![]() ![]() The two agents round up a team of men and begin tactical planning on the Pyongyang raid. However, Mu-yeol disregards that, unwilling to leave his friend to this dangerous mission alone, and tells his wife that he’ll return after this job is finished. ![]() Not even the president will be made aware of this black ops mission.Ĭhoi Eung-chan turns to two of his remaining special agents, Jin-pyo and Mu-yeol, and puts them in charge of this secret task.īachelor Jin-pyo tells his friend that he’ll do the mission without him, because Mu-yeol has returned to Seoul a new father: His wife Kyung-hee has just given birth to their son, and they’re thrilled. However, for political reasons that involve South Korean relations with foreign nations, their plans to assassinate North Korean officials in Pyongyang must remain between the five of them. The most decisive among them is CHOI EUNG-CHAN (below right, the future president), who leads the group in deciding that this is an act of war and a counterattack is in order. In horror, they take in the carnage of their compatriots in the wake of the blast.īack home, a secret council of five high-ranking government officials receives reports that point to North Korean involvement, and try to decide what to do. Two agents survive the blast, LEE JIN-PYO (left) and PARK MU-YEOL, best friends and spies in an anti-North Korean unit. The drama incorporates the real 1983 visit of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan and his cabinet, who arrive just as a bomb goes off, killing sixteen people and completely destroying the venue. We open in October 9, 1983, in Burma, at the Martyr’s Mausoleum in Yangon (Rangoon). You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. No Reply – “시야” (Field of view) Īudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. And when they’re done well, with fantastic charismatic lead actors and an affecting backstory, why muddle up the pre-show buzz with the other stuff? We’ll get to those when we get to those: The point at hand shoulda been the story, which was ignored in favor of hyping nightclub shoots and idol starlets.īecause you know what? Revenge thrillers are boss, yo. Don’t bother with that extraneous clutter about MIT doctorates and heroines working random part-time-jobs and fashion featurettes and veterinarian side love interests. A straight-up, you-killed-my-father-now-prepare-to-die action-vengeance series. Regarding the promos: You know what would’ve cleared up a lot of my confusion about the show before it aired? (Well, aside from using the moniker City Hunter, which I still contend is really weirdly applied, since it’s like no City Hunter I know.) If they’d explained, very simply, that the setup is revenge thriller. So I was hoping that City Hunter’s pre-show identity crisis was really a case of bad promotional planning than anything else, and I think that’s what it is - because the show itself (so far, anyway) is assured, well-directed, strongly acted, and gripping in the right places. 243 JanuCity Hunter: Episode 1 by javabeansĭespite my frequent ribbing of this show, to be honest I was hoping it would be good - the enjoyment of a good show always outweighs the fun of making fun of a bad one. ![]()
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