Wealth determines rank in MBC's The Golden Spoon

8 September 23, 2022September 23, 2022

Wealth determines rank in MBC’s The Golden Spoon

by solstices

It’s finally premiere day! MBC’s fantasy drama The Golden Spoon continues to deliver on the teasers, as if I wasn’t excited enough already. Based off the webtoon of the same name, the drama follows poverty-stricken high school student Lee Seung-cheon — played by Yook Sung-jae (Mystic Pop-up Bar) — as he harnesses the power of a mystical golden spoon to turn his life around.

Lee Jong-won (Hospital Playlist 2) plays Hwang Tae-yong, the rich chaebol son that Seung-cheon magically trades places with. The rest of our main cast is filled out by Jung Chae-yeon (The King’s Affection) as Tae-yong’s fiancée Na Joo-hee, Yeonwoo (Dal-li and Gamjatang) as goddess-like beauty Oh Yeo-jin, and Kim Kang-min (To My Star 2) as bully Park Jang-gun.

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“Humans are equal,” or so the gods, the philosophers, and the laws say. However, Seung-cheon begs to differ — everyone knows that equality only exists in textbooks. Seung-cheon’s latest delivery job takes him to a cram school, a place he can only afford to step foot into as a delivery boy and not an enrolled student.

In a world ruled by the rich, a person’s position in society is determined by their level of wealth. A montage of our cast shows their various ranks — Park Jang-gun is level 260, Oh Yeo-jin is level 340, and richest of the rich Hwang Tae-yong is at maximum level.

On the other hand, Seung-cheon has maxed out his level too — but from the bottom. He struggles day by day to make ends meet, but while he’s still hanging on by a thread, the same can’t be said for his friend Jin-seok. Poverty drives Jin-seok and his father to take their own lives, leaving Seung-cheon wailing over his friend’s dead body.

To no one’s surprise, the rich have little empathy for the poor. Jang-gun shoves Seung-cheon and sneers in his face that Jin-seok humiliated their elite, private school. Oh, won’t someone think of their reputation!

Helmed by PDs Song Hyun-wook (The King’s Affection) and Lee Han-joon (Check Out the Event), with scripts penned by Yoon Eun-kyung and Kim Eun-hee (Prime Minister and I), Golden Spoon premieres tonight, Friday September 23, on MBC.

Wealth determines rank in MBC's The Golden Spoon