Puns abound in this mockumentary-style teaser for KBS’s upcoming weekender Iron Family. Parodying the broadcaster’s long-running series Screening Humanity, the newest subject is a third-generation dry cleaning family with a very odd secret.
The teaser introduces the three generations working at the cleaners from grandpa Park In-hwan (Heartbeat) to daughter-in-law Park Ji-young (Love Next Door) and finally, the show’s namesake, granddaughter Lee Da-rim played by Geum Sae-rok (Soundtrack #2). Her name sounds similar to “iron” in Korean, and that’s exactly what Da-rim does despite not being able to see.
When the filming crew asks her if it isn’t dangerous for someone with visual impairments to iron, she tells them that it’s fine since she has been doing this from a young age. The crew then calls cut, but at that moment, a strange noise draws their attention. The camera whips to the side and catches grandma Kim Young-ok (The Pork Cutlets) ironing, not clothes but cash. She happily tells them that she is laundering money, but then realizes her mistake a second too late and blocks the camera from filming.
Dropping the documentary crew, the teaser shows snippets of what may have transpired to cause this wacky scenario, and we see leading man Kim Jung-hyun (Kokdu: Season of Deity) carrying his mom Kim Hye-eun (Not Others) while she cries, “Thief!” It seems her money may be at the dry cleaners as Grandpa opens a washing machine and finds cash flowing out of it like water.
Da-rim’s family apparently are big believers in not looking a gift horse in the mouth as everyone smiles at this sudden stroke of luck. Grandpa says that he might actually get buried in cash, and Da-rim echoes the sentiment, saying that her family may finally live a life without wrinkles like everyone else.
Directed by PDs Sung Joon-hae (Bravo My Life) and Seo Yong-soo with scripts by Seo Sook-hyang (Greasy Melo), KBS’s Iron Family is slated for thirty-six episodes and premieres September 28 in the Saturday-Sunday slot.