“Young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch virtual dreams into reality compete for success and love in the cutthroat world of Korea’s high-tech industry.” That’s how Start-Up is summed up by Netflix.
The Korean drama is far from an expose of high tech startups. Start-Up (스타트업) is intended for a young audience and is structured as a romantic comedy. Some of the questions it seeks to answer are:
- What makes someone a good CEO?
- Why does the technical genius who creates the product not get to run the company?
- Why is the person who writes the best love letters not chosen by the woman who falls in love with the persona he creates?
- Should grandmothers foster financiers?
- Should entrepreneurs look both ways before they cross the street?
- What do you want: to write code or run the company? Because you can’t do both.
Okay, this last one was not really a question. It is kind of the moral of the story. While Start-Up is fairly light weight comedy, it has some value in exploring the issues mentioned above.
Join Julia Hanna and me on July 30, 2021 at 8:45 pm CDT to hear a discussion of the show.
