The Golden Spoon
Would you trade your poor but loving family for a life of riches? When Seung Cheon gets his hands on a magical spoon that allows him to switch lives with his rich best friend, he thinks it’s a no-brainer. But life-altering decisions are always accompanied by a sense of doubt, and with only three chances to change his mind, Seung Cheon has to decide which of his two possible futures is worth keeping.
Episodes
Dirt spoon' Seung-cheon gets a hold of a mysterious golden spoon that can change his parents.
Seung-cheon becomes Hwang Tae-yong with the spoon, but the real Tae-yong finds himself in trouble.
Seung-cheon learns that there is a rule about the golden spoon that the old woman did not tell him.
Seung-cheon is worried that he might be found out, and a third person appears and puts him in danger.
Seung-cheon decides to return to "Lee Seung-cheon" after hearing the news that Cheol might die.
Despite confirming his love with Ju-hee, Seung-cheon decides to return to Hwang Tae-yong.
Seung-cheon discovers more secrets about the real Tae-yong while helping his poor family.
Seung-cheon is shocked that Tae-yong may have killed President Na, and that he may take all the blame.
Seung-cheon returns to Korea ten years later and is reunited with Ju-hee.
Seung-cheon agrees to be interviewed by Ju-hee, only because he wants to see her again.
Ju-hee and Seung-cheon grow closer, and Tae-yong is getting closer to the secret of the golden spoon.
Tae-yong meets the old woman. After learning everything, he decides to get his old life back.
Seung-cheon returns to his original self, and contemplates how to return to Hwang Tae-yong.
Hyeon-do hides the fact that he also used a golden spoon and welcomes Seung-cheon as "Hwang Tae-yong".
Through the death of Cheol, Seung-cheon regrets his past choices and makes a new resolution.
Seung-cheon, who has become a suspect in the murder, struggles to find a way to convict Hyeon-do.
Cast
Yook Sung-jae
Lee Seung-chun
Lee Jong-won
Hwang Tae-yong
Jung Chae-yeon
Na Ju-hee
Yeon Woo
Oh Yeo-jin
Choi Won-young
Hwang Hyeon-do
Son Yeo-eun
Seo Young-sin
Choi Dae-chul
Lee Chul
Han Chae-a
Jin Sun-hye
Chang Ryul
Seo Joon -tae
Kim Seo-ha
Seong Won
Song You-hyun
Kim Na-young
Son Woo-hyeon
Jang Moon-ki
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2 years ago
The very first scene we were introduced to generic high schoolers that left a sour first impression. Right off the bat we were hammered with the deplorable trope of bullies and rich kids that both were done in the most tacky ways possible. I hated every second but I kept my patience waiting for the fantasy/supernatural tag to kick in and change the scenery. It certainly did for a little while during the first half despite being very slow, especially with the insane 80 minutes runtime per episode. However, the drama started to fall apart around episode 7 and it became an unwatchable piece of utter junk after the insane 10-years time-skip in episode 9. Any potentials it had were evaporated.
The story had insane gaps that were impossible to patch. There are a lot of points to be made about the mystery, secrets, reveals, decisions, and transformations but I would be repeating myself. It was really frustrating watching the golden spoon's rules change and evolve to fit the story's new development and narrative, a very strong sign of amateur writing! It's possible to blame the writers' heavy reliance on the source material and doing the bare minimum to script it. Since the source material is a Webtoon, it wasn't surprising seeing strange behaviors and random elements starting to seep through. It's hard to trust a Webtoon story to translate well into screen without competent writers unless the Webtoon creator was exceptionally brilliant which in this case he wasn't.
