Kick Kick Kick Kick

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Kick Kick Kick Kick

킥킥킥킥 (Kikkikkikkik) · 2025 · South Korea

WriterJung Soo-hyun, Nam Eun-kyung, Jung Hae-young

DirectorKoo Seong-jun

Episodes12 eps · ~60 min each

AiredFeb 5 – Mar 13, 2025

GenreSitcom · Office Comedy · Drama

Content RatingPG-13

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Content CreationEntertainment IndustryFound FamilyRivalryGeneration Gap

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Six has-beens, interns, and one AI assistant, all trying to hit three million subscribers before the money runs out.

Ji Jin-hee

Ji Jin-hee

Lead

Lee Kyoo-hyung

Cho Young-sik

Lead

Baek Ji-won

Baek Ji-won

Supporting

Kim Eun-Ho

Kang Tae-Ho

Supporting

Baek Sun-ho

Lee Mark

Supporting

Lee Min-jae

Lee Min-jae

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

Episode 1

Feb 5, 2025

Ji Jin-hee is on a rooftop weighing the wreckage of a public scandal when he runs into disgraced PD Cho Young-sik, drunk enough to mistake red wine for blood. Their accidental reunion gets livestreamed, and CEO Don Man-hui offers to fund a content company on the spot — with one non-negotiable condition: three million subscribers in six months. Two men who spent years actively avoiding each other are now stuck as reluctant co-founders.

EP 02

Episode 2

Feb 6, 2025

Assembling a staff turns into its own comedy of errors — PD Kang Tae-ho and writer Wang Jo-yeon sign on mostly because working with a scandal-tarnished Ji Jin-hee is still working with Ji Jin-hee, and younger hires like Lee Min-jae and Ga Joo-ha bring a generational gap the company hasn’t figured out how to close yet. Word of the founders’ messy past starts circulating before they’ve even shot a single video.

EP 03

Episode 3

Feb 12, 2025

A team-building “Sports Day” turns into the accidental launchpad for the company’s first real content bet, Tails of Tales of Camping — and Ji Jin-hee’s competitive streak does more for morale than any planned bonding exercise. The episode is mostly comic filler, but it quietly establishes just how far this team still is from functioning as a team.

EP 04

Episode 4

Feb 13, 2025

The reveal of who “Camper One” actually is blows up into a manipulation scandal that threatens to sink Tails of Tales of Camping before it’s even found an audience. Ji Jin-hee and Cho Young-sik are forced to make actual ethical calls under pressure instead of just performing competence for the cameras, and the company’s fledgling reputation hangs on how fast they can spin the damage.

EP 05

Episode 5

Feb 19, 2025

Therapist Baek Ji-won joins to manage a staff running on stress and unresolved grudges, and her presence reframes half the office’s chaos as something closer to burnout than incompetence. Ji Jin-hee, meanwhile, develops an oddly sincere attachment to an AI assistant named Samantha — played for laughs, but genuinely about how someone this isolated fills the gap.

EP 06

Episode 6

Feb 20, 2025

New content, new deadlines, same creative gridlock — the looming second installment of Tails of Tales of Camping tests exactly how much goodwill this team has left. Nobody quits, but nobody’s thriving either, and the episode makes the subscriber goal feel less like ambition and more like a countdown.

EP 07

Episode 7

Feb 26, 2025

Wang Jo-yeon finds a creative breakthrough thanks to an unexpected spark with Kang Tae-ho, while Baek Ji-won stumbles onto a secret from Cho Young-sik’s past that could destabilize the whole company if it surfaces. The comedy takes a backseat here to actual character texture — everyone’s hiding something, even the people who seem the most put-together.

EP 08

Episode 8

Feb 27, 2025

Cho Young-sik and Baek Ji-won team up to track down a missing couple, and the case ends up revealing how well their instincts complement each other. Lee Mark makes a quiet, consequential decision about his future, and the office mascot going missing gives the episode its lighter panic to balance the heavier one.

EP 09

Episode 9

Mar 5, 2025

Yeo Woo-ran starts actively spreading rumors designed to torch Ji Jin-hee and Cho Young-sik’s credibility, and for the first time the threat to the company comes from outside instead of its own dysfunction. Lee Min-jae and Ga Joo-ha’s slow-building tension finally forces both of them to admit what’s actually going on.

EP 10

Episode 10

Mar 6, 2025

The company hits its worst crisis yet — financial, reputational, all at once — and it’s the first time Ji Jin-hee and Cho Young-sik have to actually lead instead of just co-exist. Whatever’s left of their old rivalry gets shelved out of necessity, not growth.

EP 11

Episode 11

Mar 12, 2025

The crisis breaks in the team’s favor, and the relief buys the company something it hasn’t had all season: room to breathe. Riding that momentum, Lee Mark works up the nerve to confess to Ga Joo-ha a second time, hoping persistence lands where timing didn’t.

EP 12

Episode 12

Mar 13, 2025

A haunted-office subplot gives the finale its last dose of chaos before the show settles into its actual ending: the subscriber goal met, a commemorative photoshoot standing in for how far these two founders have come, and Lee Min-jae and Ga Joo-ha, Wang Jo-yeon and Kang Tae-ho all landing somewhere steadier than where they started. Kick Kick Kick Kick closes less on the number they hit and more on the fact that nobody on this team is who they were twelve episodes ago.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

What actually happened Kick Kick Kick Kick Company hits its three-million-subscriber target, surviving both the manipulation scandal from the camping series and the near-collapse financial crisis that follows it. The finale’s haunted-office subplot turns out to be exactly the kind of mundane, low-stakes chaos the show specializes in — a last comic detour before the real business of the episode: a commemorative photoshoot for the founders, and a happy ending for both of the show’s slow-building couples, Lee Min-jae with Ga Joo-ha and Wang Jo-yeon with Kang Tae-ho.

What the finale resolves about Ji Jin-hee and Cho Young-sik The two founders never stop being rivals in temperament, but by the finale they’ve stopped performing that rivalry for an audience — the show’s real arc is watching two men who resented being forced into partnership choose to keep it anyway, once the subscriber deadline stops being the only reason they’re in the same room. Cho Young-sik’s buried secret, surfaced back in episode 7, gets absorbed rather than exploded into a betrayal plot — the company survives it because Ji Jin-hee decides trust is worth more than leverage.

Why the subscriber number was never really the point Three million subscribers works as a ticking clock for twelve episodes, but the finale is careful not to treat hitting that number as the actual victory. What the show cares about is everything that happened on the way there — a therapist who ended up genuinely needed, a missing mascot that mattered more than it should have, two couples who found each other inside a company that almost didn’t survive its own launch. The goal gets met almost as an afterthought.

The team that almost didn’t happen Baek Ji-won’s arc — hired as an outside fix for a broken office — ends with her fully embedded in the team she was brought in to manage, which is its own quiet joke about how mediation works. Yeo Woo-ran’s rumor campaign from episode 9 fizzles out without a dramatic reckoning, which fits a show more interested in resilience than revenge.

The KDW verdict Kick Kick Kick Kick ends by making the case that the company was never really about the content, the subscribers, or even the comeback — it was about a group of people who had no reason to trust each other choosing to anyway, one chaotic episode at a time. For a show built around a countdown clock, that’s a surprisingly patient thing to land on.