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[Photos] New Stills Added for the Korean Drama "Numbers"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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‘Numbers’ Review: Three Reasons Why It’s Unfamiliar Yet Captivating

Edited by Hwang Hong Sun

Translated by by Kim Hoyeun

While we often find dramas delving into the world of professional vocations, they tend to primarily focus on doctors, lawyers, or their ilk. MBC’s weekend drama Numbers piques viewer curiosity by highlighting the rather uncharted profession of accountants. This audacious endeavor is a rarity in K-dramas and comes with its own set of concerns: Won’t the complexity and novelty of the subject matter deter viewers? Fortunately, you can tuck away such worries. Each episode offers a suspense-ridden story and impassioned performances, resulting in a viewing experience as exhilarating as any top-notch thriller. Let’s examine what draws audiences into this drama.

 

The Hidden Stories Behind the Numbers

Numbers chronicles the journey of high school graduate-turned-accountant Jang Ho Woo (Kim Myung Soo), who takes a stand against the injustices of a massive accounting firm. An orphan, Ho Woo successfully prepares to step into society thanks to the benevolence of In Ho, the CEO of Haetbit Construction. However, he loses everything in an instant. After a company named Taeil Accounting Firm issues a report demanding the liquidation of Haetbit Construction, In Ho commits suicide and his network of associates disperse. Incensed by Taeil Accounting Firm’s role in this tragedy, Ho Woo becomes an accountant and resolves to unearth the conspiracy surrounding Haetbit’s liquidation.

The drama focuses on the lives of those who stake their existence on numbers. Accountants, often considered to prioritize numbers over people, prove that their evaluations extend beyond mere digits. They hold the future of a company, its employees, and stakeholders in their hands, reflecting the immense responsibility that comes with their role. This is why they are known as “certified public accountants (CPA),” symbolizing their commitment to fairness and public interest. The drama fervently unfolds the world of accountants, revealing the plots concealed behind the numbers and the relentless pursuit of truth by those who challenge these ploys. By portraying characters who either abandon their professional calling for personal gain or steadfastly uphold their integrity in the face of pressure, Numbers imbues the narrative with intrigue and conflict.

 

Bromance

One of the most striking elements in Numbers is the bromance between two men, who, despite their initial animosity, unite in pursuit of a common goal. This is about Jang Ho Woo, who joins Taeil Accounting Firm to uncover the truth behind In Ho’s death, and his senior manager Han Seung Jo (Choi Jin Hyuk), who handpicked him.

Ho Woo’s initial encounter with Seung Jo was far from pleasant, as Seung Jo was the accountant who appeared on the day of Sunlight Construction’s dissolution. It was Seung Jo who advised Ho Woo, who was throwing a fit at the scene, that “your anger is merely a powerless opinion.” However, when Ho Woo takes this advice to heart and becomes an accountant, they transition from adversaries to allies in a shared cause. Actually, Seung Jo has his own reasons to topple the reign of his father, Han Jae Gyun (Choi Min Soo), who is the deputy head of the same company as his ambitions cost Seung Jo his love and professional honor. And for this job, he chooses Ho Woo as his partner.

The duo’s chemistry brings an effervescent dynamic to the drama. While Ho Woo is always upbeat and affable, Seung Jo is cold and calculating. The contrasting personalities provide humorous episodes that serve to lighten the otherwise intense atmosphere. The different problem-solving approaches the pair employ is also fascinating. Ho Woo disrupts the status quo with his reckless choices and creative ideas, while Seung Jo lends support and shields him from adversarial forces. Their contentious yet resilient bromance doubles the drama’s charm.

 

Complex but Accessible

Numbers portrays the role of accountants, chiefly translating the value of a company into numbers and terms. While complex economic terms and figures occasionally make appearances, they are always accompanied by easy-to-understand explanations in subtitles. More importantly, it keeps the focus by presenting corporate buyouts and sell-offs through clear monetary values and accounting reports. Ho Woo and Seung Jo’s thrilling takedowns of those manipulating company values for personal gain, backed by solid evidence and logic, are electrifying. The duo’s performance, grounded in tangible data, comes across as impressively realistic.

Despite tackling a subject with a high barrier to entry, Numbers does not compromise on the fun and tension inherent in office dramas. The clash of desires and values amongst the characters paints a comprehensible picture of the world of accountants and the broader economic society, prompting viewers to ponder on the drama’s message. The unfolding narrative of this drama, which highlights the value of corporations hidden behind numbers and, even more importantly, the value of individuals, is eagerly anticipated.

 https://zapzee.net/2023/07/13/numbers-review-three-reasons-why-its-unfamiliar-yet-captivating/

 

 

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3 Times Kim Myung Soo And Choi Jin Hyuk’s Bromance Shone In “Numbers”

 

 

INFINITE’s Kim Myung Soo and Choi Jin Hyuk are showing off stellar chemistry in MBC’s Friday-Saturday series “Numbers”!

 

“Numbers” is a suspenseful revenge drama set against the backdrop of a major accounting firm. Kim Myung Soo stars as Jang Ho Woo, the first accountant to join the prestigious Taeil Accounting Firm without a college degree. Yeonwoo plays Jin Yeon Ah, a cheerful senior associate at the firm who knows a lot about numbers, but has no idea just how scary a place the world can be. Choi Jin Hyuk completes the trio with his role Han Seung Jo.

 

Anticipation for the second half of the story is peaking with newly forging dynamics and hurdles. Amidst all of this, here are three moments Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo’s teamwork shone through!

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CASE 1: People’s Entertainment – Victory after a series of twists

The first time Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo worked together, it was nothing short of spectacular. Utilizing the downfall of People’s Entertainment, Han Je Gyun (Choi Min Soo) devised a new plan to profit from the situation. Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo joined forces for the first time to take on the challenge. Acquiring People’s Entertainment’s non-performing loans meant gaining access to all of its financial statements and records, allowing whoever to uncover all of Sang Ah Group’s secrets. Han Seung Jo seized this opportunity. Exploiting the identity of Lee Sung Ju (Jung Woong In), the younger brother of Sang Ah Group’s Chairman Lee Chan Joo (Jung Hae Kyun), he ignited a fierce bidding war. The highly anticipated bidding day arrived, and while Han Je Gyun and Lee Chan Joo countered with significantly higher bid amounts, the outcome was a completely unexpected one. The amounts they proposed were low. All of this was a plan to make Sang Ah Group bid a higher amount. This ingenious strategizing led to a satisfying victory, providing viewers with a thrilling climax.

 

CASE 2: Valuation of Soma Tech – Perfectly successful counterattack

Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo came to have a shared goal thanks to Hae Bit Construction. For Jang Ho Woo, the company was like family, and for Han Seung Jo, it was the company where his beloved girlfriend, Jang Ji Soo (Kim Yoo Ri), happened to be the daughter of CEO Jang In Ho. Then came Soma Tech, a case similar to Hae Bit Construction. And thus began their second collaboration. Their goal was to prevent Han Je Gyun’s plan to sell the company off for profit, despite its sufficient corporate value. However, they soon faced a crisis when Jang Ji Soo reappeared as the manager of HK Private Equity Fund after five years. Jang Ho Woo attempted to convince Jang Ji Soo of Han Seung Jo’s innocence in the liquidation of Hae Bit Construction, to no avail. Eventually, when all the necessary documents for Soma Tech’s end were coming together, Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo’s counterattack began. By leveraging Soma Tech’s technology and obtaining assistance from the Patent Office, they swiftly repaid all debts to Jisan Bank. Jang Ho Wo and Han Seung Jo successfully delivered a stunning counterattack at the brink of failure, heightening their chemistry and bromance.

 

CASE 3: Uncovering the truth behind Cake Bean’s sale – A stunning play by the aces

Even Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo’s winning streak had an unexpected turning point. Jang Ji Soo and all her hidden cards were turning out to be an unpredictable variable. However, both of them were determined to protect Jang Ji Soo from any harm. In the midst of this, Jang Ji Soo entrusted Han Je Gyun, who she considers her archenemy, with the sale of Cake Bean. Han Je Gyun devised a plan for Sang Ah Group to acquire Cake Bean, but Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo refused to remain as bystanders. They found out that HK Private Equity Fund proposed the deal anticipating the downfall of Cake Bean. And being aware of Jang Ji Soo’s involvement, the two decided to maintain their integrity as accountants and relayed all their findings to Sang Ah Group. Consequently, the sale of Cake Bean fell through, and in this process, Jin Yeon Ah got involved as a team member, growing the team to three. Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo are taking on a perfect streak. With Jin Yeon Ah reaching out to Jang Ho Woo for more collaboration, the anticipation for the plot only grows. Will Jang Ho Woo and Han Seung Jo achieve their goals? What hand has Jang Ji Soo really been dealt? The second act of the intricate and dynamic drama “Numbers” promises to be even more captivating and is undoubtedly worth looking forward to.

 

 

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The next episode of “Numbers will air on July 14 at 9:50 p.m. KST.

 

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[Photos] New Stills Added for the Korean Drama "Numbers"

 

 

 

 

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4 Times Kim Myung Soo, Yeonwoo, And Choi Jin Hyuk Get The Upper Hand In Episodes 5-6 Of “Numbers”

 

“Numbers” brings a convoluted pair of episodes this week rife with changing loyalties, new faces, and devious schemes. Jang Ho Woo (Kim Myung Soo) and Han Seung Jo (Choi Jin Hyuk) are in over their heads and fighting too many enemies at once. But the worst betrayals are from those they used to call friend, and Ho Woo and Seung Jo no longer know who fits that label.

 

Warning: spoilers for episodes 5-6 below.

 

1. Telling Joyce Jang the truth about Je Gyun

 

Accounting is a complex science, and while the show does a great job of highlighting just how easy it is to use numbers to perform almost every illegal act one can think of, it can get a little twisty when it comes to the scheming. This is one of them. Joyce Jang (Kim Yoo Ri), formerly known as Jang Ji Soo, Seung Jo’s ex-fiancée, is out for blood. Seung Jo’s blood. Having never asked him the truth, and with Seung Jo having felt too guilty to give it to her, she’s resented him all these years and has turned into a monster in her efforts to take him down. Beginning with Soma Tech.

 

 

Like her father, Jang In Ho’s (Nam Myung Ryul) construction company, Soma Tech uses concrete 3D printing tech to create modular homes. Despite showing much promise, the company hasn’t been managed well and has borrowed too much from Jisan Bank, who now has the leverage to force the company into a buyout so that a larger company buys up all their assets and cuts the current CEO and other employees out. Seung Jo and Ho Woo don’t want to see this happen because it’s exactly what happened to Joyce’s father’s company, Haebit Construction. However, Joyce doesn’t seem to care and is fully on the side of Seung Jo’s power-hungry father, Han Je Gyun (Choi Min Soo), to gut and sell the company. And this is the same woman who once begged him for help.

 

 

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She ridicules Ho Woo’s attempts to save the corporation, pointing out that its potential growth will only require further capital injections. No creditor is required to wait forever for a company’s potential to realize itself. She’s equally curt with Seung Jo who is gutted at her callousness. Je Gyun, on the other hand, is impressed and tells Seung Jo that Joyce would have made a fine daughter-in-law, even if Ji Soo was worthless. Ho Woo knows he has to nip this budding partnership between Je Gyun and Joyce right in the bud, so he goes to her with the truth. Seung Jo wasn’t responsible for what happened to her father – Je Gyun was. And just for a moment, he has the upper hand.

2. Foiling Joyce and Je Gyun’s scheme of forcing a buyout

 

Only, Joyce doesn’t care. There’s nothing in her of the woman Ho Woo and Seung Jo used to know. This woman’s hard and cold, and she will happily ruin lives if it gets her where she needs to be. She also seems to be in a relationship with someone at her present workplace, HK Equity, the private equity group trying to purchase Soma Tech. Je Gyun’s hold over Soma Tech’s biggest creditor, Jisan Bank, means that no one will lend the company any more money. They can’t even pay their workers, just like Haebit Construction all those years ago. Ho Woo barely saves the CEO from taking his life, and Seung Jo is at his wits end on how to repay Soma Tech’s loans when the company is so deep in debt.

 

 

A chance comment by Jin Yeon Ah (Yeonwoo) results in Ho Woo hitting upon the solution: pawning the company’s primary asset: their concrete 3D printing tech. Selling the assets equals selling the company, but selling the patents to the assets allows for the company to be paid while retaining its assets. Ho Woo races to the patent office but Seung Jo gets there first. Just as Je Gyun is congratulating himself and Joyce on forcing Soma Tech into a buyout with HK Equity, Seung Jo bursts in to announce that Soma Tech has paid off its loans. Jisan Bank has no hold over it and cannot force the company into being sold to HK Equity. Joyce looks almost relieved that the sale didn’t go through, now that she knows the truth. But her next actions remain questionable.

3. Seeing through Joyce’s money laundering

It turns out that Joyce is sticking at HK Equity for a reason. Someone named An within Taeil sent HK Equity the funds to purchase Haebit Construction’s patents as it went under. She’s trying to work her way to the top at HK to figure out who it was and get her revenge. The difference between her and Ho Woo is that she doesn’t care who she hurts, so long as she gets what she wants. She approaches Je Gyun with a request to sell a pastry franchise known as Cakebean. Je Gyun smells that something is off, but perks up when Joyce offers to pay double the usual fees.

 

 

Seung Jo can’t rest without knowing what Joyce is up to, so he gets on the deal, along with Ho Woo. He spots that something is wrong with Cakebean’s financials right away, but refuses to tell Ho Woo. The answer comes out pretty quickly when Ho Woo digs into it on his own. Cakebean is financially dead, the financials are largely remastered, and Joyce has been looking to dump the company after getting what she wanted from it: its patents.

 

That has Ho Woo and Seung Jo confused. She was after Soma Tech’s proprietary technology and now a bakery’s patents.

 

 

Yeon Ah is able to shed some light. It turns out that HK Equity has a bit of swallowing businesses and franchises, sucking the patents for every bit of technology that they can from them and spitting them out. Those patents are then lent out in the best bit of money laundering a drama has shown yet. Politicians and powerful figures lend those patents for bakery equipment, construction companies, etc, to cronies as bribes. They can also rent them out to companies for an arbitrary amount above market value because they’re patents. Seung Jo guessed at this from the start but wanted to be wrong. He’s horrified by who Joyce has become but still wants to protect her. But neither he nor Ho Woo can let the sale go through after discovering the truth.

 

4. Foiling Je Gyun’s plans and earning power with Lee Chang Jo

For his part, Ho Woo has another problem. He’s cornered at work by Taeil’s VP of Auditing, Ahn Seung Yeon (Bae Hae Sun), who is Je Gyun’s biggest enemy. She’s not a fan of Ho Woo at the moment because Kang Hyun (Kim Young Jae), the accountant who sacrificed his job to do the right thing in the premiere episodes, was one of her people. She blames Ho Woo for his departure and asks him to leave for manipulating one of her people to accomplish his goals. Ho Woo agrees so long as he can perform one last gambit. In reality, Ho Woo doesn’t trust Seung Yeon. He suspects her of being the “An” involved with HK Equity and being a quiet but dangerous enemy.

 

But she’s been a longtime friend to Seung Jo, who doesn’t suspect anything about her.

 

 

Ho Woo needs more allies than just Seung Jo. So, he decides to go for a huge fish. Yeon Ah, who’s half in love with Ho Woo and also happens to be the daughter of the President of Jisan Bank, reveals to him that Chairman Lee Chang Joo (Jung Hae Kyun), Je Gyun’s biggest client and the head of the Sang Ah comglomerate, is also an investor in HK Equity. So, Ho Woo prepares a trap. He knows that Je Gyun has his eye on him, and when Je Gyun asks him for advice, Ho Woo provides him with information that leads to Je Gyun recommending to Lee Chang Joo to purchase Cakebean. Je Gyun is no fool and knows that the company is hemorrhaging money. But the thing with him is that he’s always confident that he can create a problem while making money and solve it while making even more money. And the worst part is that he’s usually right.

 

 

But Ho Woo steps in this time. Lee Chang Joo’s conglomerate is in dire straits at the moment too. And purchasing Cakebean looks like a godsend, until Ho Woo, Seung Jo, and Yeon Ah rush in at the last minute to stop the sale by informing the Chairman of Je Gyun’s deception. The result: Joyce doesn’t get the sale she wants, Je Gyun doesn’t get the double fee he wants, and Ho Woo just gained a huge ally. Accounting firms are at the mercy of their clients, and even if Je Gyun decides to get revenge on Ho Woo for undercutting him here, he won’t be able to push him out.

 

 

Next week seems to show just that. Je Gyun’s about to treat Ho Woo like dirt, but Lee Chang Joo is now his new best friend (for now, at least). VP Seung Yeon continues to appear really shady, leaving Seung Jo and Ho Woo at odds, because the former trusts her and the latter knows she’s bad news. “Numbers” is doing a great job of showing more than Ho Woo learning from Seung Jo, but vice versa as well. And now that Yeon Ah is finally being used as more than a love-interest, it looks like we’ll have an accountant trio fighting corruption within the firm!

 

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*** "Numbers" dropped to its lowest rating. According to Nielsen Korea, the MBC's Friday-Saturday drama, which aired on the 14th, dropped to 3% (Ep.7). This is a decrease from 3.2% (Ep.6) recorded in the previous episode. 

 

 

 

 

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*** Again, "Numbers" dropped to its lowest rating. According to Nielsen Korea, the MBC's Friday-Saturday drama, which aired last night, July 15th, dropped to 2.8% (Ep.8). This is a decrease from 3% (Ep.7) recorded in the previous episode and is the drama's lowest rating.  

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[Photos] New Stills Added for the Korean Drama "Numbers"

 

 

 

 

 

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Han Je-Gyun incinerated his confidant, Hyung-woo.

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*** "Numbers" has swept on the 9th spot on this week’s rankings of the most buzzworthy dramas on Good Data Corporation’s weekly list of the TV dramas that generated the most buzz. The company determines each week’s rankings by collecting data from news articles, blog posts, online communities, videos, and social media about dramas that are either currently airing or set to air soon.  

 

The top 10 dramas that generated the most buzz in the first week of July are as follows:

1. JTBC “King the Land”
2. SBS “Revenant”
3. ENA “Lies Hidden in My Garden”
4. tvN “See You in My 19th Life”
5. tvN “Delightfully Deceitful”
6. tvN “The Uncanny Counter 2: Counter Punch”
7. ENA “Battle for Happiness”
8. KBS2 “The Real Has Come!”
9. MBC “Numbers”
10. TV Chosun “Durian’s Affair”

 

 

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[Photos] New Stills Added for the Korean Drama "Numbers"

 

 

 

 

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Drama viewership ratings for the week of July 10-16, 2023

LINK here : dramabeans

https://www.dramabeans.com/2023/07/drama-viewership-ratings-for-the-week-of-july-10-16-2023/

 

 

Friday, July 14
Numbers	7	MBC	3.0%
Revenant	7	SBS	10.6%
Saturday, July 15
King the Land	9	JTBC	10.2%
The Real Has Come	33	KBS	20.6%
Numbers	8	MBC	2.8%
Revenant	8	SBS	10.4%
Durian’s Affair	7	TV Chosun	5.1%
See You in My 19th Life	9	tvN	4.5%

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'Numbers' Kim Myung-soo and Choi Jin-hyuk, a special romance... 100% synchro rate decalcomani #Numbers #Kim Myung-soo #Choi Jin-hyeok #bromance

 

In the MBC Fri-Sat drama 'Numbers: Watchers in the Building Forest' Kim Myung-soo (Infinite's L) and Choi Jin-hyeok are becoming more and more similar to each other.

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*** MBC’s “Numbers”  is not producing any big numbers and failing to capture viewers’ attention. This is difficult to deal with because the series is Choi Jin Hyuk’s return to the drama scene. I just hope the drama can perform better in the last

 

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[Photos] New Stills Added for the Korean Drama "Numbers"

 

 

 

 

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