On the Verge of Insanity ep9: If you think it’s just his shirts, you’ve underestimated Choi Ban-seok’s love of checks.

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    I’ve finally binged all 8 episodes over the weekend. Time well spent on a drama as real as you can get about workplace and corporate intrigue. MSR and JJY in top form as the leads but I’m so happy to see my favorite ajusshi veterans all there. Perhaps the biggest pleasant surprise is seeing the dr-docu young brother in Navillera playing the CEO here. Can’t wait to watch Ep 9 and 10.

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      I didn’t watch Navillera so this is the first time I’ve seen Jo Bok-rae, but damn he has made an impression on me even though his role is such a small one. And he is just one of this show’s many performers who are not well-known but really good in their roles, like the lecherous motor team leader, Ms Jung (the researcher who twisted the motor team leader’s arm) and Eo Hae-mi.

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        Ms Jung! I’m surprised to see her playing an affirmative worker here because she mostly plays the annoying second female lead in weekend dramas LOL. I had to look twice to confirm if it’s really her but she totally sinks in this character without a trace of her 2FL look. And I love Eo Hae-mi and hope she will be further empowered as the drama moves forward. Engineering is still by and large a male-centric industry, not to mention it’s in Korea, but we have interesting female characters here.

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          Yes I like the show’s depiction of women in Hanmyeong. It’s realistic that there are very few in R&D and more in the non-engineering departments like HR and Finance. It’s also pretty telling that Han Se-gwon’s team has no prominent female member, whereas Noh Byung-gook’s team has the very assertive Ms Jung. And even on the non-engineering side, Ja-young is the only female team leader, usually surrounded by men who have no qualms about intimidating her when they think she deserves it.

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          I’ve just looked up Ms Jung on Asianwiki, and realise I’ve seen her in the legal drama A New Leaf, where she plays – very convincingly – a woman who is falsely accused of killing her ex-boyfriend who had raped her. Gotta agree with you that she is totally different in Verge.

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