Kdrama 2018
Lawless Lawyers (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Lawless Lawyers poster
- Genre: Legal, Thriller, Romance, Mystery
- Date Released: 12 May 2018 – 1 July 2018
- Origin: South Korea
- KDrama: 16 Episodes
Cast:
- Lee Joon-Gi as Bong Sang-pil
- Seo Yea Ji as Ha Jae-yi
- Lee Hye-young as Cha Moon-sook
- Choi Min-soo as Ahn Oh-joo
- Yum Hye-ran as Nam Soon-ja
- Shin Eun-jung as Choi Jin-ae
- Ahn Nae-sang as Choi Dae-woong
- Lee Han-wi as Ha Ki-ho
- Lee Dae-yeon as Woo Hyung-man
- Cha Jung-won as Kang Yeon-hee
Quick Precis
Apparently, this is a story about a young maverick lawyer who has a rather murky past. He used to be a gangster but in order to avenge his mother, he now uses the law and its many loopholes to his advantage. He is not even averse to using his fist when needed.
Sounds really interesting and with Lee Joon-gi, this should be a winner.
Episode 1 -2
The first episode is a background to the lawless lawyer that is Bong Sang-pil.
When Bong Sang-pil was a little boy, he and his mother used to lived in Ginsung. His mother was a lawyer and she wanted for him to follow her vocation to being able to get justice for people using law.
She was quite proud of her career. She carved Bong Sang-pil’s name into a desk in her office and make the boy promised to become a lawyer one day.
One rainy evening he went to visit his mother to her office. She was very agitated as if expecting someone to come after her.
She helped her son to hide when she realised that people were coming to get her. She also gave him a photo of her with a man. She instructed him to go to the man if something happens to her.
The band of syndicate wanted the SD card!
She declined to give the sd card. Unfortunately, the meany gang boss noticed that someone else was in the office. He knew it was her son. They tried to harass her that the boy fearing for his mother’s safety came out from where he was hiding.
They threatened to kill the boy so his mother had no choice but to give in a surrender the SD card.
Young Bong Sang Pil was a clever boy, he saw the card and swallowed it. Unfortunately this got his mother killed.
But before she died, she helped him scape the building.
He went to find the man in the picture. He was a gangster.
Bong Sang pil was thirsty for a vengeance. He begged his new found ‘uncle’ to teach him martial arts. But his uncle said that he should become a lawyer just like what his mother wanted him to be.
Present day:
Ha Jae Yi is a lawyer. Unfortunately during one of a case about domestic violence turned to murder, the judge in charge was a misogynist. He gave Ha Jae Yi’s client a 20 years prison sentence, much more than the one recommended by the public prosecutor.
When Jae Yi questioned the judge, he told her that her client deserved what she got and started prodding her. Jae Yi got so annoyed she beat up the judge. She was suspended from practising law for six months. No job and no money, she went back home to Ginsung.
Bong Sang Pil is all grown up. He had become a very successful as a lawyer in Seoul. He thought it was time to go back to Ginsung and start his vendetta.
Jae Yi ended up working for Sang Pil as his office manager.
This drama is watchable. Both leads are good-looking and you warm up to them immediately. There is also great chemistry between them.
It seems the hiring of Jae Yi’s hiring is not at all accidental.
The second episode, further delved into the past of Sang Pil.
Jae Yi has a commonality with Bong Sang Pil.
Back when Bong Sang Pil was escaping from the hoodlum that killed his mother when he was a little boy, there was a little girl who was waiting back home for her mother to return after buying her a harmonica for school.
The little girl was Jae Yi and her mother never returned. To this day, she and her father are still hoping that the mother will return.
But Jae Yi’s mother died saving Bong Sang PIl from the hoods.
As he Bong Sang Pil grew up, he had been watching over Jae Yi.
Episode 7
Nope, Jae-yi’s mother did not die. She had to live abroad to protect herself and her husband and daughter.
The dirty ex-policeman who was tasked to kill Jae Yi’s mother was really too chicken to commit murder so she let the mother go but he made her promised not to return to South Korean ever.
But at the end of episode seven, the dirty ex cop said that it was time for her to come back.
The ex cop got killed by the Ahn oh joo’s gang.
But the way Ahn oh joo is now the mayor of the lawless Kiseong.
Episode 8
The Mayor is getting stronger. He controls everything. No one can touch him at the moment including the new high powered prosecutor from Seoul.
Jae Yi is once again a full-pledged lawyer after her suspension had been lifted with the help of Cha Moon Sook.
Cha Moon Sook got to Jae Yi’s father. She told him that Jae Yi is in a relationship with the gangster lawyer. The father told her to go back to Seoul.
Jae Yi chose to move out and stay temporarily with Bong Sang Pil
Episode 9
Bong Sang Pil’s uncle was killed by Ahn Oh Joo’s minions but it made it look like Bong Sang Pil was the culprit.
Bong Sang Pil’s was catatonic with shock. He looks like he has almost given up.
Jae Yi is his lawyer. They were doing well but evidence against Bong Sang Pils keeps coming up including an insurance claim.
One of his uncle’s closest friends also happened to be in the same prison as Bong Sang Pils.
The friend waylaid Jae Yi one day and they had a fight. To prove that he did not kill his uncle he pulled the knife brought by the uncle’s friend towards his stomach. Bong Sang Pil ended up in the hospital fro emergency treatment.
Episode 10
I cannot say this enough, all the actors are doing a super terrific job. I would particularly commend Choi Min Soo who plays the baddie, Ahn oh joo. He was absolutely magnificent as a lap dog to Judge Cha Moon Sook.
Ahn Oh Joo has an agenda of his own.
Ahn Oh Joo visited Bong Sang Pil in the hospital because he was disturbed by what Bong Sang Pil told him about Judge Cha. The Judge was encouraging Jae Yi to win the case regarding Bong Sang Pil.
In the hospital, Judge Cha sent dozens of thugs to kill Bong Sang Pil but Ah Oh Joo said that he will not allow anyone to kill Bong Sang Pil as he will be doing the did himself and he was looking forward to it.
The fighting scene was so exciting. I have to say Choi Min Soo was so manly and sexy. His Ahn Oh Joo is hypnotically fanciable.
The end of the drama is the start of the murder case against Bong Sang Pil. There was a surprise witness. It was Ahn Oh Joo.
Episode 11
Ahn Oh Joo turned up in court which shocked Judge Cha.
Ahn Oh Joo said that Bong Sang Pil was innocent of the murder because the real culprit was Ahn Oh Joo’s ultra loyal bodyguard. The bodyguard’s loyalty became rather twisted but he had now surrendered himself so Bong Sang Pil has nothing to answer for.
Bong Sang Pil was released. He asked Ha Jae Yi what she had to give to Ahn Oh Joo in exchange of testifying for him.
Ha Jae Yi was vague about it so Bong Sang Pil went to see Ahn Oh Joo. He warned Ahn Oh Joo never to go near Jae Yi or he will kill him.
Noh Yun Jo who works for Judge Cha passed some incriminating photos of the judge regarding the incident 18 years ago.
They then passed it to a journalist who published it.
Meanwhile, Bong Sang Pil found out that Noh Yun Jo was the mother of JaeYi.
Noh Yun Jo was the woman who saved Bong Sang Pil. She thank Bong Sang Pil for keeping Jae Yi safe but also said that as long as JaeYi is with him, Jae Yi is in constant danger.
Bong Sang Pil knew that this was true.
Judge Cha has got some balls; she confronted the issue of the leaked photos and said that it was from a completely different case.
Because of misinformation like this, she had decided to accept the nomination for Chief Justice. She then got smacked with a bottle by an angry father whose son Judge Cha sentenced to capital punishment.
Episode 12
Judge Cha was feeling gratified in the hospital because her popularity was soaring. She became a hero when she got out of the hospital after she forgave the assailant saying that she could understand his high emotion because of the capital punishment to his son and as such she will forgive him for the attack. She then hugged him and made the people on the street admire her humanity.
She seemed a step ahead every time.
Bong Sang Pil met up with Noh Yun Jo again and asked her if she was the one who sent a corruption list of Judge Cha and Ahn Oh Joo to him.
Noh Yun Jo was as surprised as him when she saw the list. She told him that it was the first time she had seen it.
Bong Sang Pil told his posse that they had to go back to the old ways and kidnap Seok Gwan Dong, Ah Oh Joo’s assistant.
Seok Gwan Dong talk after being threatened to be dropped from a building. He said that it was Ahn Oh Joo who killed Bong Sang Pil’s uncle.
Jae Yi met up with Noh Yun Jo for lunch. After having some dumplings, Jiayi had an allergy attack because the dumpling contained prawns which Noh Yun Joo realised.
Jae Yi was puzzled but then she put two and two together and realised that Noh Yun Jo was her mother.
Noh Yun Jo left immediately because Judge Cha wanted a massage.
Judge Cha saw the drugged tea prepared for her and knew Noh Yun JO had been spying on her.
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