The K2

September 23, 2016

Kim Je-ha (Ji Chang-wook), a former mercenary framed for murder, returns to Korea. He is forced to become the bodyguard of the sheltered Je-an (Yoona), who is kept hidden by the powerful Choi Yoo-jin (Song Yoon-ah). The Granada opening sequences establish his past.

September 23, 2016

The compound where Je-an is kept — its luxury and its imprisonment.

September 30, 2016

Song Yoon-ah's Choi Yoo-jin — the drama's finest performance, a woman of absolute ruthlessness and complicated depth.

September 30, 2016

Je-ha's combat skills — the JSS fight sequences that became the drama's most celebrated element.

October 7, 2016

Je-an's sealed world — her isolation, her resilience, her reading of the people around her.

October 7, 2016

The Gangnam JSS headquarters — the corporate security world Je-ha must navigate.

October 14, 2016

The political conspiracy that Choi Yoo-jin is running through her husband's presidential campaign.

October 14, 2016

Je-ha and Je-an's relationship — developing in the specific conditions of a bodyguard and a prisoner.

October 21, 2016

Choi Yoo-jin's backstory — what made her this calculating and this powerful.

October 21, 2016

The drama's most spectacular action sequence — Je-ha's combat skills at their fullest.

October 28, 2016

Je-an's true identity and its political implications.

October 28, 2016

The political war between the drama's factions — the presidential campaign as a weapon.

November 4, 2016

The drama's most emotionally complicated twist — who betrays whom and why.

November 4, 2016

Choi Yoo-jin's most aggressive move — the drama's finest villain moment.

November 11, 2016

Je-ha's final fight — for Je-an, for himself, for the truth of what was done to him.

November 11, 2016

The finale. Ji Chang-wook's combat sequences and Song Yoon-ah's villain performance made The K2 one of tvN 2016's most exciting action dramas.