Hajimemashite minna san ....welcome to my site on my fave Japanese Pop Culture likes such as dramas, movies, magazine scans, promo events etc. Mainly concentrate on my faves...Risa Watanabe... Kyoko Saito... Yui Kobayashi....Miku Tanaka.... Nene Shida.... if you're a fan at all of any of them then you've come to the right place(!) but many others are featured here besides them. Do mainly quick reviews on things I've watched, try to make the reviews brief, quick to read through with not too many spoilers, just whether they're good or bad and why I thought so plus whether you may find them enjoyable. Many, many screenshots are included from everything I've watched plus any video trailers if they're available. Hope you find something that interests you, don't hesitate to comment, arigato gozaimasu!
TvN is a cable network so the ratings for it will be a bit lower, for this show it was 4.22% which was about 1.31 million viewers.
Bae Suzy as Seo Dal-Mi.... 27 year old(?) woman who soon will have dreams of beginning her own startup company but in what is currently unknown. She's lived with her grandmother for the past fourteen years since her father died and has helped her out at her two food cafes. She's the younger sister of the next character and they had gone fourteen years without seeing each other until episode one. Upon entering the SANDBOX program she was appointed their CEO.
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Kang Ha-Na as Won In-Jae.... The reason for their different last names is that In-Jae lived with her mother after she got divorced from the father. The mother remarried a wealthy man, she's been living off and on in America for fourteen years. In-Jae was the CEO of the successful Morning Nature company which she began with money from her stepfather, she quit at at the end of episode two and now is enrolled at SANDBOX.
Nam Joo-Hyuk as Nam Do-San.... Main leader of SAMSAN Tech which struggled so badly but has a chance to be successful now that him and his two partners are at SANDBOX. He's 29 in age yet has never had a girlfriend though that could change as he's gaga over Dal-Mi.
Kim Sun-Ho as Han Ji-Pyeong.... Grew up in an orphanage but at sixteen was kicked out for being too old(?), he then lived with Dal-Mi's grandmother until attending college in Seoul. When he lived with the grandmother be pretended to be Do-San as he wrote Dal-Mi letters to comfort her after the divorce. He's now a senior manager at SH Venture Capital and also a mentor for SANDBOX and he'll be watching over SAMSAN Tech.
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Kim Hae-Sook as Choi Won-Deok... The grandmother of the top two characters but hasn't seen In-Jae in fifteen years. She's raised Dal-Mi since she was thirteen and they still live together, Choi used to run a cafe but now owns a small corn dog truck. She was also responsible for Ji-Pyeong being successful as she let him stay with her when he left the orphanage. During epiosde seven we learned she's going blind and Do-San now wants to create a program to help the vision impaired.
Eom Hyo-Seop as Won Doo-Jong.... In-Dae's stepfather who is quite wealthy. He gave her the funds to begin her own company and still owns 72% of the stock. However he let her run the company so it would become successful, then his son would take over. That happened but by episode seven Won realized his mistake and wants his stepdaughter back.
Moon Dong-Hyeoko as Won Sang-Su.... In-Dae's inept stepbrother, he was her secretary at Nature Morning and his father installed him as CEO for the Korean branch.
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Stephanie Lee as Jung Sa-Ha.... Was recruited by Dal-Mi to join the SAMSAN Tech team in episode five and what a snobby woman she is but Chul-San think's she's 'perfect'.
Kim Won-Hae as Nam Seong-Hwan.... Do-San's father who invested much $$ into his son's venture but never saw any return from the investment
Kim Min-Seok as Park Dong-Chun.... Ji-Pyeong's underling at SH Venture who in episode five also became a special assistant to Yoon at SANDBOX.
Start Up (south Korean Tv Series)
Cho Tae-Kwan as Alex Kown.... Had been living in America but has moved to Korea to be the CEO for the '2STO' tech company's Korean branch. He's also become a mentor at SANDBOX, he wanted to be teamed with Do-San but it didn't pan out.
Seo Yi-Sook as Yoon Sun-Hak.... Director of SANDBOX and she briefly knew Dal-Mi's father as the company she ran fourteen years ago was going to invest in his startup.
SANDBOX is an organization that will be a very important part of the story. It helps up and coming startup teams and individuals realize their dreams. They have their own set of buildings where those accepted can have rent free offices, get tutoring on many business subeects and meet very many influential people plus much other help.
Kang Han Na
Above is a new feature which I'll include in dramas like this one where there's ongoing storylines. The rating dropped from almost 4.8% for episode seven to 4.22 % for this one. But the total viewers was almost the same as so many people view dramas on Sunday versus any other night of the week. Have never been able to get these pair of recaps done by Tuesday which was my goal, could have has these done by then but that would mean no other posts could have been done of Tuesday. As mentioned in the last recap so many new developments were added to the story but hardly any were resolved in the previous episode so hope that doesn't make this one too long.
The last show ended with the first mini romantic scene between Dal-Mi and Do-San sharing quite a few kisses on the roof of the Morning Group's building. What's very odd to me is that no mention of that scene was referred to in this episode, don't think it's something either wants to forget but still find it hard to believe nothing has come of that or at least not yet. SMASAN Tech has finally come up with a very unique AI design for their SANDBOX project which will be the basis for most of this episode, will start off with one small detail describing a mini computer box.
Ji-Pyeong has one in his home. It understands the human voice and can speak when you ask it something. But it's mainly factual stuff the object can only answer such as what's the definition of words or phrases, math problems and various other things but isn't as advanced as a regular computer. This device will become a key part of SAMSAN Tech's project and thought I'd have this at the top instead of discussing it over and over.
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Do-San though nothing was mentioned about it in this show. That scene was after Do-San smashed Won's glass nameplate at his Morning Group office, he has CCTV footage of the incident and has reported it to the police who will be talking to Do-San later on. In that last episode four of the SAMSAN Tech team gave a presentation to the other team about a project they developed, all were very good but none appeared to be the magical one. The fifth person to give a presentation in the episode was Do-San though we didn't see that scene until this episode. The inspiration behind his idea was Dal-Mi's grandmother Choi who is slowly losing her eyesight. They had a long chat in the last show which really touched Do-San's heart, he thought we take such things for granted and his goal is to help vision impaired people.
NoonGil is the name of Do-San's proposed project, once his teammates heard the details they were behind it 100% and it may be one that is really needed worldwide. Besides his talk with Choi he also took some inspiration behind an idea his partner Yong-San came up with which was what if seeing eye dogs could talk? That way they could tell the person they're guiding how far to a crosswalk, who the person in front of them is, how much money is in their hand and countless other things. So Do-San carried that a step further and combined two devices, one was the above Yeong-Sil which can speak but not see. The other was his own team's creation which was an AI device that could identify objects and describe them, such as a twenty year old angry woman, where a bus was going and once again a countless amount of things but this device couldn't speak.
So when you put the two of them together you have a hand held device about the size of a phone that can relate what is going on to a person who can't see. What a brilliant creation it was, even Choi thought so as she used it to help her read her Bible which she hadn't ben able to do for ages. Just came to mind but haven't seen her working at her corn dog truck, does Choi still operate it? Brilliant creation it