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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9849882" data-attributes="member: 78087">On to the next one.Golden Spoon (Disney Plus, 2022)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Spoon" target="_blank">Golden Spoon</a> is another satisfying makjang drama all about inequality. In that it's quite similar to Little Women, but its main protagonist is rather more morally flexible. In case you were wondering, the title refers to the Korean expression which is an expansion of the English one about being born with a silver spoon in your mouth - in Korean, if you’re born with a wooden spoon, you’re born very poor, and a golden spoon is the richest.<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Golden_Spoon.jpg" alt="en.m.wikipedia.org" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Our first protagonist, Lee Seung-Cheon, is as close to a Korean manhwa MC as anyone we've seen. He's a high school student from a very poor family (they live in one of those semi-basement apartments that's basically shorthand for extreme poverty, as seen in Parasite) who nonetheless goes to an elite high school (because he happens to live in the catchment area and they're required to do some outreach). He's therefore constantly bullied by his rich naughty word classmates, and his best friend has just killed himself along with the rest of his family by inhaling charcoal fumes because they couldn't pay their debts (yup, this is a real thing).Poor Seung-Cheon hates his life, resents his parents for being poor, and is desperate to do anything to change his fate. And so into his life comes an old woman (clearly an evil fae of some sort) who offers him a magical golden spoon. Eat three times with the spoon in the house of someone your age and you'll swap lives and parents with them. Sweet deal, right?Seung-Cheon takes the deal and swaps places with Hwang Tae-Yong, a nice enough classmate who's also the heir of the largest chaebol in Korea (it's clearly Samsung). And that's when we meet Tae-Yong's father, Hwang Hyeon-Do, the purest villain I've ever seen in fiction. He makes both Lex Luthor and Gendo Ikari look like rank amateurs.(Seriously, his first reaction to watching a kid he doesn't know eating with a golden spoon in his house is basically, "Interesting, let's see where this goes.")And so we watch Seung-Cheon and Tae-Yong swap lives again and again (he gets another chance to change back at 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years), leaving Tae-Yong (who has no memory of the swaps) more befuddled each time. Our third protagonist is Na Joo-Hee, a love interest for both guys who has a lot of her own naughty word to deal with. And of course like all good gamers you're asking yourselves, is there more than one golden spoon or spoon user? Of course there is.As I said initially, this is a very makjang drama and it pulls plots out of its posterior every few episodes. The three protagonists take a lot of turns holding the idiot ball, sadly. But it's all a lot of fun.(Also as noted earlier, Seung-Cheon and Hyeon-Do are played by the same actors from Mystic Pop-Up Bar, so if you've seen that it might enhance your enjoyment of this drama.)</blockquote>

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