City Hunter is one of my most favorite korean drama. There are 20 eposides and I finished them in last summer vacation while I was in Spain. (People all think I am a fool because I was always sitting in front of my laptop watching city hunter and did not want to hang out with them.)The reason why I like this drama is because I think the story is quite different from others--love story is not only included but also some fighting scenes. The story is based on the Japanese manga series City Hunter written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo.
The story is basically started from a war between North Korea and South Korea.in 1983(this is just a fabricated war.)South Korean officials plan a covert operation to enter North Korea and kill several top members of the North's high command, codenamed "Clean Sweep." Lee Jin-pyo and Park Moo-yul, two Presidential Security Service bodyguards and best friends who were presenting at the bombing, organize a 21-man team for the mission. Yet, as the team wreaks havoc in Pyongyang, the officials abort the plan to avoid an international crisis if the mission is discovered. Their major concern is that the United States will withdraw its nuclear protection if the mission is made public. Then the government killed those soldiers who were heading to North Korea. Yet, one of the soldier survived and decided to embark on his revenge.
Vowing to avenge his fallen comrades, Lee kidnaps Moo-yul's infant son. He flees to the Golden Triangle to raise the child as his own and trains the boy intensively in combat. Following an attack on a village they are living in, Jin-pyo confesses his long-term plan for revenge to the child, Lee Yoon Sung (Lee Min-ho).
Seven years later, after successfully finishing his college years and attaining a doctorate in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yoon-sung returns to South Korea to fulfill his step-father's plan for revenge. He enters the Blue House as an IT expert under the National Communication Network Team. He is warned by Jin-pyo not to trust anyone and never fall in love, as doing so will put the people around him in danger. Whilte he was working at the Blue House, he meets a bodyguard Kimm Na-na, and gradually falls in love with her. The story is touching. Kim Nana and Lee Yoon Sung love each other deeply, but because of those revengeous tasks, Lee had to hide his feeling to Kim in order to protect her. During the tasks, several people died and injured. In the end of the story, Kim and Lee finally could be together but there did not end up to be a happy ending-- Lee's stepfather got several shots and died in order to rescue Lee. (Touching~~~~~)
