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Undercover Miss Hong(2026)

Also known as Miss Undercover Boss • Undercover Ms. Hong • La infiltrada Srta. Hong

Archived · tvN

1516 eps
S01
CrimeComedyDrama
ON AIR: JAN 17Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Set in a late-1990s securities firm, this is a period workplace comedy that earns its dark edge from a genuine criminal premise: suspicious money flows that give the office chaos actual stakes. The humor builds through escalating situational absurdity rather than gags, with a 30-year-old elite supervisor forced to pass as a fresh-faced entry-level hire among colleagues she would normally outrank.

Her cover keeps colliding with her own instincts. Someone who only cares about work is now performing inexperience, navigating office hierarchy from the bottom while investigating it from within. A boyfriend-girlfriend dynamic threads through the professional deception, adding a layer of personal pressure that the comedy periodically tightens. The analog-era setting, pre-smartphone and pre-digital paper trails, makes the concealment feel both plausible and precarious.

Best for

retro office farce, identity undercover and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Comedy

Commitment

Season 1 · 16 episodes

Where

tvN

Official Premise

A retro office comedy depicting the chaotic events that unfold in the late 1990s when Sammo Hung, a 30-year-old elite securities supervisor who only cares about work, goes undercover as a 20-year-old high school graduate employee at a securities firm where suspicious money flows are detected.

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