She did a great job on Hospital Playlist. Accurately playing a patient with a brain injury with motor skills issues can’t be easy and she was very authentic.
I finished a rewatch and raised my rating from 9.0 to 9.5, so the same rating as Hospital Playlist and Reply 1988 for me. I might even enjoy this one more than HP. The casting was perfect, the main four are so freaking cute, charming and endearing, every one of them. I got so protective of all of them every time a professor yelled at them or scolded them 😆 (even if I recognize they usually deserved it, though not always). Professor Dr. Ryu became my favorite character outside of the four and Dr. Ku, he's the perfect doctor and teacher. As in other dramas I have seen him in (Agency, Delightfully Deceitful), Lee Chang Hoon stole every scene he was in. Professor Dr. Seo was great as well, same for Lee Bong Ryun, another scene stealer. I-yeong saying hello to the baby when it was born, like her, was ridiculously adorable. Even Professor Dr. Cho getting softened up near the end, and him getting awkward with Sa-bi were fantastic ways of humanizing him, he isn't a bad guy, just needs to chill out (he's going to end up a patient, himself, if he doesn't; Dr. Kim Jun-wan will need to work on his heart).
The OST is fantastic, but that's to be expected from a Reply/HP universe drama.
There is a second season built in, second year for the residents, one new junior, a new Professor. How would they not do another season? I don't even care if anyone from HP makes cameo appearances, the main four, Dr. Ku, and the professors stand on their own.
The one under-appreciated thing about this drama is the OST. Seriously check it out, you hear plenty of bits of it in the show, but check out the actual OST album. Loved all the characters, and especially how Ha-na's dad ended up subverting expectations for the common chaebol president character. Her grandpa, the "High King", in many ways, too, ended up subverting the norm by being the one who was most open to the idea of his granddaughter ultimately taking over his company. Also, the flip of the executive and secretary trope was outstanding and Son Na-eun and Han Joon-woo did great with it.
It’s a shame we’ll never see the heights she might have reached, if only she hadn’t been foolish enough…
Yeah main role upcoming in a drama with Lee Jae Wook and Shin Ye Eun and directed by the director of Fiery Priest. Significant role last year in one of the most popular and awarded dramas in history. Her career is really down 😂. I can only assume that you’re trying to dredge up the press conference from 11 years ago. She apologized… 11 years ago (but didn’t need to, no one cared except losers like you who’ve never read a book without pictures because you spend all day on Soompi). I think I hear your BK shift manager reminding you to flip the burgers.
A fun zombie (mostly) comedy; it's only a few fairly short episodes. It's gory, but it's over the top gore that is done for very non-serious effect. Nothing to be analyzed or taken seriously.
Once I got past Korean Adam Driver annoying the crap out of me (his character improves and also gets less screen time as the story develops) this drama kicked into high gear. Chun Woo-hee is made for these types of roles and she kills here just like she did in Atypical Family. Just beware, “delightful” might be the wrong word for the story, it’s a bit dark and what the main characters have went through can be rough to watch.
When she’s helping him write the document management program, I was happy to see her point out he spelled “function” wrong. But on the other hand didn’t get why he was clearly writing modern JavaScript in a C file in 1997 😅. (The C language has no “function” keyword, it’s a C file because in the blue file header bar at the top, the file name ends with .c and in 1997 that would have been a top choice of language for a program like that, so they got that right. Writing an enterprise document management program in three days is something we can chalk up to dramatic license.) It’s 2026, I thought we made an effort to make code actually make sense when we showed it on screen. Aside from my pedantic software engineering complaint, I’m enjoying this drama!
i hate MDL devs for not firing this Alice weirdo.My 10 yro sister would write better than her
In English, “dev” means developer, the people who write the code that makes the site work. For a site like this, they are almost certainly contractors and would have nothing to do with the people who write the news articles.
The first thing you realize after finishing is just give Ryu Seung Ryong the best actor Baeksang now, there’s no reason to wait until the ceremony in May. Mr. Kim is a, well, a jerk. He mistreats his wife. He’s cold, he disrespects his employees. He’s a relic from another time, even within the context of SK’s hyper-competitive, paternalistic society. Yet you end up rooting for him. Does he change? Yeah a little. He’s humbled a bit. But mostly it’s Ryu’s performance that brings you to Mr. Kim’s side. One of the best I’ve seen in recent years.
This drama is, I should say, for grown ups. It’s for adults who understand what it means to have the responsibility and pressure of providing for a family. You cannot appreciate that element of Mr. Kim’s character unless you’ve actually lived it and my guess is the low rating (by MDL standards) is, in large part, due to lower ratings from younger viewers who can’t connect with him. Which is fine, it's just important to understand that many dramas are aimed at a specific demographic and we should keep that in mind.
A very good legal drama that isn’t a courtroom drama but more a slice of life with prosecutors. There’s no romance other than a small cute one between secondary characters, it’s mainly about their work.
I did feel sad watching it thinking about how much KDramas and the world miss the amazing Lee Sun Kyun. It was a bit of sad irony that he played a prosecutor with a heart and his loss was partly because of police and prosecutors without one.
There’s some hate for the FL from other comments and all I can say about that is I can guarantee if she were a male, nothing would be said.
Interestingly, later this year SK is finally reforming the prosecution service, splitting it into two and reducing the powers of the prosecutors, especially to initiate investigations. All the investigators you see in the show would now be a completely separate agency. There is also independent oversight being implemented to remove the issue of the prosecution service being their own watchdog, which is correctly pointed out as problematic by the show. The show actually did a good job of showing why the prosecution service is not well thought of, so much corruption and protecting their own. Diary of a Prosecutor doesn’t glorify nor degrade the prosecution service, it shows it in a realistic way with very human, very flawed characters.
The OST is fantastic, but that's to be expected from a Reply/HP universe drama.
There is a second season built in, second year for the residents, one new junior, a new Professor. How would they not do another season? I don't even care if anyone from HP makes cameo appearances, the main four, Dr. Ku, and the professors stand on their own.
This drama is, I should say, for grown ups. It’s for adults who understand what it means to have the responsibility and pressure of providing for a family. You cannot appreciate that element of Mr. Kim’s character unless you’ve actually lived it and my guess is the low rating (by MDL standards) is, in large part, due to lower ratings from younger viewers who can’t connect with him. Which is fine, it's just important to understand that many dramas are aimed at a specific demographic and we should keep that in mind.
I did feel sad watching it thinking about how much KDramas and the world miss the amazing Lee Sun Kyun. It was a bit of sad irony that he played a prosecutor with a heart and his loss was partly because of police and prosecutors without one.
There’s some hate for the FL from other comments and all I can say about that is I can guarantee if she were a male, nothing would be said.
Interestingly, later this year SK is finally reforming the prosecution service, splitting it into two and reducing the powers of the prosecutors, especially to initiate investigations. All the investigators you see in the show would now be a completely separate agency. There is also independent oversight being implemented to remove the issue of the prosecution service being their own watchdog, which is correctly pointed out as problematic by the show. The show actually did a good job of showing why the prosecution service is not well thought of, so much corruption and protecting their own. Diary of a Prosecutor doesn’t glorify nor degrade the prosecution service, it shows it in a realistic way with very human, very flawed characters.