Police University

8/10os my rating. This is a 2021 South Korean romance and crime drama with 16, 60 minute episodes.

First, I provide a unique synopsis then review. I provide the synopsis because I find, when I’m looking for a show to watch, some of the synopses do not describe the series very well. So, a unique synopsis is intended to provide another perspective. If you aren’t interested in the synopsis scroll down, the review is labeled.

Synopsis

Kang Seon-ho (JungJinYoung) was orphaned at a young age so when the man who raised him as his son, Yoon Taek-Il (Oh Man-seok), was diagnosed with cancer and needed an expensive operation, he was willing to do about anything to get the life saving surgery for his father. He had neen working in online forums with Yoo Dong-man (Chae Tae-hyun), a 20 year homicide and cyber crime investigator trying to bring down a gambling ring. The detective and Seon-ho developed a friendly relationship and the young man provided invaluable help with cyber crimes. Seon-ha, at the urging of his friend/brother Yoon Seung-beom {Choi Woo-sung), decides to hack the illegal gambler’s account and redirect the funds to their own account. They think it is like Robin Hood, stealing from the criminals to use the money for the surgery to save their dad’s life. But detective Yoo does not see any nobility in the action when he tracks the young cyber criminals down. When their father begs the detective to look the other way, he takes mercy but he gets demoted for it. Not realizing the young man is his online friend/helper the detective tells the young man he better never appear before him again. But it turns out he will see the young man again as he is sent to instruct at the National Police Academy the very place Seon-ho is determined to get in. Seon-ho wants to become a police officer to make his adopted dad proud but also because the girl he loved at first sight, Oh Kang-hee (Krystal Jung), who is pursuing her dream of becoming a police officer, is there.

Review

If you’re looking for a good slice of life police Academy and/or crime drama, it is good for that. I would say it’s just OK on the romance scale at least in my opinion it was very laggy about 3/4 of the way through. I was a little bored the ending was on the softer side. If anyone likes things completely unwell wrapped up, I would not seek out to watch it again I didn’t completely dislike it, but I certainly wasn’t in love with it enough to rewatch it.

Spoilers

At first, I really liked the female lead character. She was very determined and driven and I thought that were,great characteristics for the lea. Until she tattoed on her fellow police offocers because she was afraid ML would be hurt, And thn, when he got in trouble and she broke up with him when he really wasn’t doing anything, but working on a case trying to bring down that gambling ring I changed my opinion of her then too, He even helped her mother out, and she just broke up with him because it was too hard. That made me very disappointed in that character and I wasn’t that into them even getting back together if you can’t be with somebody when some of the chips are down and it is not completely their fault then I’m not sure you’re made for each other. I really liked the male lead character. I thought he was very sweet to a fault and that’s part of how he got himself in trouble in the first place.

I was extremely disappointed when they made it to where the male lead character did not graduate with the rest of the class. It was weird and awkward that he was starting over and we were supposed to celebrate the rest of their graduation. I never understood why the things he did (other than the stealing) was so bad. Cyber hacking is a skill that’s embraced in a lot of other countries including the United States so I didn’t understand why the police force wasn’t using him for cyber crimes. He was never recognized or appreciated for essentially bringing that whole gambling ring down single-handedly, and they never really showed that that gambling ring was completely dissolved. When he came back, they treated him like a junior, which was weird because he was a more skilled investigator than any of them. I thought it was a serious failure in the story and that was one of the things that made me not like it very well.

I thought second guy was too pushy when she told him clearly she wasn’t interested. And the bracelet incident was really dishonest on his part. She didn’t handle it. Well either she acted like it was weird. That mean guy was upset that she was wearing the other guy‘s bracelet. When anybody would’ve assumed that she wore it because she liked it. Knew who gave it to her and was leaving the other guy on I thought her friendship with him was a little too friendly for having a boyfriend.

I did not care about any of the second relationships either. The mainly detective and professor who is friends with the male lead in the other professor was OK, but there just wasn’t that much there, especially after he suspected her of being involved in the gambling ring.

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