Gyeongseong Creature (Season 1) 2023-24 Korean Drama Review Details

- Information -

Series Name: Gyeongseong Creature

Season: 1

Episodes: 10

Running time: 65min - 74min

Language: Hindi - English - Korean Dubbed

Subtitles: Multi (English)

Genres: Action | Drama | History | Mystery | Horror | Thriller

IMDb: 7.4/10 - MyDramaList: 8.5/10

Star Cast: Park Seo Joon, Han So Hee, Kim Su Hyun, Wi Ha Joon

Director: Jung Dong Yoon

Writer: Kang Eun Kyung

Network: Netflix

Release Date: 22 December 2023

Content Rating: U/A 16+

Country of origin: South Kore 

 

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- Storyline  -

Set in 1945, in Gyeongseong (old name for Seoul), South Korea.

Jang Tae-Sang (Park Seo-Jun) is a wealthy man. He is know as the most attractive man around Bukchon in Gyeongseong. He is also a reliable source for information around the area. His talents, including ability to react quickly to situations, having a keen insight, and sociability, have led him to his current position. He gets soon gets involved with Yoon Chae-Ok (Han So-Hee), which leads him to reevaluate his priorities as a person.

Yoon Chae-Ok is famous as a todugun (person who finds missing people). As a young child, she traveled between Manchuria and Shanghai, China with her father. Her life was not easy and she learned at that time how to survive. She developed skills with shooting guns, using knives and handling machines. Her mother went missing 10 years ago. To find her mother, Yoon Chae-Ok arrives in Gyeongseong. There, she becomes involved with Jang Tae-Sang. They follow a series of mysterious missing person cases and they come upon a terrible reality.

- Review -

Gyeongseong Creature is a masterpiece of a series. If only all series were half as good. I looked forward to watching it every night. I couldn't just watch one; I watched two. 

Park Seo-Joon, the leading man, played a very handsome and dapper businessman, Jang Tae-Sang, who was blackmailed by the Police Chief who wanted him to find his missing mistress. This is where the whole story begins. He hires two sleuths, to help him, a father and daughter, Toon Chae-ok, played by Han So-hee, and Yoon Joong-won, played by Jo Han-Chul. They were amazing sleuths with super fighting abilities. 

The storyline led me down a riveting road weighted by the most evil bad guys - scientists who experimented on people, treating them as though they were less than bugs.  Oh my goodness - talk about evil. Three main evil characters in the show define the word evil; the makers of a monster, but they are the real monsters. Lady Maeda, played by Claudia Kim, Choi Young, Joon, a handsome military commander, and the main scientist/Dr.  The military commander seemed even more evil because he was handsome for some strange reason. You look at someone who is handsome but completely evil and it creates a very weird paradox. He really oozed evil, like a lemon being squeezed of all its juice that you have to taste. He's such a brilliant actor. The show was brilliantly cast. 

I don't want to give too much of the plot away but the storyline is so thick with evil-doings that led to the creation of the creature. The sight of it! OMG.... They did an excellent job with CGI.

Toon Chae-ok was very aloof towards Jang Tae-Sang at first, but he made it clear that he liked her. When she gradually warmed to him it created a real big impact. Romance blossomed but in the most subtle and yet powerful way because it was clean and pure, not vulgar. Vulgar is the norm in Western movies and series that show couples leaping into bed with each other, faster than Jack Sprat. 

But in Gyeongseong Creature, a touch of a hand was so much more romantic. I'm not used to seeing proper romance in films and TV shows. It's so easy to forget that it exists due to the common wordly depiction of so-called romance that I find very unromantic. But the romance in Gyeongseong Creature was so refreshingly different, showing the depth of what romance is really all about, which has nothing to do with s-x, which just cheapens the relationship and makes it seem as though the relationship is just about a love of it.  'If you like someone, cop-off with him/her -  only children hold hands'.

The filmmakers behind Gyeongseong Creature can teach Western filmmakers a thing or two about portraying romance.  Anyway, the series is a lot more than a romance series. It’s an intriguing thriller, packed with action, evil plots, heroes, and more.

I loved every minute of watching it. As I wrote earlier - it's a masterpiece.

Review by :- Jaydee Daley

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