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Ji Sung re-lives the past as Judge Lee Han-young
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Park Hee-son, Ji Sung, Won Jin-ah
MBC has officially announced Judge Lee Han-young, lining up Ji Sung (Connection) to play our title character and corrupted hero in this webnovel-adaptation. With the story following his redemption journey, a miraculous but handy timeslip awaits him for a do-over, taking him 10 years back into the past to begin righting all his wrongs.
At that 10-year crossroads in the past, Lee Han-young (Ji Sung) had been working as the sole judge in a small district court, located in the South Chungcheong province in South Korea. In the original timeline, he married up – as they say – and became the slave son-in-law to the head of a large law firm. And since then, Han-young had been stuck inside the law firm’s pockets, abusing his position to cater to his in-laws while also gaining personal benefits.
In this story, Park Hee-soon (Squid Game 2) will be standing in opposition against Han-young in the role of Kang Shin-jin, an influential senior judge at a Seoul district courthouse, dealing with criminal law. His impressive reach also gave Shin-jin a seat in a shadow government group, when working under a former president of South Korea.
Reluctantly teaming up with Han-young is Won Jin-ah (Unicorn) playing prosecutor Kim Jin-ah, who is also based in Seoul. Jin-ah’s main goal is to take down our tale’s S Group chairman Jang Tae-shik. And though she welcomes Han-young’s offer of help, she’s confused by his conflicting actions and she’s torn between trust and distrust.
Adapted from a popular webnovel by the same title, production for the legal fantasy has PD Lee Jae-jin (Motel California, The Spies Who Loved Me) and PD Park Mi-yeon co-directing, along with scripts by Kim Kwang-min. MBC’s Judge Lee Han-young is slated to premiere towards the end of 2025.
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