Kkondae Intern

Kkondae Intern (Korean: 꼰대인턴; RR: Kkondaeinteon) is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Park Hae-jin and Kim Eung-soo. The workplace comedy-drama series is about what happens when a man finally gets a chance to lord over a previous boss, who made his life miserable during his rookie days with his old school ways. It aired every Wednesday and Thursday starting from May 20, 2020 on MBC TV.^[3][4]

Kkondae Intern
Promotional poster
Also known as	Old School Intern[1]
Hangul	꼰대인턴
Genre	Comedy drama
Written by	Shin So-ra
Directed by	Nam Sung-woo
Starring	Park Hae-jin Kim Eung-soo
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	24[a]
Production
Executive producer	Hong Seok-woo
Producers	Jung Koo-young Yoon Hong-mi Kim Ji-ha Moon Ju-hee
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	35 minutes[a]
Production company	Studio HIM[1]
Original release
Network	MBC TV
Release	May 20 (2020-05-20) – July 1, 2020 (2020-07-01)

Synopsis

Kkondae Intern is an office comedy that depicts a man's delightful revenge on his previous boss, who was also his worst manager.

Ka Yeol-chan (Park Hae-jin) had a bad internship experience because of a nasty and overbearing boss. He quits his job and starts working in a ramen company. With his sheer hard work, he develops a chicken noodle recipe — which becomes a top product — and gets elevated to the position of general manager.

Lee Man-sik (Kim Eung-soo) is a manager in the Ongol Ramen Department, and has a reputation as a "terror senior".

After 30 years in the company, he loses hope of being promoted to an executive position before retirement. So he takes and passes the Senior Internship at Junsu Food.

A reversal of fate occurs, and now Lee Man-sik starts working as an intern at the same company and is assigned under Ka Yeol-chan.^[5][6]

Cast

Main

• Park Hae-jin as Ka Yeol-chan^[7]
• Kim Eung-soo as Lee Man-sik^[8]

Supporting

• Han Ji-eun as Lee Tae-ri.

One of the three interns that joins the Sales & Marketing Team of Joonsu Food. She is the daughter of Lee Man-sik.^[9]

• Park Ki-woong as Namgoong Joon-soo

President of Joonsu Food and son of Namgoong Pyo.^[10]

• Park Ah-in as Tak Jung-eun

Contract worker under the Sales & Marketing Team of Joonsu Food. She is the ex-Girlfriend of Ka Yeol-Chan.^[11]

• Noh Jong-hyun as Joo Yoon-soo

One of the three interns that joins the Sales & Marketing Team of Joonsu Food.^[12]

• Go Geon-han as Oh Dong-geun^[13]
• Kim Hyun-mok as Park Cheol-min
• Hong Seung-bum as Kim Seung-jin
• Kim Sun-young as Koo Ja-sook
• Son Jong-hak as An Sang-jong
• Ko In-beom as Namgoong pyo

Chairman of Joonsu Food and father of Namgoong Joon-soo.

• Kim Ki-cheon as Eom Han-gil
• Moon Sook as Ok-kyung
• Jang Sung-kyu as Park Beom-jun

Original soundtrack

Part	Artist	Title	Release date
Part 1	Young Tak	Kkondae Latte[14]	May 21, 2020
Part 2	Lee Chan-won	Fate in Time[15]	May 27, 2020
Part 3	Kim Hee-jae	Uphill[16]	June 4, 2020
Part 4	Lee Soo-young	Shine Bright[17]	June 10, 2020
Part 5	Jang Min-ho	Hit The Jackpot[18]	June 18, 2020

Ratings

• In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
• N/A denotes that the rating is not known.

Ep.	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		Nielsen Korea[19]		TNmS
		Nationwide	Seoul	Nationwide
1	May 20, 2020	4.4%	4.9%	4.9%
2		6.5%	7.2%	6.9%
3	May 21, 2020	3.5%	—	—
4		4.7%	4.6%
5	May 27, 2020	4.2%	4.5%
6		6.4%	7.0%	7.1%
7	May 28, 2020	3.7%	3.7%	—
8		4.9%	4.9%	4.4%
9	June 3, 2020	4.9%	5.4%	5.1%
10		5.1%	7.1%	6.5%
11	June 4, 2020	4.8%	5.5%	—
12		6.3%	6.9%	6.5%
13	June 10, 2020	5.6%	6.4%	—
14		7.1%	8.2%	5.5%
15	June 11, 2020	4.4%	4.8%	—
16		5.8%	6.0%	5.9%
17	June 17, 2020	4.1%	—	—
18		5.5%	6.1%	5.1%
19	June 18, 2020	5.1%	5.8%	—
20		6.1%	6.8%	5.6%
21	June 24, 2020	4.8%	5.5%	5.5%
22		6.6%	7.5%	6.8%
23	July 1, 2020	4.9%	5.3%	5.6%
24		6.2%	6.8%	6.8%
Average		5.2%	—[b]	—[b]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref.
2020	MBC Drama Awards	Grand Prize (Daesang)	Park Hae-jin	Won	[20]
		Drama of the Year	Kkondae Intern	Won
		Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday Miniseries	Kim Eung-soo	Won
			Park Hae-jin	Nominated
		Excellence Award, Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday Miniseries	Park Ki-woong	Nominated
		Excellence Award, Actress in a Wednesday-Thursday Miniseries	Han Ji-eun	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Kim Sun-young	Won
		Best New Actor	Noh Jong-hyun	Nominated
		Best Couple Award	Park Hae-jin and Kim Eung-soo	Nominated

Notes

1. In order to circumvent Korean laws that prevent commercial breaks in the middle of an episode, what would previously have been aired as single 70 minute episodes are now being repackaged as two 35 minute episodes, with two episodes being shown each night with a commercial break between the two.^[2]
2. Due to some ratings not recorded, the exact average rating is unknown.