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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 stakes 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.
1970s political crime, k-drama courtroom and Crime
Crime and Drama
Season 1 · 6 episodes
Disney+
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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