With Korean content as a mainstay of the streaming platform’s global growth strategy, it’s no surprise Netflix picked up this latest movie from director Park Hoon-jung, who previously directed 2013’s gangster-themed hit New World and wrote the renowned 2010 action thriller I Saw the Devil. Undercover is broadcast every Friday and Saturday on JTBC.Korean gangster films are ascendant-and Netflix wants a piece of the action with Night in Paradise. Coupled with a solid cast, it invites us to brace ourselves for the parade of confrontations, betrayals, and conspiracies spicing up its initial displayed story. Scoring a gravitating pitch, Undercover vaunted a solid narrative right off the bat. Considering her impervious nature, she is set to withstand a problem that will involve her family. On Yeon-soo’s side, her conviction will be challenged as well. However, it seems to head to an uncompromising situation that will test his mettle. Albeit taking care of him in his last days, it does not suffice what he had to let go in accepting a new life.įortunately for him, his family life compensates for the guilt he felt leaving his father. I especially felt the pain he had to bear in leaving and lying to his father. With the main players in the story effectively introduced, Jung-hyun’s plight would mostly take the first part of Undercover. The back story was also beautifully captured thanks to Yeon Woo Jin and Han Sun Hwa who played the younger versions of the main leads. There are things I am baffled on how the NIS was presented in the story, but I will check out more episodes in case I’m just rushing. Picturing the situation of Yeon-soo and Jung-hyun, who are both upright in their own ways, the emotions surely will run high once the secret is out in the open. Even in a regular married couple situation of discovering inadvertent lies, it’s something hard to reconcile. The opening scene pretty much suggests the direction of the story. I’m already scared to witness their beautiful family face uncertainty. But the person whom she has been fighting justice for pushes her to take the position.ĭisclosing in detail the emotions and beliefs of the lead pairing left me worried about the fate to befall on Yeon-soo and Jung-hyun. She wants to take the case up to its real closure. Yeon-soo, who has been working on a 29-year case involving a terminally ill accused murderer, already decides not to accept the position. Jung-hyun learns of his wife’s appointment as Chief Investigative Officer (CIO), and his forced assignment is to make her turn down the position. He is a ruthless former teammate who has a strong grudge against him. However, when a new government position was announced, he was tracked by Do Young-gul. Wanting to build a family with Yeon-soo, Jung-hyun leaves the organization and settles down building his family. She is believed to be a key for him to the elusive student movement leader, the NIS eyes on. In one of his assignments, he meets the young and brilliant lawyer Choi Yeon-soo (Kim Hyun Joo). He tells his father that he will be sent overseas for work. Taking a new identity, Lee Suk-kyu (Ji Jin Hee) assumes the identity of Han Jung-hyun when he becomes an agent of the National Intelligence Service. But their lives are about to change.Ībbyinhallyuland watches Undercover via K-PLUS AsiaĮpisode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 & 04 | Mid-Series | Finale + Review Following its initial story sketch, the series introduces a loving married couple relatively blessed in life. A happy family is on the brink of crumbling after the head of the family’s past job came back haunting him.Įmotionally stirring, the brewing conflict to be tackled in JTBC’s Undercover leaves any viewer into a worrying state.
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