episode_0049

Skyscrapers collapse in flames, crushing supercars without mercy.

Expensive Ferraris and Lamborghinis get crushed, crushed and blown up.

Park Cheol-min sat down and watched, forgetting that he had to pretend to be a Muggle in front of his wife.

A building that covers a road.

A ton of dented, super expensive cars.

An intersection filled with chaos and screams.

-Breaking news… A building collapsed due to a gas explosion at Gangnam Intersection… Access to nearby roads is currently restricted… .

-Citizens of Seoul, please refrain from approaching… .

The announcer’s urgent report, in which only the voice can be heard, makes you feel the suffocating scene.

Park Cheol-min and his wife stared blankly at the burning Gangnam-daero.

It’s so vivid that it feels like you’re watching a scene from a disaster documentary rather than a drama.

Because it was an area I visited often and was familiar with, it felt even more real.

“Wow, oppa. When did you take that picture in Gangnam? I had no idea even though I commute to and from work every day.”

Only then did Park Cheol-min come to his senses.

A woman is seen running quickly through broken vehicles, fallen debris, and twisted asphalt.

His whole body feels agile, as if he has learned some survival sport.

She barely manages to join the rescue team, receives emergency treatment, and is moved on a stretcher.

Then, the drama’s male lead, the successor to the Haegyeong Group, is discovered.

He runs towards them, shakes them all off, grabs them by the collar, and pours out his heartfelt resentment.

-This is all your fault… .

At some point, Park Cheol-min was captivated by the emotions expressed by a mature woman in her late 20s.

Even though you know that the reality behind that mature face is an 18-year-old girl, her acting skills are unbelievable.

The male lead chases Han Yu-na (Hwang Hye-jin) away, disgusted as if she had been stained with something dirty.

The heroine is carried out again on a stretcher as if she was being held captive.

Big, cold eyes that track the male protagonist’s face until the end.

It is a look that arouses dangerous curiosity, showing how great and deep the resentment the woman holds for him.

Han Yu-na’s (Hwang Hye-jin) monologue-like voice is heard low like background music.

– It failed. The evidence appears to have been completely incinerated.

– Was it an accident? Or was it intentionally destroyed by the Coast Guard?

-Hyun Jin-wook was not flustered by the disaster.

-You may have known about it in advance. Thank you for your hard work. Now, go back.

A faint BGM is playing.

The split faces of the male and female leads gradually expand to the pupils.

Everything goes dark.

And the screen changes.

– 13 years ago –

The moment he saw the subtitles floating around, Park Cheol-min could barely catch his breath.

“Wow, oppa. The directing is really great. I thought I was watching some Hollywood blockbuster.”

Although he felt slightly resentful of his wife’s admiration for breaking the labor pains, he calmly put his mask back on.

“That’s right. I didn’t know because I don’t watch dramas or anything, but has our country developed a lot these days?”

***

[Breaking News! Building collapses due to gas explosion at Gangnam intersection, current situation hopeless]

└I knew how to fish, damn itㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└They say this is the opening of a drama that is currently airing

└Surprise, I got caught

└Wow but this is really amazing. I thought it was a real disaster.

└Wow, how much is all that? Wow wow wow

└I roughly counted and the supercars that exploded are worth over 30 billion won?

└ㅁㅊ Is this how you explode in a drama, let alone a movie?

└Isn’t it real? It must be a miniature.

└Isn’t it CG?

└ㄴㄴ CG doesn’t have that kind of texture. That’s 100% a miniature.

└Even a miniature wouldn’t be able to achieve that kind of texture.

└No matter how I look at it, it looks like they really received sponsorship for the car and then smashed it up.

└In a drama? Talk about something that makes sense tsk tsk

└Hollywood supercar series blockbusters do that. They actually film while smashing dozens of expensive cars.

└It’s not Hollywood. It’s not a movie. It’s a drama.

[Breaking News! The Winter Castle opening building collapse disaster was entirely CG from start to finish!]

└Is this all CG?

└Wow, that makes no sense at all

└No, the building is collapsing, the road is breaking, the asphalt is turning over, that’s all CG?

└It looks too real to be CG?

└This is ridiculous. I didn’t even think about CG. I thought they just smashed up a real car with a different exterior.

[I am currently working in CG.]

This is a CG created by 30THC channel, which is famous for the Chae Seo-yoon Mad Movie CF, Annie Green Star Journey, and Na○ki Mermaid and Sneakers CF.

The CG value is beyond imagination

└How much is it?

└I heard that the mermaid CF costs over 5,000 per second, but Winter Castle is more elaborate because it uses real backgrounds and vehicles.

The more familiar the background and objects are to the viewer, the more intensive the work has to be done so that there is no sense of discomfort.

I dare to guess that it would have consumed at least 100 million per second.

└100 million per second

└You just burned 30 billion won in CG costs?

└Wow, they even do this in a home drama?

└Wouldn’t it be much cheaper to just roughly remodel the exterior of the scrap cars and crush a few dozen of them?

└How did a drama that should have been exclusively released in the OTT premiere corner end up in this shabby living room?

└Who is the actress? She’s so pretty? I totally love her

└Be careful, you’re still under 18. If you get caught doing something wrong, you’ll be put in handcuffs.

└??? What about that face says she’s 18?

└18 years old. The adult appearance is said to be CG.

└No, that’s CG?

└Where in this drama is CG and where is the real thing?

***

Winter Castle will air episodes 1 and 2 back-to-back.

After securing a solid aggro early on with the Gangnam disaster, the drama shifts to the past.

The fresh and innocent appearance of Hwang Hye-jin during her teenage years brought smiles to the faces of viewers and their parents.

Nam-ju, the successor to the Hae-gyeong Group.

The female protagonist from an ordinary family.

A relationship that begins with a chance encounter between two young people.

But the tragedy begins when the heroine’s family falls apart.

The young male protagonist confesses his innocent love to the young female protagonist, promising to take responsibility for her for the rest of his life, and the female protagonist accepts his feelings out of gratitude.

But the harsh truth comes to the heroine.

-Yuna! How can you be with the child of the Haegyeong Group? Your father died because of someone!

The female protagonist is shocked when she finds out that her father’s death was caused by the male protagonist’s company.

Even the male lead’s company was unaware of his father’s death.

It was just a number in the troublesome industrial accident ledger that I had unfortunately gotten caught up in.

To them, their father was like the death of an ant.

-I’m sorry. I don’t think I can go with you.

-Yuna, why are you doing this? I told you I could convince everyone in my family.

-I’m really sorry.

Unable to tell the truth to the male protagonist who knows nothing about it, young Han Yu-na has a hard time giving up.

The innocent and vague love of a teenager ends.

The male protagonist desperately searches for Han Yu-na, who suddenly disappeared, but only learns the devastating truth.

-Han Yu-na? You’re such a brat. Do you know how much I asked you to give me in exchange for breaking up with me? 10 billion won, 10 billion won.

The cold truth that my mother taught me.

His love was sold for a mere 10 billion won.

The boy grows up with a cold heart that no longer trusts women.

Meanwhile, Han Yu-na, who has come to distrust the world, feels obsessed with the idea that only she can protect her own life.

‘I have to protect my own body. No one else will protect me.’

A girl who has lost her parents is weak.

Then, you should have a job that the world cannot touch.

Han Yu-na, who entered the police academy, finally becomes an elite police officer and takes her first steps into society.

Sometimes when I reminisce about the past, my heart aches, but still, these are peaceful days.

Every time I see the face of my first love on TV, I feel like I can’t breathe, but I somehow manage to survive each day.

And the latter half of episode 2.

-Agent Han Yu-na, I need you to infiltrate the Haegyeong Trading Company headquarters and conduct an undercover investigation.

-What is your mission?

-The ledger of political slush funds and the evidence are hidden in Haegyeong Trading Company. Find them.

-All right.

Han Yu-na, who went undercover undercover, captures an underground vault where the target is presumed to be located.

-Sector A1, 3rd basement floor, the entire 400 square meter basement is a safe.

-Thank you for your hard work. Your mission is over. Withdraw.

Undercover investigations, intelligence, and covert operations are carried out with a level of sophistication that it seems suspiciously familiar to a mere police officer.

But just before Han Yu-na could sort out Hae-gyeong-mul-san’s disguised identity.

[3 hours before the Gangnam gas explosion disaster]

-The collection team agents have disappeared. They must have been hit. Agent Han Yu-na, you should go and find out about them.

-All right.

It is revealed that the police are Han Yu-na’s undercover agent and that her real identity is a black agent from the National Intelligence Service.

[1 hour before the Gangnam gas explosion disaster]

-We found a body bag. It looks like they’ve all been hit.

-Hey, look at this? It’s really blocked.

Han Yu-na, who had found evidence of the murder, felt a huge vibration coming from deep underground as she was leaving the Haekyung Trading Company building.

-Kurururung!

Han Yu-na ran instinctively.

I instinctively followed the feeling that every cell in my body was screaming that this place was dangerous.

As we step outside, we see flames bursting through the windows of tall buildings.

The earth’s axis shook as if an earthquake had occurred.

Finally, the collapsing high-rise building is clearly engraved in Han Yu-na’s large eyes.

All episodes up to episode 2 are finished.

“Ahhhh! Where does it end!”

Park Cheol-min quietly covered his ears at his wife’s screams that felt like they were going to burst.

***

I sent a message to producer Son Jun-gu.

[Me] You put the collapse event as a prologue in the very beginning of episode 1. That was better.

[PD Son Jun-gu] I thought we needed to really draw the aggro in the beginning, so I cut it off by about 5 minutes and placed it in the beginning.

[Me] I definitely got aggro properly

[PD Son Jun-gu] There’s no need to save up the ultimate until next week. You have to make a big splash from the start and keep the viewers from coming to their senses.

It was a good edit.

Just by cutting out the collapse scene in the beginning of episode 3 and placing it as a prologue without touching the completed version of episodes 1 and 2 at all, the feeling was completely different.

Looking at the drama community’s reactions, it’s boiling like a furnace.

└No, where on earth does CG begin and end? I can’t tell the difference at all.

└It’s all CG until the rescue team comes out.

└Does that make sense? I really thought it was a location shoot and got immersed in it?

└CG That’s right. I compared it with the map road view, but none of the shops on the Indian side matched lol

└This is Gangnam-daero in District 3613 made with CG

└ Fact) They say that all the people running away while screaming are CG.

└Really? You’re not an extra?

└They say it’s not extras, it’s all CG

└No matter how I look at it, it’s a real person, so how can you say it’s all CG?

└ I guess supercars can do that, but why do extras use CG? It seems like the appearance fee would be thousands of times cheaper.

We also looked at Hyejin and her parents’ reactions.

My young actress still hasn’t woken up from her immersion in the drama.

The mother couldn’t take her eyes off the trailer that appeared during the ending credits, her mouth covered.

My father keeps shaking his fist and trying to calm down.

“Chief.”

“Yes, Father.”

“Excuse me, I don’t know much about recent dramas, but is it okay to film like that? I don’t think it’ll make any profit… .”

“Don’t worry. The real CG director of the outsourced CG company is a fan of Hyejin. The collapse scene is a CG video that I received for free.”

“Wow, this is really… .”

My father took a deep breath to calm his excitement before finally opening his mouth.

“But I feel like I’m pushing too hard from the beginning… .”

“Are you worried that it looks like a 4-drone production with no back?”

“Ah, that’s a perfect expression. Yeah, isn’t it a bit like 4 drones? If you raise it like this in the beginning, what will happen later… .”

“Don’t worry. It’s full of minerals.”

If you have 10,000 starting minerals, you should definitely start with the first 4 drones.

It’s 100% profitable.

When the home drama viewership is still lacking in immunity and tolerance, you have to strip away even your soul.

I don’t know what will happen with the dramas that come after Winter Castle.

I’m okay with just making dramas with my actors a huge hit.

I opened my phone again to monitor viewer reactions.

[Chae Seo-yoon]

[Chae Seo-yoon]

[Chae Seo-yoon]

What is this woman?

In the midst of all this absurdity, I got another text.

[Chae Seo-yoon] I think the viewer ratings will be good.

[Me] Thank you. But what did you erase?

[Chae Seo-yoon] It’s nothing

[Chae Seo-yoon] I deleted it because there were some typos.

[Chae Seo-yoon] I hate messy things.

I don’t really have anything to say, so I’ll leave it as is for a while.

I got a text again.

[Chae Seo-yoon] The CG is really cool.

“Brother, who are you chatting with now?”

“Yeah, Ms. Chae Seo-yoon. They say the CG is cool.”

“Special appearance is a bit… It’s my drama, but won’t senior Chae Seo-yoon steal all the attention?”

“Why the sudden special appearance?”

“CG is cool, right? That means you want to make a special appearance later.”

“Speak sense. There’s no connection at all.”

This guy has some delusions of grandeur.