Detailed Information
Broadcasting company: KBSOfficial Website : click here
Genre : Action, mystery, thriller, romance
TV Premiere: 2009-Oct-14 to 2009-Dec-17
Production : Writer: Kim Hyun-jun
Director: Kim Gyu-tae
Main Casts : Kim Seung-woo, Lee Byung-heon, Jeong Jun-ho, Kim Tae-hee, Kim So-yeon, T.O.P
Running Time per Episode : 60 mins
Total Episodes : 20
Brief Synopsis
National Security System (NSS) Top 707 agents Hyun-jun and Sa-woo are blood brothers who swore to trust each other and unchanging friendship for life. They meet agent Seung-hee there and both fall in love with her. But Hyun-jun and Seung-hee become close and Sa-woo fights to hide his feelings for Seung-hee. One day, they are immediately sent on a mission to Hungary. When they successfully finish off their job with immaculate teamwork and are celebrating it, a message arrives to Hyun-jun asking him to meet in secret.
Baek-san, an executive of NSS who had been waiting for Hyun-jun orders a solo mission. Despite the tight protection of bodyguards, Hyun-jun succeeds his mission. But before escaping, Hyun-jun gets wounded by his targets' head security bodyguards, and later he is shockingly betrayed by his most trusted friend, Sa-woo. Hyun-jun tries to escape with Seung-hee's help, but he ends up losing Seung-hee. And his car also explodes; they are both misled into thinking that the other had died. Hyun-jun gets saved by an unidentifiable "Voice" and learns the secret identity of a group called, "Iris".
1 year later, with the two Koreas about to be reunified, Hyun-jun makes his return. After spending a nightmarish life of being betrayed and losing everything, Hyun-jun returns to get revenge on those who threw him into the living hell. With the help of the President, Hyun-jun returns to his post in the NSS. Starting a fight against "Iris", the secret society that tries to interfere with reunification, Hyun-jun now puts everything on the line for the battle of his life.
Notes
- Filming sites include Hungary, Russia, Japan, China and the U.S.
- The production cost for this drama is 20 million dollars, making it the most expensive Korean drama to date (10/2008).
- Japanese distribution rights for the drama series “Iris” was sold to TBS for a record ¥ 400,000,000 / ? 5,300,000,000 ($4.3 million USD).
- This drama is somewhat based on the film Shiri.
