20200623 City Hunter

Selasa, 23 Juni

#Hariini #Today I will write about action Korean Drama, City Hunter.

I took this article from the website https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hunter_(TV_series).

City Hunter (Korean 시티헌터) is a 2011 South Korea television drama based on the Japanese manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo, starring Lee Min Ho, Park Min Young, Lee Joon Hyuk, Kim Sang Joong, Kim Sang Ho, Hwang Sun Hee, Goo Ha Ra, Chun Ho Jin, and Lee Kwang Soo. It premiered on May 25, 2011, on SBS and finished broadcasting on July 28, 2011.

In 1983, the South Korean president and his delegates are visiting Burma when a bomb planted by North Korean agents explodes, killing some high-ranking officials. This historical event is called the Rangoon bombing (also known as the Rangoon incident). To strike back, five South Korean officials plan a covert operation, codenamed "Operation Cleansweep", to enter North Korea and kill several top members of the North's high command. Lee Jin-Pyo (Kim Sang Joong) and Park Moo-yeol (Park Sang Min), two Presidential Security Service, bodyguards, and best friends who were present at the bombing, organize a 21-man team for the mission. However, as the team wreaks havoc in Pyongyang, the five officials abort the plan to avoid an international crisis if the mission is discovered. Their major concern is that the United States will withdraw its nuclear protection if the mission is made public, in light of Seoul's official declaration that it will not retaliate.

The operation is successful, but as the troops swim out from Nampo to a ROK Navy submarine assigned for their extraction, snipers aboard the submarine open fire on them. An already injured Park sacrifices his life to save Lee. Lee swims back to shore and returns to South Korea, where he finds out that the assault team's service and personal records have been erased.

Promising to avenge his fallen comrades, Jin-Pyo kidnaps Mu-yeol's infant son and names him Lee Yoon-sung (Lee Min Ho). He flees to the Golden Triangle to raise the child as his own and trains the boy intensively in combat. Following an attack on a village they are living in, Jin-Pyo confesses his long-term plan for revenge to a teenaged Yoon-sung.

Seven years later, after successfully finishing his education and attaining a doctorate in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yoon-sung returns to South Korea to fulfill his adoptive father's plan for revenge. He enters the Blue House as an IT expert under the National Communication Network Team. He is warned by Jin-Pyo not to trust anyone and never fall in love, as doing so will put the people around him in danger.

While working at the Blue House, Lee meets bodyguard Kim Na-na (Park Min Young). Eventually, Na-na participates in his revenge plan, as they discover that they have the same goal in mind. Problems occur as Jin-Pyo's revenge plot unfolds, especially when Lee defies his surrogate father on several occasions as they try to identify and kill the officials, known as the "Council of Five".

Each member of the Council has achieved significant wealth and political influence since 1983, and are engaged in various levels of corruption. Jin-Pyo and Yoon-sung's conflict stems primarily from Jin-Pyo's wish to murder each official, and Yoon-sung's wish to teach them a lesson and expose their corruption without killing them. As Yoon-sung exposes the officials' corruption, the citizens of Korea sense an unseen force of justice that they dub "City Hunter".

Lee Min Ho as Lee Yoon-sung / Poochai

Chae Sang Woo as young Yoon-sung / Poochai

Codenamed "City Hunter", Yoon-sung's ultimate goal is to avenge his father's killers. Using the identity of a Korean-American teenager, who is later revealed to have died several years before, he assumes a double life by graduating from MIT with a doctorate degree and lands a job at South Korea's presidential palace. It led him to cross paths with presidential bodyguard Kim Na-na, with whom he falls in love.

Park Min Young as Kim Na-na

Forced to take care of herself at an early age after her mother was killed in a drunk driving accident and her father became comatose, she is independent and strong-willed. Her exceptional skills in martial arts eventually earn her an assignment with the Presidential Security Service. During her time as a bodyguard, she falls in love with Lee Yoon-sung and eventually discovers his real identity. 

Lee Joon Hyuk as Kim Young-Joo

An intelligent prosecutor, Kim Young-Joo possesses a strong sense of justice, even against the corrupt politicians of South Korea. He is the son of one of the members of the "Council of Five". He is a constant rival of City Hunter, working towards the same goals under legal cover while trying to figure out his identity at the same time.

Kim Sang Joon as Lee Jin-Pyo

Operation Clean Sweep's sole survivor, Lee spends the mediate years in the Golden Triangle as a drug lord. Full of anger, he wants to kill all of the people who ordered his team dead. He pretends to be a Korean-American investor and uses Lee Yoon-sung as his agent of vengeance.

Kim Sang Ho as Bae Man-duk / Bae Shik-Joong

A problem gambler but a very good cook whom Lee Yoon-sung saves from thugs in Thailand and later becomes his close friend. Over the course of the series, Bae and Lee become partners under Lee Jin-Pyo's scheme – and also racks up huge debts buying stuff from the home-shopping network. However, it is revealed that Bae witnessed the accident that resulted in Kim Na-na's woes and was hiding in Thailand by the start of the series after being paid off by the culprit – Kim Jong-Shik, a member of the Council of Five – to change his story.

Hwang Sun Hee as Jin Sae-hee

A veterinarian by trade, Sae-hee is Young-Joo's ex-wife and a good friend to the other characters. She is the first of Lee Yoon-sung's accomplices to learn of his secret identity as the City Hunter.

Goo Ha Ra as Choi Da-Hye

One of President Choi's two children, Da-Hye is smitten with Lee Yoon-sung early in the series and requests him to be her tutor. Her status of being the president's daughter does not win her any friends at school and even creates a public scandal when she attacks a group of girls who criticizes her father's governance within earshot. She decides not to go to college (because of her poor grades) and is forced to find a job, and later falls in love with Kim Young-Joo.

Chun Ho Jin as Choi Eung-chan

The incumbent president of South Korea, Choi was one of the five men involved in planning the 1983 operation and promised the unit he will help get them home. He was later out-voted in the decision to abort the operation and forced to live with the guilt for 28 years. He is the only member of the group who knows that Lee Jin-Pyo survived the debacle, yet does nothing to stop him despite knowing that the former bodyguard's ultimate goal is to kill him and the other officials. It is later revealed that the president is Lee Yoon-sung's real father, who sired him with Lee Kyung-hee. He is depicted in the series as an idealist who believes the end is worth the means, which results in his impeachment by the National Assembly after he bribed a number of deputies to help pass an important education reform bill.

I like this Korean drama. Because :
1. It was an action drama
2. It was based on Japanese Manga, City Hunter
3. It was stared by Lee Min Ho 😅😅😅
4. I like Lee Min Ho's hairstyle in this drama and I also imitated his hairstyle.

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