Kdrama 2017
Criminal Minds (Kdrama Review & Summary)
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Criminal Minds Korea poster
- Genre: Policing, Investigation, Profiling, Forensic, Thriller, Mystery, Crime
- Release Date: 2017
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama: 20 Episodes
Cast
- Lee Joon Gi as Kim Hyun Joon
- Son Hyun Joo as Kang Ki Hyung
- Moon Chae Won as Ha Sun Woo
- Yoo Sun as Na Na Hwang
- Lee Sun Bin as Yoo Min Young
- Go Yoon as Lee Han
- Kim Yeong Cheol as Baek San
- Oh Yeon Soo as Seo Hye Won [Ki Hyung’s wife]
- Kim Kang Hoon as Kang Han Byul [Gi Hyung’s son]
- Kim Won Hae as Kim Yeong Chul
- Lee Seo An as Han Seung Hye [NCI member]
- Hong Ji Yoon as Park In Hye
- Jung Ah Mi – [Hyun Joon’s mother]
- Park Si Eun as Mo Ji Eun
- Ahn Seung Hwan as Kim Tae Jun
- Park Han Sol as Son Na Kyung
- Park Ga Ram as Song Yoo Kyung [Young]
- Kim Do Yeon – [Yoon Ah’s mother]
- Choi Hong Il – [Prison director]
- Yoon Song Ah as Choi Yoo Rim
- Lee Ja Eun as Go Yoo Jin
- Go Man Kyu – [Agent in Kang’s team]
- Moon Soo Bin as Baek Seo Young
- Lee Jin Mok – [Detective]
- Yang Ji Soo – Kim Jae Seok
- Kang Chul Sung
- Kim Kyung Ryong – [Lee Yoo Jin’s father]
- Kim Young Sun – [Park Song I’s mother]
- Lee Do Guk as Detective Tae
- Yoon Sang Hoon as Jang Jin Hwan
- Lee Seung Hun as Oh Jung Taek
- Nam Myung Ryul as Yoon Hee Chul
- Baek Jin Hwan
- Lee Yoo Hyeon as Oh Kyung Seop
- Yoon Soo Hyuk as Lee Seok Han
- Ha Roo Bi as Hyun Ji
- Im Chul Hyung as Han Ki Yeon [Pro Reporter]
- Park Sung Il as Gong Hyeong Kyu
- Hong Sung Duk as Chief Lee
- Kwon So Hyun as Kwon Yoo Jin (Ep. 6-7)
- Im Soo Hyang as Song Yoo Kyung (Ep.6-7)
- Han Seo Jin as Ha Eun
- Jo Han Chul as Jang Gi Tae (Ep.7-8)
- Kim Kwon ass Kang Ho Young [Hyun Joon’s friend] (Ep. 7)
- Jung Joon Won as Jin Woo (Ep.9-10)
- Park Hyun Sook – [Jin Woo’s mother]
Episode 1
Kim Hyun Joon was an explosive officer. His team’s mission went wrong when they followed an order they received from National Criminal Investigation (NCI).
The mission went wrong after following their profiler’s intel. Many died from the explosion including three policemen.
Kang Ki Hyung, the profiler, was so traumatised himself that he left NCI temporarily.
But then there was a spate of the kidnapping of young women and then the women would be found tortured and dead.
Kim Hyun Joon has a little ‘sister’ who was the latest victim.
Episode 2
Kim Hyun Joon became a detective leaving his job as an explosive officer.
Through the exhaustive help of NCI, they found poor Na Young who was battered by the serial killer who was working with two other serial killers he recruited in jail.
Kim Hyun Joon was found to be adept at profiling, afterall he was top of his class.
He started thinking about it when he found out new information regarding the disastrous explosion a year ago. It was not NCI that gave the order but it was the police chief.
He had been hating the wrong guy all along.
Ha Sun Woo recommended him to Baek San to become a profiler of NCI.
Episode 3
Yoo Minyoung was on board a train on her way to work when it was hijacked. The perpetrator was a schizophrenic. His psychiatrist was on the train as well. She said that her patient will calm down soon, they have to remain calm in order not to incite him.
Kim Hyun Joon got onto the train and was able to convince the schizophrenic man that he was being monitored because of a chip on his arm. Kim Hyun Jun was a bit of a magician and showed him a chip he took from the man’s arm.
One of the passengers told the man that he was being fooled by Kim Hyun Jun because he was from the police.
Kim Hyun Jun was able to fight off the two men. Minyoung was so impressed and so were the other girls in the office.
Ha Sun Woo was slightly miffed.
Meanwhile, their next case was a reaper who would attack a couple. Apparently, he is a serial killer who made a deal with the police chief.
The old police chief was dying. When he saw who the masked reaper was, he was so shocked he keeled over and died.
The reaper’s next victim was Kang Ki Young’s family.
Episode 4
They had been protecting Kim Yeong Cheol as they thought he waa a victim of the reaper as he had gotten 32 stab wounds from the ‘reaper’ leaving him limping and weak.
But it turned out he was the reaper all along and he had gotten hold of Kang Ki Young’s wife and son.
He brutally killed the wife while the son managed to hide.
Kang Ki Young found Kim Yeong Cheol and almost killed him but he was stopped by the tardy NIS.
Then after a few months in prison, Kim Yeong Cheol managed to escape.
Episode 5
Seriously this drama is uber-makjang. You have to suspend disbelief because it is so stupid. They are all stupid.
This is about anthrax, a bio-hazard chemical that seriously injured many people in a park.
So the NIS agents went to the suspect’s house without bio-hazard suits.
An agent went to investigate without telling anyone where he was going. It was Lee Han who got stabbed and then had to isolate because he went to the suspect house believed to be responsible for anthrax.
Then Ha Sun Woo decided to become a martyr and drive the car which had been installed with a ticking bomb into a busy motorway.
They had not realised that in every episode one of their agents becomes a victim. Seriously, no one had mentioned it.
Everything ended up ok at the end which is unbelievable as they are all incompetent.
Episode 6
The next criminal case was about a kidnapper who videotape his torturing his hostage and then send the video to the parents/relative of his victim.
Episode 7-8
This episode is about a serial shotgun murderer.
Jo Han Chul playing Jang Ki Tae the shotgun murderer gave a stellar performance of a man who was losing his mind having killed his wife ad daughter and yet still thinks that they are alive moaning at him.
Episode 9
This episode is about child kidnapping.
Episode 10
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Episode 16 – 17
About a showhouse murderer.
He has an older brother and when there were younger their mother stole the money that their father had saved to move to a better apartment.
Having found out what his wife did, he committed suicide leaving his young boys to fend for themselves.
This screwed up the younger boy. He developed a penchant of inviting women to view show houses where he kills them and stuffed them in the kitchen unit.
It turned out that both boys were mentally disturbed so they both did the killings.
Episode 18
The next case was a serial rapist who had victimised at least 6 women. And the latest was Ha Sun Woo who volunteered to be the bait. There was a flashback of her volunteering for almost the same thing which went wrong that ended her traumatised.
But Ha Sun Woo managed to fight for the kind and shoot the rapist/kidnapper.
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This drama is a total makjang. The acting is so wooden, that they had become a part of the furniture. But having that it is still watchable.