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Special Investigation Team |
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| Running time |
60 min |
| Starring |
Eom Gi-jun, Sim Eun-jin, Kim Heung-su  |
| Director |
Im Tae-u, Kim Kyung-Hui, Yeo In-jun, Lee Dong-yun |
| Writer |
Yeo Eun-hui, Choe Yun-jung, Kim Su-jin |
| Episode |
12 Eps |
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Synopsis |
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People worry about their future.
That is why people take out insurance policies.
Fear of death, disease, and freak accidents make people sign insurance policies
and when they succumb to death or a disease, they and their families receive a
payout from the insurance company.
Some people liken an insurance payout to winning the lottery. While others game
the system and use insurance policies like their own personal ATM.
Everyone is dangling on a roller coaster in life.
Every day, people will feel small at times or muster up the courage to take a
bolder stance. It’s a constant mix off backbiting and sycophant behavior at work
where hope and despair go hand in hand. Tragedy and happy endings are the luck
of the draw.
That is the life that salaried workers live in.
The characters in this TV drama are ordinary employees who display extraordinary
talents under extenuating circumstances.
They work around the borders of happiness and sadness as they unearth the truth
amidst the lies.
So every day, they are thrust on a roller coaster of highs and lows.
Everyone has a secret in their past.
It could be the smut porn that is stored in their hard drives or the power to
alter the fate of someone’s life. Even insurance policyholders, receivers of insurance
payouts, and insurance agents have a dark secret or two.
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Park Chan-ho (age: 34 / 7 years of experience
/ Junior employee) | actor Um Ki-joon He has three
likes and three dislikes in life... He loves booze, women, and con
artists... Why is that? Because they’re all fun to enjoy! His
three dislikes are booze, women, and con artists as well... Why?
Because they’re a pain in the neck! As someone who works for
an insurance company, he must treat customers courteously but even
though that’s the case, he doesn’t hesitate to talk bluntly to
customers who he thinks are trying to bilk the company. Constantly
getting into trouble, he does irrational things that confuse the
people around him. He will ramble around an accident side, looking
for clues with a sharp eye. He’ll try to haggle over the
price of a cheap $50 suit to buy it a rockbottom price. He carries
chopsticks with him all the time so that he can eat a morsel of
someone’s meal. When he’s exhausted, he’ll take a subway ride
on Line 2, which goes around the city nonstop, to take a nap with
his legs stretched out. He never feels any stress. He’ll go
to a barbershop once or twice a year to get a haircut. Sometimes
he won’t take a shower for more than a week. But when he has to
use the bathroom, he’ll relieve himself as soon as possible. He’ll
burp and fart whenever he has to.
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Joo Kang-lee (age: 29/ 5 years of experience
/ Assistant manager) | actress Shim Eun-jin What are
the similarities between Park Chan-ho and a con artist? They’re
both good liars. It’s hard to read their minds. They are both hard
to get a hold of! Frequently staying up all night at work
and going on trips to investigate accidents now and then have made
her one of the sharpest investigators on the team. She is proud
that she never made a mistake on the job even under a lot of work-related
stress. But don’t take her word for it. Whenever she gets drunk,
she’ll turn into someone entirely different and the next day, she’ll
wake up with no recollections of how she behaved in her drunken
stupor. Most of the times, she is a charismatic person who
can overwhelm people with the sheer power of her personality but
when she has a drink, she’ll turn into a pussycat and act like
a nubile, young girl. After kicking back a few shots of liquor,
she’ll dance on tables and sing like a rock star. But after
a night of drinking, she’ll appear at work the next day as her
usual self and this causes a state of confusion among her co-workers
on how to define her character. During a night out with her co-workers,
she’ll tell Ms. Jung, the secretary, that she can call her Kang-lee
instead of Ms. Joo but when Ms. Jung calls her that the next day,
she’ll get upset and berate her for it. She’ll act like she never
allowed Ms. Jung to call her that. She is one of the smartest
employees in the investigative unit. When she decides to interrogate
somebody, she’ll track them down and grill them for all their worth.
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Gong Chul-soo (age: 29 / New hire) |
actor Kim Heung-soo After being jobless for 3 years,
he barely got hired at an insurance company. He took English
language courses in America during summer and spring breaks. His
TOEIC score is nearly perfect. He graduated with a high GPA average. In
every company that he applied to, he always got a call to come in
for an interview. However, during every interview, he is told
that he gives canned answers and lacks any creativity! So he faced
rejection many times. For three years, he was in the pits of despair
and gloom. However, he finally got hired at one of the top five
insurance companies in Korea and his confidence was restored. Since
he found a job later in life than his peers, he is very eager to
get ahead. If he doesn’t get promoted within the next two years,
then he’ll never be able to attain his goal of becoming the youngest
CEO of an insurance company. So he needs to quickly master his duties
and perform well. But Chul-soo’s goals are shattered on the first
day on the job. According to his view, his life became stuck in
a tar pit on the very day when Park Chan-ho volunteered to look
after his back. Now Chul-soo’s goal is to get back on track!
But it’s not about getting a fast track promotion or becoming a
CEO any more He just wants to withstand Park Chan-ho, his bizarre
partner! That’s all he wants in life! He is obsessed about cleanliness
but some dirt or speck will alway escapes his probing eye.
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Bae Dong-shik
(age: 44/ 12 years of experience / Team leader) |actor Jung kyu-soo He
is the prototypical salary man who focuses on holding onto his job
while doing as minimal work as possible. He was once on a short
list of employees who were to be axed because he was deemed to be
incompetent. But he increased his lobbying efforts to key superiors
and became entrusted with the special investigations unit, surviving
the last round of layoffs. So Park Chan-ho is a ticking bomb. He
takes an aspirin every day to alleviate the headaches he gets from
all the trouble that Chan-ho causes. Whenever there is a
company reorganization or management shuffle, he tries as hard as
possible to get Chan-ho sent away to a different division but it
always backfires. Nowadays, Kang-lee has become a double threat
because she never knows when to drop a case that the higher-ups
already cleared. Because of her actions, he begins to suffer more
stress and gets constipated. He also has to concentrate more on
extinguishing any problems that erupt at work that might jeopardize
his cushy job. (He also seems to have hemorrhoids. But he is doing
everything he can to cure it.) But when the dust settles, he defends
the actions of his team, showing them that he has a big heart. He
watches CSI and reads crime thrillers to retain his touch as a detective
and he sometimes perturbs his team by trying to pigeonhole accidents
into similar cases he saw on a CSI episode. |
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Yeo Han-soo
(age: 41/ 9 years of experience / Senior manager) | actor Lee Doo-il Having
a law degree, he follows the rulebook and never errs. But at
night, he turns into a wild party animal at expensive gentlemen
clubs. He will agree with both sides of an argument and always
stand in the middle ground, which makes him look like a sly operator,
but his behavior is actually the product of extreme self-preservation
where he doesn’t want to make enemies with anyone. He’ll
wait for someone else to make a mistake first. Since he’ll never
take a certain stance on any matter, he’ll be the mediator for
arguments thereby removing himself from any position that might
carry repercussions. He carries a copy of Reader’s Digest
all the time and likes talking a lot but most of the time, he loafs
around at work. He’ll try to offload his work to other people. While
Bae Dong-shik is like a fox, Yeo Han-soo is a raccoon. When Mr.
Bae slanders prosecutors and judges for their incompetence, Mr.
Yeo will counter such insults by airing his low opinion of detectives
and cops. When Kang-lee and Chan-ho quarrel at an accident site,
Mr. Bae and Mr. Yeo will verbally slug each other in the office. |
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Jung Joo-ri (age:
23 / Secretary / Runs an online merchant shop) | singer Sol-be He
has a peculiar character. She graduated from a commercial
girls’ high school but she didn’t study hard and wandered from
one job to another. She met many mean and strange people during
her job-hopping days and she talks like a madam of a bordello. She
is also a blunt, straightforward person and has little regard for
the feelings of others. Her hair and clothes are straight out
from Japan’s Harajuku street style and she’ll come out with a
new look every day. Her choice of clothes confounds the people at
work but she hardly notices the effect that her clothes have on
others.
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