Baek Beom and and Eun Sol have to pull their resources together to solve heinous crimes.
The couple are polar opposites. Baek Beom is taciturn and self-contained and had a 10 years experience in forensic work at the National Forensic Service.
Eun Sol, on the other hand is a little princess, from moneyed background. She is cheerful but still a newbie prosecutor. She is quite bright though, so bright that she could have become a judge rather than a prosecutor.
Partners For Justice (KDrama) Review & Summary
Episode 1 & 2
So far so good. The first five minutes hook you in immediately.
The first time Baek Beom and Eun Sol met was over a body of a woman beaten to death, which was believed to be by her husband.
Eun Sol showed her ignorance of forensic protocols by moving the body without using protective gloves and disposable overshoes. She was harshly told off by Baek Beom, the medical examiner. Telling her that she could have compromised the result of the forensic. She was then taken by the police to get her fingerprints in order to eliminate her prints from the forensic.
Baek Beom started the autopsy on the dead woman. He was visibly upset when he found out that she was pregnant.
There was a flashback of him and his wife being involved in a car accident. He was thrown off the car while his pregnant wife perished when the car blew up in flames.
Dont trust anyone, not even dead bodies!
That must be the mantra of a good pathologist.
The second episode was a make or break for the career of newbie, Eun Sol. She was prosecuting the husband of the beaten dead woman but Baek Beom was a star witness for the alleged assailant.
Baek Beom declared that the beating had nothing to do with the wife’s death. It was an accidental death brought about by a cocktail of drugs she was taking.
Episode 3 & 4
There is more camaraderie between Baek Beom and Eun Sol., I like this drama because it is believable in the sense that just because you wanted things to happen according to your preconceived notion, it doesn’t mean it will go your way as in Eun Sol’s case.
She wanted the husband to be punished for his wife death but in the end he really did not do it as proven by forensic.
In episode 4, is another story involving a adopted brother of three sisters. The adopted brother inherited the bulk of money from the family. Despite being dead for three years, his wife took it upon herself to impregnate herself with the dead husband’s frozen sperm cells.
The three sisters where up in arms because it would mean the money would go to the baby as willed by their father.
The wife had the body dug up, against the sisters’ wishes, for DNA purposes. Baek Beom found anomalies with the body. It had some contusions which are suspicious. He sought the help of Eun Sol to get an emergency warrant, before the sisters create havoc.
Episode 5-8
The wife is the culprit! She almost killed Eun Sol, who got badly injured.
She was then being forced by her parents to hand in her notice at work and marry a chaebol, who was going to give her three million dollars as a dowry.
As she refused, her father asked her to leave without taking anything with her. She then had to surrender all the credit cards to him.
By accident, she ended up renting an officetel next door to Baek Beom.
The next case is more personal involving someone working closely with their cases.
My only gripe about this drama is the leading lady. She is so full on. She is good at her job but somehow I find her annoying. Tone down a bit and give her a bit more common sense when it comes to the forensic investigations.
The story is about a girl who comes to terms with the death of her boyfriend with the help of an arrogant young man who happens to be the president of Leiting games company.
Episode 1
The drama started with Shui Guang on the phone nagging her boyfriend to hurry up while he was driving. Before you know it, he and his passenger were involved in a crash, where he died. It seems there is some mystery yet to be revealed about her dead boyfriend.
The boyfriend’s family blamed her for his death.
Two years on, Shui Guang was just a shell of depression. She is lacklustre and moving on an autopilot.
She teaches kendo to children.
One day, while particularly distraught, she somehow hurt one of the young students, who happens to be the brother of the benefactor of their training school.
He was Zheng Lan, the president of a games company. He was all for dismissing Shui Guang from her job but then he saw her. She looked familiar and he was intrigued.
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.
Xu Fangyi as Tian Xin (PiPi’ friend in love with Jialin)
Lin Shen as Xiu Xian (plastic surgeon )
Li Yongming as Zhao Kwanyong (plastic surgeon)
Jiang Qi Lin as Zhao Song
Zhang Baijia as Tushan Qianhua (Pure fox girl devoted to Helan)
Yang Kaidi as Su Mei
Yang Zi Shan as Princess Xi Yan
Xu Que as Qing Mu (Chief Priest)
The drama is a love story that lasts several lifetimes. He Lan comes from the fox clan, which originated from a planet from another galaxy which was much like Earth. Through evolution the aliens, fox clan, started to acquire human form, until they are perfect specimen of eye candy. 🙂
Episode 1
During the Tang Dynasty (not sure which dynasty really) a girl who was still a minor was ‘bought’ from her parents to marry a blind boy from a rich family.
I think much of the story started from this initial meeting of the lovers.
I read somewhere that the girl had to sacrifice herself in order for the boy to have perfect sight at night.
At the present day, PiPi has a boyfriend who is gorgeous and extremely able with his education. While PiPi is interning, her boyfriend in going to America for further studies.
PiPi is currently having some self-esteem issues. She feels that she is not good enough for her perfect boyfriend.
HeLan on the other hand had just found her in this lifetime and he would never let her go.
Their first meeting was eventful but not in the usual way where they fall in love at first sight. In fact PiPi handed some change to the blind Helan thinking he was a beggar. 🙂
Episode 2
It was Jialin’s birthday and PiPi was trying to buy him a shirt. She did not really know his size but then realised that she can’t afford the shirt anyway.
PI PI was helped out in getting the right size by a man who turned out to be He Lan.
When she told him that she was buying it for her boyfriend, He Lan bought all the shirts. PiPI run after him and accidentally dislodged his sun glasses. She stared at his opaque irises, which was dangerous for her.
He Lan sent his minions to give an apple, which is lightly drenched with his blood, to PiPI, who he said would be feeling unwell due to having looked at his eyes.
Right on cue, PiPi was vomiting in the office. Despite feeling unwell she continued on with her task as an intern journalist. She turned down the apple as she hates the fruit.
PiPi went to her boyfriend’s house for his birthday celebration with only a red bean preserve as a present, which he was rather dismissive about.
Also attending was their good friend, Tian Xin.
You can see that Tian Xin and Jia Lin are becoming more than friends.
Episode 3
Pi Pi was tasked to take photos of the mysterious Jade expert, He Lan. She was waiting for him surreptitiously, when he found her hanging on his fence.
She started having a nose bleed and he carried her in and fed her a small slice of an apple. Within minutes she was like a new woman.
Episode 4
He Lan gave PiPi a VIP invitation for the following night’s auction. He said if she attends, she can interview him.
No brainer really, so she attended and ended up bidding so much money for an orb necklace, on behalf of He Lan, which was then given to her by him as a memento, which has something to do with what happened a long time ago.
Episode 5
PiPi’s boyfriend is stalking her friend, Tian Xin. He wanted to cheat on PiPi with her friend. To start with Tian Xin did try to resist Jia Lin. But Jia Lin is not taking no for an answer.
He told Tian Xin that he will book a table in a restaurant and will wait for her at whatever time.
PiPi met up with He Lan in a posh restaurant to interview him. He ordered a lot of food for PiPi alone as he said he was a fox and doesn’t eat human food.
PiPi was going along with his ‘nonsense’ at first but got tired of it. He Lan further said that he only eat flowers, from the unfertilised plants (organic flowers) He also mentioned that others from his fox clan eat liver, human liver.
PiPi said she was ending the nonsense, weird interview. She got up and He Lan followed her. He said that he can prove that he’s not human. He put her head next to his heart. His heart is beating so slowly at 1 beat per 10 seconds.
Unbeknown to PiPi, Tian Xin was also at the restaurant and saw her with He Lan in which looked like and embrace.
Episode 6
Jia Lin was still waiting at the restaurant for Tian Xin. He was told by the waiting staff that he had to leave at it was closing time. He then saw Tian Xin in front of him and this will be the start of their affair.
The next day, Jia Lin went to look for Pipi at her work.
Thinking that he was He Lan, she run off from him.
They all ended up at a club. Jia Lin was just about to speak with PiPi when Tian Xin took him away, presumably to tell him that it was not the right time to tell Pipi about them.
Episode 7
We find out the the 900 years old He Lan is in fact a hybrid. His mother was human and father was an alien fox.
His weirdness has spooked Pipi. So she researched what repel a fox.
She found out it was realgar. She got some and invited He Lan to lunch.
Of course He Lan new all bout the realgar that PiPi had gotten. And to make a point he dipped his finger into the pocket of realgar, which as a corrosive effect on his skin.
PiPi was shocked saying that she doesn’t really understand what is his motive and she wanted the orb necklace removed from her neck.
Without much ado, He Lan removed the necklace and left her in the restaurant.
Episode 8
PiPi resigned from her job so that she could concentrate in learning English. She wanted to go to America with Jia Lin. Jia Lin, however, has other plan. He wanted Tian Xin to go with him.
He Lan is very upset. He was looking at the orb necklace and then put it away. Does it mean he has given up on PiPI?
Episode 9
PiPi almost became a victim of ‘date rape’.
She was so upset because she finally found out that her best friend and boyfriend are doing the dirty on her. She found them having a cozy lunch together. Jia Lin said to PiPi that it was not Tian Xin the reason why they needed to break up. He just not into PiPI anymore.
Heartbroken, PiPi ended up in a bar drinking herself silly, until an evil opportunities drug a drink which he then gave to her. She willingly drank it. He took advantage of her ‘drunkenness’ and took her away from the bar.
He was just about to assault her when Helan appeared and beat up the man.
Episode 16
This episode is a hectic one.
PiPi got jealous when she found several paintings of Hua Lan done by He Lan. She can’t accept that she’s the re-incarnation of Hua Lan.
Helan back story is very sad and rather gruesome.
900 years ago, Helan was born from a fox and human union, which is strictly prohibited. Thus Helan was born blind.
When he was in his teens, an innocent girl was procured as his young bride. Eventually they really fell in love with each other.
On He Lan’s 17th birthday, which happens to be a full moon and it was the time of Yang, coming of age was celebrated with a drink of soup.
Suddenly he can see.
He was all happy. He then asked where Hua Lan was. He was told to forget about her, that he will never see her again. She was just medicine to him.
It then click on him what they meant about medicine. They took out Hua Lan’s liver to amke the soup for him.
This incident upset HeLan so much, he left and lived on his own.
Episode 17
Princess Xi Yan, it was revealed as the mother of Helan. Helan is indeed half-human with a human father.
Qing Mu, the chief priest, adopted him as his own son for the sake of Xi Yan, who loves. But as a fox tradition, he left the blind baby in the forest to fend for himself. If he survives, he is a worthy cub.
Episode 18
PiPi went into a mystical place, where she saw the young Hua Lan and her Doppelganger. Despite this she remained distant to HeLan, who did everything he could to win her affection.
But her heart finally melted with his persistence.
She told him that she loves him but she finds it unfair that he has many memories of her over the long 900 years, While she can’t remember those things. She is also concerned that He Lan doesn’t love her as her now more than her past selves.
Jin Han as Chiyun Nan (Great General of Northern Wei
Mao Xiaotong as Li Chang Ru
Li Chinai as Li Changle (First Wife of Touba Jun)
I have just started watching this mainly because of Luo Jin who was so handsome in Love’s Lies.
I am now in episode 6 and really enjoying this historical drama.
The Princess Weiyoung (Chinese Drama) Review
It had been snowing for at least three days. The birth of the Yin’Er the new princess of Lang Ling stopped the snow.
The astrologer though said that her birth is auspicious but this is cancelled out by the contrasting shape of her eyes.
The king of Lang Ling was joyful of the birth of his daughter but he was called away immediately to meet up representatives of Northern Wei.
That was the last time they saw the king until 16 or 18 years later he was freed by the Weis. He had only a few hours to say hello to his daughter and the Queen Dowager when a Weis conspirator assassinated the king and the people of Lang Ling.
The princess barely got away with her life.
She saw how her father killed and the Queen Dowager almost beheaded. She was so distressed that she fell over a ravine.
The next time she was compos mentis was when she woke up in bed being tended by a young woman.
She later found our that the woman was Wei Young, a banished daughter of the Prime Minister of Wei. Wei Young was a victim of discrimination because her mother is a lowly concubine who used to be a foot bather maid in the manor of the PM.
The evil consort of the prime minister sent an assassin to do away with Wei Young. Just before dying Wei Young said to Yin’er to avenge her.
Yin’er took the identity of Wei Young and went to the PM’s manor to pretend as his daughter.
