Premiering in October 2009, the series was a critical and commercial success, with an average viewership of over 30% in addition to ranking as the top program consistently every week after its debut. Hyun Joon was still alive for quite a bit after the "shot" so I'm more inclined to believe it missed a fatal blow slightly. it totally states KOREAN DRAMA! Not angry ripped off, but disappointed rip off.
Advisor Hong meets with Sa Woo, and tells him that he has to go meet the person who will now protect him. Chul Young and Hyun Joon act as bodyguards, and keep a sharp eye looking about. Was it the confusion over the motivation of the character? When President Park was assassinated, her father was held responsible and executed. I’m kaedejun – and I will be doing the recaps for IRIS starting with episode 3. however, the ever persistent sun hwa discovers hyun joon's hiding place and inadvertently leads seung hee to the location. HEY.. Oh No..!' As the two friends find their loyalties tested and forge new, unlikely alliances, the journey takes them from their home country to Hungary, Japan, and China w MERRY CHRISTMAS. What is the purpose of killing off Hyunjoon?? Your physical acting is TOP-notch and your eyes are very piercing and convincing. I do give her credit for improving, but man, she is not leading lady material - please! Hyun Joon is just amazed that someone could be so patriotic because he never felt that way – he just wanted excitement in his life.Back at NSS, Tae Sung reports to Hyun Joon that they located the supplier of the expensive wine in Vic’s home. Hyun Joon goes to the Blue House to talk to the President. I don't think she was suppose to get involved, and while her story to HJ seemed reasonable, I feel like it was contrived. They did every other twist at the end so it could one last bit. On Wednesday 24 September 7pm, part of the K-Drama Week starting this Tuesday, Curzon Cinema Soho will be screening Firstly, the drama is based on early Korean theatrical box office hit Secondly, IRIS was produced by Taewon Entertainment – one of the most successful Korean prodco (behind the Thirdly, IRIS cast the two most internationally famous Korean actors as leads, Lee Byung-hun (Fourthly, IRIS is a spy series, which draws upon the classic North/South divide, one which has been very popular in the past, with Overall, the drama follows two young men trained within the South Korean army who are scouted to be part of the very secret NSS (National Security Service). And if there "HAD" not been a reason to set Hyun Joon up, then the whole story of "IRIS" is crap.NOOOOOOOOO BIG BANG'S T.O.P DIED!!!?!??!?!
... in the Korean Peninsular, you will understand why the North could really win because the spies in the South are always deeply in love.
lol this is weird for a typical asian girl to say this :P i know its just acting but nooo oh n the look he gave b4 he died was creepy so GOOD ACTING !!!! He finally replies, “The one that will end my life is not God, nor you. You see little signs of that.....Just my opinion folks. If you can stand extreme melodrama then the action and plot is not too bad. Which turns to my previous question, why bring him to the NSS and turn him into a killing machine, ripe for the picking by the "Doctor"?There was no reason that Hyun Joon "HAD" to be the target of that suicide mission. Iris was a serious South Korean spy thriller, with interesting plot twists, engaging performances, and several brutal betrayals, culminating in a finish that resulted in more than a few questions remaining unanswered. The two best friends, Kim Hyun-jun (Lee Byung-hun) and Jin Sa-woo (Jung Joon-ho), are torn apart when they realize the woman they have both fallen for, agent Choi Seung-hee (Kim Tae-hee), is their scout and on an initial mission to Hungary Jin is ordered to kill Kim, who was set up as a traitor after failing to clear himself out of a secret mission.In the meantime, they discover that the head of NSS is also an undercover agent of a cross-border secret organization called IRIS aimed at wrecking chaos to prevent diplomatic landmarks.From there, while in hiding, Kim tries to uncover the grounding of his betrayal and who is hiding behind that so secret organization.One of the strong points of this drama is the way it depicts both South and North Koreans without any biased judgment. They manage to finally grab a respite behind some display cases and walls to reload and regroup. An organization does not create enemies when it is not necessary. After a few months even I'm crying after the time wasted to see this stuff. Please enter your username or email address. And then I thought the writing got a little careless (one of them being, how could they have let the terrorists just escape and kill all the hostages? Was this review helpful? In the beginning, a tiny seed was planted into the writers’ minds to create a series that would surpass all other productions in budget and scale.
There's also a nice cameo at the end from.. Well I won't say who. He boasts that he has fingers of gold and wishes to treat Hyun Joon and Seung Hee too. Maybe, time was not on the writers' side to develop it further. Hyun Joon. 1 out of 3 found this helpful. But on another hand Director Baek said to him once that he was alive because IRIS wanted... so it was like "hey you should know he is going to die".Thanks for your recaps and staying dedicated to this series!! I knew that Hyun-joon would die, but never thought it'd be like this - like you said, it was just anticlimactic, abrupt, and poorly conceived. 18..just finished the watching IRIS..love sunhwa and vic and yuki..everyone else was meh to me..i found that some of the characters confusing and i find it hard to differentiate the actors faces especially sa woo and two other guys that i dont know their namebesides, i kinda hate the love scenes execpt for the scenes with TOP and tech geek girl (sorry i dont know her name)..IRIS started slow..in ep 2-3 the pace changed abruptly..and in the middle it started to slow down and then it just lost the storyline..in my opinion, i dont see the relationship between HJ and his coworker at NSS is supposed to be strong at all as he just joined them..i find it contradicting that he is held so highly in NSS when he is just a newbie..the timeline of the series was confusing to me..eventhough not all the scenes were believable..i gotta say, top did a good job killing people esp the tech geek girl..:)i watched because of the high ratings..but i didnt enjoy it that much..just my 2cents~i NEVER comment but i have to.