City Hunter starring Lee Min Ho and Park Min Young
This tightly plotted, intense, beautifully shot romantic thriller is one of the best dramas of 2011. Critically acclaimed and widely loved by viewers, it stars two of Korea's most talented young actors. Lee Min Ho shot to fame in 2009's Boys Over Flowers, while Park Min Young had a breakout role in 2010's Sungkyunkwan Scandal. Loosely based on a manga of the same name by Tsukasa Hojo, this is one revenge drama done right.
In 1983, 21 South Korean military operatives are sent into North Korea on a secret mission. After completing their mission, they are executed by their own side in the waters off North Korea in a government cover-up. There is one survivor: Lee Jin Pyo, who watches as his closest friend died beside him. Taking his friend's son, Jin Pyo raises him as his own and trains him with one goal: to take revenge on the men responsible for this massacre.
Some twenty years later, a brilliant young man joins the international communications team of the Blue House (Korea's White House). Lee Yoon Sung (Lee Min Ho) has but one mission in mind: to find and bring down the five men responsible for the murder of his father and the destruction of his life. To do so, he must hide his identity, his fighting skills, and his true nature. In his quest for revenge, however, he also enacts justice, and is given the nickname "City Hunter" by the populace, who know only of a shadowy figure exposing corruption in their city. Torn between his surrogate father's drive for vengeance and Kim Na Na (Park Min Young), the girl whose courage and innocence touch him, Yoon Sung must fight to survive, and choose the path he will take.
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