Lead cast: Ji Sung, Ha Yoon-kyung, Moon So-ri, Park Byung-eunLatest Nielsen rating: 5.4 per centThe caper thriller gets a decidedly Korean twist in The Apartment Job, a new star vehicle for Ji Sung (The Devil Judge). The drama follows a cash-strapped gangster who targets an unusual mark for a quick windfall: the administration fund of a high-end apartment complex.Ji plays the dashing Park Hae-gang, who runs HK Trading and Investment, a front for an illegal gambling den. He operates the company with the help of three lieutenants from his former gang whom he has kept under his wing. He also supports the grizzled gangster who initially took him in as a child.Meanwhile, Seoul’s police commissioner is attempting to gain admittance to “One Club”, an exclusive clique for the most powerful men in the country. The price of admission? Ten billion won (US$6.7 million).The Apartment Job | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]Needing to raise the money in a hurry, he sends a goon to Hae-gang, who has been bribing him to turn a blind eye. Hae-gang also lacks access to that kind of cash, but when his lieutenants and his mentor are locked up on trumped-up charges by the commissioner’s men, he must find a way to secure the funds.
The Apartment Job: crime comedy K-drama juggles genre and social codes
A gangster seeks election as president of his residents’ association so that he can embezzle billions of won in this new Netflix series.









