Royal Secret Agent
2020
📺 1 Season
🎬 16 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 KO
⏱️ 60 min/episode
ComedyMysteryDrama
During the Joseon Dynasty, the Secret Royal Inspectors are the eyes and ears of the king. They travel the provinces undercover and listen to the plight of the common people, investigating abuses and corruption of government officials.
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Seasons
Season 1
A Secret Royal Inspector is killed by corrupt officials men. The courtiers appeal to king to abolish the royal inspector system, but the king refuses. Hong Da-in (Kwon Nara), a courtesan spies on officials and report to Jang Tae- seung, Chief Secretary. Sung Yi-gyum (Kim Myung-soo) an assistant advisor is caught gambling and as punishment appointed Secret Royal Inspector. Hong Da-in's cover is blown so she is also sent with Yi-gyum to help. Yi-gyum's servant, Park Chun-sam (Lee Yi-kyung) is part of the Secret Royal Inspector's entourage.
Cast
User Reviews
I despise, with every atom in my being, the loathsome trope of interrupted intimacy upon any physical approximation in a semi-romantic setting—of which this drama kept repeating endlessly and shamelessly for 14+ episodes before committing to what it was trying to do. Cringey levels of cringe! Despite attempting to address important themes of justice and societal issues, the drama struggled to properly address these subjects and instead turned them into a background noise to service their jokes. Why bother then? While the cast may have been fine but their characters remained uninteresting throughout the drama. Basic characterization, none of them stood out.
December 24, 2023
Crew
Director
Kim Jung-min
Writer
Park Sung-hoon, Kang Min-sun
Network
KBS2
Production
iWill Media
Keywords
corruptionsecret agentinspectorhistoricalsiblingundercover operationhidden identityfight for justicejoseon dynasty (1392–1910)