“Commitment” (2013) – First Korean Movie for K-Drama Newbies
Whoever said “Life is cruel and unfair” must have served as a North Korean spy.
Whoever said “Life is cruel and unfair” must have served as a North Korean spy.
In “Secretly, Greatly”, Ryu-hwan is a secret agent from North Korea sent to infiltrate a small town in South Korea. His mission was to play the village idiot named Bang Dong-Gu, until he received further orders. His commanding officer told him to go and become a legend, a hero of North Korea.
In “Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman”, Dr. Cheon‘s grandfather was a chief shaman. Even though he is not a believer, he still runs a start-up exorcist business with his friend Kang In-Bae. He even has a YouTube exorcism channel ~ “Heavenly Cheon TV” ~ where he shares videos of him exorcising spirits. He uses specialized equipment to create the “theatrics” ~ wailing sound, wind, fake blood, etc. It’s a scam but it’s a very lucrative scam.
In “RV: Resurrected Victims”, a supernatural phenomenon has occurred. It’s the first case in Korea but this event has happened in other parts of the world. Victims of violent crimes who did NOT get justice come back from the dead and get justice for themselves.
In “Steel Rain”, we get a glimpse into the ordinary life of an average North Korean family. They are just like any other ordinary average family in any part of the world, except … their conversation at the table must be guarded.
This series was a supernatural/fantasy about Do-ha, a warrior and aristocrat from Silla, who died at the hands of Han Ri-ta, his loving wife. Well! He thought she loved him. For thousands of years, his spirit traveled through time because he wanted to take vengeance on her. But each time Han Ri-ta was reincarnated she was killed before he could do anything.
In “Parallel Life”, a man who poisoned his wife and was sent to prison wrote a book titled “Parallel Life”. His defense for killing his wife was that he had the same life as some other man who had lived and died years before him. You can’t fight against your fate. That was his argument. Of course, that defense didn’t work and he went to jail.
“Decibel” is everybody’s worst nightmare. There is nothing worse than having an angry person who feels that he or someone he loved has been wronged and they decide to set off a bomb to get everybody’s attention. If one bomb gets you focused, how about several bombs?
In “Don’t Buy the Seller”, Soo-Hyun is a working woman who lives alone and has just moved into her new apartment. She buys a washer from an online seller and gets ripped off! She reports the scam to the police but they tell her there is a backlog of similar cases. They probably won’t get to her complaint for a few months.
In “Cold Eyes”, there is no time for romance. Detective Ha Yoon Ju is the newest member of a Crime Surveillance Investigation Team in the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department. She passed her OJT (On-the-job training) exercise. Her boss said during the interview he noticed she has a nervous tic.
Seo Bok is the first and the only successfully cloned specimen created through stem cell cloning and genetic manipulation. He or rather “IT” is or is not human and who either can or can not die.