Disney+ released the first two episodes of the latest K-drama, Gangnam B-Side, starring Ji Chang-wook, BIBI, Jo Woo-jin, and Ha Yoon-kyung. The opening 10 minutes of Gangnam B-Side episode 1 show Detective Dong-woo (Jo Woo-jin) busting a nightclub where people were high on narcotics.
Another police officer from the crime team tries to stop Dong-woo from arresting people. Dong-woo pushes them aside and breaks the door of a red room (VIP room) in the nightclub. He sees a man wearing a gas mask, trying to run away with a box full of drugs. Dong-woo tackles him and removes his mask to see that it is another police officer, Jang-ho (Hyung Bong-sik), from his unit.
Dong-woo busts the entire racket and even exposes all the police officers from the crime unit who were involved in the drugs and smuggling case. Episode 1 then takes a three-year leap where Dong-woo is transferred to a countryside police station. Meanwhile, episode 2 opens with Gil-ho (Ji Chang-wook) leaving a girl’s dead body (Jung-hwa) at a subway station.
Gangnam B-Side episode 2 ends with Gil-ho getting into an altercation with goons and getting injured while the corrupted crime unit police try to arrest him on false charges of murdering Jung-hwa. However, Dong-woo comes to save him from the goons and the police. In the end scene, Gil-ho jumps into the river from the bridge.
In Gangnam B-Side episode 1, after getting caught by Dong-woo, Jang-ho (Hyung Bong-sik) confesses during questioning that practically everyone in Major Crimes (crime unit) is involved in the smuggling of drugs across Gangnam. The unit chief and other policemen get arrested.
Three years later, Jae-hee, aka Jenny (BIBI), is seen running away from a nightclub while being chased by some goons. The goons then catch Jenny’s friend, Jung-hwa, and beat her up to find Jenny’s hideout. Meanwhile, in Gangnam B-Side episode 1, Gil-ho makes an entrance into another nightclub with a baseball bat and takes a girl with him who is high on drugs.
He safely puts the girl in the backseat of his car, walks up to a drug dealer, and beats him up for giving drugs to the girl. Gil-ho warns the man to never provide the girls with drugs—as he is a pimp and chauffeur for the girls. Later, he learns that Jae-hee went into hiding as some goons were after her. When Gil-ho finds her, Jae-hee tells him to rescue Jung-hwa, as she might be in danger.
A drug dealer and a pimp called Psyche takes Jung-hwa to a hotel room where some male K-pop idols are waiting. Hours later, Gil-ho arrives at the same hotel room and sees blood everywhere while drugs and syringes are lying on the tables and floor. Gangnam B-Side episode 1 ends with Gil-ho walking towards the indoor jacuzzi in the room and seeing Jung-hwa’s dead body in the water.
Gangnam B-Side Episode 2 opens with a cleaning team arriving at the same hotel room where Jung-hwa was brutally tortured, assaulted, and murdered by some K-pop idols. They are shocked when they can’t find Jung-hwa’s dead body and call Joon-seo (the K-pop idol), who tells them to find the body at any cost.
In the meantime, Gil-ho carries Jung-hwa’s body to a subway station and leaves it covered with a bedsheet on a bench. The clip is found by the corrupted crime unit, who send it to the prosecutor’s office to pin the blame on Gil-ho in an attempt to protect Joon-seo. The prosecutor in charge, Min Seo-jin (Ha Yoon-kyung), is told by the head prosecutor to close the case without due investigation.
Meanwhile, Dong-woo returns to Gangnam on the police commissioner’s special request, who wanted him to expose the drug smuggling case and the murder. The commissioner tells Dong-woo that the prosecutors are involved in covering the real culprits; hence, Dong-woo has to investigate the case and expose the truth.
After coming back to Gangnam, Dong-woo accidentally sees the CCTV clip of Gil-ho leaving Jung-hwa’s dead body at the subway station. As the crime unit policemen refuse to cooperate with him, he calls Jang-ho to ask for help. Jang-ho has been running a small-time gangster business since returning from prison.
He refuses to meet Dong-woo as he arrested him three years ago and Jang-ho lost his police job. However, he agrees to help Dong-woo, and they learn from an internal chain of thugs that some goons are going to gather at Gangnam. Dong-woo and Jang-ho decide to do a stakeout together near the area when Dong-woo sees an SUV drive into a parking lot.
Dong-woo follows the SUV, leaving behind Jang-ho, who had gone to get some food. Meanwhile, Gil-ho is seen fighting some goons sent by Joon-seo who try to kill him. Joon-seo thinks that Gil-ho is helping Jae-hee to hide and sends the corrupt policemen and goons after Gil-ho to kill him. However, Gil-ho kills all the goons and is about to leave when the SUV arrives.
Five more goons try to attack an already injured Gil-ho when Dong-woo rushes in with his car and asks Gil-ho to get into the car. Dong-woo escapes the parking space but is followed by the SUV. A few minutes later, two police vans chase Dong-woo and stop his car on the bridge. Dong-woo gets out of the car and orders the policemen to drop their guns.
The goons and the policemen pull out their guns to attack Gil-ho while Dong-woo tries to protect him. Ultimately, Gil-ho jumps into the river from the bridge while everyone shoots at him. Gangnam B-Side episode 2 ends with Dong-woo screaming at Gil-ho and assuming that he is dead because of the shooting.
Gangnam B-Side episodes 3 and 4 will be released on November 13, 2024, on Disney+.
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