Cultivating love with Lee Solar-bin and Kang Tae-oh in The Potato Lab
by solstices
Character teasers have been dished up for tvN’s upcoming rom-com The Potato Lab, wherein a starchy scientist discovers there’s extra to life than work when she encounters a brand new variable – a good-looking man with a persona fully reverse to her personal.
Our first teaser begins with a query: there’s somebody who does analysis on potatoes? “In fact there may be,” solutions Lee Solar-bin (Boyhood) because the spud specialist Kim Mi-kyung. Describing herself as refined like no different, with sky-high confidence ranges, Mi-kyung asks if we’re satisfied… besides we see her twiddling her foot in ahjumma garb whereas out doing fieldwork, and dolled up in vividly cheesy make-up again within the lab. Um, no matter floats Mi-kyung’s boat?
One factor that may’t be denied, although, is Mi-kyung’s fervent dedication to her profession. Whether or not it’s tapping furiously away at her keyboard, or yanking out a bunch of freshly-grown potatoes and transporting bins of all of them by herself, Mi-kyung is a diligent careerwoman by way of and thru. However together with her unrelenting ardour comes a fiery mood, which has her slamming a person in opposition to a fridge and screaming up on the sky in frustration. No marvel she’s earned the nickname of “official loopy particular person,” LOL.
In sharp distinction to Mi-kyung’s zany antics, Kang Tae-oh (Extraordinary Lawyer Woo) cuts an imposing determine as So Baek-ho, wanting impeccably dapper in his sharply-tailored go well with. Taking a chilly and sensible strategy to work, Baek-ho declares that an organization’s final purpose is revenue – it has no obligation to maintain anybody who isn’t helpful within the pursuit of income. Or so Baek-ho believes, till he finds himself going from sipping espresso within the workplace to braving it beneath the blazing solar. Accosted by zealous ahjummas and dragged round by the persistent Mi-kyung, Baek-ho winds up tripping by way of potato plantations whereas nonetheless clad in his impractical enterprise put on.
By the tip of the day, Baek-ho slumps in opposition to the wall the second he will get house, completely exhausted from the day’s exertion. However his trials and tribulations aren’t over, as a result of we subsequent see him taking a pair of shears to a hedge whereas nonetheless clad in his pyjamas. As Baek-ho goes at it, his snipping grows extra frenzied, and when morning dawns, he’s sitting on his sofa in a daze with leaves caught in his hen’s nest of hair.
Will Baek-ho’s strict ideas crumble within the face of Mi-kyung’s chaotic unpredictability, or will his by-the-book strategy restore some order to her whirlwind life? We’ll should tune in to seek out out the outcomes of this experiment.
Helmed by the Rookie Historian Gu Hae-ryung group of PD Kang Il-soo and author Kim Ho-soo, alongside PD Shim Jae-hyun, The Potato Lab is because of harvest its first crop on March 1.
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