Tving has added “로또 1등도 출근을 해야 합니다” (“Even Lottery Jackpot Winners Still Have to Go to Work”) to its upcoming original drama slate, adapting a popular web novel and webtoon property centered on an ordinary office worker whose life is upended after winning the lottery — only to discover that Korean workplace obligations and social dynamics don’t simply disappear along with financial hardship.
The premise taps into a specific, broadly relatable fantasy-meets-reality tension: the universal daydream of sudden wealth colliding with the mundane, often absurd persistence of office life and workplace hierarchy, a comedic setup that Korean audiences have responded well to in other workplace-satire properties given how deeply embedded corporate office culture remains in everyday Korean life.
The adaptation continues Tving’s aggressive investment in webtoon-and-web-novel-sourced original programming, following the platform’s parallel development of “Cooking Sergeant” from a similar web novel-to-webtoon pipeline — part of a broader strategy among Korean streaming platforms to build original content slates anchored in properties with pre-existing, quantifiable reader engagement rather than betting primarily on original scripts.
The workplace-comedy genre the drama occupies has proven consistently commercially viable in the Korean market, offering broad audience relatability across age groups and employment types given how nearly universal the experience of navigating Korean corporate hierarchy and office politics remains, regardless of a given viewer’s specific industry or career stage.
Tving has not yet confirmed a specific release date for the series, but its inclusion in the platform’s announced development slate places it among a wave of webtoon-and-novel-adapted titles expected to anchor Tving’s original programming investment through the remainder of 2026.
Source: Tving original series development slate, “로또 1등도 출근을 해야 합니다” webtoon/web novel adaptation, 2026.
