Season 1 • Episode 20
LatestBased on the life of Park Tae-joon, founder and honorary chairman of multinational steel-making company POSCO, this is the story of the people who battled poverty and despair after the colonial era and the Korean War with a relentless pursuit of economic innovation, and the choices they made in the name of love, loyalty and sacrifice. Park worked tirelessly to build a mill that produced steel, which became pivotal to Korea's modernization.
Production
Period mill sets that smell of coal and ambition
Acting
Choi Soo-jong's exhausted eyes carry whole decades
Lee In-hye
Jang Ok-seon
Choi Soo-jong
Park Tae-hyeong
Kim Kwon
young Tae-hyeong
Choi Cheol-ho
Choi Jong-ho
Ryu Jin
Shin Dae-cheol
Dokgo Young-jae
the President
Jung Ho-bin
Alan Kissinger
Kim Hyun-joon
Takeda (young)
Kim Ye-won
young Kumiko
Jeon Soo-kyeong
Yang Hwa-ja
Hong Ah-reum
Ha Cheo-soon
Kong Jeong-hwan
Jung Sang-ho
Son Tae-young
Kumiko
Park Sang-myeon
Park Jong-yeol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
POSCO remains Korea's most admired company; this series aired during its 60th anniversary, essentially corporate hagiography with tears.
The real Park Tae-joon died in 2011; the drama's rushed finale reportedly rewrote scenes after his widow objected to certain portrayals.
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