Bloodhounds (2023) Show: Fast-Paced Heroic Action K-Drama

Episode 1 – After a thrilling boxing match, boxer Kim Gun-woo (Woo Do-hwan – left one in the featured image) befriends another boxer Hong Woo-jin (Lee Sang-yi – right one in the featured image). Ambitious and cruel loan shark Kim Myeong-gil’s (Park Sung-woong) business ambitions come into focus, with dangerous tactics at play.

Episode 2 – Kim Gun-woo meets with Choi Tae-ho (Heo Joon-ho) to remedy his mother’s debt. Kim Myeong-gil endures a humiliating meeting with Hong Min-beom (Choi Si Won) and grows revengeful.

Episode 3 – Kim Gun-woo and Hong Woo-jin figure out how to take down the loan scam ring. Kim Myeong-gil gains the upper hand on Hong Min-beom in a lucrative business deal.

Episode 4 (action scene link shared) – After the group faces a close call, President Choi Tae-ho plans his own operation. But as their plans fall into place, the enemies stand in their way.

Episode 5 – After narrowly escaping a threat, the group trains for what’s coming — and President Choi Tae-ho and his men look to extract valuable information.

Episode 6 – The group celebrates as they get ready for their next move. More exposed than ever before, Kim Myeong-gil goes after President Choi Tae-ho and his guards.

Episode 7 – After an unthinkable setback, Kim Gun-woo and Hong Woo-jin resolve to come back with a vengeance — later partnering with an unlikely figure.

Episode 8 – Galvanized by their duty to their loved ones, Kim Gun-woo and Hong Woo-jin tread forward to take down Myeong-gil — once and for all.

If we look back in history, then we find that bloodhound dogs were in America. In those times, these Bloodhounds, along with other scenthounds, were sometimes used to trail escaped slaves. These dogs continue to be used to trail humans. Well, the name bloodhound comes from “blooded hound,” in reference to the pure blood in a particular dog breed.

Now, in the context of Korea, the bloodhounds are specialist people (specifically the trained fighters), who are engaged by their paying clients to search for someone (like loan sharks) who runs away after ruining the lives of people. These bloodhounds not only hunt but also kill. This Bloodhounds title exactly describes Kim Gun-woo and Hong Woo-jin, the two friends who take down a ruthless loan shark Kim Myeong-gil in the end.

In the last two episodes of this series, the stories of the characters seemed rushed, especially, the tale of Cha Hyeon-ju (played by Kim Sae-Ron) in this series, so we decided to look for the reasons.

And this is what we found out, the unfortunate set of events.

Kim Sae Ron (could) would not be completely edited out of the (Bloodhounds) show because her character, Cha Hyun Joo, was essential to the narrative, and filming was complete. Therefore, the staff had to rewrite the whole script.

Actress Kim Sae Ron’s DUI Made The Cast Of Netflix’s “Bloodhounds” Suffer | Koreaboo

Now getting back to the ending of the Bloodhounds series.

The good guys – Kim Gun-woo and Hong Woo-jin win at the end. They not only help to completely destroy the financial empire of the bad guy Kim Myeong-gil but also take him down personally.

Then in the closing scenes, we see the family reunions. Finally, Kim Gun-woo manages to reunite with his mother. Kidnapped Oh In-mook is also rescued in time, to be reunited with his granddaughter. It has a happy ending for the good people. However, for the bad people, the ending is an unhappy one, as they either end up dead or in prison.

A peaceful and satisfactory ending for the people who fought so hard to get justice against the bunch of crooks, and somehow, they won and prevailed in the end. This is karma, perhaps.

Thankfully, there are no cliffhangers at the end. So, the viewers get closure in the end.

On the other hand, it indicates that there may not be a second season, anytime soon. Even Netflix has not announced the second season of the same, so far.