Rounding out the lower half of Fundex’s June 2, 2026 TV-OTT topicality top 10, JTBC’s workplace comedy-drama “New Employee Chairman Kang” (신입사원 강회장) secured a spot in the rankings, joining an already crowded field that included Netflix’s “Yoo Jae-suk Camp,” tvN’s “Secret Audit,” and long-running staple “Knowing Bros” (아는 형님).
The show’s premise — built around the well-worn but reliably popular “disguised chairman” trope, where a company’s top executive poses as an entry-level employee — taps into a genre Korean audiences have consistently responded to, mixing workplace satire with fish-out-of-water comedy. Its arrival in the topicality top 10 signals the format still has commercial life even in an oversaturated drama market, provided the execution and casting connect with viewers.
JTBC’s presence on the chart is notable in its own right: as a cable network competing against both terrestrial broadcasters and deep-pocketed streamers, JTBC has increasingly leaned on workplace and social-satire dramas as a genre where it can compete without matching Netflix-scale production budgets, banking instead on relatable premises and strong ensemble casting.
The same week’s rankings also reflected the strength of Korea’s variety and talk-show ecosystem, with “Knowing Bros” — a program built around celebrity guests navigating a fictional high-school classroom format — continuing its multi-year run inside the topicality top 10, a longevity few scripted dramas can match.
Taken together, the full June 2 top 10 — spanning terrestrial drama, cable comedy, cooking competition, dating reality, sketch comedy, and long-running talk-variety — illustrates just how genre-agnostic Korean audience attention has become, with topicality now distributed across format types rather than concentrated in any single genre the way scripted drama once dominated.
Source: Fundex TV-OTT topicality rankings, June 2, 2026, Korean entertainment press coverage.
