Lee Joon-hyuk transformed into Seo Dong-jae, the taste he knows best. Lee Joon-hyuk of the TVING original series ‘Good or Bad Dong-jae’ has transformed 360 degrees and returned as the perfect Seo Dong-jae, announcing his perfect return.

You can write it as Lee Joon-hyuk and read it as Seo Dong-jae. Lee Joon-hyuk of the series ‘Good or Bad Dong-jae’ (directed by Park Gun-ho, creator Lee Soo-yeon, script by Hwang Ha-jeong and Kim Sang-won, produced by Studio Dragon, Ace Factory, and High Ground, provided by TVING) released on TVING on the 10th, returned as Seo Dong-jae for the third time following ‘Secret Forest’ and ‘Secret Forest 2’.

Lee Joon-hyuk returns with a Dong-jae that goes beyond being a Dong-jae that you can‘t hate, but a Dong-jae that you end up embracing. Empathy and sadness are added to Seo Dong-jae’s (played by Lee Joon-hyuk) life, and the events that unfold flow spectacularly. This is the perfect return of the protagonist Lee Jun-hyeok, who has a reason.

In ‘Good or Bad Dong-jae’, Dong-jae starts off with the shameless, sly, and familiar face of Seo Dong-jae, who slips up from a promotion and swears alone in the elevator, but smiles leisurely in front of people. Dong-jae in ‘Good or Bad Dong-jae’, stands by his manager‘s side again and works hard for his next promotion. As you smile in joy, thinking, ‘Seo Dong-jae is back,’, you sympathize with Dong-jae’s office worker life, enduring and living each day. Meanwhile, the ‘Real Case’ that happened at the Cheongju District Prosecutors‘ Office makes Dong-jae excited again.

As he reminisces about the time in the past when he was a veteran prosecutor who was kidnapped while catching the real culprit of a murder case and was the center of attention, Dong-jae waits only for the ‘Wang Geon Incident’, and the concealment of a body that unfolds right before his eyes, and his second kidnapping, which he may or may not experience once in his life. To Dong-jae, kidnapping is an experience and a career.

Now he has the luxury of persuading the kidnapper. For him, who presents a new technology that allows him to survive even in a near-death situation with splendid speech, the real crisis comes from ‘me’. From Seo Dong-jae, the sponsor prosecutor of the Western District Prosecutors’ Office in the past, who took whatever was given and enjoyed power in the dark. Seo Dong-jae, the ‘first-person regretful male protagonist’, who forms a relationship of hatred with himself and regrets his past self. Expectations and interest are focused on the future of Seo Dong-jae, who has been embroiled in internal conflict since the first week of the broadcast, whether he will be able to shed the stigma of being a sponsor prosecutor and become a slightly better person, a veteran prosecutor.

Lee Joon-hyuk met the expectations of viewers who have been waiting for another Seo Dong-jae by 200%. His vivid acting, as if he had changed his personality, brought to mind the phrase ‘as expected’. Lee Joon-hyuk‘s character Seo Dong-jae, who expanded from his growth in the play to the series, was completed through Lee Joon-hyuk’s gradual transformation in acting. From Seo Dong-jae in “Secret Forest,” who was the epitome of an ambitious villain, to “Secret Forest 2,” who was a “survival prosecutor” who burned with aspiration, to “Good or Bad Dong-jae,” who seeks to regain the glory of a veteran prosecutor as the main character. He made a character that could not be hated into an indispensable character, and then made him into a character that viewers cannot help but love. The actor‘s natural charm melted into the character, and he stood close to viewers as the friendly and humane Seo Dong-jae. Here, the comedic elements expressed even more skillfully and wittily, as well as the colorful aspects that go back and forth between triviality and professionalism, make Seo Dong-jae shine even more as the main character, and announced the birth of a complete spin-off that you can’t take your eyes off of him.

Now, when you actively support and cheer on Seo Dong-jae, who has become the main character, you will become immersed in the exciting life of Seo Dong-jae, who will see if he can have a better tomorrow as a veteran prosecutor. The tvING original series ‘Good or Bad Dong-jae’ is pre-released on tvING every Thursday, and airs on tvN on Mondays and Tuesdays at 9 PM.

Jo Sung-woon, reporter for Donga.com madduxly@donga.com