A group of scientists set off to a moonbase to retrieve samples from an abandoned research lab.
Episode 1
The first episode is engaging and really well made. Good believable script which is obviously been well researched.
Anyway, the Earth is running low on water.
To minimize water usage, everyone is given a card for their allotted amount of drinking water.
Of course, there are those who were going on rallies to complain about this water allowance.
In a way, they have a reason to complain because water is graded. The best water and more or less unlimited amount of it is given to the elite and the chosen ones.
A motley crew was assembled for a 24-hour mission to the moon to retrieve a high confidential, highly classified specimen.
Their destination was Balhae Station on the moon which had a very suspect occurrence 5 years ago killing 117 scientists and personnel.
Episode 2
Doctor Song joined the crew because she wanted to find out more of what happened to her sister who died with the other 116 crew in Balhae Station five years ago.
While reconnoitering the space station, Soo Chan got a drop of water flicked into his eyes.
The droplets quickly expanded inside Soo Chan, drowning him.
Episode 3
Doctor Hong and Doctor Song did an autopsy on Soo Chan and concluded that he drown from his on internal water.
Episode 4
Han Yoon Jae had a very sick daughter and the only possible treatment for her was first grade water.
To get the water, he had to lead the team to Balhae Station.
Doctor Song and Doctor Hong found out that blood make the water molecules multiply and when the host dies the water stops multiplying.
Episode 5
Doctor Song was able to convince Han Yoon Jae to allow her entry to the restricted area located on Level 1.
What they found was thousands of tubes of lunar water and green plant growing profusely.
They were attacked by feral girl with lightning speed.
It looks like Ryo Tae Seok is a bit of a baddy.
Episode 6
The crew found the feral girl to be genetically different. She has gills and a tattoo behind her neck. She is Luna 073, obviously a subject of an experiment.
Ryo Tae Seok stole the lunar water sample and then killed E2 who overheard him talking to his contact from outside.
Dr Song found the hard drive for the deleted data on Lunar Water. It broke her heart to find that her sister had turned monstrous just to research the Lunar Water.
It showed an experiment on a goldfish who survived the lunar water therapy.
The experiment progressed to using human clones. Luna was the 73rd of her kind. She was the only survivor.
Ryo Tae Seok found Kim Hee Sun and killed him by locking him with the lunar water.
Dr Hong fell into a shaft and got the shock of her life when she found the bodies of the Luna experiment.
There was a confrontation between Captain Han and Ryo Tae Seok. But it all ended when the ceiling started dripping.
Episode 8
This drama was so good but it had the silliest ending and Gong Yoo (Captain Han) died.
Luna 073 walked barefoot on the moon, without a spacesuit and completely forgotten about gravity. She was not bunny hopping. Radiation does not affect her or the blinding light from the sun and total lack of oxygen. Her blood would have boiled and burst through because her blood pressure would have gone sky roof without a pressure suit. Woah!
Why ruin a perfectly executed drama at the end?
But having said that, it is worth a binge-watch.
By the way, only Dr Hong and Dr Song got rescued with the lunar water specimen.
Sung Ji Ru as Kwak Bong Pil (Anti-Corruption Unit Chief)
Episode 1
It has a weird but interesting first episode.
Anyway, it looks like Lee Dong Wook plays a schizophrenic guy with another persona called K.
Mind you, this is just a hint at the moment.
Ryu Soo-Yeol keeps having nightmares about someone wearing a red/black jacket with a helmet on riding a motorcycle.
When he was not riding, this guy tends to beat Ryu Soo-yeol up. Ryu Soo Yeol then wakes up rather bruised.
One time he woke up and found his car kicked in, he was so annoyed he went to see the security for the CCTV, which showed that he did it himself. He was kicking and stomping on his car.
Then he was in a spa and the motorcycle man came in and started beating him up. He later complained to the spa manager for allowing riff-raffs inside the spa but he was told they can’t find any trespassers on their CCTV.
The thing is Ryu Soo Yeol is a police officer who was after promotion. He was doing everything to get it including kiss-assing a new assemblyman and ignoring some blatantly corrupt practices just like the case of a young policeman who was very enthusiastic and pure in his job.
This young policeman, Oh Kyeong-Tae saw a little girl posting a missing person on the bulletin board. She said that it was her mother and made the Oh Kyeong Tae promise to look for her mother.
Oh Kyeong-Tae did what he promised during his free time, he went to the known address of her mother, who was thought to be a prostitute or something.
The woman’s house was empty but when he had a look at the bathroom there was a strong smell of disinfectant. So he opened the bathroom drain and found locks of hair soaked in blood. While he was still puzzling over it, police officer Do In-Beom came to the apartment and beat Kyeong Tae pretty badly.
His beating was swept under the carpet by the other police because they said he should not encroach on someone else’s territory as Do in Beom said that he thought Kyeog Tae was an intruder.
Ryu Soo Yeol asked Kyeong Tae what was he doing in the apartment. Did he know the woman?
Kyeong Tae said that he had never met her before but as a police officer, it was his duty to serve and help the little girl find her mother.
Ryu Soo Yeol had become jaded so he doesn’t have much sympathy for Kyeong Tae. Anyway, he went with Kyeong Tae to the woman’s apartment.
Kyeong Tae was surprised to find that the drain cover looked different.
Kyeong Tae did not learn from the beating because he went back to the apartment to investigate again. He was set up and the woman next door who pretended that she heard something suspicious invited him to her house to show him where she could hear the sound, she then called the police and pretended that Kyeong Tae was abusing her.
Kyeong Tae got arrested but the testimony of the woman was inconsistent.
Meanwhile, Kyeong Tae went back to the apartment again because he noticed a teddy bear in a corner which he remembered the girl said her mother was going to buy her one for her birthday. When he got to the apartment, it had been completely emptied for redecoration. He found the teddy on the dumpster, He was almost run over by a motorcycle which made him dropped the teddy. He noticed the little built-in camera with a mini sd card on it. He hurried home and put it on his laptop but someone followed him in.
It was Do In-Beom, who happens to be related to the assemblyman.
As it happens the assemblyman was sleeping with the missing woman. After rough sex, he accidentally killed her.
Do In Beom got the sd card and beat up Kyeong Tae. Then poured petrol all over Kyeong Teo’s little apartment.
Meanwhile, a drunk Ryo Soo Yeol ended up near the apartment. And suddenly, the helmet man appeared and dragged him to Kyeong Tae’s rooftop apartment
When they opened the door, smoke was billowing.
Ryo Soo Yeol went in and got hold of the collapsed Kyeong Tae. They can’t leave by the door which is on fire so the helmet man signaled to Ryo Soo Yeol to jump with Kyeong Tae through the window.
Pretty interesting first episode.
Episode 2
Ryo Soo Yeol woke up in the hospital with minimal injury. He said that he saved Kyeong Tae. The other detectives sniggered because Ryo Soo Yeol is not known as one for saving others unless there is something in it for him.
Anyway, he tried to tell them that there was someone with them but they could not find any evidence of him.
Meanwhile, Assemblyman Do was so happy to get the SD card from Do In Beom. He saw that the SD card only contains a message from the dead Jeong Yuna to her daughter.
Her daughter continued to look for her mother but then she overheard that her mother might be dead.
She begged Ryu Soo Yeol not to look for her mother anymore because she would rather that she was not found than dead.
Ryu Soo Yeol felt sorry for the little girl especially when he heard the uncle wanting to know when they could claim Yuna’s life insurance for her daughter.
Poor Ok Kyung Tae continues to be in a coma but then he was fitted up by Do In Beom for the murder of Yuna. His print was found of the murder weapon.
Hui Gyeom said that Yuna’s murder might not be so simple as she is a police informant.
Kwon So Hyun as Goo Hyo Eun [Agent of NIS supporting team]
Kim Byung Gi as Bang Young Chan
Lee Kyung Young as Lee In Hwan
Quick Precis
Han Ji Hyuk was a top NIS agent who disappeared about a year ago. Now he is back to hunt down the traitor within the NIS.
Snippets
Scheduled for 17 September 2021.
Episode 1
It has a slow start as it is introducing many characters.
First of, Han Ji Hyuk who had been missing for a year and had been presumed dead was onboard fishing boat carrying illegal immigrants.
One of the captors tried to take a young girl away from her father who tried to protect her but got beaten up.
Then the noise and the sight of the girl scared and screaming made him come out from under his blanket and singlehandedly massacred all the gang of traffickers.
Then the coastguard came to the rescue and found him standing over someone he had beaten to death.
When they asked him who he was, he gave them his code which was immediately checked with the NIS (National Intelligence Service).
At the end of the first episode, he went to open a secret locker in a department store. In the locker he found a flash drive.
It so happened that the locker is near the computers/laptops products. He quickly inserted the flash drive and he got a surprise to see himself directly talking to him. He said that he will say it only once, he deleted his own memory to find the traitor in their agency.
Wow!
Episode 2
An idol who was high on drugs got run over and died. After further digging by Ha Dong Gyun turned up a possible Chinese drug cartel with North Korea. This was the case that was being investigated by Han Ji Hyuk.
Han Ji Hyuk, however, had a more pressing business of sniffing out the traitor. He has his eyes on four of his colleagues.
Jo Ye Rin as Ho Ryung (Mountain goddess, palace protector)
Chae Gook Hee as Mi Soo, the female shaman
Yoon Sa Bong as Kyun Yoo Daek (Institute Housekeeper)
Quick Precis
Kim Yoo Jung will play Hong Chun Gi, who is the only female painter during the Joseon Period. She possesses beauty and a bright personality.
Snippets
After the aborted partnership in Clean With a Passion drama, finally, these two will team up. Filming has started.
Hong Chun Gi had been retitled, Red Sky. Retitled again to Lovers of the Red Sky.
7 June 2021: Slated for release in August 2021.
13 July 2021: The release date is apparently 23 August 2021.
Has been pushed back to 30 August 2021.
Episode 1
I was so excited to watch this drama but I was slightly disappointed that Kim Yoo Jung was not in the first episode.
But despite that, it was actually quite a sweet episode for the leads during their younger years.
It started with a blurb that once upon a time, the demons co-existed with humans but before too long the demons became the bane of humans’ existence. So they had to seal in the demon lord into a lifesize painting of the old Emperor.
While this ritual was being actioned, a woman gave birth to a baby boy, alone in a secluded place watched by hungry wolves.
The woman was dying. She prayed fervently to a deity to save her son as the wolves started to advance towards her as they can smell the blood oozing from her after giving birth.
The woman’s last act was to hug her baby to herself as the wolves moved even nearer.
At the last moment, a deity appeared to pick the child up. Looking at the baby fondly, the deity said that she must look for a life partner for him.
Meanwhile, the baby’s father was a shaman with powerful cultivation. He was the one who was able to seal in the demon into the emperor’s painting.
Instead of being feted, he was tortured badly and would have been killed if he did not disappear.
Eight years later…
The Emperor was having a problem. Famine will happen in his kingdom if rain would not come soon.
His new shaman, who is a very ambitious woman said that she had found the old shaman, who has a son with a powerful qi. They could use the son to end the draught.
The old shaman and his son was immediately brought to the Capital
The son was Ha Ran who immediately liked and was protective of a young blind girl, Chun Gi, who was the daughter of Ha Ran’s father’s assistant.
Young love immediately developed between the two children with Chun Gi bossing Ha Ran to steal peaches from a tree for her.
Anyway, at the palace, the Emperor was getting ready for the rain ceremony. Everyone was attending including the Crown Prince and the Grand Prince, who was the brother of the Emperor who has ambition to be the Emperor.
During the ceremony, young Ha Ran was brought in by the pond and he was made to beat a big cauldron as the shaman started her dancing and chanting in keeping with the drum beats.
The Grand Prince left the ceremony and went into the villa where the old Emperor’s painting was being kept. The prince heard someone saying that he must come to him to become the Emperor.
This was all it took for the envious and ambitious Grand Prince to remove the talismans off the painting keeping the demon sealed.
The demon immediately flew like smoke into the ceremony as young Ha Ran was being thrown into the deep pond to his death much to his helpless father’s regret and sorrow as he was being held on by guards.
Meanwhile, young Chun Gi also fell into the pond and would have died if the deity did not save her and Ha Ran.
When the children woke up, Chun Gi can miraculously see while Ha Ran can’t.
The deity said that one day Ha Ran will get his sight back.
Episode 2
The Emperor was enraged that the shaman did not tell him about sacrificing human life.
But she told him that the end justifies the means, that a human sacrifice was necessary to bring forth rain.
The Emperor told her that he would not execute her but she had to leave and never show her face again in his kingdom.
Twenty years later…
The shaman did not leave. She was now under the protection of the Grand Prince, who was biding his time to take over the throne after the emperor’s death. For some reason, the Grand Prince was actually protecting the current emperor.
Anyway, back story, after Ha Ran was fish out of the pond, his father took him home but not for long because the soldiers had come to take Ha Ran back to the palace. They would not allow any opposition so they killed Ha Ran’s father and mother.
Ha Ran became quite an important player in the palace as he is learned, calm and logical. Very suitable adviser to the emperor. He became the palace astrologer.
Meanwhile, young Chung Gi had grown into a very resourceful woman.
She had to because she was the sole breadwinner and caretaker of her father who suffers from dementia. She had been earning money since the age of 8.
Now, she had become a prominent painter, the only able woman painter in the kingdom.
However, she was doing some illegal works to get more money to buy the medicine that she was told was a sure cure for her father’s malady. A Chinese guy had this medicine which cost a lot of money.
Chung Gi did a lot of art reproductions which the clerk at the painting institute passed as the real thing.
Finally, she got the money. With the help of the sales clerk from the painting institute, she was able to buy the golden mini orb which was apparently the dementia cure. She gave all the money to the guy in exchange for the mini golden orb.
She hurried to her father who did not recognise her at all. She gave him his lunch and then presented him with the orb which he willingly swallowed. It almost made her cry when her father pocketed some of the food because he said that his beloved daughter Chung Gi must be hungry.
Anyway, she watched him expectantly to see for any change after taking the medicine.
Nothing. None at all.
But she was not too worried. She will wait.
Days passed, still nothing.
Chun Gi went to the house of the person who sold her the medicine. She overheard him talking to his wife about his regret of having to con a nice girl for a lot of money over fake medicine.
Chun Gi was gutted and found out that the mastermind was the sales clerk at the painting institute.
So she reported the art forgeries at the art shop to the soldiers who ransacked the place and found the forgeries which Chun Gi ensured to have subtle little images to differentiate it from the original.
The man was arrested but he had some influential friends which helped him to be pardoned and let out in no time.
The man and his cohorts hunted Chun Gi, who was running for her life and in desperation jumped into a passing palanquin.
It so happens that the palanquin was already occupied by a handsome man with the most beautiful eyes according to Chun Gi.
The man was surprised how she found his eyes beautiful when others discriminate over him because they think he has demonic eyes.
Chun Qi said that au contraire, his eyes are radiant.
Anyway, he was Ha Ran which Chun Gi still does not know.
But she said that she was being chased and harassed by bad people who sold her fake drugs for so much money and probably through the instigation of Wolseongdang of Wooljongga who is a bad man.
Ha Ran was enjoying her endless chatter and that she did not know that he was Wolseongdang.
Unfortunately, their time together was cut short when he fell into her as the palanquin started rocking due to the uneven road.
Touching Chun Gi made the butterfly tattoo on Ha Ran’s neck be activated.
He told Chun Gi to get out of the palanquin and go home. She did not have any choice as he almost chucked her out.
Ha Ran inside the palanquin was metamorphosing into something dark and demonic. His power was such, it catapulted him to the top of a tree nearby. He had turned into a dark demon and said that Ha Ran was unlucky to have left the palace on the night when his butterfly seal was broken during the winter solstice.
Ha Ran was taken over by the water demon who had zeroed in on Chun Gi and said he found his eyes.
Whoa, really loved this episode.
BTW can he have another naked torso of Ha Ran in the next episode, please?!!!
Episode 3
I love this drama so much. Kim Yoo Jung is was so adorable.
The Emperor heard the cacophony of hootings made by a parliament of owls in the palace ground.
The Emperor said that it is widely believed that the owls were prolocutors of wronged spirits and this is worrying.
Meanwhile, in Inwang mountain, the guards were killed and incinerated by the water demon who then went to search for Chun Gi, who at that time was being waylaid by the butterfly deity who had become the guardian of both Haran and Chun Gi.
Chun Gi, however, was determined to get home at the institute before her teacher found out that she was still out.
The butterfly deity can’t really delay her any longer.
The water demon finally found Chun Gi and was about to pluck out her eyes when time seemed to stand still. Then there was a glowing huge tiger who turned into a young deity, the mountain goddess of Inwang.
She told the water demon that he was trespassing in her territory and wanted him to be gone.
He tried to ignore her but he was in her territory where she rules. So after so my beautiful CGI of a luminous tiger beating up a black smokey water demon, Ho Ryung, the Mountain deity flung him on a tree where he was immediately tied in animated twigs, roots, and branches.
Then, the water demon once again disappeared from Haran, who then fell down on top of Chun Gi.
Chun Gi was annoyed at first but when she realised that the man on top of her was the handsome palanquin man, she made sure that he was alive.
She then carried/dragged the unconscious Haran on her back to the empty Inwang ink institute where she made him comfortable on that cold winter night.
She woke up later sleeping next to him. She apologised profusely for taking advantage of his warmth but she got worried when he woke up and then fainted once again. She decided to get a doctor.
But when she got to the institute, her teacher put her under lock and key when she explained that she found an unconscious handsome guy.
Her teacher thought she was too boy-mad. BTW, the teacher should encourage her to be boy-mad and get married because at this point she is at least 28 years old.
Anyway, the palace and the princes found out that Supervisor Ha (Haran) had been missing in the mountain and send their people to investigate the deaths of the guards who first went looking for him.
Prince Joo Yang brought Mi Soo with him and said that the guards were definitely killed by the water demon.
Finally Chun Gi was able to convince Joo Daek to help her.
Together with a medicine doctor, they quickly went back to the mountains but they saw a lone rider ahead of them.
It was Man Soo who heard the whistle from the now conscious Ha Ran.
Ha Ran was gratified that Man Soo had turned up but told him to hide when they heard Chun Gi running towards them.
Ha Ran was happy she was back as she reminded so much of his first love, the girl with the plum blossoms.
Chun Gi was equally happy to see him up and about.
Ha Ran asked her for her name rather urgently.
She said shyly … Hong… Hong …Hong.
So he said could it be Hong Hong Hong?!!!
She gave a little giggle and said Hong Chun Gi.
Ha Ran was surprised because that girl he used to know was also called Hong Chun Gi.
Could they be the same girl?!!!
So cute.
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
It was found that Chun Gi was the divine painter the Emperor had been looking for.
Aww cute, they finally reconciled as Ha ram and Chungi. Awww and they had a kiss but it activated his water demon persona.
Because of this he told her to forget him, he was not the boy she knew from childhood.
A Police university professor, Yoo Dong Man, who is also a police detective cooperates with two of his student to solve a crime.
Episode 1
It started with Yoo Dong Man being a hapless undercover policeman who was trying to infiltrate an illegal gambling den. He did not only lose the men but he also lost 100,000 while gambling.
At the same time that Yoo Dong Man was fighting the gamblers,
Kang Sun Ho, who was an ace computer hacker and was asked to help his adoptive brother to show off and confess to a girl, Eun Ji while he was in a judo contest.
Unfortunately for his brother, Sun Ho got destructed by a feisty girl, Oh Kang Hee who was a judo contestant as well and had just lost her match.
Kang Sun Ho was looking at her defeated and disappointed face and he fell in love.
His brother was so annoyed when his confession was given to Oh Kang Hee while Eun Ji walked off in disgust.
Ok Kang Hee was disgusted at him and found his confession absolutely humiliating when she had just lost.
Kang Sun Ho was an orphan. Yoon Taek Il was his father’s friend who took him in when Kang Sun Ho’s mother died. He had to get used to living with his new family which was very hard at first as Yoon Seung-Beom saw him as an enemy and used him to practice his judo.
Poor Kang Sun Ho would often be left bruised and bleeding. His only escape was electronics. His adoptive father runs an electronic shop.
Over the years, it got easier and Yoon Seung-Beom even became his best friend. But still, he was always treated differently from Yoon Seung-Beom.
But then the father and son got into an accident. They then found out that Yoon Taek Il has stage one cancer and it would cost 5K for an operation.
As a hacker who was so desperate, Kang Sun Ho hacked into an illegal gambling money transfer which was being monitored by the local police.
The boys got their money and as luck would have it, Kang Sun Ho also passed the written exam for the police course. So he was happy and his father had his surgery.
But then Yoo Dong Man finally got the boys through cctv.
They were arrested and their father begged on his bended knees for Yoo Dong Man to give the boys a second chance.
Yoo Dong Man finally agreed but told the boys that he never wanted to see their faces again.
But as luck would have it Dong Man was the one doing the interview for the new recruit at the Korean National Police University.
Episode 2
Yoon Seung-Beom and Kang Sun Ho decided to enlist in the military together seeing that Kang Sun Ho may not be able to get into the police academy.
Yoo Dong Man did everything to get Kang Sun Ho to drop out of the police course. Even the other students felt pity for Kang Sun Ho for what he was being punished for.
Episode 3
Despite his prejudice, Yoo Dong Man could not help to develop a bit of sympathy for Kang Sun Ho who came to beg him to give him another chance.
Yoo Dong Man said it was not the first time though that Kang Sun Ho hacked to transfer money to his account.
He was then shown a cctv when he took 7K for his father’s surgery and then another 5K for his brother to go to university.
Poor Kang Sun Ho was left bereft on his knees.
But then Yoo Dong Man found out that Kang Sun Ho was actually the hacker, Yoon, he was friendly with and heavily relied on to solve his cases previously.
Episode 4
Chun Jin woke up from a coma but with dissociative amnesia.
Yoo Dong Man doesn’t believe it though.
One of the students posted a video of Oh Kang Hee and her convict mother.
Episode 5
Yoo Dong Man and Kung Sun Ho have investigated Kwon Hyeok Pil and found him to have a solid alibi.
