Reborn Rookie

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Reborn Rookie

신입사원 강회장 (Sinipsawon Ganghoejang) · 2026 · South Korea

WriterKim Soon Ok, Hyun Ji Min

DirectorGo Hye Jin

Episodes12 eps · ~70 min each

⏱️ Binge Time14h 0m

AiredMay 30 – Jul 5, 2026

GenreMystery · Business · Fantasy

Content Rating15+

JTBCViuViki

Body SwapChaebolCorporate IntrigueFamily ConflictSecond Chance

One box. Everything you need to decide.

The family at war, and the two outsiders holding the company together.

Lee Jun-young

Hwang Jun-hyeon (Kang Yong-ho)

Lead

Son Hyun-joo

Kang Yong-ho

Lead

Lee Ju-myoung

Kang Bang-geul

Supporting

Jeon Hye-jin

Kang Jae-kyung

Supporting

Jin Goo

Kang Jae-seong

Supporting

Yun Yoo-sun

Cho Seon-hee

Supporting

Lee Sung-wook

Park Bong-gi

Supporting

Kim Jong-tae

Lee Sang-jae

Supporting

Park Cheon

Secretary Yeo

Supporting

Jeong Jae-seong

Na Byeong-mo

Supporting

Lee Seo-an

Na Eun-se

Supporting

Kwon Hae-sung

Min Seok-do

Supporting

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

EP 01

Putting a Price Tag on a Dream

May 30, 2026

Kang Yong-ho has spent decades building an empire, but the retirement announcement he drops on his children reads less like generosity than a starting gun for a succession war. Kang Jae-gyeong and Kang Jae-sung don’t waste a beat turning the boardroom into a battlefield. Meanwhile a hit-and-run tied to their company’s shady dealings ends young footballer Hwang Jun-hyeon’s career — and swaps his soul into Yong-ho’s dying body. The premiere doesn’t ease into its fantasy hook; it detonates two lives at once.

EP 02

The Reborn Chairman

May 31, 2026

Waking up twenty years younger solves nothing when the first thing Yong-ho discovers is that his own children tried to bury the accident — and wouldn’t have minded if he’d stayed dead. That betrayal reroutes his grief into strategy: he walks into Choiseong Group’s internship program as nobody, planning to dismantle Jae-gyeong and Jae-sung’s grip from the mailroom up. It’s a slow-burn revenge plot dressed as workplace comedy, and episode two makes sure we feel the whiplash of a father learning what his children really think of him.

EP 03

Securing an Ally and a 300 Billion Won Slush Fund

Jun 6, 2026

Bang-geul’s sudden return to Choiseong Group looks too convenient to Jun-hyeon, so he starts digging — and finds she’s running her own quiet agenda underneath the family-reunion smile. Rather than clash, the two strike an uneasy alliance, pulling in Materials Team 2’s Park Bong-gi to help trace a 300 billion won slush fund tied to Jae-sung. The episode swaps grief for strategy, and the corporate-thriller machinery finally starts turning.

EP 04

A Divide And Conquer Strategy

Jun 7, 2026

Jun-hyeon plays Jae-gyeong and Jae-sung against each other with the patience of someone who built this company brick by brick — which, of course, he did. Greed does most of the work; he just has to point it in the right direction. Along the way he lets Park Bong-gi in on his real identity as Yong-ho’s ‘hidden son,’ trading a piece of the truth for a partner he actually needs.

EP 05

A Self-destructive Battle

Jun 13, 2026

The GF Solution acquisition turns into a trap Jae-gyeong walks straight into — Jun-hyeon goads her into overspending until her own financial position buckles. He even turns her surveillance network back on her, a small, satisfying reversal that shows exactly how sharp Yong-ho’s business instincts still are, twenty-year-old body or not.

EP 06

The Claws Are Out At Last

Jun 14, 2026

An overseas trip to Yulivia gives Bang-geul her first real shot at proving she belongs in the succession conversation, and she takes it — outmaneuvering Taeha Group’s lithium mining play with Jun-hyeon and Bong-gi backing her up. It’s the episode where the story stops being just Yong-ho’s revenge plot and starts being Bang-geul’s too, which is exactly the shift the season needed.

EP 07

War Is Declared

Jun 20, 2026

Losing the lithium deal doesn’t humble Jae-gyeong — it radicalizes her. She frames her own brother for a crime he didn’t commit, and the siblings’ rivalry stops being about board seats and starts being about survival. When she corners Jun-hyeon and demands he drop Bang-geul, his refusal isn’t just loyalty; it’s the clearest signal yet of whose side Yong-ho has actually landed on.

EP 08

Making Another Sacrifice

Jun 21, 2026

Jun-hyeon takes a fall he doesn’t deserve, absorbing blame for old corporate sins just to keep the hydrogen business out of Jae-gyeong’s hands. The cost lands immediately: word arrives that Yong-ho’s original body has died, and Jun-hyeon collapses under the weight of it. Buried underneath the plot twist is something sadder — a glimpse of exactly how long Jae-gyeong has resented the father she’s spent the season trying to outmaneuver.

EP 09

A Death That Changes the Plan

Jun 27, 2026

Grief pushes Yong-ho toward the riskiest move he’s made all season — going solo, cutting Bang-geul loose in appearance if not in fact, just to get close enough to Jae-gyeong to bring her down from the inside. It’s a cold, calculated performance of betrayal, and Bang-geul doesn’t get let off easy either; she has to decide how much of it she’s actually willing to believe.

EP 10

The Chairman’s Body is Alive

Jun 28, 2026

The season’s biggest swerve: Yong-ho’s original body never died at all — it’s alive, held captive by Jae-sung and Min Seok-do, with Jun-hyeon’s actual soul trapped inside it. The revenge plot suddenly matters less than getting Jun-hyeon out alive, and the story pivots from corporate takedown to rescue mission without losing a beat.

EP 11

Exposing the Conspiracy

Jul 4, 2026

With the truth about Jun-hyeon’s real body finally within reach, Yong-ho races to gather evidence before Jae-gyeong can tighten her grip any further. Every move here carries real risk — for the company, for Jun-hyeon’s actual life, and for a plan that’s been years in the making and could still collapse in its final stretch.

EP 12

The True Successor

Jul 5, 2026

Yong-ho and Jun-hyeon finally return to their own bodies after Na Byeong-mo forces the confrontation that’s been building all season, and the two men who spent months sharing a body use their combined knowledge to bury Jae-gyeong for good. She’s ousted and handed over to face real legal consequences; Jae-sung gets something rarer — a quiet, overseas shot at starting over.

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

The swap ends where it began — with Na Byeong-mo Yong-ho and Jun-hyeon get their bodies back in the finale’s climactic confrontation, engineered by Na Byeong-mo rather than by either man alone. It’s a deliberately unglamorous resolution: the season’s central mystery doesn’t get solved through some big scientific reveal, it gets solved through a person finally deciding to stop hiding what he knew.

Jae-gyeong loses everything, on the record Once both men are back in their rightful bodies, they don’t waste the reunion — combining what Yong-ho knows about the company’s structure with what Jun-hyeon uncovered from the ground floor to lay Jae-gyeong’s slush funds and cover-ups out in front of the board. She’s removed from her position and left to face actual legal consequences, not a quiet corporate exile.

Jae-sung’s punishment looks almost like mercy Jae-sung, who spent the season as Jae-gyeong’s rival as much as her partner in crime, gets a different ending: he heads overseas to start over, out of the spotlight and out of the family’s remaining power structure. It reads less like a pardon and more like Yong-ho quietly deciding which of his children is still worth the effort of saving.

Yong-ho stops trying to control succession Yong-ho’s biggest change isn’t emotional, it’s structural — instead of naming an heir and repeating the cycle that nearly got him killed, he installs a professional management system that takes Choiseong Group’s future out of any one family member’s hands. After a season spent watching his children destroy each other over inheritance, he finally removes the thing they were fighting over.

Jun-hyeon trades one dream for the life he actually wants Fully recovered and free of the chairman’s baggage, Jun-hyeon goes back to soccer — as a coach rather than a player, which the finale treats as growth rather than a consolation prize. He also starts a quiet, deliberately low-key romance with Bang-geul, who’s spent the whole season earning a place in the company on her own terms rather than through her father’s name. It’s a tidy ending for a premise that never really needed to be this tidy — and it earns the tidiness anyway by giving both of them something worth ending on.