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30 June 2015

Missing Noir M Review

Title: Missing Noir M
AKA: Missing Persons Investigation Unit M
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Episodes: 10
Broadcast period: 2015-Mar to 2015-May
Cast: Kim Kang Woo, Park Hee Soon, Jo Bo Ah, Kim Kyu Chul and Park So Hyun.

Gil Soo Hyun (Kim Kang Woo) is a genius who at the age of 12 finished Harvard School. After being at the FBI in America for several years, he returns to Korea for unknown reasons. Being an ace at finding missing people, he is recruited as the team leader in the special missing unit, where the cases are the 1% of rare cases. His very first mission is actually requested by an inmate, who murdered his family in order to gain their money. He requests Soo Hyun, to have him find the rest of the bodies he has set up to kill, but if saved in time, can be rescued. He is joined by Oh Dae Young (Park Hee Soon) a veteran detective with a nose in finding missing people, and Jin Seo Joon (Jo Bo Ah) a genius computer hacker, working at the control CCTV Center.
Together they search and find the missing people that everyone else has given up on or find impossible…

I don’t know about this one. It has amazing (yes I said amazing) sub-plot stories, but the main story is so bad. So is the ending. The idea was good, but you really were expecting more, yet nothing happened. And I was kind of aware of the ending the minute I saw the wife of Dae Young. By the way, the star of the drama is Park Hee Soon: Kim Kang Woo was boring. So if you are a fan, you are going to be disappointed.
The reason for having me watch till the end was Park Hee Soon and the sub-plots! So do I recommend it? Well OCN seriously need to step up a bit more… but I would recommend it for crime fans.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Kamji’s Verdict:
One thing I love more than romance is CRIME! That came off weird… what I meant is I love figuring out the mystery behind the crime. That’s why whenever OCN have a new drama, I always make sure to watch it. And this one were no exception either. I liked every case there was, I found them interesting, some more disturbing than others. Ok, only one of them was disturbing, the rest were manageable. The chemistry between the special team was nice though, they were not deep involved but there were still a hint of friendship. I kinda fell for Kim Kang Woo, I have only seen him in Golden Cross, but he did better in this one.
The main overall story were kind of weird and LACKING!! However, for me this only mean one thing: SEASON 2!
OCN, don’t let me down please!

☆☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

23 November 2014

Golden Cross Review

Title: Golden Cross
Genre: Drama, Revenge, Romance, Thriller
Episodes: 20
Broadcast period: 2014-Apr to 2014-Jun
Cast: Kim Kang Woo, Lee Si Young, Um Ki Joon, Han Eun Jung, Jeong Bo Seok, Lee Dae Yeon, Jung Ae Ri, Jo Hee Bung

Golden Cross is a shadowy society that dominates the Korean economy and marketplace, with its deep financial power, only 0,2% of the elites know of this secret society. Newly graduated prosecutor Kang Do-Yoon (Kim Kang Woo) gets entangled into one of Golden Cross’ deal, when one of their plot gets his beloved sister brutally murdered, and coldly accused his father for it. Do-Yoon vows to get revenge from Seo Dong Ha (Jeong Bo Seok), the powerful man behind the organization. It only get more complicated when he finds out that Seo Dong Ha is the father of the woman he loves, his colleague, prosecutor Seo Yi Re (Lee Si Young). Despite her father Yi Re is a rightful and truth-seeking prosecutor, who does not leave any doubt in her cases. Meanwhile her father Seo Dong Ha, supports a protégée, businessman Michael Jang (Um Ki Joon), whose greed and ambition soon makes him challenge his mentor for the top spot. A clash of wills, fortunes, and egos commences.


From the beginning I decided not to watch this drama actually, that was because there were a lot of other dramas I wanted to watch instead, and the casting and plot didn’t really interest me so it never got on my list. But recently I read somewhere that Golden Cross was one of Koreas most underrated drama ever, and sometimes it’s true, never trust the Koreans rating system :b Anyway, so I watched it, aaaaaand… Damn, i gotta say, whoever said the drama were underrated spoke the truth. It was really exciting and good. When I watched the few first episodes, I said they destroyed my faith in humanity, and now they have the rest of the drama to restore that faith. I don’t want to spoil anything, but it wasn’t completely restored.
I loved the love story, they make me wonder if it’s possible to love a person that much.
The one I feel the most bad about is Um Ki Joon, ottokaae how is he going to restore his image, omo, he played the most hateful character ever. Here is a fun fact about the drama :b That character was supposed to be played by Park Si Hoo, but because of his scandal KBS decided to replace him. Despite his scandal I would rather have Park Si Hoo play it !

☆☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts