The tension in JTBC’s latest thriller K-drama series Insider is so thick you could cut right through it with a knife. You’re thrown headfirst into the action from the first minute – our impassible protagonist Kim Yo-han (Kang Ha-neul) sits in the dingy hall of an illegal gambling den, in the middle of a high-stakes card game with stacks upon stacks of cold, hard cash on the line. Yo-han’s deftness at the game poses a threat to the owner of the den, who orders one of his croons to spill a drink on fellow player Oh Soo-yeon (Lee Yoo-young) in order to distract the table from his misappropriation of the deck. When Yo-han goes all in, everyone ends up having to disgruntledly surrender their cash to the fraudster.Insider Season 1 Download.
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As it turns out, the den’s head has fallen for Yo-han’s trap hook, line and sinker. As a judicial apprentice, Yo-han had been instructed to infiltrate the gambling den as part of an undercover operation to persecute the den’s top brass. His presence at the den had been at the personal behest of the director of the judicial training institute, Noh Young-kook (Yoo Jae-myung), who had employed Yo-han for the sole purpose of unearthing the corrupt dealings between the high-profile Chairman Yang (Heo Dong-won) of a company called The Skin Nation, chief prosecutor Hong Sang-wook (Park Sung-eun) and his son Hong Jae-sun (Kang Shin-hyo).
There’s just one problem: this entire operation is completely off the books. The risks of such a gambit against political and economical figures of immense power really only begs one question: why on Earth would Yo-han ever agree to something like this in the first place? In prototypal fashion, it’s due in large part to a piteous personal history.