Gap-dong

In 1986, the (fictional) city of Iltan in Gyeonggi Province: A young girl gets brutally murdered by an unknown person on a dark night. As the city is gripped by a succession of serial killings, a total of nine murders within a twelve-kilometer radius since 1993, the police conclude that a man they've nicknamed "Gap-dong" is behind the crimes. Detective Yang Cheol-gon is convinced that the actual killer is Ha Il-sik, a resident of the town who is intellectually challenged. His attempt to arrest the suspect fails as Ha commits suicide to prove his innocence. His death inspires his son Moo-yeom to become a police officer to clear his father's name and restore his honor.

Seventeen years later, Moo-yeom is a police detective who spends his career chasing dead ends and helping juvenile delinquents. After the statute of limitations on the case expires, Moo-yeom becomes resigned to the belief that Gap-dong is dead. But then a series of incidents occur in the town that bear an eerie resemblance to Gap-dong's crimes. Cheol-gon, now a well-decorated officer, has recently transferred back to Iltan, and to his dismay, Moo-yeom joins his investigation team to catch Gap-dong once and for all.

• Yoon Sang-hyun as Ha Moo-yeom, a detective in Iltan Police Department's violent crimes unit. He vows to avenge his wrongly accused father.{{cite web|title=Yoon Sang Hyun Gets Intense for Upcoming tvN Drama Gapdong|url=http://www.soompi.com/2014/03/09/yoon-sang-hyun-gets-intense-for-upcoming-tvn-drama-gapdong/|work=Soompi|access-date=2014-03-11|date=9 March 2014}}
• Kim Min-jung as Maria Oh, a psychiatrist with a mysterious double life and a suspicious curiosity for all things Gap-dong.
• Sung Dong-il as Yang Cheol-gon, a police inspector at the time of the original murders, and is now a well-decorated officer. Upon receiving his latest promotion, he surprises his superiors by requesting to be assigned back to Iltan, because he wants to end his career by capturing Gap-dong. Still convinced that Moo-yeom's father was the killer, he is extremely prejudiced against Moo-yeom, which makes for a combative working relationship. He also hiding grief of his daughter's death.
• Kim Ji-won as Ma Ji-wool, a 17-year-old high school student and webtoon artist with the pen name "Matilda". Ji-wool becomes pivotal to the case when her webtoon titled The Beast's Path ends up foretelling the crimes. When she becomes the killer's next target, it also serves as a set of clues to find him.
• Lee Joon as Ryu Tae-oh, an inmate of a prison psychiatric hospital, who becomes a barista after his release. With a genius IQ of 150, his excellent and detailed memory may prove valuable to cracking the case, but he also happens to have the disposition to be a dangerous psychopath, and considers Gap-dong his god and hero.{{cite web|last=Bae|first=Sun-young|title=MBLAQ Lee Joon to Turn into Barista in New Drama|url=http://www.tenasia.com/mblaq-lee-joon-to-turn-into-barista-in-new-drama/|work=TenAsia|access-date=2014-03-11|date=4 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407090716/http://www.tenasia.com/mblaq-lee-joon-to-turn-into-barista-in-new-drama/|archive-date=2014-04-07}}{{cite web|last=Kim|first=Hee-eun|title=Lee Joon joins new thriller|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2986610|work=Korea JoongAng Daily|access-date=2014-03-20|date=20 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Hong|first=Grace Danbi|title=Lee Joon Says MBLAQ Members Liked that He Was a Psychopath in Gapdong|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/63483/mblaq-leejoon-talks-about-gapdong|work=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-04-11|date=11 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413124115/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/63483/mblaq-leejoon-talks-about-gapdong|archive-date=13 April 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last1=Jeon|first1=Ah-ram|title=Interview: Lee Joon Shares on Acting as a Psychopath in Gapdong|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/69333/interview-leejoon-talks-about-wrapping-up-gapdong|website=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-06-29|date=28 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701141055/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/69333/interview-leejoon-talks-about-wrapping-up-gapdong|archive-date=1 July 2014|url-status=dead}}

• Jung In-gi as Cha Do-hyeok, the police section chief. He was in fact, the true culprit of the "Gap Dong" serial murders. He was sentenced to death nearing the end of the series
• Hyun Woo as young Cha Do-hyeok
• Kang Nam-gil as Han Sang-hoon, a profiler
• Jang Gwang as Jinjo, a monk
• Choo Soo-hyun as Oh Young-ae
• Lee Seung-ho as Kim Shin-yong
• Yoo Eun-ho as Yang Seon-joo, Cheol-gon's daughter
• Lee Go-eun as young Seon-joo
• Min Sung-wook as Nam Ki-ri
• Jung Won-joong as Park Joong-goo
• Jang Hee-soo as Kim Young-mi, Maria's mother
• Yoon Kyun-sang as the youngest detective
• Seo Cho-won as Supporting
• Hong In-young as Hong Sung-hee, a reporter
• Seo Joo-hee as Ji Hwa-ja, Ji-wool's mother
• Jo Ji-hwan as Lee Hyung-nyeon, Moo-yeom's partner and wife

In this table, {{color|blue|the blue numbers}} represent the lowest ratings and {{color|red|the red numbers}} represent the highest ratings.

• {{small|This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).}}

• It aired in Thailand on Workpoint TV beginning March 9, 2015.{{cite web|title=Gap Dong กั๊บดง ถอดรหัสฆ่า / GabDong – ซีรีย์เกาหลี|url=http://korea.tlcthai.com/gap-dong-%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B5/|work=korea.tlcthai.com|date=2 September 2015}} {{langx|th|ภาษาไทย}}
• In Hong Kong, Macau, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, the drama began airing on tvN Asia with a variety of subtitles on 2016.

{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website|http://program.interest.me/tvn/gabdong2/}} {{in lang|ko}}
• {{hancinema drama|Gabdong_-_Memories_of_Murder|Gap-dong}}
• {{IMDb title|3633394|Gap-dong}}
• [http://giftmap.interest.me/View/1905 Gap-dong webtoon] {{in lang|ko}}

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