Kang Oh Soo (Uhm Tae Woong, guy on the right) is a detective burdened by a childhood sin – a sin that will return to haunt him in his most recent case: A tarot card was sent to a murder victim with a mysterious note…

As he investigates the case (whose main suspect seems to morph from one person to another), Oh Soo meets Seo Hae, a 25-year-old psychic, who helps out the department with the cases once in a while, who painted said Tarot card.

Meanwhile, a human rights lawyer, Oh Seung Ha, takes a peculiar interest in the case … and thus begins a “triangle” (of love, and of something else altogether) which drags Oh Soo into the depths of despair.

(Like my sypnopsis? I just got bored with the same old sypnopsis I keep finding online. I thought I should just write another!)

When I first spotted the DVD boxset for Lucifer / The Devil, I walked past it, thinking that it’s just more of the same-ol-same-ol Korean romantic dramas that always gets on my nerves.

(I’m of the “if you want her, shag her” school instead of “i can’t decide if I love him/her, so I’ll play hard to get or wait till the next 20 episodes to confess my love” so I was never a fan of the genre.)

But one day, at my DVD rental shop I was bored and more than a little frustrated with my foray into another Korean drama, The Song of the Prince (Seo Dong Yo). So I read the back cover … and when it said that it was “more like CSI”, I was sold.

Boy am I glad I picked it up, because The Devil is one of the best Korean dramas I’ve seen.

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