Warner Bros. Korea has released a new behind-the-scenes video and an ensemble workplace visual for the upcoming Korean remake The Intern, directed by Kim Do-young. The film pairs veteran actor Choi Min-sik with Han So-hee as colleagues whose ages and job titles rarely occupy the same meeting room. It is scheduled to open in theaters on September 16, coinciding with the Chuseok holiday season.
Adapted from the Hollywood movie of the same title, The Intern follows office life that slips past the usual borders of generation and rank. The story begins when Gi-ho (Choi Min-sik), a senior intern carrying 37 years of work behind him, reports to Woototo. The fashion house is led by Sun-woo (Han So-hee), a work-first chief executive whose young label has already become an unexpected contender only three years after its launch. What follows is less a simple boss-and-intern sketch than a portrait of people learning how to share a company when titles stop being the whole story.
The newest making-of clip, titled Orientation, treats that first stretch at Woototo like a welcome session rather than a polished highlight reel. The footage lingers on jokes, small talk, and the slightly awkward courtesy of people who have just been told they now belong to the same team. It also peeks at the work required to make a fictional fashion office feel occupied instead of staged. In that sense the video doubles as both an introduction to the company and a preview of the film’s warmer comic register.
A newly released key visual gathers the Woototo staff inside one airy office, with Gi-ho and Sun-woo standing at the center in two very different commuting uniforms. He wears a gray suit, a lanyard, and a brown leather bag, while she holds a black bag against a tailored blue set and keeps her arms folded. Korean text across the image declares that work starts today, presenting the film as a full-company ensemble rather than a two-person portrait.
The rest of the office fills out around them. The frame includes Young-hwan (Kim Jun-han), a pragmatic vice president; Min-ah (Ryu Hye-young), the management support team leader absorbed by artificial intelligence; Hee-sook (Kim Geum-soon), a romantic barista; and Yoo-jin (Park Ye-ni), a fiercely driven merchandiser. Joo-sung (Kim Yo-han) and Yoon-hee (Yoon Sang-jung) appear as outgoing fellow interns, while Jun-hyung (Im Sung-kyun) rounds out the group as an MD team leader fluent in office politics.
Choi Min-sik said he played the silver intern as if the company on set might actually hire him. “I filmed while thinking about what I would have done if I had joined Woototo.” Director Kim Do-young watched that experiment play out among a much younger cast and found the result unexpectedly affecting. “It was moving just to watch Choi Min-sik blend in with the younger actors.”
Han So-hee turns Sun-woo into a chief executive who can run a brand at full speed and still look unprepared the moment the workday ends. The director used the behind-the-scenes comments to flag a less familiar register from the actress. “Han So-hee worked hard to give everything she had to offer.” The part asks her to hold authority in the showroom and inexperience everywhere else.
The same footage keeps returning to how quickly the actors began to sound like coworkers instead of a visiting cast. Ryu Hye-young said, “I hope the audience can enjoy Woototo’s fun vibe along with us.” Kim Do-young singled out Choi Min-sik as “the mood maker on set,” a role that appears to have loosened the room without flattening the work. Han So-hee described her co-star as “someone who has both a cool side and an untainted innocence.”
The production treated Woototo as a place that had to look designed and slightly undone at the same time. Kim Do-young visited working fashion companies so the film could borrow their easier daily tempo rather than a generic glass-box office. The finished workplace includes phone booths for private calls, while the costume team built clothes that shift with each employee’s temperament. That mix of architecture and styling is meant to give the brand a private aesthetic instead of a borrowed corporate look.
The two leads finally framed the movie as a small disturbance that travels farther than it first appears. Choi Min-sik compared The Intern to “the gentle ripples that spread when you throw a stone into water.” Han So-hee said, “I hope it’s a film that will make audiences leave the theater feeling happy.” Those remarks match a holiday release that is selling recognition and ease as much as workplace friction.
The Intern arrives in Korean theaters on September 16. Warner Bros. Korea is positioning the remake as a Chuseok title built around office chemistry rather than spectacle.
Source: Warner Bros. Korea
