I watched the drama that ended late and diligently.

I watched the drama that ended late and diligently.

This is the story of Kim, who works at a large company in Seoul.

When I watch movies and dramas, I tend to score them strictly.

But this drama just disarms me.

When Ha Jin patted her husband Kim Nak-soo, who returned from his honorary retirement, she shed tears.

Dry-hard dry me.

The reason is simple.

Because the drama setting is so similar to my reality.

My wife also lived as a full-time housewife and got a real estate agent 5 years ago, and my son went to Y University and then went to the army this year.

Like Kim Nak-soo, my position in the company, which has been in the company for 25 years, is shaking greatly.

Manager Kim has been working for a mid-sized company for 25 years while living in an old apartment in Seoul.

To me, this drama is a documentary.

As Alain de Jong-un expressed in the book Anxiety, we only confirm our values in the eyes of others.

Like Manager Kim, I have explained myself under the title of the company and as a father with children of prestigious university students.

For manager Kim, life is a game that has to go up constantly.

Like Kim Nak-su, we seek the meaning of life from climbing the ladder step by step.

The problem is that the ladder is endless.

However, who am I if I take off the signs symbolized by large companies and prestigious universities.

In order to escape this trap of comparison, it is necessary to doubt the standard of success defined by society itself, Alain de Jong says.

However, that is impossible for Kim.

For him, promotion to executives was not just a matter of philosophy, but a matter of survival.

If he fails to become an executive, he will be eligible for voluntary retirement at the age of 55.

With the remaining 10 years of his career, he is just a middle-aged man who is too expensive in the reemployment market.

My son’s college tuition, apartment loan balance, retirement preparation.

Everything depended on this promotion.

The life of Bohemians presented by Alain de Jong-un, a life that rejects the world’s standards of success, is only a luxury for Kim and for me in reality.

Manager Kim, who lost everything, finally finds out what he really is, not the manager of a large company.

He recognizes his son’s start-up and defines his value anew without a sign that Seoul is the manager of a large company.

The moment you throw away the standard of success defined by society, you are free.

But here’s the real insight that the drama shows.

That freedom was only possible through forced falls, not through voluntary choice.

We all know.

That you have to get off the ladder.

But it doesn’t come down easily.

No, I can’t come down.

Therefore, Kim’s story is not a comfort, but a warning.

You have to lose everything to gain true freedom in Korean society.

I’m still hanging in the middle of the ladder.

Can he have the courage to come down on his own before falling down like Kim.

The drama is over, but the real story begins now.