First guest Gong Hyo-Jin takes the field! Hyper-realism comedy ‘Office Workers’ Season 3···Premieres August 29 - 스포츠경향

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The Coupang Play series ‘Office Workers’ (directed by Kim Min), which upended the landscape of office comedy in South Korea, will return at 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 29 with an even more powerful Season 3.

Actor Gong Hyo-Jin has been confirmed as the first guest to open the new season, heralding another craze.

Season 3 of the Coupang Play series ‘Office Workers’ is a hyper-realistic ad-lib sitcom in which DY Planning employees move in and out of the office, firing off an even more vivid barrage of laughs with unfiltered humor and vibe.

Season 2 set milestones, with viewing up 1,023% compared with its first week and YouTube clip views surpassing 50 million, drawing raves that it “rewrote the history of office comedy.” It went on to secure nominations for Best Variety at the Baeksang Arts Awards and for Best Variety Program at the Blue Dragon Series Awards, fully proving both its craft and popular appeal.

Ultra A-list guests such as Jo Jung-Seok, Lee Se-Dol, Son Heung-Min, Cho Yeo-Jeong, Lee Min-Jung, and Ji Chang-Wook were thrown into the thick of the improvised scenarios, and the resulting ‘try-not-to-laugh showdown’ has become a signature unique to ‘Office Workers.’ Led by Shin Dong-Yeob, the sharpened ad-lib chemistry of the DY Planning family, including ‘Deputy Manager Hoo’ Baek Hyun-Jin, Kim Min-Kyo, Lee Su-Ji, Hyun Bong-Sik, Kim Won-Hoon, Ji Ye-Eun, Cha Jung-Won (Car, the Garden), and Sim Ja-Yoon (STAYC Yoon), is fueling red-hot anticipation for explosive, nuclear-level synergy with guests in Season 3.

Season 3 evolves into a ‘hyper-realistic ad-lib sitcom’ with episodes that connect organically. Along with spicy consulting that strips star clients down to the bone, a multidimensional format in which guests jump into the DY Planning universe and build the story together delivers nonstop laughs. Going beyond the office, the setting expands into a range of real-world spaces where the joys and sorrows of office workers are vividly embedded, completing a sharper, more relatable pinnacle of hyper-realism comedy.

The first top-tier player to splendidly mark the start of Season 3 is actor Gong Hyo-Jin. Loved for natural performances and down-to-earth characters, Gong Hyo-Jin will appear in the premiere as a distinctive character who will shake up the order at DY Planning in an instant, unleashing unrestrained bursts of laughter. The edgy, raw ad-libs that Gong Hyo-Jin trades with the veteran comedy masters at DY Planning will deliver a thrilling kind of laughter that can be felt only in ‘Office Workers’.

Designed as a premium laughter remedy that will block the Monday blues for office workers in South Korea, and poised to ride another syndrome-level wave of popularity, Season 3 of the Coupang Play series ‘Office Workers’ will premiere at 8 p.m. on August 29 on Coupang Play. It will be free to watch for everyone, including Coupang Wow members and non-members alike.