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Agent Kim Reactivated(2026)

Also known as Kim-bu-jang • Chief Kim (2026) • Manager Kim

Archived · SBS

1510 eps
S01
CrimeDramaActionThriller
ON AIR: JUN 27Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

A father scrambling to find his missing daughter drives this crime thriller, and the show keeps its focus tightly on that single, personal pressure rather than spreading across a procedural ensemble. Manager Kim is not a detective or an agent; he is an ordinary man who happens to be holding a secret that, once exposed, changes everything.

That secret is the structural spine of the series. As Kim is forced to surface what he buried, the story unravels outward from one family's private history into something with much higher stakes, and the miniseries format keeps that unraveling from losing momentum. Desperate choices accumulate quickly, and the drama stays close to what a parent risks when a child's life is on the line.

Best for

parental urgency, missing child mystery and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 10 episodes

Where

SBS

Official Premise

Manager Kim was an ordinary head of a household with a daughter and lived as a small citizen. In order to find his daughter, who is his everything, he reveals a secret that should never be revealed to the world.

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