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6-episode seasons with 1 episode per week is a British way of TV. It's a standard approach in the UK. Disney+ will release Made in Korea even quicker.

I also don't think it will be proper season 1 and season 2. Like I wrote here it's just they decided to split one story into two parts for various reasons from long production (for a high budget period drama it's understandable) to keeping subscribers. Disney+ did it in 2022 and 2023 with Shadow Detective. The show didn't have two different seasons, it was two halves of the same storyline. In total Made in Korea will have 12 episodes, and it's an almost standard length of K-dramas.

Boom!

I can see this ending like Military Prosecutor Doberman did. There was strong chemistry and questionable situations between the FL and the ML (titular Doberman), but nothing certain. In the final scene something happened. https://youtu.be/OLSR-5uMLa8?t=215 (spoiler in video).

There is no answers, because this specific ark hasn't been finished yet. They occasionally spend two weeks (four episodes) for certain villains.

People talk how ridiculous the motive for the main murder was, and they would be right in general. But the wife was just a narcissistic sociopath. Not a psychopath, a sociopath. It's common to have an inflated sense of self-importance, very reverent attitude to themselves, sensitivity to criticism, poor impulse control and reactive aggression because of some percieved threat. The husband was similar, his self-control just was a bit better. It happens occasionally.

One of the show's messages is trying to be polite. Etiquette isn't just showing off, it's a set of safety measures the humanity has been making up for centuries. It's written by blood, like safety measures for industrial workers, car drivers or people (e. g. soldiers) working with explosives. Because the world is dangerous, you can't predict who you meet -- it may be a sociopath. Let be nicer to each other.

Well, Baek Don Hun was basically a young pre-teen boy who hits a girl he likes. He likes to show off, is a bit narcissistic (hence he can't admit he was wrong). You can interpret sociopaths or narcissistic people as people who haven't become functional adults. They just don't have the whole psychological instruments set a normal person has to process emotions, to react in various situations. They are eternal teenagers or even kids. But there is sensuality toward An Yun Su inside him, let's remember the scene in the gallery with the prosecutor looking at the picture of half-naked Yun Su.

I am upset by Ryu Seung Beom leaving. Bae Doo Na is the star here, no doubt of that, but RSB was a heart and an emotional center of the show.

I see it adapts some manga, but the show does remind me Danish-Swedish co-production Bron/Broen and its plot.

Also when Mo Eun entered the camera, the girl danced and sang in front of the cameramates. They told Mo Eun she was for an "underage gambling operation" and praised how smart she was despite her age.

People often kill each other for sillier reasons. For example, drunk people.

It has several average crime/detective thriller scenes: few fights and murders, a few crime scenes with the police and prosecution, some surveillance and stalking.

No, but it was written then. I guess, the writer had just got an idea at the moment. Song Hye-kyo and Han So-hee were supposed to play female leads in 2022-2023, but eventually refused. So the show was going through development hell for a while. Filming eventually started in July 2024.

> What you think of him as a member of the public is irrelevant

Actually it's the first and the main thing that matters and is relevant for any person doing business in entertainment. If enough members of the public think the person is a criminal, or just did repulsive things, or just unlikeable, they don't fit. They are just unsuitable for entertainment business, they don't entertain people, but make them either indifferent or even angry. A performance, a show will be a disaster, a scandal instead of making money for investors.

Disney+ doesn't really care about the actor's guilt, but the company does care about public perception of its actions. Like you wrote, it's business, not a charity. If you aren't handsome enough, or your voice isn't pleasant enough (and I don't even mean singing, just a manner of speech), or you aren't a decent person enough, or you are decent, but you aren't careful enough to avoid questionable situations, or you are just unlucky enough, it means you are done. Show business is a lucrative, but very competitive industry, you misstep, you are out.

And the person's fans trying to shame public or make people feel guilty about their opinion don't do good for their idol. Arrogant words about "your opinion on this actor doesn't matter" just generate more hatred toward him. It won't help him to return at all. Quite the opposite.

I don't discuss specific circumstances or details of the case. I neither have enough data, nor I care, because it doesn't matter. Public opinion is the most relevant thing in this case.

We don't see the second guy in the truck. They don't show him to us, even in the end of the episode, a tree covered the guy. Why? Why did Dong Su try to kill himself after he had remembered his hit-and-run "accident" (actually an assassination attempt)?

Could this guy be his son? So it's not just the illness (which exists too). It's also Dong Su's mind trying to protect him, and occasionally he realizes everything and tries to kill himself, because he can't live with the fact his son faked his death and tried to kill him? Maybe the guy watching dogfighting and speaking Thai(?) is his son who has been a member of an international gang (fixing matches and whatnot) abroad? That would be a really dark twist.

Well, that's a cliffhanger. You (we) are supposed to think about it and wait the next episode.

From post-credit lectures one could make a conclusion the show was an educational project. The network cooperated with law enforcement agencies or just executed a government contract. It was reasonably popular, so the customer in some government office probably said. "It was a good one, do another one." So someone literally ordered to make season 2.

1, That's why I wrote "kinda." It's not a hardcopy, but similarities are here.
2. In my opinion, if one kills people regularily and doesn't do it for self-defense, it means something is wrong with one's head. It doesn't matter if killing is made for gratification or for money. Perhaps, taking people's lives just for money is more repulsive and even scaring. So a contract killer is also a serial killer.

She is a brilliant actress, one of the best in Korea. Sol Kyung Gu and Jeon Do Yeon were both in one scene in Good News on Netflix recently. Jeon Do Yeon was incredible and just stole it. It was absolutely hilarious and deadly satire. She gives very nuanced performance in every thing I've seen her at.

The dude is good. I'm going to try and watch this show for Kim You Jung though.

So it's kinda Flower of Evil, but gender roles of the main couple are reverted.