Typhoon Family episode 13 is the one where things finally click for Tae Poong. The most important moment comes when he walks in and sees Seon Taek searching through Typhoon Trading files, which leads him to the truth about his father’s unpaid loan.
Everything before and after that scene pushes him into a completely new direction. The fire, the confession at the hospital, the threats from Hyun Jun, and even the glove shortage all come together in episode 13 of Typhoon Family. It’s direct, tense, and full of movement from the first minute to the last.
Keep reading to find out more about the episode.
Spoiler Alert for Episode 13 of Typhoon Family.
Mi Seon’s warehouse nightmare sparks the episode
Episode 13 of Typhoon Family opens with total panic inside the warehouse. We see the fire again, but from Mi Seon’s point of view this time, and it feels so much worse. She’s sorting through boxes, just doing her job, when a strange noise distracts her.

She turns for a second, and suddenly the flames shoot up with no warning. Smoke fills the room, and the door she tries to escape through refuses to open. She’s locked in, and the fear on her face tells you exactly how hopeless the moment feels.
The worst part here is that Episode 13 of Typhoon Family finally makes it clear that Hyun Jun trapped her inside. Even if he didn’t know she was physically in the room, the episode practically confirms that he wouldn’t have cared anyway. That coldness becomes important later.
While all this is happening, Tae Poong sees smoke from afar and runs without thinking twice. He bursts into the burning warehouse, coughing and struggling through falling debris to reach her.
It’s one of the most intense rescues that the show has perhaps ever done. Mi Seon, believing she might not make it, regrets not telling him how she really felt. Thankfully, Tae Poong gets her out before the fire collapses around them.
Later on, when she wakes up at the hospital, she blurts out that she likes him and wants to date him right there in the emergency room. Tae Poong freezes like someone unplugged him. This scene in Episode 13 of Typhoon Family is embarrassing but also adorable and feels like the first real step forward for the two of them.
Her grandmother rushes in, panicking and yelling at Tae Poong, but later she apologises and tells him that Mi Seon only started smiling again after meeting him. She asks him to take care of her granddaughter, and Tae Poong promises he will. He even tells her that she can lean on him, too, since they’re basically family now.
Meanwhile, Mi Ho and Nam Mo’s storyline keeps growing slowly but rather sweetly. A random night of drinking turns into jealousy for Nam Mo when someone else answers her phone, and then his mother shows up and surprisingly likes Mi Ho. It’s a soft moment in the middle of an episode full of tension.
Seon Taek’s fear boils over when she confronts Hyun Jun
In Episode 13 of Typhoon Family, even after the smoke clears, the fire keeps burning in Seon Taek’s mind. She cannot shake away the image of how close Mi Seon came to dying. That fear grows into something she can’t hold in anymore. When she sees Hyun Jun driving home, she steps directly in front of his car, forcing him to stop.

He gets out angry, but the instant she accuses him of starting the fire, everything shifts. She tells him Mi Seon could have died because of him. Instead of reacting like a good human being, Hyun Jun leans into his usual coldness. He reminds her she has no evidence.
He twists everything into a game, and he brings up the promissory note that everyone has been searching for. He even tells her to bring it to him, not to his father, if she ever finds it.
Then he shows her son’s ID card, effectively warning her that he can reach her family. The look on Seon Taek’s face after that says everything. It’s the moment she realises things are much darker than she thought.
Later, she sees Manager Ha near her house offering money to her son. He stands there watching them with this unsettling expression, and it rattles her even more. She now knows she’s dealing with people with no boundaries at all.
While all of this unfolds in Episode 13 of Typhoon Family, the Typhoon Trading team keeps scrambling to find surgical gloves for their contract. They call every supplier, visit every medical store, and follow every lead, but nothing works.
Then Mi Seon hears a rumour about how someone has bought up almost every glove in the area, three million pairs, which is the exact amount Typhoon Trading needs. This clue is what pushes Tae Poong into the next stage of the episode.
Tae Poong walks in on a secret that flips his whole world
Now, we get to the point in Episode 13 of Typhoon Family where we see Tae Poong finding Seon Taek digging through Typhoon Trading files, and how this becomes the turning point of the entire episode.

After a long day of failures and stress, Tae Poong ends up at the bar his father used to visit after work. He sits there thinking about how he used to watch his dad drink and imagine the soju tasted sweet. But when he drinks it now, it doesn't taste very pleasant, like all the weight on his shoulders has settled into the glass.
Nam Mo sneaks in, drinks the rest of the shot, and tells Tae Poong to stop bothering his father’s spirit with his complaints. It’s funny and sad at the same time, but it’s exactly the moment Tae Poong needs to stop spiraling.
Then Nam Mo tells him something so worrying that he runs back to the office. Tae Poong walks in and finds Seon Taek surrounded by old Typhoon Trading documents. Papers are spread everywhere. She looks exhausted, angry, and desperate all at once.
When he asks what she’s doing, she immediately accuses him of hiding the promissory note. The accusation stuns him because he has no clue why she thinks he would ever conceal something like that.
Typhoon Family makes it clear that Seon Taek finally decides to tell him the truth. His father once lent Mr. Pyo a large sum of money. The promissory note is the only proof of that debt, and it has been unpaid for nine entire years. That one piece of paper could destroy Pyo Merchant Marine.
As soon as she explains this, Tae Poong realises the truth behind everything the Pyo family has done to him. Every dirty trick. Every threat. Every sabotage. They weren’t mocking him out of cruelty. They were terrified of the truth coming out.
This is the exact moment in Episode 13 of Typhoon Family that turns his world upside down and pushes him into action. The second half of the episode is shaped entirely by this discovery.
The docks showdown that turns the tables on Hyun Jun
The truth about the promissory note gives Tae Poong the courage he has been missing. For the first time, he’s not reacting out of fear or pressure. He’s moving with purpose.

When Mi Seon visits him later in Episode 13 of Typhoon Family, he casually asks her to print new business cards. It sounds random, but the confidence behind the request shows how much he has changed. He tells her he’s finally going out to do his job correctly.
This leads him straight to Mr Pyo’s office. Tae Poong walks in cool, steady, and confident, acting as if he has the promissory note in his pocket. He tells Mr Pyo that, with nine years of interest added, the debt is large enough to cost him the entire building.
Instead of demanding the money, Tae Poong offers him a way out. Release the surgical gloves he is hiding in the containers, and everything disappears. Mr Pyo agrees because he knows he would lose much more if the truth became public.
Meanwhile, Hyun Jun is at the Public Procurement Office bragging about how Typhoon Trading is going to fail their contract. He thinks he’s already won. But everything changes when he receives a phone call that sends him running straight to the docks.
When he arrives, he sees Typhoon Trading trucks loading the gloves. All of them. Tae Poong beat him.
Hyun Jun loses control and challenges Tae Poong to a fight. Tae Poong is ready, but before anything happens, Mi Seon jumps in and slaps Hyun Jun across the face. The slap is loud, sharp, and honestly very satisfying. She tells him she knows he started the fire. He falls onto the ground, stunned, looking up at the two of them as Episode 13 of Typhoon Family comes to an end.
Typhoon Family episode 13 delivers one of the most important turning points of the whole series. The warehouse fire sets everything in motion, but the real shift comes when Tae Poong finds Seon Taek digging through Typhoon Trading files and learns the truth about his father’s unpaid loan.
This finding about the Trading Files becomes the force he needs to fight back. With Mi Seon standing with him and Hyun Jun finally beginning to crack under pressure, episode 14 is set up to explode surely. This episode is emotional, but also extremely messy, and it is honestly one of the strongest episodes so far.
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