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Drama - Argon
Romanization - Areugon
Writers - Jeon Young shin, Joo Won kyu, Shin Ha eun
Network - tvN
Genre - Drama, Broadcast News
Episodes - 8
Released - 2017, Sept
CAST
Kim Baek jin (Kim Ju hyeok) is a News Anchor, reporter and leader of investigative reporting team Argon. He does not tolerate mistakes and relies only on facts.
6 months before her contract is to end, Lee Yeon hwa (Chun Woo hee) is assigned to work at Argon. She struggles to get a permanent job there as a reporter. Working with Kim Baek jin, she receives strict training and grows as a reporter. ~~AsianWiki (w/edits)
**With all due respect to the late actor, Kim Ju hyeuk, I had no idea he was dead until after I watched this mini-drama and began my research for this review.
If this is supposed to depict the 'day-in-the-life' aspects of a Broadcast News reporter, I am not impressed.
If this is supposed to somehow make me think differently about how News Anchors, Broadcast stations, and the people involved at the top are somehow making things worse for the honest Beat Reporter, it didn't work.
Also, why only 8 episodes and not 10?
It is painfully obvious to the seasoned viewer that the show began with promise, included a ton of background info and build-up to a more intense plot, and then bad news struck the set, so everyone just gave up and ran with it as best they could.
Believable start to finish, a natural on-screen and in character, and someone you just want to root for regardless of the script she's been handed.
She's a beautiful woman with loads of talent and should be making a ton more appearances on screen than she seems interested in accepting.
I'd love to see her in more dramas, film, and perhaps a Romantic Comedy, if that is her thing.
Anyway, the gist of Areugon is that young Lee Yeon hwa has struggled to break into the reporting business for a while and has worked at HBC for a few years when she is suddenly reassigned to the Argon team.
As far as the leader of this team is concerned, it just means Miss Lee has been demoted for the last time and has no talent so he isn't interested in wasting his time on her.
Kim Ju hyeok has a delicious voice, so it was a pleasure to get to listen to him speak, even when he was shouting at someone or about something, which he did a lot in this short.
I'm not sure if Kim Baek jin's personal background story was the original plot's intent or if the director decided to go with that once the ratings starting coming in as too low to go, but it was millisecond touched upon at the start and then dropped like a hot potato for a majority of the mere 8 episodes before returning with a vengeance at the very end.
Meanwhile, pretty and intimidated Yeon hwa continues to plod her way along by listening closely to everything going on around her (while no one seems interested in anything she has to say) and just as slowly begins to use her wits and guts to piece together a puzzling issue of corporate greed, betrayal, and even false imprisonment.
These seem to be standard plot devises anymore in a Korean action/thriller piece.
It is always the same story told in a slightly different tone or atmosphere, but the outcome is always the same.
With Argon, it just went really fast and ended too soon to be a really enjoyable show for me.
It is also always disappointing to be tossed a Red Herring in the Romance department.
Dumb me had high hopes that Miss Lee and Kim timjang nim would get together at some point but no, it didn't happen and wasn't going to happen even if Timjang nim Kim said she was pretty and gave her lots of encouragement, opportunities, and special favoritism over the rest of his crew.
Dang it. 😒
I won't say this was awful or not worth watching because it isn't true.
I will, however, say that it was a big disappointment and, as always, I'm confused as to why this didn't do better in the ratings over there... so as to give it a bit more of a chance to take off and fly like it could have done.
As always, I'll let you be the judge.
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