

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
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.