Search: WWW is all about the story of three women in their late thirties — Bae Ta Mi, Cha Hyeon and Song Ga Kyeong — who work in the top two competitive web portal companies: Unicon and Barro. I am not an expert in such webtech thing, but Unicon & Barro might be like Yahoo or Google - which is very inetersting enough to see what kind of workplace there and how the three woman manages to survive the working life battle.
This k-drama is actually 2019 television series, and I already watch it when it was aired on tvn during June 5 till July 25, 2019, which in fact the time when I turned 27 that year and watching those woman series give me such a heartful of passion and faith. I did not expect that this drama will have a huge popularity that year. It all about love life, work life, life as a whole.
It was all started when Bae Ta Mi (played by Im Soo Jung) got fired from Unicon and she then decided to move to Barro to challenge and make Barro a bigger web portal than Unicon.
Unicon grew because of Bae Ta Mi and her senior, Song Ga Kyeong (played by Jeon Hye Jin) until it was acquired by KU Group, in which Song Ga Kyeong got married to Jin Woo, the last child of Chairwoman Jang of KU Group. Their marriage was a marriage of convenience - to save Ga Kyeong's collapsed parent business. As a “sacrifice”, many of Unicon's decisions were made for the benefit of the KU Group. One of them is removing real time keywords. A kind of hot trending topic discussed.
One big incident was when the KU Group sided with one of the presidential candidates. That's why when candidate A got caught in a scandal and became a public conversation, Unicon deliberately deleted the keyword about candidate A so that the related article didn't come out. The reason is that they protect candidate A's human rights.
But this did not make sense, as a result the government made it a concrete one. Unicon's party was summoned to attend the trial, on charges of fabricated alias manipulation. Bae Ta Mi as a Unicon employee was asked to be a witness. Even though the one responsible was actually Song Ga Gyeong. But Ta Mi doesn't want to be a scapegoat either. At the trial, he attacked back. His name has become a trending topic and entered the real time keyword ranks.
Because of his behavior, Ta Mi was fired from Unicon. From here he got an offer from Barro, the competitor's web portal for Unicon. Barro and Unicon always compete to be in the top 1. To be precise, it's Barro who tries to tackle Unicon. So far, Unicon has always been number 1 and Barro only second. When Ta Mi entered Barro, Cha Hyeon / Scarlett (played by Lee Da Hee) refused - which is my favorite in this drama!!!
Finally, Ta Mi promised that if Barro didn't win the top 1 title within 6 months, she would get out from Barro. From there Scarlett accepted. Ta Mi was appointed by Brian, the CEO Barro to form a TF (Task Force) team. This team is aimed at making Barro number 1. Ta Mi invites A Ra (Oh Ah Yeon) and Choi Bong Gi (Woo Ji Hyun) from Unicon to join. Meanwhile, from Barro there are Scarlett, Jennie (Ha Seung Ri), and Alex (Song Ji Ho).
Although others are engaged in IT, the culture of the Unicon and Barro companies is different. If at Unicon it seems stiff and formal, at Barro it is the opposite. Every room is nicely designed, far from "office" impression. Every employee is free to wear any fashion style. Plus, they are called by English names. Like Cha Hyeon who was called Scarlett. Min Ho Jung CEO Barro is called Brian. It sounds fuuun - like that kind of Western company ~!
The concept of Barro and Unicon is similar to Google. The web search portal also provides many features. Barro, for example, has a game feature, books, etc. So it turns out that designing a homepage for a web portal page is not easy, you know. Companies must place themselves in the user. What is the need. His search trends. His interests. How difficult is it to persuade a field that is considered less profitable.
The humanist side of a CEO is depicted when CEO Brian decides to resign because of a scandal. Even though Ta Mi and Scarlett convinced Brian that he didn't need to resign, he was adamant. He said, perhaps a public apology was sufficient for the business area. But when it comes to company image, he has to resign. Why? To convince the public that Barro's image is good.
On the love life, Cha Hyeon - she is dating a friend at work. But sadly, her boyfriend cheated behind her. The funny thing is that Cha Hyeon's boyfriend was Ta Mi's ex from college. Cha Hyeon describes as a woman who is strong and doesn't want to appear weak. Once she found out that his boyfriend was cheating, she beat him up.
Cha Hyeon is a woman who can't stay quiet when there is injustice. So the funny part is, Scarlett likes watching soap opera dramas, aka soap operas! She would just laugh, cry, got angry with the dramas go on. SO funny, love her personality here!
In the story, he got stuck with the actor because of some misunderstanding of an action drama and made the actor hurt. Seol Ji Hwan, a rookie actor whose name I never heard of. Finally Scarlett somehow admitted to being Seol Ji Hwan's manager. All for Seol Ji Hwan to be more acknowledged of his abilities. Both by the public and colleagues like directors, directors, et al. Finally they both fell in love.
It's really a drama, from fan-idol to couple. IS A REAL DAT EVENT?
Meanwhile, Song Ga Gyeong. As mentioned above, she didn't get married because of love. Finally she had an affair, her husband too. They are not a normal couple. Everything changed when Ga Gyeong asked for a divorce. The reason is so that she can get out of Chairwoman Jang's confinement. Jin Woo agreed. Say at least this is the last thing he can do for 10 years of marriage.
Try to imagine 10 years of marriage without love, what will you do? You don't even live at home. Really got married because of formality and business alone. I am sorry for what happened to Ga Gyeong :(
Not knowing that before the divorce, Jin Woo fell in love with Ga Gyeong.
The last and most complicated is Bae Ta Mi. The biggest part in this drama is Bae Ta Mi's relationship with Park Morgan (played by Jang Ki Yong). In the midst of stress at work, Ta Mi plays games at some kind of play place. She then met Park Morgan. It's funny. Starting from the chatter, it ended with a one night stand ..... thought Ta Mi. not for Morgan. He likes Ta Mi from the first sight. In the end, Ta Mi was chased. A 38-year-old woman, being chased by a 28-year-old man.
Ta Mi doesn't want to just play around with dating. Uniquely, Ta Mi has no desire to get married. The concept of "love" for Ta Mi: living together is yes, but marriage is no. In contrast to Morgan, who hopes to get married and have a happy family. Naturally he has that kind of desire. From a young age, Morgan was "dumped" into an orphanage by his mother and was raised her adoptive parents. From the start of Ta Mi and Morgan's relationship, it was this difference in principle that was the source of the problem. It's also complicated, I already understand that both of them have different goals in dating. But still continued. Morgan said, "we can still be in love".
Ta Mi said, how can this relationship work? In the end, one of us will be hurt. Either Morgan who can't fulfill his dream of getting married, or Ta Mi who is forced to get married in order to continue the relationship with Morgan.
It's waaay toooo complicated. But what matters most is how to stay true to yourself and always try to find happiness in small things. Maybe it doesn't work at this time, but who knows it will later on?
Cheers~
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