The Best of Kdramas

City Hunter

Cast:
Lee Min Ho
Goo Hara
Park Min Young
Lee Joon Hyuk

Plot:
Decades agi, an elite team if South Korean security officers carried out a covert mission in North Korea to kill the top officials responsible for an attack on the South Korean president. But when the successful team returned to the submarine to take them back to the South Korea, a sniper shot all the officers to eliminate all traces of the mission from the outside world. Officer Park Moo Yul sacrificed his own life to save his best friend, Lee Jin Pyo, who is the only survivor of the mission known as "Clean Sweep". To fulfill a promise to his best friend, Jin Pyo kidnaps Moo Yul's son, Lee Yoon Sung, and raises him in a remote area of Thailand to become an elite combat soldier while patiently plotting to seek revenge on the "Council of Five" Korean government officials who planned operation Clean Sweep. After earning a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, the highly trained Yoon Sung returns to South Korea tow work at the Blue House's National Communication Network Team and carry out Jin Pyo's plan for revenge under the codename "City Hunte". Yoon Sung is aided in his quest by Bae Man Duk, a gambler he saved from thugs in Thailand, and by Kim Na Na, a Blur House bodyguard who finds out his real identity and falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Prosecutor Kim Young Joo, a son of one of the Council of Five, tries to root out corruption in the government while also trying to track and learn his real identity of the City Hunter. Can Yoo Sung succeed ir will his heart get in the way of his ability to follow through with his mission?