Kdrama 2024

Red Swan (Kdrama Review & Summary)

Red Swan poster

• Genre: Romance, Action, Mystery
• Release Date: 3 July 2024
• Origin: South Korea, Disney+
• Kdrama: 10 Episodes

Cast

• Kim Ha Neul as Oh Wan Soo
• Rain as Seo Do Yoon
• Jung Gyu Woon as Kim Yong Guk
• Seo Yi Sook as Park Mi Ran
• Yoon Je Moon as Han Sang Il
• Ki Eun Se as Jang Tae Ra
• Shin Soo Jung as Secretary Yoon

Quick Precis

Oh Wan Soo, a professional golf player who wanted it all; live the perfect life of marrying into one of the the top echelon of society.  She married the heir to Hwain Group and becomes the chairman of a foundation who gained international fame through her charity activities.  Oh Wan Soo was assigned Seo Do Yoo as her bodyguard.Seo Do Yoo had a hidden agenda against Hwain Group.

Oh Wan Soo and seo Do Yoo became dangerously drawn to each other.

Episode 1

Oh Wan Soo is married to the heir of Hwain Group.  She is popular as herself having been a professional golfer.

Nowadays, she is busy with her many charities including empowerment of women.  She was championing a young girl who became and ophan after her parents were killed by terrorist.  The girl then became a sex slave until she got away.

Because of Oh Wan Soo’s involvement with the girl’s care, she became a target of the terrorist group.

She was in Manila, Philippines, when she became a target of a shooter.  Luckily for her a former military man, Seo Do Yoo happened to witness what was happening and rescued her.  He then took her to the South Korean Embassy where she reunited with her husband, Kim Yong Guk.

Later on, Oh Wan Soo gave a press conference where she said that she was not backing down from threats.

Her mother-in-law was incandescent with rage of what Oh Wan Soo was doing.  Still Oh Wan Soo had made up her mind that she will stand by her words.

She met her new bodyguard who happens to be Seo Do Yoo.

I like the first episode.  It is quite thrilling.