The Man from the Equator

The Man from the Equator

2012
★★☆☆☆ 4.2/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 20 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 KO
⏱️ 64 min/episode
Drama
A man that had his family and whole life has been taken away by the friend he trusted the most has returned and is burning for revenge.

Where to Watch (US)

Stream

Kocowa

Seasons

Season 1
2012 • 20 Episodes
Seon Woo helps out Jang Il and his father Yong Bae, who are going through rough times because of loan sharks. Feeling grateful, Jang Il offers to help Seon Woo with his studies and they become close friends. But to help cover up Chairman Jin’s crime, Yong Bae makes it look like Seon Woo’s father committed suicide and knowing about all this, Jang Il tries to kill Seon Woo to prevent him from filing a petition and they become enemies. Having barely survived, Seon Woo loses his sight from the shock of the incident and pretends to have lost his memory in order to find the truth. With the help of Tae Ju, who pretends to be his father, Seon Woo is rescued from despair and reappears in front of Jang Il now as a successful businessman. Still receiving threats from Chairman Jin, Jang Il is flustered by Seon Woo’s reappearance and now Seon Woo’s revenge begins.

User Reviews

ParkMin
★ 4/10
It amplifies the sarcastic mid-2000s melo cliches to the max, something about is just endearing to watch despite its comical nature, that's why it worked back then. But this drama kept it going for too long and it started to get annoying. Some scenes were too obvious they were added to pad its length, I would say these were the worst part about the drama. These useless scene were more important than the story according to the director and writer since the story was filled with incomprehensible skips and gaps in every other episodes that each left its own problems. I'm not asking a melodrama cliche to be logical and sensible because they'll never be by definition, but at least don't go too far like that insane 13 years time skip! On another note, Han Ji Won was pretty useless despite being the FL, little to zero contribution before or after the blindness episodes. One last thing, I wasn't a fan with anything they did for the last episode. The drama gets an extra point for the skewed morals.
January 9, 2024

Crew

Director
Han Sang-woo
Writer
Kim In Young, Kim Yong-soo

Network

KBS2

Production

Pan Entertainment

Keywords

revenge