Lee Je-hoon and squad put away baddies in new teaser MGG

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Lee Je-hoon and squad put away baddies in new teaser

by Jenzy

The teaser for MBC’s upcoming cop show Chief Detective 1958 just dropped, showcasing a young detective Lee Je-hoon (Taxi Driver 2) ready to kick butt and take names on the streets of 1950s Seoul.

More than just a blast to the past in its setting, the show also serves as a prequel to the insanely popular 70s and 80s show Chief Inspector where Choi Bool-am played the lead role of Park Young-han. Instead of seeing a seasoned detective work crimes, the prequel takes us more than ten years back to when a young Young-han (Lee Je-hoon) was a headstrong rookie cop. Holding the record for most arrests back in his hometown province, the story follows Young-han as he arrives in Seoul with a fistful of righteous indignation and tenacity, only to find the city filled with more crime and corruption than he could have ever expected.

But thankfully, Young-han isn’t the only one with a taste for justice. After befriending three other cops played by Lee Dong-hwi (Big Bet), Choi Woo-sung (Melancholia), and Yoon Hyun-soo (A Good Day to Be a Dog), Young-han and the dream team work together to take down criminals and put them away.

The teaser opens with Young-han’s introduction to the Seoul police force, and we quickly cut to the low moments for him and his team: bank robberies, murders, and car explosions that take the lives of innocents. As he looks at one of the victim’s family members through a window, Young-han solemnly vows: “I will catch the perpetrator no matter what.”

We then cut to an upbeat montage of them fighting mobs and being young goofy cops trying to make a difference in a system that fails to punish the wrong and protect the weak. Their idealism is infectious, and when they strut through the door as a quartet in the final scene of the teaser, the voiceover hammers home what we’re already beginning to see: this is the start of something big.

Written by Kim Young-shin and directed by Kim Sung-hoon (Rampant), MBC’s Chief Inspector 1958 will air sometime this year.