Season 1 • Episode 36
LatestDetective Ha Eun-joong uncovers a shocking secret; Ha Myung-geun, the man he believed was his father, had actually kidnapped him as a child. Myung-geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as revenge against the man responsible, Jang Tae-ha, he abducted Tae-ha's son and raised him as his own. In the aftermath of revenge, Eun-joong searches for the truth and becomes caught between his two fathers and the woman he loves, Woo Ah-mi.
Acting
Cho Jae-hyun's haunted father performance will wreck you
Writing
Revenge plot so twisted it needs a family tree diagram
Direction
Kim Sang-ho knows exactly when to drop the melodrama hammer
Creator
Kim Sang-ho
Kim Jae-won
Ha Eun-joong
Cho Jae-hyun
Ha Myung-geun
Park Sang-min
Jang Tae-ha
Shin Eun-kyung
Yoon Hwa-young
Jo Yoon-hee
Woo Ah-mi
Ki Tae-young
Jang Eun-joong
Hye-ri Kim
Go Joo-ran
Kim Gyu-ri
Jang Joo-ha
Park Jung-chul
Jo Jin-woong
Han Geu-ru
Ha Soo-young
Ahn Suk-hwan
Jo Chi-gook
Choi Cheol-ho
Kang Joo-pil
Cho Han-cheul
Shin Kang-ho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Scandal' references Korea's 1980s political scandal, drawing parallels between state corruption and personal vengeance. The chaebol setting critiques real Korean family dynasties.
Kim Jae-won filmed this immediately after military service—his emotional rawness as Eun-joong wasn't entirely acting. The building collapse subplot eerily mirrored real 1995 Sampoong disaster.
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