SBS’s upcoming Wednesday-Thursday drama “Nine to Six” has unveiled its main poster and first teaser, giving viewers their clearest look yet at the office romance between Park Min Young and Yook Sung Jae ahead of the series’ premiere on November 25.
The main poster, released on November 3, captures the two leads on their morning commute. Kang Yi-ji, played by Park Min Young, walks ahead in a neat beige suit with a coffee in one hand and a file folder in the other, every inch the perfectionist deputy manager of her company’s legal team. Beside her, Han Sun-woo, played by Yook Sung Jae, wears a navy suit and a backpack, his gaze fixed not on work but on Kang Yi-ji. The poster carries the tagline, “A work-romance life balance between a woman with 100 percent logic and a man with 100 percent warmth,” and even the employee IDs hanging side by side around their necks hint at a relationship that will grow inside the same office.
The first teaser, released days later, turns that quiet poster image into motion. It opens on Kang Yi-ji’s rigid work life, with colleagues describing her in unison as “a very picky person.” She answers with the same unshakable manner she brings to everything, saying, “I’ll organize it according to the manual.” The question hanging over the teaser is whether there is any room in her packed schedule for love at all, and the answer arrives in the form of Han Sun-woo. He offers her bread, watches her eat it with open delight, and tells her, “Do you know your eyes sparkle so much?” before declaring, “I’ll stick right next to you, Deputy Manager Kang.”
The teaser also introduces a third figure who will stir the story. Go Soo plays Park Hyun-tae, an elite executive who steps in with calm confidence, telling Kang Yi-ji, “Get in. I’ll drive you.” The teaser ends on its most talked-about moment: as an elevator door begins to close, Han Sun-woo holds it open, and Kang Yi-ji, who has seemed impenetrable until then, breaks into a bright smile and greets him with a cheerful “Good morning.” He freezes, caught off guard by a warmth he did not expect.
A separate making-of teaser released on November 6 offered a lighter look at the set. Park Min Young introduced herself in English as “Rachel,” her English name, and introduced Yook Sung Jae by his nickname, “Six Cash,” as the two leads and Go Soo shared bright smiles between takes, previewing the easy chemistry the production is hoping will carry the series.
“Nine to Six” is a 12-episode on-and-off work-life-balance romance, written by Choi Ji-oh and directed by Lee Hyung-min and Oh Song-hee. It follows Kang Yi-ji, a rational woman who has spent her life proving her worth through work, as she meets Han Sun-woo, a warm and emotional man, and begins to rewrite her standards for work, love and happiness. The pair’s first encounter, teased in stills released in late October, began with a clash on the street, and the new poster and teaser show that friction slowly giving way to something warmer.
The casting itself has drawn attention for the real-life age gap behind the on-screen romance. Park Min Young, born in 1986, and Yook Sung Jae, born in 1995, are nine years apart, a difference the drama leans into as part of its older-woman, younger-man pairing. Korean reports have also noted the two leads’ ratings history: Park Min Young’s “Marry My Husband” peaked at 12.3 percent in the Seoul metropolitan area, while Yook Sung Jae’s breakout series “Goblin” reached 20.5 percent, a record for cable television at the time. Combined, those career peaks add up to 32.8 percent, a figure Korean media have used to frame the expectations riding on the new pairing.
Park Min Young arrives at the role as one of Korean television’s most established romantic-comedy leads, with “What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim” and “Forecasting Love and Weather” among her best-known turns as a career-driven professional. Yook Sung Jae, a member of BTOB, first won wide recognition through “Goblin” and has since built a steady acting career alongside his music work. Their pairing brings together two performers whose previous hits were built on very different kinds of romance, and “Nine to Six” asks them to meet in the middle.
“Nine to Six” premieres on SBS on Wednesday, November 25 at 9 p.m. KST, airing in the network’s Wednesday-Thursday drama slot.
