Are You Human Too?

June 4, 2018

Nam Shin III (Seo Kang-joon), the android built to resemble the comatose Nam Shin, is activated and sent to Korea to take his place. His uncanny near-humanity is immediately apparent. The Gangnam corporate district establishes PK Group's world.

June 4, 2018

Kang So-bong (Gong Seung-yeon) is assigned as Nam Shin III's bodyguard. She is the first to suspect something is fundamentally different about him.

June 11, 2018

The specific ways Nam Shin III's android nature reveals itself — not through malfunction but through his genuine lack of cruelty, his inability to dissemble.

June 11, 2018

So-bong's growing certainty that the man she is guarding is not entirely human — and her decision about what to do with that certainty.

June 18, 2018

The PK Group corporate world and what the real Nam Shin was supposed to inherit — the high-stakes business environment Nam Shin III must navigate.

June 18, 2018

The Seongbuk residential streets used for So-bong's off-duty investigation of Nam Shin III's behaviour.

June 25, 2018

Nam Shin III beginning to develop something that resembles feelings — the drama's central question about what consciousness requires.

June 25, 2018

So-bong and Nam Shin III's relationship at its midpoint — her knowledge of what he is complicating rather than preventing her feelings.

July 2, 2018

The comatose Nam Shin beginning to show signs of recovery — and what his return would mean.

July 2, 2018

The full story of why Nam Shin III's mother built the android — her specific grief and her specific hope.

July 9, 2018

PK Group discovering that the heir they have been working with is an android.

July 9, 2018

The android's choice about what he values — the drama's philosophical heart.

July 16, 2018

The confrontation between the android and the human he was built to replace.

July 16, 2018

So-bong's decision about who she chooses to protect — and why.

July 23, 2018

The drama's examination of what makes a person a person — legal, philosophical, emotional.

July 23, 2018

The finale. Seo Kang-joon's dual performance — the android's stillness contrasted with the human's volatility — made this one of KBS2's most discussed 2018 dramas.