Ji Sung re-lives the past as Judge Lee Han-young

10 June 18, 2025June 18, 2025

Ji Sung re-lives the past as Judge Lee Han-young

by tccolb

Park Hee-son, Ji Sung, Won Jin-ah

MBC has officially announced Judge Lee Han-young, lining up Ji Sung (Connection) to play our title character and corrupted hero in this webnovel-adaptation. With the story following his redemption journey, a miraculous but handy timeslip awaits him for a do-over, taking him 10 years back into the past to begin righting all his wrongs.

At that 10-year crossroads in the past, Lee Han-young (Ji Sung) had been working as the sole judge in a small district court, located in the South Chungcheong province in South Korea. In the original timeline, he married up – as they say – and became the ~~slave~~ son-in-law to the head of a large law firm. And since then, Han-young had been stuck inside the law firm’s pockets, abusing his position to cater to his in-laws while also gaining personal benefits.

In this story, Park Hee-soon (Squid Game 2) will be standing in opposition against Han-young in the role of Kang Shin-jin, an influential senior judge at a Seoul district courthouse, dealing with criminal law. His impressive reach also gave Shin-jin a seat in a shadow government group, when working under a former president of South Korea.

Reluctantly teaming up with Han-young is Won Jin-ah (Unicorn) playing prosecutor Kim Jin-ah, who is also based in Seoul. Jin-ah’s main goal is to take down our tale’s S Group chairman Jang Tae-shik. And though she welcomes Han-young’s offer of help, she’s confused by his conflicting actions and she’s torn between trust and distrust.

Adapted from a popular webnovel by the same title, production for the legal fantasy has PD Lee Jae-jin (Motel California, The Spies Who Loved Me) and PD Park Mi-yeon co-directing, along with scripts by Kim Kwang-min. MBC’s Judge Lee Han-young is slated to premiere towards the end of 2025.

Via MBC (1), (2)

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1 st123

June 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM

If the plot is changing from webtoon for a difference then okay as I'm still reading the webtoon and Judge Lee is not Corrupt he was sent to jail for murder which he didn't do. People around him betrayed and timeslip is 20 years back so he can change the past and prevent anything or anyone from dying or getting hurt due to tragedy and also punishing those people who betrayed him.

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bong-soo

June 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM

Really, your synopsis sounds like a better story than the one outlined above.
I have watched only two of Ji Sung’s dramas and he gave fantastic performances in both:
SBS’s CONNECTION (2024) (Viki US)
SBS’s DEFENDANT (2017) (Viki US). Two episodes were added because the ratings were so good. (Average Nielsen nationwide rating-21.69%)

Whatever, Ji Sung is terrific in these kinds of dramas.