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Made in Korea(2025)

Also known as The Businessman

Archived · Disney+

7.1156 eps
S01
CrimeDramaThriller
ON AIR: MAR 12Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Set in 1970s Seoul, this is a crime thriller built around political ambition rather than procedural casework. The story tracks a man's hunger for power on a collision course with a prosecutor who refuses to bend, and the period setting gives that conflict a particular weight: institutions are fragile, authority is contested, and the consequences of each confrontation carry historical pressure behind them.

Rather than resolving case by case, the story accumulates. Each episode tightens the same central conflict, pushing toward a single irreversible incident that reframes everything before it. The pacing is confrontational and deliberate, the kind of structure where moral positions harden under pressure until something breaks.

Best for

1970s political crime, k-drama courtroom and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 6 episodes

Where

Disney+

Official Premise

A 1970s crime thriller following a man's quest for power clashing with an upright prosecutor, leading to a life-altering incident.

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