title: search
cast: jang dong yoon, krystal jung, moon jeong hee, yoon park, lee hyun wook
genre: military thriller drama
sergeant yong dong jin (jang dong yoon) is a military dog handler that has 3 weeks left before he's discharged from his military duty. unfortunately, he didn't get easy task. he was given a task to contain a wild wolf. his other teammates are way too "green" in the field that they accidentally shot him with the tranquilizer instead of the wolf. that's the first case that he met his ex-girlfriend, son ye rim (krystal jung). son ye rim is a first lieutenant and an elite officer in KCST command center. later, both of them met again in a special assignment where both of them were told to find a missing officer in the DMZ area. the assignment was a joint mission between the military and KCST.
in that assignment, the team was assigned to find a missing corporal. and there was a suspicion of a rabies dog involved. they found the the missing corporal dead with mysterious attack marks on the body and they also encountered with the rabies dog, but it displayed weird condition that doesn't associated with rabies. they also encountered with a mysterious target, the one that was assumed to attack the corporal, they managed to kill the rabies dog but the hunt of the target caused a tragedy. dong jin had to lost the military dog, which was a sad event. but the other team members managed to get alive.
back in the command center, dong jin was apprehended because he lost the military dog, and it was died, thus the lost of military asset. while ye rim continued to investigate the case. they found out that there was a weird cell growth in the blood sample, from both the rabies dog and the corporal body, as well as radiation traces, so they suspected there was a radioactive spillage as well. KCST decided to deploy a team to investigate further, but higher command in the military had another agenda. apparently, both the general and the assemblyman involved in an incident back in 1997 in the DMZ area as well. it led to a major tragedy that the truth was still uncovered. both of them tried to bury the 1997 case, so both of them planted their own men in the team.
dong jin and ye rim had to work with captain song min gyu (yoon park) that dong jin encountered while being held by the military police. both of them questioned the captain's way to do the job, but they still had to do it anyway since he's the team captain. apparently, he was the general's man. there was first lieutenant lee joon sung (lee hyun wook), a son of the assemblyman that thought his father was truly a war hero, so he wanted to join the military to make his father proud. his father was in the running to become a president at that time, so any scandal regarding the old 1997 DMZ case was a threat to him.
the case got out of control when one of dong jin old team members was found dead in the headquarter while the team were out to find the target. fortunately, dong jin got help from villagers. one of the biggest help was kim da jeong (moon jeong hee). at first they thought she was curious, but her ability to investigate some weird events in the village help the team to find the target. they managed to kill the target only to find that there was a possibility about another target in the wood when da jeong's daughter, su yeong was missing in the wood. she was found in a deserted building in the wood unharmed, and she said there was a weird but kind man that helped her.
while they were trying to catch the first target, dong jin stumbled upon an old camcorder, the one from 1997 case. he found out that lee hyuk, the assemblyman as well as joon sung's father was not a war hero. he was in fact, the murderer that killed his own teammate as well as telling lie that dong jin's father, captain jo defected to north korea, leaving dong jin and his mother. the video got leaked to the press that made the assemblyman to assemble an assassin team to kill the whole team except for his son. he also killed the general when the general was about to come out with the truth about 1997 case. the team was once again given an assignment to catch the other target as well as hidden assignment given to captain song to find a mysterious substance that was left in the abandoned building in 1997.
the team found out that the abandoned building was quite complicated. they found the remain of the north korean soldier that was about to defect to south korea together with his wife and daughter back in 1997. both his wife and daughter involved in the DMZ case that left his wife killed while his daughter was safe. the soldier found captain jo that was wounded in the boat previously used by his wife. he attacked captain jo and got killed instead. while captain jo was severely wounded. the north korean soldier apparently brought a radioactive substance which then affected captain jo and the stranded dog that was killed in the beginning of the series. the dog then attacked corporal oh and thus the story began. back to the present day, captain song contacted assemblyman and informed their position, only to find the support team was an assassin team. he made a good choice at the end to not betray his team. later when assemblyman was about to kill both dong jin, ye rim and the mysterious target that turned out to be captain jo (dong jin's father), joon sung appeared and sacrificed himself. at the end, dong jin and ye rim managed to get away from the building that was rigged by explosion, while dong jin's father sacrificed himself and prevented the assemblyman from running away.
end of the story was quite surprising. ye rim has been trying to find her birth parents, but the only person who knew the truth kept dodging her. moving away when she found him. apparently, ye rim was the baby from 1997 case, both of her parents were the defected north korean soldier that got killed in 1997 case. quite a long stretch.
what i like:
- well, most of the casts are good in their acting. since this is a military story, not surprising to see krystal to be stiff even when she met her ex boyfriend.
- no plot hole. everything was answered at the end, though you'd see that it's quite simple for a complicating beginning.
what i don't like:
- usual story about people in power trying their best to cover the truth, even from their own son or daughter.
- some scene were ridiculous, like when krystal was frantically holding on to her mobile phone while being attacked by rise-from-the-death corporal oh. why not hit an alarm or something rather than trying to find dong jin's number or the fellow scientist number?
- bad CG and makeup effect on the corporal as well as captain jo that got infected by radioactive substance.
- how captain jo's clothes managed to keep intact even after 25 years. and how he could stay fit and not super skinny considering he was out in the wood, with no proper food and sleep in an abandoned building.
rating: 7/10
binge worthy: not so much
recommended for: people who was a fan of yang dong yoon or krystal jung, doesn't mind poor CG effect and a combination with mystery (not so mystery) military thriller case but turned out to be simple story line.
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