Lee Je-hoon and squad put away baddies in new teaser

16 January 6, 2024April 13, 2024

Lee Je-hoon and squad put away baddies in new teaser

by Jenzy

The teaser for MBC’s upcoming cop show Chief Detective 1958 just dropped, showcasing a young detective Lee Je-hoon (Taxi Driver 2) ready to kick butt and take names on the streets of 1950s Seoul.

More than just a blast to the past in its setting, the show also serves as a prequel to the insanely popular 70s and 80s show Chief Inspector where Choi Bool-am played the lead role of Park Young-han. Instead of seeing a seasoned detective work crimes, the prequel takes us more than ten years back to when a young Young-han (Lee Je-hoon) was a headstrong rookie cop. Holding the record for most arrests back in his hometown province, the story follows Young-han as he arrives in Seoul with a fistful of righteous indignation and tenacity, only to find the city filled with more crime and corruption than he could have ever expected.

But thankfully, Young-han isn’t the only one with a taste for justice. After befriending three other cops played by Lee Dong-hwi (Big Bet), Choi Woo-sung (Melancholia), and Yoon Hyun-soo (A Good Day to Be a Dog), Young-han and the dream team work together to take down criminals and put them away.

The teaser opens with Young-han’s introduction to the Seoul police force, and we quickly cut to the low moments for him and his team: bank robberies, murders, and car explosions that take the lives of innocents. As he looks at one of the victim’s family members through a window, Young-han solemnly vows: “I will catch the perpetrator no matter what.”

We then cut to an upbeat montage of them fighting mobs and being young goofy cops trying to make a difference in a system that fails to punish the wrong and protect the weak. Their idealism is infectious, and when they strut through the door as a quartet in the final scene of the teaser, the voiceover hammers home what we’re already beginning to see: this is the start of something big.

Written by Kim Young-shin and directed by Kim Sung-hoon (Rampant), MBC’s Chief Inspector 1958 will air sometime this year.

Via Sports Kyunghang

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1 bbstl 🧹

January 6, 2024 at 11:24 AM

Yul-ah! You’ve grown up!

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Midnight

January 6, 2024 at 12:23 PM

I laughed! But you're right!

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2 🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 6, 2024 at 11:48 AM

Why does it feel like one of Lee Je-hoon's disguises from the Taxi Driver. I'm on board nevertheless to time travel to 1958 Seoul as per the title. The previous article give the year as 1963 so why are we traveling backwards.

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3 Unaspirated

January 6, 2024 at 11:59 AM

Lee Je-hoon's eyebrows in the first pic are presenting a pretty compelling argument...

It's tentatively going on the list!

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4 kiara

January 6, 2024 at 12:20 PM

Dude, can you do a fluffy drama sometimes?

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Midnight

January 6, 2024 at 12:25 PM

Has he ever even done one??

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Kafiyah Bello

January 6, 2024 at 12:53 PM

Lol, not that I know of. Even his romances are high drama.

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kiara

January 6, 2024 at 1:02 PM

Not that I know of. I only go as far back as "Bleak Night (2011)."

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PYC

January 7, 2024 at 7:29 AM

Well, I’d say Architecture 101 (the movie) is the most ‘fluff’ as far as Lee Je-hoon is concerned. Imagine what it’d be like if he channels his intensity and energy to a love story.

Does Tomorrow With You count? I haven’t watched it.

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kiara

January 7, 2024 at 11:36 AM

I haven't seen it, but it's a melo+, so "Architecture 101" is probably the closest to something lighter.
He is either getting beat up, or he is beating somebody up. It gets tiring. Idk, something without a serial killer with Kim Go-eun would be nice for a change. 😃

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Healer’s

January 7, 2024 at 12:32 PM

Lee Je Hoon doesn't do fluffy shows 😅

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5 CDF

January 6, 2024 at 1:33 PM

Another Lee Je-hoon crime drama, I just hope it is fluffier than his past few dramas!

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6 ys

January 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM

😍🙃😍

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7 bong-soo

January 6, 2024 at 8:04 PM

Somehow I missed getting this on my list of upcoming period dramas. I remember reading about it and the original but then it slipped my mind. I hope MBC’s CHIEF DETECTIVE 1958 ends up on a legal stream for the US.

O/T. As of today MBC’s upcoming sageuk KNIGHT FLOWER has still not appeared on Viki’s “Coming Soon” list. Episode one airs in 6 days. It will be available on Kocowa but I am not resubscribing.