The Man from the Equator

Top billed cast

Uhm Tae-woong
Kim Sun-woo
Lee Jun-hyuk
Lee Jang-il
Lee Bo-young
Han Ji-won
Im Jung-eun
Choi Soo-mi
Kim Yeong-cheol
Jin No-shik
Lee Won-jong
Lee Yong-bae
Lee Jae-yong
Choi Kwang-chun
Cha Hwa-yeon
Ma Hee-jung
Park Se-young
young Soo-mi
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Season 1

2012 | 20 Episodes

Seon Woo helps out Jang Il and his father Yong Bae, who are going through rough times because of loan sharks. Feeling grateful, Jang Il offers to help Seon Woo with his studies and they become close friends. But to help cover up Chairman Jin’s crime, Yong Bae makes it look like Seon Woo’s father committed suicide and knowing about all this, Jang Il tries to kill Seon Woo to prevent him from filing a petition and they become enemies. Having barely survived, Seon Woo loses his sight from the shock of the incident and pretends to have lost his memory in order to find the truth. With the help of Tae Ju, who pretends to be his father, Seon Woo is rescued from despair and reappears in front of Jang Il now as a successful businessman. Still receiving threats from Chairman Jin, Jang Il is flustered by Seon Woo’s reappearance and now Seon Woo’s revenge begins.

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A review by ParkMin

Written by ParkMin on 2024-01-09

It amplifies the sarcastic mid-2000s melo cliches to the max, something about is just endearing to watch despite its comical nature, that's why it worked back then. But this drama kept it going for too long and it started to get annoying. Some scenes were too obvious they were added to pad its length, I would say these were the worst part about the drama. These useless scene were more important than the story according to the director and writer since the story was filled with incomprehensible skips and gaps in every other episodes that each left its own problems. I'm not asking a melodrama cl...read the rest

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