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* BigBad: Chairman Sung, head of the Yong-Gil Group, the industrial magnate who is the real prime mover behind events. Even after Assemblyman Song is promoted to the Cabinet as Minister of Justice, he still treats Chairman Sung with a very deferential manner. He's also a lot more evil than garden-variety {{Corrupt Politician}}s like Minister Song, being perfectly willing to commit murder.
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* BigBad: Chairman Sung, head of the Yong-Gil Group, the industrial magnate who is the real prime mover behind events. Even after Assemblyman Song is promoted to the Cabinet as Minister of Justice, he still treats Chairman Sung with a very deferential manner. He's Chairman Sung is also a lot more evil than garden-variety {{Corrupt Politician}}s like Minister Song, being perfectly willing to commit murder.
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* TheBadGuyWins: How Season 1 ends. Tae-joon, concluding that you can't fight TheMan and that you can only effect positive change when you ''become'' TheMan and gain power, surrenders. Hee-seop gets his appointment as minister of justice. Lee Chang-jin and the other corrupt businessmen of the Yong-Gil Group get what they want, which is the demolition of Seobuk Market and the dispossession of all the poor shop owners there. For this, Tae-joon is rewarded with a seat in the National Assembly. The only bad guy who gets any comeuppance at all is Oh, Hee-seop's SmugSnake minion and TheRival to Tae-joon in the office, who is disappointed that he wasn't the one to get nomination for the seat in the assembly.
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* TheBadGuyWins: How Season 1 ends. Tae-joon, concluding that you can't fight TheMan The Man and that you can only effect positive change when you ''become'' TheMan The Man and gain power, surrenders. Hee-seop gets his appointment as minister of justice. Lee Chang-jin and the other corrupt businessmen of the Yong-Gil Group get what they want, which is the demolition of Seobuk Market and the dispossession of all the poor shop owners there. For this, Tae-joon is rewarded with a seat in the National Assembly. The only bad guy who gets any comeuppance at all is Oh, Hee-seop's SmugSnake minion and TheRival to Tae-joon in the office, who is disappointed that he wasn't the one to get nomination for the seat in the assembly.
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* DistantFinale: The end scenes skip forward three months to tie up the storylines.
** Minister Song and Chairman Sung are going to jail, for 15 and 20 years respectively. Minister Song starts screaming at the judge and has to be dragged out of the courtroom.
** Chief Prosecutor Choe is working on rooting out the endemic corruption in the prosecution. (Prosecutor Seo, who was working with Minister Song, has been arrested.)
** Hye-won has left politics and started working as a reporter again. She and Han Do-kyeong meet for what is apparently a first date.
** Seon-yeong has left the Daehan Party and is running for her reelection as an independent, and seems likely to win.
** Tae-joon will not face any consequences for some of the underhanded stuff he did to bring down Minister Song, like receiving classified info from the police or hiding the evidence of Assemblyman Jo taking bribes. In fact, as the series ends, he's been hired by the President of South Korea to be Chief of Staff.
** Minister Song and Chairman Sung are going to jail, for 15 and 20 years respectively. Minister Song starts screaming at the judge and has to be dragged out of the courtroom.
** Chief Prosecutor Choe is working on rooting out the endemic corruption in the prosecution. (Prosecutor Seo, who was working with Minister Song, has been arrested.)
** Hye-won has left politics and started working as a reporter again. She and Han Do-kyeong meet for what is apparently a first date.
** Seon-yeong has left the Daehan Party and is running for her reelection as an independent, and seems likely to win.
** Tae-joon will not face any consequences for some of the underhanded stuff he did to bring down Minister Song, like receiving classified info from the police or hiding the evidence of Assemblyman Jo taking bribes. In fact, as the series ends, he's been hired by the President of South Korea to be Chief of Staff.
* TheGhost: The President of South Korea. He's often discussed, like when Song is talking about getting the president to pick him as Minister of Justice. A few times one of the president's staffers drops by to yell at Minister Song. In the last scene of the series, said staffer meets Tae-joon, says that the president likes him, and says that the president will be calling him and offering him a job as chief of staff. The President is never seen or named.
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* GratuitousEnglish: A random moment in episode 2.7 has Oh Won-sik talking to his daughter on the phone in English. It seems the younger Oh is studying abroad and Won-sik wants her to improve her English skills.
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* GratuitousEnglish: A random moment in episode 2.7 has Oh Won-sik has a daughter studying overseas; occasionally he calls her and insists on talking in English as she needs to work on her English skills. This is played for drama in the last episode when Won-sik, now under arrest and facing jail time, calls his daughter on the phone again. He starts out in English. It seems the younger Oh is studying abroad and Won-sik wants her to improve her English skills.but bursts into tears and has to switch to Korean.
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** In the series finale Minister Song goes in front of a committee that is filled with his own loyalist stooges, except for Tae-joon himself. Tae-joon manages to trick Song into a lie, which results in Song going to prison.
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** The ship is re-floated in Season 2 when Do-kyeong learns the truth about Tae-joon's motives. At the end of the series he and Hye-won are meeting for a first date.
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* ThankingTheViewer: The second season, and the series, ends with an onscreen title saying "Thank you for watching ''Chief of Staff'' Season 2."
