Cutlets) ironing, not clothes but cash. She happily tells them that she is laundering money, but then realizes her mistake a second too late and blocks the camera from filming.

Dropping the documentary crew, the teaser shows snippets of what may have transpired to cause this wacky scenario, and we see leading man Kim Jung-hyun (Kokdu: Season of Deity) carrying his mom Kim Hye-eun (Not Others) while she cries, “Thief!” It seems her money may be at the dry cleaners as Grandpa opens a washing machine and finds cash flowing out of it like water.

Da-rim’s family apparently are big believers in not looking a gift horse in the mouth as everyone smiles at this sudden stroke of luck. Grandpa says that he might actually get buried in cash, and Da-rim echoes the sentiment, saying that her family may finally live a life without wrinkles like everyone else.

Directed by PDs Sung Joon-hae (Bravo My Life) and Seo Yong-soo with scripts by Seo Sook-hyang (Greasy Melo), KBS’s Iron Family is slated for thirty-six episodes and premieres September 28 in the Saturday-Sunday slot.

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1 🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸

September 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM

It seems cuter and funnier than the previous few weekenders. Hope the fun bits are not all crammed into the teasers and we still have some left for the actual episodes. 😂
Not sure if 36 episodes is a good choice but if it means a tighter story and less filler - bring it on. Also an eighteen weeks commitment to the drama instead of the usual twenty-five weeks seems promising. Hopefully more people may be willing to try it out. Hoping for a good outing for Kim Jung-hyun. Hwaiting Team!!

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Dorotka

September 6, 2024 at 6:29 AM

Though, I have heard somewhere that each episode is longer than usual, thus in total we may get about the usual weekender total time. 😁

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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸

September 6, 2024 at 6:37 AM

Opps!! Well I still interested to give it a go. 😂

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2 Dorotka

September 6, 2024 at 5:08 AM

I'm definitely checking this out.
It has plenty of my favourite actors and I enjoyed the previous works of the writer.
Hopefully we are finally getting a good weekender!
(Please be good, please be good! 🙏)

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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸

September 6, 2024 at 6:38 AM

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3 PYC

September 6, 2024 at 8:29 AM

It was such a long while that I can’t recall when my last favorite family weekender was. But I will try this one for the cast and the writer who wrote my favorite Jealousy Incarnate.