Day 250: KDrama - Vincenzo

Starring by Song Joong-ki, the series’ protagonist is Vincenzo, a Korean boy who was adopted by an Italian mafia boss and subsequently introduced to the mafia world. Following the death of his adoptive father, Vincenzo decides to return to South Korea after many years, and take a new job. Unsurprisingly, Vincenzo represents an interesting blend of Korean and Italian cultures. When Vincenzo displays habits like cursing in Italian when he is frustrated, and holding Italian cuisine close to his heart, it feels rather natural in a pleasing way.

Vincenzo is a K-drama with crime, dark comedy, and slight romance that aired on Netflix. It stars Song Joong-ki (Vincenzo Cassano), Jeon Yeo-bin (Hong Cha-young), Ok Tae-cyeon (Jang Jun-woo), Kwak Dong-yeon (Jang Han-seo - Jun Woo's younger brother) and Kim Yeo-jin (Choi Myung-hee - Jun Woo's Legal Lawyer). The drama instantly became a hit due to its storyline and the amazing acting performances from the actors!

Vincenzo Cassano, a mafia consigliere, has dark charisma and is very competent. After he leaves Italy, he flies to South Korea to tear down the Geumga Plaza since he wants to reclaim the hidden gold down there after the owner of the building, passes away. The plan doesn’t go well since a real estate company under Babel Group illegally snatches ownership of Geumga Plaza.

Vincenzo has to become involved with the residents of Geumga Plaza and the attorney Hong Cha-young. Initially, the residents are suspicious about him but shortly accept him after Vincenzo fights for their rights along with Hong Cha-young. After Cha-young father’s death, she manages his father’s law firm named Jipuragi and cooperates with Vincenzo against Babel Group.

I pretty like the residents as they are warm hearted, caring and sometimes crack some jokes with each other. Although Vincenzo seems very dark and thrilling, the existence of the Geumga Plaza residents made it have a great sense of humor! They portray such hilarious scenes that somehow calm down the tension between the conflicts! This scene was the residents were having fights with Babel Group fighters when they wanted to tear down the building.

I took quite awhile to finish this drama, almost one month, as the entire drama is just too gruesome for me. The part that I really dislike was in the last episode, Vincenzo portrays the heartbreaking and brutal scene that you guys couldn’t have imagined! The death of Choi Myung-hee and Jang Jun-woo marked the end game of Vincenzo, although it was painful for Jang Han-seo after all of the sacrifices that he has done. Vincenzo and Hong Cha-young won and even got the hidden gold safely.