{"id":37636,"date":"2026-03-19T19:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37636"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:13:57","slug":"k-drama-climax-ju-ji-hoon-covets-high-society-power-in-slick-and-juicy-prime-time-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37636","title":{"rendered":"K-drama Climax: Ju Ji-hoon covets high-society power in slick and juicy prime-time soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/19\/3faba224-5bf4-4833-9537-e1969dade4e4_cdedf4fa.jpg?itok=2_Ibzd6f&amp;v=1773909009\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Lead cast:<\/strong> Ju Ji-hoon, Ha Ji-won, Nana, Cha Joo-young<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Latest Nielsen rating:<\/strong> 3.8 per cent<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Ju Ji-hoon<\/span> returns to our screens following last year\u2019s hit medical drama <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call<\/em><\/span>, once again playing the smartest man in the room. While his previous role used that intellect to save people, in the new ENA drama <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Climax<\/em>, he plays a man who seeks only to serve himself.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Co-starring Ha Ji-won (<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Curtain Call<\/em><\/span>), Nana (<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Mask Girl<\/em><\/span>) and Cha Joo-young (<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Glory<\/em><\/span>), this scheming tale of high-society ambition and back-stabbing is a slick, febrile prime-time soap opera that marks the television drama debut of writer-director Lee Ji-won, known for the indie breakout <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Miss Baek<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Much like Zo In-sung\u2019s protagonist in the 2017 big-screen hit <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The King<\/em>, Ju\u2019s character Bang Tae-seob is a man from a working-class background who is determined to elevate himself to the highest echelons of the power ladder through South Korea\u2019s powerful prosecution service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-drama\/article\/3347143\/k-drama-climax-ju-ji-hoon-covets-high-society-power-slick-and-juicy-prime-time-soap?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead cast: Ju Ji-hoon, Ha Ji-won, Nana, Cha Joo-young Latest Nielsen rating: 3.8 per cent Ju Ji-hoon returns to our screens following last year\u2019s hit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[18527,18529,18530,18528,4352,6545,1214,18531,14618,18532],"class_list":["post-37636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-climax","tag-covets","tag-highsociety","tag-jihoon","tag-juicy","tag-kdrama","tag-power","tag-primetime","tag-slick","tag-soap","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}