It’s been ages since I watched this show, but I enjoyed it back in the day and I think it was actually my first Lee Min-ho drama. My dad and brother caught bits and pieces with me and they were so impressed by the production values. It really did look good at the time.

Thanks for the flashback, @daebakgrits! I haven't seen CH and it's not on my list, largely because Lee Min-ho has always reminded me of a bowl of mashed potatoes, but your write-up is almost kind of tempting me. I do like Park Min-young - and a good fight or two.

I laughed so hard in this drama. It was patently absurd. I don't remember much, but I do remember LMH's character beating someone up with a spoon. (SMH) I remember that PMY's character was a terrible bodyguard. The rest I remember being just laughably bad. I watched it when I first started kdramas, that is when I finished a drama no matter what. Also I wasn't as familiar with actors, but I knew LMH so watched a bunch of his dramas before I learned better, ha.

The concept was interesting but the writing was awful. What screenwriter decides the best meet-cute strategy would be to drop a flowerpot on your crush's head?

I still maintain this show was a spoof. And an extremely funny one at that.

Kim Sang-joong is the only objectively good thing about this drama, his character was interesting and his performance pretty much dwarfed everybody else.

Although to be fair, a glass of room temperature tap water could probably give a better performance than Lee Min-ho.

Despite that, City hunter was one of my first Korean dramas (along with Iris), I will always have a soft spot for it, even though it was terrible

Anyone know where this is available to watch? I am intrigued.

I loved this show! I would totally watch it again if I knew where I could stream it. It was highly entertaining, and I agree it was one of LMH's best roles. Of course there were plot holes and some ridiculousness, but you just have to go along for the ride! (I mean, if you're not a fan of LMH, then there isn't much point, so you'll probably give this one a miss.)

Flashbacks indeed.

I enjoyed the first part of this when I watched it, back when I was but a baby drama watcher- but the last 5 episodes left me salty af, and also I watched this after Healer (which is by far the objectively better drama)- to the point where it has dwindled over the years, farther and farther down the ranked list, and also in my affections, so that now I think I just think it's overrated haha.

Disclaimer: I also can barely remember any of it. The birth secret, the spoon maybe? Yeah that's all I got.

Nostalgia! This is one show I'm never going back to (along with BOF) because I don't want to disrupt the fondness I have for it . Watched it 11 years back, right after it completed airing and I may have forgotten a lot about it honestly but the fondness remains. If anything, it has a great OST that I listen to till day.

I didn't like this drama when I watched it but now I don't remember it very well.

First, I liked the Japanese animated serie. Ryo Saeba was such a great character. I was surprised they wanted to adapt this story in Korean drama because half of his actions are him being a pervert. But I guess it was possible to not adapt this part of the character. But then, they took off a big one, the fact Ryo Saeba was the best shooter! It was his speciality. City Hunter without his gun was not the same anymore...

For the drama itself, they made a big story about the ML and not the ML helping different people. His action scenes were cool.

For the FL, I love Park Min-Young but she was really bad as a bodyguard in general but it was worse to think she was protecting the President. She never was convincing in this role.

I think this drama was successful more because they dated in the real life than the drama itself.

I avoided watching this for a long time even though I had heard it was one of his better roles because I usually avoid LMH's dramas (BOF was traumatizing even though I finished it, sorry to his fans). Once I did watch it, I felt exactly like what you said @daebakgrits. I won't be rewatching this but I do agree that this was one of his better dramas. And I got introduced to Lee Joon Hyuk through this, so that's another plus point.

I tried watching it during my early drama days but I do not even remember completing first episode.
Before watching this I already watched Boys over Flower and Heirs, and I was becoming allergic to LMH. I might have continued but PMY’s candy bodyguard was too much for me.
The only thing I remember is ridiculous pink /red (?) jeans.
After reading DaebakGrits’s write up, I was thinking whether to revisit it but I don’t think I ever will.

City Hunter was before my time and the title and cast never appealed to me until reading this. Instead of watching, I went and read the recaps by Javabeans and Girl Friday. Now that was laugh-out-loud hilarious. I couldn't stop until I finished them all. I probably will never take time to watch City Hunter, but I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to the old Dramabeans. And wow, couldn't help noticing how many comments their recaps got back in the day.

I watched it when it aired (really 2011??)... and I don't remember much. Not even the spoon scene 🙈 I do remember the OST though - I liked it and it was for some time even on my playlist.

Does anyone know which country has CH on Viki? My hunt with my vpn has not yielded anything. It does come up on Viki as not available in my country.

CH is an absolute favorite of mine. I have soured on LMH since, especially after KEM. I struggled to understand this show reading recaps and re-watching episodes. It was the first drama I watched while it aired. I resented all the time I spent on this show; although I learned about the importance of an editor and to be very cautious watching anything that is airing. A case in point is the recent Kim Taeri drama. My aging brain does not remember titles very well! I fell into the trap of watching this live and agonizing during the time between episodes, only to not be able to watch the last few episodes. NOT MEANT TO START ANOTHER DEBATE!!!

City Hunter is literally my very first Kdrama and to have THAT as your first Kdrama experience is quite hard because it was so good. It definitely the kind of drama that stand the challenge of time because I still watch it sometimes and it's still as good as it was years ago. The action, the thrill, and the romance were all top notch for me and it was balanced really REALLY well. Also... Kim Nana the supposed candy girl saving Yoonsung.......... god that was so badass. I truly can't find any action thrillers as good as this one???

Ps. This was ultimately my fave Lee Minho AND Park Minyoung drama like ever (the 3 second real-life romance made my obsession even worse)