Memorist
2020 South Korea television series
Memorist (Korean: 메모리스트) is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Yoo Seung-ho, Lee Se-young, and Jo Sung-ha. Based on the 2016–2018 Daum webtoon of the same name by Jae Hoo, it aired on tvN from March 11 to April 30, 2020.
Synopsis
With the power to read people's memories, Dong Baek solves crimes as a detective in the police force. When a string of serial murders happen, Dong Baek teams up with talented criminal profiler Han Sun-mi to stop the killer and prevent further deaths. However, as they pursue the killer, the truth about their individual troubled pasts begins to unravel, and the murders quickly become far more convoluted than anything they had foreseen.
Cast
Main
Yoo Seung-ho as Dong Baek / Sung Ju-ho
A police officer and detective who is very passionate about catching criminals. He has the supernatural ability to read a person's memories by touching their skin. As a child, he was found wandering at Dongbaek Station with no memories of his past, except for a vague recollection of witnessing a woman, presumably his mother, being murdered.
Lee Se-young as Han Sun-mi / Kim So-mi
The youngest superintendent of Special Investigation Headquarters. She was originally a lawyer but later on became a police officer to find the truth about her father's murder that occurred 20 years ago.
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