Drama: Ghost (2012)
So Ji Sub as Kim Woo Hyun
Lee Yeon Hee as Yoo Gang Mi
Uhm Ki Joon as Jo Hyun Min
Daniel Choi as Park Gi Young aka Hades
Kwak Do Won as Kwon Hyuk Joo
Song Ha Yoon as Choi Seung Yeon
Plot:
Kim Woo-Hyun is the only son of a high ranking police officer. Woo-Hyun entered the police academy ranked first and graduated from the academy ranked first. As a detective, he then joins the cyber investigation department. Woo-Hyun then works to reveal the secrets of those that hide within the cyber world.
Kim Woo-Hyun leads the cyber investigation team and works to take down an illegal international gambling website. South Korea, Hong Kong and China all cooperate to arrest those involved with the website at the same time. When Kim Woo-Hyun and his team raid the location of the site, the data is destroyed by a program set up by Hades. Nevertheless, Kim Woo-Hyun and his team uses a traceroute to locate Hades.
Meanwhile, an online rumor spreads about a sex scandal involving popular actress Shin Hyo-Jung. Shin Hyo-Jung leaves the message "I want to die" on her twitter account and then kills herself by jumping out of her apartment. Kim Woo-Hyun and Detective Yoo Gang-Mi, still following the path of Hades, arrive at the actresses apartment and takes her laptop, which Hades hacked.
In the basement parking lot, Detective Yoo Gang-Mi runs into Reporter Park Gi-Young. Park Gi-Young asks Detective Yoo Gang-Mi if she is sure actress Shin Hyo-Jung's last tweet was indeed posted by the actress herself? There seems to be a rumor that her last tweet was not actually posted by herself. Detective Yoo Gang-Mi later checks actress Shin Hyo-Jung's laptop and discovers that the tweet was not posted from her laptop. The cyber investigation team now believes another person may have been there when the actress died.
Meanwhile, Detective Kwon Hyuk-Joo also investigates the death of actress Shin Hyo-Jung. A TV announcement is then made by Detective Kwon Hyuk-Joo's boss (against the advice of Detective Kwon Hyuk-Joo) that actress Shin Hyo-Jung killed herself. Suddenly, the TV video feed cuts to actress Shin Hyo-Jung falling out of her apartment. Cyber investigation team leader Kim Woo-Hyun, using his computer near a large building, chases Hades who cut into the TV announcement video feed. Finally, Kim Woo-Hyun catches Hades on the subway. Kim Woo-Hyun is shocked when he learns that Hades is his ex-roommate at the police academy Park Gi-Young and now reporter. Park Gi-Young insists that he did not kill actress Shin Hyo-Jung. He states that he received an email a week ago, promising him a large sum of money if he finds the phantom file which actress Shin Hyo-Jung possesses. He also says the real killer wore a watch having a world map and then runs from Kim Woo-Hyun.
Comment:
I saw this series for the first time on the television, accidentally. The reason why I was interested to watch this series maybe because it's an action type of K-Drama. It's really rare to find this type of drama. Most of K-Drama is about romance. And when I watched it turned out it's a good one. So I decided to stream this series until finish.The actors are interesting to me. So Ji Sub successfully plays 2 different characters at the same time. I cannot imagine living as someone else like in the series. I will be confused and dunno what to do. This series makes me get more interested in Daniel Choi though I saw him before in Cyrano Agency. Too bad, in my opinion, the main female actor Lee Yeon Hee's act not so great tho she gets a good character to be played.
Kwak Do Won absolutely plays well, no matter what. His character that doesn't like the main character Woo Hyun makes the story more interesting, especially when Hades turns into Woo Hyun. Um Ki Joon who plays the bad guy, for me, not really suitable to become a bad guy. I think he's trying so hard to look and act like a bad guy so it looks less natural.
The storyline is definitely interesting. A lot of twists here and there that make the audience scrunch their foreheads or scream in disbelief because they have to guess a lot. A good balance of action and drama. And this particular series tells you about a cybercrime police unit instead of a regular homicide detective unit, so this is kinda new.
The technology used for this series is considered advance. And seems like this series uses a big production budget. Wow.
The use of Phantom of The Opera theme song makes the situation more eerie and scary when it plays.
Kudos for the PD and writer-nim who thought about making this TV series. Each episode can make you grind your teeth and wanna watch more. Nice.
Ps: Cute couple in the series
