"Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation" Writer, "Tough Reality Beat by Satisfactory Laughter"

Writer Lee Yu-jin of OCN Dramatic Cinema "Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation" stimulates the thrills of genre fanatics. She wrote the OCN drama "Missing Noir M" in 2015 about missing person's crimes and was well received for her case structures and thick message. Many fans have been waiting for her next work since then. Lee Yu-jin teams up with director Kang Hyo-jin and actor Cha Tae-hyun with "Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation" to bring satisfaction.

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The new OCN Dramatic Cinema projetc, "Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation", is a satisfactory investigative drama about a group of eccentric outsiders from different areas using all methods necessary to solve unsolved crimes. The pre-released highlight video heralded a pleasant atmosphere that is different from Lee Yu-jin's previous work, "Missing Noir M", which had a heavy and serious atmosphere.

Regarding this, Lee Yu-jin said, ""Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation" started off heavy and serious like "Missing Noir M" but Team Gorilla got involved and added comedy to it". At the end of laughing and reasoning with Team Bulldog in the drama is a sense of heaviness, she introduced the drama with. She added, "Life is so tough these days. I thought it'd be meaningful to deliver satisfactory laughter through a drama at least".

The most anticipated part of "Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation" is the characters never seen before in other dramas creating a bizarre cooperation. Other than detective Jin Kang-ho (Cha Tae-hyun), PD Kang Moo-yeong (Lee Sun-bin), funeral director Lee Ban-seok (Jung Sang-hoon), cocktail bar owner Teddy Jeong (Yoon Kyung-ho) and private eye Tak-won (Ji Seung-hyun) are all a step away from the front lines. This kind of character set up was born from Lee Yu-jin and the planners' hard thinking. "It starts from a slightly different perspective in investigative material where the main character is mostly a police officer, prosecutor, lawyer, or reporter due to genre characteristics", she explained.

First of all, since investigating the case and arresting the criminal is a big stem of the story, there are no jobs that are very irrelevant, but they have chosen a variety of occupations that have never been seen in investigative dramas before. It also gives validity to the characters' investigative ability under the title of 'former jobs'. Lee Ban-seok, who transferred his job to funeral director who restores bodies beautifully from an autopsy doctor, Teddy Jeong, a reclusive master who runs a bar leaving the underground world behind, Tak-won, who was once a genius profiler, although he plays two jobs as a private detective and salesman, detective Jin Kang-ho, a detective who does everything he can to catch a criminal and PD Kang Moo-yeong, an investigative reporting program producer that is closely united with a sense of mission and passion. They are all in the investigation team called "Team Bulldog". "They are outsiders who are not at the forefront of the investigation, but that's why they will deliver more unexpected and exceptional fun and freshness", writer Lee Yu-jin said.

Also, she did not hide her strong trust in the actors who play the five outsiders. She said, "I was half excited and half worried about how the characters would look, but the worries at the script practice turned into excitement. I was sure that everyone was dressed in their own clothes, as if I had written a script with the five actors in mind from the beginning", she said. Attention is focusing on what synergy each of the five characters will create.

Lastly, writer Lee Yu-jin said, "I'm waiting for the first broadcast with the most excitement than anyone else. Director Kang Hyo-jin, who has a good sense of humor, a story consisting of carefully selected results from events and clues that have been prepared and matured since "Missing Noir M", and characters in the color of "Team Gorilla" will provide fresh fun", she said, asking for attention and expectations for the first broadcast that is coming a week ahead.

Meanwhile, "Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation" is the third Dramatic Cinema project, an effort which was launched in 2019 to produce well-made genres combining the format of movies and dramas, with a large number of film producers joining forces. Director Kang Hyo-jin, writer Lee Yu-jin and rookie writer Jung Yoon-sun-I as well as Ma Dong-seok's Team Goriila participate in the project. It will premiere at 10:50PM on Saturday, May 23rd.