My picks for entertainment ~ suggested movies, TV shows, music, and books ~ so you can enjoy some quality ME time! (ATTN Korean drama addicts! This blog has lots of K-drama love.)
When
it comes to keeping Korean drama addicts happy, Netflix and Viki continue to
duke it out. In my humble opinion, Viki is the GO-TO streaming
platform for all the Hallyu-ites and K-drama newbies. To be fair,
that's only because Rakuten Viki markets its platform as “The Heart
of Asian Entertainment”. Whereas Netflix has lots of other content
from all around the world. It's kind of like comparing apples to
oranges.
Even so, Netflix jumped in on the game, so it's kind of
fair to make comparisons. That
being said, below is a quick list of Korean dramas that can be found
ONLY ON VIKI. Many of them, but not ALL of them, are Viki Originals.
ALL of them have been reviewed right here on PopGeeks. To make it
easy for reference, the list is in alphabetical order.
A
top divorce lawyer needed a truly excellent divorce lawyer because
she was getting a divorce, and she and her husband both wanted the
same thing: custody of their child.
I
just liked the male lead because he was one of the mage in “Alchemy
of Souls”.
(The mages are people with special powers who can control the energy
of heaven and earth, and are the protectors of country. That was my
first time seeing the male lead and I've liked him ever since.)
This
K-drama shows that even men who are kings have an inflated ego and
can still be JERK! The queen was a kingmaker. She
did everything
within her power to make her husband king and how did he show his
thanks? By being a KING-SIZED
JERK!
OK.
Admittedly it is strange that every boy who likes you or tries to be
nice to you ends up getting in a tragic accident. That could make
guys want to steer clear of you. But the whole town labeling you a
witch? That's taking it too far. At least there was one guy who
didn't believe it!
If
you have watched any of these, do you have favorites?
Have you ever heard the term "Koreanovela"? It's a portmanteau (newly invented word or phrase) that combines "Korean" and "telenovela”.
A telenovela is a Latin American soap opera. Growing up in Miami, Florida, which has a large Cuban population, the Spanish-speaking channel often aired these TV shows. They are just like American soap operas, i.e. loaded with a bunch of catty people, unfaithful spouses, and unnecessary life drama, but the storyline is very addictive.
It turns out that "Koreanovela" is used for K-dramas that have gained popularity in Latin America and in the Philippines (Yes, this country is part of the part of the Asian continent). Having just recently discovered this word, it made me wonder if I had watched and reviewed any Koreanovelas. The answer is: Yes.
FUN TRIVIA: The Koreanovela that most K-drama addicts know about is “Boys Over Flowers”. No surprise. There are versions, remakes, or adaptations in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, and Thailand ~ movies and series.
Below are five (5) Koreanovelas reviewed on PopGeeks. NO, they do not have 100+ episodes. YES, they are available on either Viki or Netflix.
STORYLINE: Kim Sung-Ryong ((played by Namkoong Min) used to receive awards for being a math genius when he was a little boy. But when he became a man, he lost his way and ended up for gangsters managing money. In an attempt to find his way back onto the right path, he started siphoning money from the accounts of his gangsta boss. He got caught! He was a given choice. Get a job at a legitimate company, continue working for his gangsta boss, cook the books to make his boss look like an honest businessman OR … ??? DIE!
STORYLINE: Yoon Ji-Woo (played by Han So-Hee) never knew her father. But like a typical young adult she thinks her father is never there for her. Everyone and everything else in his life is more important to him than her. But on the one night he did show up, he was killed right outside the door of their apartment. She heard the gunshots, and tried to look through the keyhole, but couldn't see the killer. Someone told her that her father had been killed by a dirty cop. Yoon Ji-Woo changed her name to Oh Hye-Jin and got a job work undercover in law enforcement, hoping to find out who the killer was, and GET REVENGE.
STORYLINE: Lee Na-Mi (played by Chun Woo-hee) is intelligent, talented, hard-working, has excellent marketing skills, and holds down more than one job. She's smart but did something that was not smart. Got stupid drunk and lost her smartphone. A serial killer found it. When the serial killer wasn't killing people he had a regular job fixing phones. He contacted her and returned her phone AFTER installing spyware. That psycho trapped both Lee Na-Mi and her father in his murderous hellish nightmare. The End Game was MURDER. But he wanted to have fun before that.
STORYLINE: Im Sol (played by Kim Hye-Yoon) is a young girl involved in a tragic accident and must now use a wheelchair. Ryu Sun-Jae (played by Byeon Woo-Seok) is a top K-pop star and she is a huge fan. The K-pop members are being interviewed on a radio show making calls and talking to listeners. Fan or not, she would rather die than be in a cripple! While she was contemplating suicide, she received a phone call.
Im Sol answers the phone and releases all of her rage on the caller. Rather than hang up, Ryu Sun-Jae started talking to her and ultimately convinced her to live. But later she heard that Ryu Sun-Jae had committed suicide. WHAT? That's so unfair! He was in pain too? She lived. Why didn't he live? Now there's no way to bring him back. Or is there? As if it was an answer to a prayer, Im Sol miraculously traveled back in time. She wasn't in a wheelchair, and Ryu Sun-Jae wasn't a K-Pop member. He was a top athlete in high school and they both attended the same school. He was ALIVE! Could she prevent his suicide?
STORYLINE: Baek Hyun-Woo (played by Kim Soo-Hyun) fell in love with Hong Hae-In (played by Kim Ji-Won), but he didn't know she was a chaebol heiress. No matter because she agreed to get married and promised she would never leave him alone and would never make him cry. But he did make him cry. He became so miserable he decided to divorce her. On the night he planned to ask for a divorce, she told him she was dying. Whoa! Divorce? Death? He decided not to ask for a divorce. If only his wife's illness was the only thing he had to concern himself with. He didn't care about his wife's money. But other people did!
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Mr. Queen (2020) A chef from modern-day Seoul falls off a hotel
balcony and into a pool. When he comes out of the water, he is in
the body of a queen during the Joseon Era. It seems that at that
moment a few hundred years ago, she had jumped into a lake because
she was trying to commit suicide. Somehow his soul entered her body.
He was in shock when he looked in the mirror and in even more shock
when he realized he had to sleep with the king! His first thought
was how to avoid the king's bed until he noticed the king didn't seem
to be interested in him … uuuhh? … her. So then he turned his
focus on how to get back to his time period and back in his own body.
Meanwhile
… he had to learn to live as the queen, which meant he was drawn
into all of the palace scheming, conniving, corruption, and
treachery. He had to learn the queen's friends and her enemies, and
how to get along with her father. The fun part of this
time-travel/body-swap misadventure was using his chef skills to
prepare dishes and win over the king’s enemies. Even though the
chef's identity and personality remain in her body, the queen’s
identity and personality gradually become dominant.
The
chef's memories get replaced with the queen's memories and the reason
she tried to commit suicide became clear. But by that time, the
romance between the king and the queen develops because the king also
understands her reason. The king was mistaken about her true
intention and her love for him. He believed she was part of her
family's corrupt plan for power. The queen learned the tragic story
of the king's childhood and that her father had knowledge of how his
family died. They became closer to each other and fell in love.
Their love story is beautiful and triumphant. Best time travel
romantic comedy ever!! [Where
to Watch]
Hong
Cheong-Gi is the main female character and also the name of a real
historical figure who was the only female painter accepted into the
Korean Royal Academy of Painting during the Joseon era. The leading
male character is Ha Ram. She is the divine painter and he is a
divine astrologer. They first meet as children; she is born blind
and he is a child with special power. The children get separated
because Ha Ram is chosen to participate in a rain ritual. On the day
he performs the ritual, he loses his eyesight and is possessed by a
demon. At the same exact
time, the blind girl gains her eyesight. When they grow up, they
meet again, and their bond of friendship is renewed and matures into
romantic love. However, their love and lives are endangered because
they are caught up in two webs: the political power games in the
human world AND the eternal power struggle of good versus evil in the
spirit world. This Viki Original series is a delightful historical
fantasy romance. [Where
to Watch]
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Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist (2022) A royal physician who
works in
the palace and is called upon to treat members of the royal family
has such extraordinary medical skills, he is given the title “Divine
Acupuncturist”. But others hatched a plan to murder the king and
frame him. He is not aware that performing acupuncture would cause
the king's death. Consequently, he is accused of murder and thrown
into prison. The murderers hoped he would receive the death penalty
and their crime would be hidden. But the crown prince set him free
because he believed he was innocent and that he was also the only one
who could prove who had murdered the king.
He went
from working
as a royal physician to working in a village hospital. But he was
so traumatized that he could no longer perform acupuncture. He met a
young woman
and trained her to be an acupuncturist. When
she first saw him she had to talk him out of committing suicide.
When
he met her again, she a trying to commit suicide. Not only did he
have to treat her “heart”, he uncovered that she was a victim.
Her mother-in-law was trying to convince her to commit suicide so her
family would receive the Virtuous Widow
Honor.
The
royal physician who
was
no longer able to perform acupuncture started a new life and
developed a new
skill. The physician changed the way he treated patients by
diagnosing both their physical sickness and determining how to heal
their troubled minds. He became a “heart doctor” and he also
fell in love. This K-drama has 2 seasons. [Where
to Watch]
The
daughter of a nobleman owns
a guesthouse left to her by her father. In addition to being a
guesthouse, there are also secrets and romance. There are three
flower scholars are her guests.
One
is already paying for a room before the other two guests arrive. He
hopes to win the heart of the owner.
The
second guest came to town to take the civil service exam for martial
arts and hopes to become a member of the king's royal guard.
The
third guest has no money but he did try to help a damsel in
distress. Since the damsel is the owner
of the guesthouse, he arrives there and tells her she should repay
the debt by allowing him to stay there.
Two
of the scholars have a secret identity and are on a secret mission.
The owner
also has a secret and tells all of the guests they are not allowed to
go near the guestroom located at the back. It's haunted.
When
the owner was
a young girl, she protected a young boy who ran into her yard and hid
in the dog house. That boy was the crown prince but he did not tell
her his true identity. Thirteen years passed and one of the guests
is that prince and he' gong to fall in love with him. This is
a Viki Original series. [Where
to Watch]
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Missing Crown Prince (2024)
A
royal physician was told that if his daughter married the crown
prince, he would die young and she would become a widow. His plan is
for his daughter to become the future crown princess so he kidnaps
the crown prince. They are both drugged and spend the night
together, lying side by side, technically making them a married
couple. He further plans to eliminate that crown prince and replace
him with another crown prince and get him to marry his daughter.
Before
he was kidnapped the crown prince was investigating her father. He
had information that proved he was having a secret affair with the
Queen Dowager and might be responsible for the death of a court maid
assigned to the queen dowager's palace.
The
best laid plan usually doesn't work out. The daughter wakes up and
helps the prince escape not knowing who he is. He also does not know
that she is the daughter of the royal physician he was investigating.
The other prince the father had hoped his daughter would marry was
very close to the crown prince. They grew up together and had a
strong bond. But that strong bond might be broken because both of
them fell in love with the royal physician's daughter. This K-drama
series is a spin-off of “Bossam:
Steal the Fate”,
another Viki Original which was released in 2021. This
is a Viki Original series. [Where
to Watch]
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Dong Yi (2010) A true story: a real-life love story
between Dong Yi and King Sukjong. A concubine with a heart of gold,
who suggested to the king that there be a law preventing a concubine
from becoming queen (according to the TV series). She saw and
experienced the cruelty of the “palace flowers” toward each other
and the lengths they went to trying to eliminate their “competition”.
In the actual history of Joseon, the
strict Confucian social hierarchy and the established court protocols
did make it difficult for concubines to rise to the status of queen
consort. Dong Yi, who was the king's favorite concubine, was
elevated to the status of Royal Noble Consort Suk-bin and became the
mother of King Yeongjo. [Where
to Watch]
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Shine or Go Crazy (2015)
Set
during the period BEFORE the Joseon Era when the country was called
Goryeo. Wang So is the Prince of Goryeo who is kicked out of the
palace because they believed he is cursed. When his future was read,
it was determined that he was born with both a light and fire,
meaning he will either shine bright like a star OR he'll be a crazy
man. Shin Yool is a princess from Balhae who survived her country's
destruction and is included in a prophecy concerning Wang So. The
prophecy said she would help a prince of Goryeo ascend to the throne
and become king. They met each other in a most unusual way. They
were both in a foreign country and she was trying to escape an
arranged marriage.
Wang So
was a random man she saw on the street and she persuaded him to
participate in a fake marriage. When they met she was living as a
successful businesswoman. She didn't know he was a prince and he
didn't know she was a princess. Separately, he returned to Goryeo
and she came to Goryeo later to do business. She recognizes him when
she sees him but he didn't recognize her. This time, not only did he
not know she was a princess; he didn't even know she was a woman.
Shin Yool disguised herself as a man because her gender would prevent
her from doing business in Goryeo. They met again and would fall in
love, neither realizing that their relationship a part of a prophecy.
“Shine or Go Crazy” is based on a novel of the same name.
[Where
to Watch]
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100
Days My Prince (2018) Yul is a young prince befriends Yi
Seo, a nobleman's daughter and told her that he would marry her when
they grew up. Unfortunately, his weak-minded and wicked father
authorized the slaughter of her family because they were preventing
him from ascending to the throne. He bravely helped her and her
brother escape. His father became king and he became the crown
prince who forced into a loveless marriage because his father-in-law
wanted more power. His father-in-law even tried to assassinate him
because the crown prince was simply getting in the way of his power
plays. The assassination attempt failed but in the process Yul lost
his memories.
Yi Seo
had been adopted and raised by a loyal servant from her father;
household. There was a royal command that all of the spinsters in
the villages had to be married. Since her father knew that Yul had
amnesia, he told him that he a his daughter's fiancé and they were
to be married. Yi Seo was about to be flogged for disobeying the
royal command. Just like that! Yul had inadvertently married his
first love, the young girl he had promised to marry. Only they did
not recognize each other. This series is based on a webtoon. [Where
to Watch]
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Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung (2019) During the Joseon era, women
were very limited in activities they could engage in freely. Goo
Hae-ryung's older brother who raised her had decided that it was time
for her to marry. He had out it off long enough. At the same time,
the king decided to authorize the hiring of female historians. It
was a first! There had never been female historians but there was a
critical need. It was not to ensure that history was properly
recorded. It was a way for the king and his corrupt officials to be
able to gain access to the areas in the palace where only women could
go.
The
king and one of his corrupt court officials wanted to snoop on the
queen, the queen dowager, the crown princess, the concubines, and any
and all women in the palace. They wanted a record of people who met
with the “flowers in the palace” and what they discussed.
Hiring female historians was the perfect solution to “their
problem”. Goo Hae-ryung believed being hired as a female historian
was the perfect solution to “her problem”, i.e. avoiding an
arranged marriage and remaining independent free-spirited woman. She
passed the test and became a part of the group of the first female
historians in Joseon. Once inside the palace she met and fell in
love with a prince. Their romantic relationship hit a few
roadblocks. There was no way to avoid the palace intrigue and
treacherous schemes. They had to find a way to overcome them.
[Where
to Watch]
Nok Du
is a prince who thought he was a commoner because his adopted father
kept his true identity a secret from him. Why? Because his own
father, the king, tried to kill him to thwart a shaman's prediction
of his future. Nok Du was content to be a commoner. He had a happy
home with his father and brother on a beautiful island with friendly
villagers. But one day female assassins showed up at his house. He
overpowered them so they tried to escape. Nok Du chased after them
and he was relentless in his pursuit. He followed the assassin into
a widows' village and … they beat him up and kicked him out!
Nok Du
needed to know why assassins showed up at his home and he knew the
assassin was in that village. There was only one way to get inside
that village. He dressed up like a woman and pretended to be a
widow. In the village, he met a young woman, Dong Dong Ju, who
dressed up like a man whenever she left the community. Dong Dong Ju
was not a widow, but the head of the village allowed her to stay
there. It was a safe haven for her because members of her noble
family had been killed. Dong Dong Ju was on a mission of revenge.
She
planned to kill the man responsible for the death of her family
members, i.e. king, Nok Du's father. They end up sharing a room
together in the village, and she learns he is a man. They fall in
love but it's gets complicated. [Where
to Watch]
Interior
Chinatown is a hilarious Hulu Original series, with 10 episodes,
adapted from a 2020
award-winning novel by Charles Yu; released November 19, 2024.
"Feel
like I'm a background character in someone else's story." - Willis
Wu
This
series pokes fun at Hollywood's stereotypes of Asians while making
you laugh and also get involved with the main character, Willis Wu,
who has always thought that nothing significant or important ever
happens in his life. Then a female detective asks for his help in
solving a crime and in the process, he learns things about his own
family that he never knew.
If
you liked Jimmy O. Yang as a stand-up comedian, you'll probably be
happy that he got the opportunity to spread his wings. Getting the
lead role in “Interior Chinatown” is definitely something
significant and important in his life. In an interview with The
Wrap, Yang indicated the his character was very much like him in that
he had similar experiences early in his career where he felt
invisible or not represented. (Interior
Chinatown: Jimmy O. Yang Talks Stepping Into Lead Role |The Wrap)
The
reviews on this Hulu Original series are mixed.
It figures. Asian-Americans rarely speak out about the racism and
discrimination they experience. So
when a TV show gets released pointing it out and poking fun at the
unfairness and inequality, and it's very IN YOUR FACE, that might
strike a nerve with some people. Me? I like Jimmy O. Yang and am happy for this major step he has taken with his career. All of the
actors in “Interior Chinatown” were an impressive cast.
FILMING
LOCATIONS: Filmed mainly in
Los Angeles, California (on-location shoots and studio spaces,
including the Fox Studio Lot and Universal Studios Lot). Certain
scenes were in the actual Chinatown neighborhood in Los Angeles.
“Tomorrow With You” is a 2017 drama series,
with 16 episodes, and can be categorized as Time Travel, Romance,
Comedy (Rom-Com) and Fantasy or Supernatural.
SUMMARY: Suppose you meet someone on one day and that chance meeting saved your life. Then on another day you see your lifeless body being a carried away and the lifeless body of the woman who saved your life is also being carried away. Since you have the ability to time travel, maybe you can go back and sever the relationship you have with her. That should be fix everything. Right? That might work IF ... the ability to travel through time also gives you the ability to change the future. But if it doesn't ...
Yoo
So-joon is a handsome, young and wealthy CEO. You could say he has
it all. What more could he ask for? Love? Well, that's obvious.
But what else? How about the ability to travel through time? That
wasn't exactly something that Yoo So-joon had on his wish list. But
one day while riding the subway train, he felt a terrible pain in his
head. The next thing he knew he was in a different time period. As
soon as he got off the train he met another time traveler. The time
traveler told him he'll have to get used to going back and forth
between past, present, and future. But the most important rule is to
never be in the same time period with yourself. He can't be with his
present self and his future self at the same time. That's bad!
OK!
Important safety tip! But guess what happened? Yoo So-joon saw his
dead body being carried away on a stretcher. There was also a woman
who had died and her name was Song Ma-Rin. Yoo So-joon wondered if
it was possible to change the outcome of this tragic event. He time
traveled again and it turns out he and Song Ma-Rin were married. In
another time period, he and Song Ma-Rin were both on the same train.
They got into an argument with each other and got off the train.
While they were still arguing, the train blew up! Yoo So-joon had
intended to stay on the train that day. If he had, he would have
died.
Somehow
the timelines of their lives were intertwined. In one period, she
saved his life. In another, they both died together.
Song
Ma-Rin is unaware that Yoo So-joon has already seen her future. She
is barely managing to live in the present because her past keeps
getting in the way. Song Ma-Rin used to be a child star but when she
grew up she did not pursue an acting career. The problem is
reporters keep writing articles about how she has not accomplished
anything since her fame as a child actress and this gets in the way
of her moving forward. When she met Yoo So-Joon he gave her this
advice: "Life is shorter than you think. You shouldn't be
hung up on the past.” He
could say that, since Yoo So-joon already knew her future.
Yoo
So-joon decided to traveled back in time to see if he could break
their connection. If he could somehow sever their relationship, they
wouldn't be together, they wouldn't fall in love and get married, and
they probably would not die in a terrible accident. But does
having the ability to time-travel also give you the ability to change
your future?
This
Kdrama series had mixed reviews. Some did not give high marks for
the acting or the script. Others said it was underrated and thought
the chemistry between the couple was great.
I
am always interested in how a scriptwriter will spin a
time travel fantasy / love story. In “Tomorrow
With You”:
The
female lead had a difficult time trying to get away from her past,
so that she could live productively in the present.
The
male lead was trying to get away from his grim future that had her
in it.
He
felt should she could easily fix her problem if she just wasn't hung
up on her past. Whereas the best way to fix his problem was to get
her out of his life, because she is the problem!
Kim Dan
is an angel who knows the rules of the heavenly realm. He must never
touch a human. If he does, he'll disappear, as in “cease to
exist”. He doesn't want that. He wants to go to heaven. But even
though he knew the rules, the female was badly injured and pleading
for someone to save her. Lee Seul-hwa was blind but she could hear
that someone was there at the accident and they were close enough to
help her. She used to be a prima ballerina, but while performing on
stage one night there was a terrible accident which resulted in her
losing her eyesight. People are afraid to be around her because she
is an angry, bitter, cold-hearted former ballet dancer who takes out
her frustration on everyone else, as if it's their fault. What is
even worse is that the Fantasia Ballet Company that her parents built
for her to inherit has almost been stolen from her by greedy
relatives.
So many
times Lee Seul-hwa had wanted to die. But now that she might
actually die, she's begging to live. Her pitiful pleas were too much
for Kim Dan and he yielded to temptation. He broke the rules and
touched a human to save her life. When Lee Seul-hwa woke up in the
hospital she could see! Meanwhile Kim Dan was getting ready to
receive his punishment. But wait! He didn't disappear! Why does he
still exist? It's true, he does exist, but no longer as an angel.
Now he is a human who is being given a chance to re-earn his wings.
This will be his last mission. If he fails he can forget about a
heavenly reward. What's the mission? LOVE. He must find true love
for Lee Seul-hwa. Even though she is no longer blind, she is still
disgruntled, angry and a terrifying person to be in the same room
with.
Lee
Seul-hwa has so many emotional scars. She is afraid to love because
all of the people she loved have died. Loving someone is too painful
so she avoids becoming vulnerable. Kim Dan starts trying to play
matchmaker, but starts to develop genuine feelings for her and
unintentionally creates a love triangle. This wasn't supposed to
happen. Aren't angels only supposed to love God? Will he be
punished for loving Lee Seul-hwa?
AWARDS:
This delightful Korean drama won several awards at the 2019 KBS
Drama Awards ceremony. Shin Hae-Sun won Top Excellence Award,
Actress. Kim Myung-Soo won Best New Actor and K-Drama Hallyu Star.
Together they won Best Couple Award.
Viu
Singapore. “Angel’s Last Mission: Love 단,
하나의
사랑 TRAILER
| INFINITE’S L, SHIN HYE SUN.” YouTube Video. YouTube,
May 23, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TSA7zVmmx0.
PLOT:
Who better to fight bad guys than bad guys? In the classic American
war movie “The Dirty Dozen”, the military decides to send a dozen
criminals into enemy territory to fight for their country. They had
particular skill sets that were useful and the military just needed
to train them to be soldiers. This Korean drama has a similar
storyline. A police detective lost his daughter to a murderer. He
was suspended from his job for using excessive force to apprehend
suspects. But then he was called back to work because one of his
superiors also lost his son to a murderer. Violent crimes are on the
rise, so the police detective forms a crime team made up of criminals
to catch criminals. One is a contract killer and the other is a
serial killer. Their work will result in reduced sentences and
possibly their freedom. But will this really work?
Genre:
Mystery, Action, Crime, Thriller, Police Procedural, Political
PLOT:
The bad guys keep fighting the bad guys in this Korean drama series
sequel. It has the same theme as Season 1. This time a crusading
prosecutor and a detective work together and go after a crime lord.
The investigative team includes a serial killer, an assassin and a
mobster with a personal vendetta. The crime lord has managed to
evade capture because there are those on “the inside” who work
for him. Battling organized crime is hard enough but it's extra hard
when you have to fight institutional corruption. But no matter,
because for the team, it's just another day at work.
Detective
So Oh Goo-Tak (played by Kim Sang-Joong)
Park
Woong-Cheol (played by Ma Dong-Seok)
Kwak
No-Soon (played by Kim A-Joong)
Ko
Yoo-Sung (played by Jang Ki-Yong)
Genre:
Crime and Action
PLOT:
While prisoners are being
transported, the vehicle is attacked by ruthless assassins, in order
to free a former Korean gang boss, who works with the yakuza. A
crime investigative unit is tasked with capturing the escaped
prisoners, especially the former gang boss. The unit includes certain
criminals who are promised reduced sentences if they succeed. Some
in law enforcement are aligned with the yakuza leader and they
interfere with the mission and even betray their fellow officers.
But the crime investigation team never wavers. They know what their
mission is and they aim to catch the escaped prisoners and put them
back behind bars.
Alternate
Personality named K (played by Wi Ha-Joon)
Genre:
Police Procedural, Legal Drama, Medical Drama, Action, Comedy
PLOT:
A
young man has a split personality. He suffers from multiple
personality disorder, also referred to as dissociative identity
disorder (DID). It's not that he's “bad” or “crazy”. He
just wants career advancement in the law enforcement agency he works
for and figures the best way to get a promotion is to overlook or
cover up crimes that have been committed. All he has to do is neatly
wrap things up, close the cases, and file them away. However, his
alternate personality known as “K” pricks his ethical and moral
conscience and makes him do the right thing. In other words, his
alter ego is a justice-seeking HERO!
PLOT:
A
young boy who witnesses many things that were unjust decides that
when he grows up he will wield a sword of justice just like the
swordfighters
in video games.
However, as an adult, he realized the fight against injustice was
rigged by people with wealth and power, in their favor. The “sword
of justice” he planned to use would not be effective in eliminating
crime and corruption. He was hired as a prosecutor and assigned to
the Central District Prosecutors' Office Criminal Division 3. Some
of the prosecutors he worked with were as corrupt as the bad guys on
the outside. They abused their positions of public trust and covered
up crimes. Going by the book was not only time-consuming, but those
standard processes and procedures usually did not work. Because his
work methods were different from his fellow prosecutors and he didn't
follow the “rules”, the young man was labeled a “bad
prosecutor”. Since he knew that some prosecutors had ways to erase
dirty deeds, he simply developed ways to work around them so that
justice could be served.
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