Disney+ K-drama The Nice Guy: Lee Dong-wook tries to go straight in gangland drama
Latest Nielsen rating: 3.23 per cent
A few months after appearing as the head of an insurance team in
The Divorce Insurance
Lee Dong-wook returns to screens in more familiar territory as a reluctant and lovable gangster trying to keep his dysfunctional family together and reconnect with his first love.
Park Seok-cheol (Lee) is a respected gangster who has followed in the footsteps of his retired gangster father Park Sil-gon (Cheon Ho-jin,
My Liberation Notes ). The trouble is, he never had any intention of entering the life; he always dreamed of being a poet or a novelist and now he wants out.
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