[Drama 2012] Salaryman Cho Han Ji 샐러리맨 초한지

Salaryman Cho Han Ji is based on ‘The Romance of the Three Kingdoms‘ set in the dark world of Salaryman workers.

This drama depicts the trial and tribulations of the average salaryman, from humble beginnings to success. This drama portrays the salaryman’s loneliness and isolation, struggles, sorrows, hopes and successes in a realistic light.

One night Oh Yoo Bang (Lee Bum Soo) enters a dark, mysterious villa with nothing but a flashlight, only to find an executive of the Chunha Medical Group, Jin Ho Hae slouched in a chair, dead and Jin Ho Hae’s niece, Baek Yeo Chi (Jung Ryu Won) hiding behind a curtain. At Jin Ho Hae’s funeral, Oh Yoo Bang and Baek Yeo Chi are suddenly taken into custody for his murder. We’re taken three months into the past to reveal what led to this murder and exactly who was responsible. During this flashback we meet Choi Hang Woo (Jung Gyu Woon), a director from Jin Ho Hae’s rival pharmaceutical company, who is undercover to steal the formula for their new drug and the Chief Researcher from Chunha Group, Cha Woo Hee (Hong Soo Hyun). The lives of these individuals will all be intertwined within these three months to reveal exactly just who murdered Jin Ho Hae, and why.