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* TheAlcoholic: Kyung-yi, who can't function if she doesn't get alcohol from time to time. In episode 6 she and Je-hee are having to pass through a security checkpoint, and the guard's want detects ''two'' flasks hidden on Kyung-yi's person.
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* MustacheVandalism: In episode 6 many of the pictures of employees in the office of KD Peace Lab have been defaced with unflattering drawings and words, indicating how the office is a hostile work environment.
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* BlandNameProduct: Episode 2 has Kyung-yi using internet search engine "Woegle".
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** Episode 2 has Kyung-yi using internet search engine"Woegle"."Woegle".
** In episode 6 Santa does a reverse image search on one of the creepy dolls and finds the image posted on a website called "Witter".
** Episode 2 has Kyung-yi using internet search engine
** In episode 6 Santa does a reverse image search on one of the creepy dolls and finds the image posted on a website called "Witter".
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* BrandX: In episode 6 a person is sent a plane ticket to Manila on "Wings Air".
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** In episode 6 Kyung-yi's hair is attracting flies, and Santa feels compelled to spray her. Later in the same episode he forces her to take a shower.
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** In episode 6, Yi-kyung has Kyung-yi cornered, but the latter reminds the former that Yi-kyung can't kill her, because Kyung-yi hasn't done anything wrong.
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* FauxFluency: From the supposedly American cops in the long episode 5 flashback involving the death of Yi-kyung's parents. The cop who says "there's nothing we can do" in a thick Eastern European accent stands out.
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* EatTheDog: One troubling incident from Yi-kyung's childhood involve an older man kidnapping and eating a younger man's dog. (Dog eating being a thing that does happen in Korea.) After Yi-kyung became aware of this, she tried to set fire to the old man's apartment.
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* DrowningPit: Episode 4 ends with Je-hee and Kyung-soo locked into a shipping container, which is on a beach where the tide is rising quite rapidly, and filling the shipping container.
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* ComfortingComforter: In episode 4 Santa drapes a blanket around Kyung-yi, since the latter is bent over her computer working and won't leave the office.
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* ParkingGarage: Santa's radar pings when Yi-kyung walks past him in a parking garage in episode 4--she is dressed like a garbagewoman but she smells of perfume. A long foot chase ensues but eventually Yi-kyung gets away.
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* VillainKiller: Yi-kyung kills bad people--criminals and general baddies--not out of a sense of justice, but to slake her thirst to kill.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Episode 3 finds Je-hee having to beg not to be fired after the FakingTheDead case from episode 1 ends up with NT Insurance having to pay out anyway (the victim having been killed for real in an explosion). She keeps her job--but she and her team have to go to the basement.
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* MatchCut: Episode 3 has Je-hee's father picking up and cuddling his granddaughter, Je-hee's daughter--cut to Director Sook the charity director cuddling a small child for press photos.
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* AloneInACrowd: Demonstrated in episode 2 when Yi-kyung, TheSociopath who has a subtly off-putting manner, is energetically dancing in a disco--and a space clears around her, for no particular reason.
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** Many others throughout the series. An episode 2 flashback reveals that Kyung-mi's late husband, Seong-woo, was one of the teachers at Yi-kyung's school.
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** Many others throughout the series. An episode 2 flashback reveals that Kyung-mi's Kyung-yi's late husband, Seong-woo, was one of the teachers at Yi-kyung's school.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: Done deliberately by Director Sook in episode 2. Sook, who has figured out that there is a serial killer out there and is hiring Kyung-yi to catch that killer, says of the SerialKiller, "We call it K."
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* LifeMeter: Played for a gag in episode 2. Kyung-yi the DrunkenMaster and video game fiend was nearly comatose, until she chugged a beer, whereupon a LifeMeter graphic shot up to the top.
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* BaitAndSwitch: It is implied through a series of {{Match Cut}}s in the first episode that the creepy college student and Koo Kyung-mi are the same person, like in one scene where Kyung-yi looking down on an intersection from a rooftop cuts to the college girl doing the same in a flashback. It's not until the end of the episode that it's revealed that the murderous college girl is a separate character from Kyung-yi, who was the police detective investigating her.
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* BaitAndSwitch: It is implied through a series of {{Match Cut}}s in the first episode that the creepy college student and Koo Kyung-mi Kyung-yi are the same person, like in one scene where Kyung-yi looking down on an intersection from a rooftop cuts to the college girl doing the same in a flashback. It's not until the end of the episode that it's revealed that the murderous college girl is a separate character from Kyung-yi, who was the police detective investigating her.her.
* BlandNameProduct: Episode 2 has Kyung-yi using internet search engine "Woegle".
* BlandNameProduct: Episode 2 has Kyung-yi using internet search engine "Woegle".
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* NotMyDriver: In episode 2, a taxi cab is whisking a depressed, dirty Kyung-yi away when Kyung-yi realizes that she never told the taxi driver a destination. It's a relatively harmless example in this case, as the fake taxi driver is only taking her to Director Yong Sook.
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** Many others throughout the series. An episode 2 flashback reveals that Kyung-mi's late husband, Seong-woo, was one of the teachers at Yi-kyung's school.
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* BaitAndSwitch: It is implied through a series of {{Match Cut}}s in the first episode that the creepy college student and Koo Kyung-mi are the same person, like in one scene where Kyung-mi looking down on an intersection from a rooftop cuts to the college girl doing the same in a flashback. It's not until the end of the episode that it's revealed that the murderous college girl is a separate character from Kyung-mi, who was the police detective investigating her.
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* BaitAndSwitch: It is implied through a series of {{Match Cut}}s in the first episode that the creepy college student and Koo Kyung-mi are the same person, like in one scene where Kyung-mi Kyung-yi looking down on an intersection from a rooftop cuts to the college girl doing the same in a flashback. It's not until the end of the episode that it's revealed that the murderous college girl is a separate character from Kyung-mi, Kyung-yi, who was the police detective investigating her.
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* DrunkenMaster: In episode 1 Kyung-mi is barely conscious after she's forced out of her apartment, until Je-hee has her chug a beer, after which she perks right up. In episode 2 she does soju shots in an effort to think better.
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* DrunkenMaster: In episode 1 Kyung-mi Kyung-yi is barely conscious after she's forced out of her apartment, until Je-hee has her chug a beer, after which she perks right up. In episode 2 she does soju shots in an effort to think better.better.
* DutchAngle: Played for a gag in episode 2 when a Dutch angle is used to show Kyung-yi's fear when she has to...walk across her apartment to the fridge.
* DutchAngle: Played for a gag in episode 2 when a Dutch angle is used to show Kyung-yi's fear when she has to...walk across her apartment to the fridge.
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* {{Flashback}}: A series of flashbacks in the first episode shows a rather creepy college student investigating who killed some stray cats that she and her friends were looking after. It's implied that the creepy college student is Kyung-mi, until the last flashback reveals that the college girl tried to murder the cat-killer (it was the janitor) and that Kyung-mi was the cop who investigated the case.
* InsuranceFraud: Je-hee's job is to uncover this. She hires Kyung-mi in the first episode to investigate a life insurance payout, and sure enough it was a case of FakingTheDead.
* InsuranceFraud: Je-hee's job is to uncover this. She hires Kyung-mi in the first episode to investigate a life insurance payout, and sure enough it was a case of FakingTheDead.
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* InsuranceFraud: Je-hee's job is to uncover this. She hiresKyung-mi Kyung-yi in the first episode to investigate a life insurance payout, and sure enough it was a case of FakingTheDead.
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* TheShutIn: It's not clear just how long Kyung-mi has been in her filthy apartment, but it's been long enough that she has forgotten the passcode to open her door.
* TheVoiceless: "Santa", Kyung-mi's video game friend who becomes her sidekick and driver when she starts investigating again. Although able to talk he never does; when he needs to say something he uses a voice app on his phone.
* TheVoiceless: "Santa", Kyung-mi's video game friend who becomes her sidekick and driver when she starts investigating again. Although able to talk he never does; when he needs to say something he uses a voice app on his phone.
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* TheShutIn: It's not clear just how long Kyung-mi Kyung-yi has been in her filthy apartment, but it's been long enough that she has forgotten the passcode to open her door.
* SignificantName: It is noted that Kyung-yi, the protagonist and the relentlessly dedicated detective, and Yi-kyung, TheSociopath and SerialKiller, have names that are mirror-images of each other.
* TheVoiceless: "Santa",Kyung-mi's Kyung-yi's video game friend who becomes her sidekick and driver when she starts investigating again. Although able to talk he never does; when he needs to say something he uses a voice app on his phone.
* SignificantName: It is noted that Kyung-yi, the protagonist and the relentlessly dedicated detective, and Yi-kyung, TheSociopath and SerialKiller, have names that are mirror-images of each other.
* TheVoiceless: "Santa",
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* ThePigPen: Kyung-yi. When Je-hee comes to fetch her in episode 1, Kyung-yi's apartment is covered in filth and garbage, her computer is full of roaches, and Kyung-yi herself is so dirty that flies are buzzing around her. In episode 2, she thinks nothing of diving into a dumpster and then ambling home.
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: Just the ''smell'' of soju causes Santa to pass out in episode 2.
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* DrunkenMaster: In episode 1 Kyung-mi is barely conscious after she's forced out of her apartment, until Je-hee has her chug a beer, after which she perks right up. In episode 2 she does soju shots in an effort to think better.
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* AsYouKnow: The relationship between Yi-kyung and her aunt Jung-yeon is explained in episode 2 by the former saying "Please respect your niece's privacy!"
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* InsuranceFraud: Je-hee's job is to uncover this. She hires Kyung-mi in the first episode to investigate a life insurance payout, and sure enough it was a case of FakingTheDead.
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* {{Flashback}}: A series of flashbacks in the first episode shows a rather creepy college student investigating who killed some stray cats that she and her friends were looking after. It's implied that the creepy college student is Kyung-mi, until the last flashback reveals that the college girl tried to murder the cat-killer (it was the janitor) and that Kyung-mi was the cop who investigated the case.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: The fact that Min-gyu's body was never found is what causes Je-hee to start an investigation. Naturally it's because he isn't dead.
* TheShutIn: It's not clear just how long Kyung-mi has been in her filthy apartment, but it's been long enough that she has forgotten the passcode to open her door.
* TheShutIn: It's not clear just how long Kyung-mi has been in her filthy apartment, but it's been long enough that she has forgotten the passcode to open her door.
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* FakingTheDead: Sure enough, Min-gyu isn't really dead.
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* BaitAndSwitch: It is implied through a series of {{Match Cut}}s in the first episode that the creepy college student and Koo Kyung-mi are the same person, like in one scene where Kyung-mi looking down on an intersection from a rooftop cuts to the college girl doing the same in a flashback. It's not until the end of the episode that it's revealed that the murderous college girl is a separate character from Kyung-mi, who was the police detective investigating her.
* FakingTheDead: Sure enough, Min-gyu isn't reallydead.dead, he's been hiding in a shed next to the family home. Although he becomes dead when Yi-kyung blows him up.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Koo's investigation into a case of insurance fraud uncovers a serial murder case.
* TheVoiceless: "Santa", Kyung-mi's video game friend who becomes her sidekick and driver when she starts investigating again. Although able to talk he never does; when he needs to say something he uses a voice app on his phone.
* FakingTheDead: Sure enough, Min-gyu isn't really
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Koo's investigation into a case of insurance fraud uncovers a serial murder case.
* TheVoiceless: "Santa", Kyung-mi's video game friend who becomes her sidekick and driver when she starts investigating again. Although able to talk he never does; when he needs to say something he uses a voice app on his phone.
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''Inspector Koo'' is a 12-episode television series from South Korea. It ran from October to December of 2021.
It is a loose remake of ''Series/KillingEve''. Koo Kyung-yi is, as the series begins, a gamer who lives in a filthy apartment and plays shooting games online. She is approached by Na Je-hee, an insurance fraud investigator, because as it turns out, the unkempt, seemingly barely functional Kyung-yi is a highly skilled detective.
Je-hee has a suspicious case of a man who is missing and presumed dead. Kim Min-gyu, a factory worker at a coastal fishing town, disappeared without a trace while on his morning walk, and his widow has received a payout of 1.2 billion won. Je-hee theorizes that Min-gyu may have killed himself for the insurance money, but Kyung-yi becomes convinced that Min-gyu isn't really dead. She investigates, uncovers a report of a series of mysterious deaths of workers at the factory, and eventually finds a surprising connection to her own past as a police officer and her pursuit of a sociopathic college student, Son Yi-kyung.
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* FakingTheDead: Sure enough, Min-gyu isn't really dead.
It is a loose remake of ''Series/KillingEve''. Koo Kyung-yi is, as the series begins, a gamer who lives in a filthy apartment and plays shooting games online. She is approached by Na Je-hee, an insurance fraud investigator, because as it turns out, the unkempt, seemingly barely functional Kyung-yi is a highly skilled detective.
Je-hee has a suspicious case of a man who is missing and presumed dead. Kim Min-gyu, a factory worker at a coastal fishing town, disappeared without a trace while on his morning walk, and his widow has received a payout of 1.2 billion won. Je-hee theorizes that Min-gyu may have killed himself for the insurance money, but Kyung-yi becomes convinced that Min-gyu isn't really dead. She investigates, uncovers a report of a series of mysterious deaths of workers at the factory, and eventually finds a surprising connection to her own past as a police officer and her pursuit of a sociopathic college student, Son Yi-kyung.
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* FakingTheDead: Sure enough, Min-gyu isn't really dead.
