Yang Jung Kook has been a con artist all his life, so the last thing he thought was to be conned by his partner and girlfriend, who runs away with the money of their last con job.
While heartbroken, Jung Kook goes clubbing and meets Kim Mi Young, who's also heartbroken over a cheating boyfriend...pretty obviously the two start to talk, end up dating and eventually get married. That's when Mi Young reveals to Jung Kook her real job: she's a detective!
Two years have passed and Jung Kook, being afraid to get busted by his own wife, keeps emotionally distant to Mi Young. Problem is that Park Hoo-Ja, a loan shark and daughter of a man he conned 3 years prior, finds him and forces him to run for the National Assembly, so she can get a law about private loans approved. Jung Kook immediately refuses, but has to accept when they threat to hurt Mi Young...
Park Hoo-Ja hires former assemblyman Kim Joo-Myung to teach Jung Kook: task that will prove to be quite tragicomic, being him completly clueless about politics and rather ignorant on any other aspect that doesn't involve conning people.
Another thing that Jung Kook has to deal with is that he's running against Mi Young's older brother, who's very competent and an idealist about the role of an assemblyman.
My Opinion👍👎
Due to the behind the scene's plottings and briberies, the drama shows the flaws of the political world and how a man, who's supposed to be the "bad guy" (being a con man) learns who twisted that is and tries to change it, even if at first it was just a way for him and his wife to stay alive.
My Fellow Citizens reminded me of the 2006 movie with Robin Williams and Laura Linney "Man Of the Year", where a comedian runs for President of the US.
I liked how the character of Jung Kook changes as he started his campaign, overcoming all the obstacles with his own original style.
I gave this drama the score you see down below because I have the feeling that the actor who portrays Jung Kook (Choi Si-Won) is given the same kind of character over and over: charismatic, a bit dummy but, in the end, good-hearted (as he did in the 2016 drama "She Was Pretty") and I also felt like Mi Young's older brother character could have been removed, it didn't add that much to the story.
FUN FACT: this is the second collab between Kim Min-Jung and Kim Eui-Sung (which interpret respectively loan shark Park Hoo-Ja & ex-assemblyman Kim Joo-Myung) whom also worked together in 2018's hit historical drama, Mr.Sunshine.
My Fellow Citizens reminded me of the 2006 movie with Robin Williams and Laura Linney "Man Of the Year", where a comedian runs for President of the US.
I liked how the character of Jung Kook changes as he started his campaign, overcoming all the obstacles with his own original style.
I gave this drama the score you see down below because I have the feeling that the actor who portrays Jung Kook (Choi Si-Won) is given the same kind of character over and over: charismatic, a bit dummy but, in the end, good-hearted (as he did in the 2016 drama "She Was Pretty") and I also felt like Mi Young's older brother character could have been removed, it didn't add that much to the story.
FUN FACT: this is the second collab between Kim Min-Jung and Kim Eui-Sung (which interpret respectively loan shark Park Hoo-Ja & ex-assemblyman Kim Joo-Myung) whom also worked together in 2018's hit historical drama, Mr.Sunshine.
Ranking: 2¾/5
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