Misaeng

One office, rendered in close detail

Before you watch

  • watch the assigned episodes
  • note one scene a Korean office worker might recognise immediately, and one that feels exaggerated for drama

What we’re testing

We work through the office’s hierarchy layer by layer — seniority, contract status, working hours — then ask which parts are a documented pattern in Korean workplace research and which are dramatic shorthand.

Separate one social pattern the show depicts from one moment that reads more like stereotype.