I watched this Korean drama Suits (2018) because I love both lead male actors, veteran Jang Dong Gun (A Gentleman's Dignity), and newer actor Park Hyung Sik (Heirs). I thought they made an excellent team! South Korea seems to favor a trend of setting up younger actors with older actors with more on-screen experience so that the younger actor can go to school on the older and learn more about the art of acting than if they just took an acting class or relied solely on the director to tell them how to emote for scenes.

Jang Dong Gun and Park Hyung Sik

This Korean drama was based on a popular Japanese television drama and the derivative Korean script was written by Kim Jung Min, and the directors were Kim Jin Woo and Kwon Yong Il. The drama lasted sixteen episodes long but I think with more judicious editing it could have gone down to twelve episodes and flowed more smoothly, without sacrificing quality. This is a good drama to watch on weekends. It might be too tiring if you work in an office all day to come home at night and watch a drama set in another business environment. It's up to you! Just a fair warning. I work at home so it didn't bother me to take breaks and fill them up with watching two great looking Korean men! 

The Story:

We meet Choi Kang Seok (Jang Dong Gun) who is the best lawyer at the prestigious Kang & Ham Law Firm in Seoul. At the beginning of the story he is promoted to a senior partner by the head honchos in his firm but truthfully may not be quite fully ready yet for all that extra responsibility in his office.

Then we meet the much younger Go Yeon Woo (Park Hyung Sik) who has a photographic memory and excellent comprehension skills. He dreamed of becoming a lawyer but due to his poor family background he currently only works as a parking valet. To pay for his grandmother's expensive hospital bills he takes a job to deliver what may be illegal drugs to a suspicious hotel room. During a visit to the hotel room Go Yeon Woo realizes that he is falling into a trap and may need help to extricate himself from the bad situation.

Go Yeon Woo is then chased down by the police, but he manages to get into the chief secretary's office for Lawyer Choi Kang Seok. At that same time a group of young lawyers are waiting to take interviews with Choi Kang Seok. He is going to select a rookie lawyer for the law firm after conducting these interviews. Go Yeon Woo pretends to be a legal candidate and is then admitted into Choi Kang Seok's office.

 

During his interview with this non-lawyer but bright kid Choi Kang Seok senses that Go Yeon Woo is not the applicant they called in for the interview, but he is still very much impressed with Go Yeon Woo's intelligence & photographic memory. Those are definitely exceptional talents than can help any job applicant, not just one for a rookie legal job. Against his better judgment, Choi Kang Seok decides to hire Go Yeon Woo as a rookie lawyer, even though the kid does not have a license to practice law. Choi Kang Seok's decision could even place his own legal career in jeopardy at the Kang & Ham Law Firm. (Why he didn't just hire him as a paralegal I have no idea!).

 

What will come of this odd professional coupling? Will both men be fired from the prestigious law firm, or will they manage to succeed regardless?

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There isn't much romance to speak of in this drama. There are attractive females floating around (actresses Jin Hee Kyung, Chae Jung An,    Ko Sung Hee) but I feel their parts could have been played by any reasonably talented Korean actresses. The main focus is always first on the handsome two male lead characters and that's as it should be. Check it out and see if you like it. For me this kind of talent just can't go wrong!

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