Title: 미세스 캅 | Miseseu Cab | Mrs. Cop
Episodes:18
Broadcast Network: SBS
Broadcast Period: 2015-Aug-03 to 2015-Sep-29

Synopsis:

It is about the life of being a cop and how to balance that with having a family. Choi Young Jin is a single mother and at the same time the head of the violent crime division. She juggles her time with her work and being a mother. Most of the time she sacrifices her duty as a mom to solve the crimes in her division. She believes in justice and doing what’s right and her journey in doing that comes with a price.

Characters:

• Kim Hee Ae as Choi Young Jin
• Kim Min Jong as Park Jong Ho
• Lee Da Hee as Min Do Young
• Son Ho Joon as Han Jin Woo
• Shin So Yool as Choi Nam Jin
• Lee Ki Kwang as Lee Se Won
• Jung Soo Young as Hongbanjang
• Lee Ki Young as Yeom Sang Min
• Heo Jung Do (허정도) as Jo Jae Duk
• Shin Seung Hwan as Bae Dal Hwan
• Son Byung Ho as Kang Tae-Yoo
• Park Min Ha as Seo Ha Eun
• Park Sung-Geun as Yoon Sung-Geun
• Jeon Se-Hyun as Kim Min-Young
• Kim Kap-Soo as Park Ding-Il
• Lee Jae Kyoon as Nam Sang-Hyuk
• Yoo Hyung-Gwan as Choi Jae-Young
• Yang Hyun-Min as Lee Jin-Soo
• Jang Se-Hyun as Seo Seung-Woo
• Lee Hyun-Geol as Kang Tae-Yoo’s Entourage
• Lee Hye-In as Lee Mi-Gyung
• Lee Si-Won as Kang Ji-Yeon
• Han Jae-Young as Han Duk-Gyoo
• Ji Seung-Hyun as Oh Young-Nam
• Oh Cho-Hee as Oh A-Ra
• Joo Da-Young as Jang Eun-Young
• Yoo Jae-Myung as Accomplice
• Jang In-Sub as Ko Byung-Wook
• Kim Nan-Hee as Manager Park
• Ko In-Beom as Choi Sang-Ik
• Choi Hyo-Eun as Kim Na-Rae
• Yoo Yeon-Seok as Jo Young-Woo
• Na Kwang-Hoon as Triad Boss
• Yun Yong-Hyeon as Ma Tae-Soo
• Choi Min as Kwon Sung-Chul
• Kim Byung-Ok as Hired Killer
• Lee Joo-Sil as Restaurant Owner
• Lee Moon-Jung as Son Hyun-Joo
• Jang Se-Hyun as Seo Seung-Woo
• No Yoo-Joo as Lee Hye-Rin
• Oh Soon-Tae
• Do Yong-Gu
• Lee Jin-Kwon

My Review:

As much as I rate K-Dramas based on its entertainment value and less on the technical aspect of the drama or film, I still want for the errors to be less noticeable as possible. I started with first Episode hoping that the errors I normally see in K-Drama police procedures will be less because the storyline is about police per se but, unfortunately, just on the first episode the stupidity on how the police acts remains the same. It is frustrating to watch something that hopefully will make you get excited to look forward on the next episode yet it doesn’t deliver. I tried watching the second episode, but, again the stupidity of the scene where there’s a great number of police running after one suspect and yet still just one ended up successfully doing it without a back-up whatsoever is so ridiculous that you can’t help wonder if that is really the way in Korea. There’s another aspect of K-Dramas or Films I don’t like. It is the part when their superiors physically hurt when they reprimand their subordinates. I am not sure if that is really the way people in Korea again acts but I believe no matter how stupid your subordinate is, you have no right to kick him/her on the leg or hit him/her on the head. I’ve seen this time and time again in a lot K-Dramas and it does upset me especially if you get to see it in a police force where superiors should even act at a higher standard of morality and professionalism. One more, when it comes to the medical side. It seems K-Dramas don’t do enough research to make it more believable. Most of the time I see doctors telling the result of a terminal disease base on a radiographic x-ray. This is also beyond the capacity for me to ignore especially when the viewer is from a medical field like I am. On Episode 4 of this K-Drama, the victim was proven not to have committed suicide, yet the cause of real death is blunt force trauma when the victim hit her head on the side of the table and the culprits masked it by pushing the body to fall in a building. This is actually, in my humble opinion, the best way to hide the manner of death. The falling of the body in a building will definitely may cause a damage in the head of the victim, therefore, masking successfully the damage it initially sustained when the head hit the side of the table which is not even sharp. For an autopsy to automatically declare that it is not suicide, is truly beyond disbelief for me. It would have been more acceptable if it was declared inconclusive, and therefore, should merit further investigation. The mother and the romantic angle on this K-Drama also pales to attract me to watch. In the mother angle, I can understand that she spoils the child because she’s trying to make-up for not being with her especially in important occasions but I can’t connect with the lead and the child’s acting. I actually feel more the frustration of Choi Young Jin’s sister than Choi Young Jin herself. The love interest of Choi Young Jin, Park Jong Ho, is someone I can’t connect with. He doesn’t excite me whatsoever. So, I have no choice but stop watching after I forward it in a couple of episodes and took a peak in the ending.

Would I recommend this K-Drama? Not really.

My Rating to this Drama
( See My Rating System: ) 2/5 Stars

OST:
Pencil Lyrics – Hwang Ji Yeol