Chicken Nugget wastes no time ramping up in ridiculousness, but with deliberate intent. Go Baek-joong (Ahn Jae-hong) quickly graces the viewer with his playful presence, and he has the bright yellow pants to prove it. Go Baek-joong may work at a machine shop, but his true passion is pop music, much to the chagrin of his stern-but-fair boss, Choi Seon-man (Ryu Seung-ryong). The day-to-day operations at the machine shop, More than Machines, are ambiguous at best because we don’t need to get bogged down with the details, but still need a home base of operations for our poultry pursuing protagonists.
When a machine of unknown origin mysteriously shows up at More than Machines, Chicken Nugget’s conflict becomes clear as day. Choi Seon-man’s daughter, Choi Min-ah (Kim Yoo-jung) visits the shop with a box of chicken nuggets from Chikn Nuggit, a popular spot in the area known for its particularly delicious mechanically-separated meat morsels. While it’s painfully obvious that Go Baek-joong is head-over-heels in love with Choi Min-ah, his misguided displays of affection are often overlooked.Â
Choi Min-ah jumps into the machine, and Chicken Nugget shows its namesake when she’s transformed into a chicken nugget herself. To Go Baek-joong’s horror, he now has to explain to her father what happened, which is naturally met with disbelief. After some serious deliberation, the only conclusion to arrive at is that Cho Min-ah was, in fact, transformed into a helpless chicken nugget, and it’s up to Go Baek-joong and Choi Seon-man to restore Choi Min-ah back to her human self.