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* BourgeoisBohemian: Hye-rin. She's a student radical in her youth, going to protests and such. She even gets arrested and tortured by the secret police, once. But it's all really a rebellion against her controlling father. Eventually, after she joins her father's business, she cast her left-wing past behind without a second thought.
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* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Hye-rin. She's a student radical in her youth, going to protests and such. She even gets arrested and tortured by the secret police, once. But it's all really a rebellion against her controlling father. Eventually, after she joins her father's business, she cast her left-wing past behind without a second thought.
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* VisualTitleDrop: Episode 5 reveals that Mr. Yoon has an hourglass (a "sandglass") on his desk. He has a habit of flipping it over when giving orders. The hourglass is referenced again in episode 16 when Mr. Yoon, whose empire is collapsing around him, picks it up and tells Hye-rin that it was a gift that her mother gave him on their first trip abroad.
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* VisualTitleDrop: Episode 5 reveals that Mr. Yoon has an hourglass (a "sandglass") on his desk. He has a habit of flipping it over when giving orders. The hourglass is referenced again in episode 16 when Mr. Yoon, whose empire is collapsing around him, picks it up and tells Hye-rin that it was a gift that her mother gave him on their first trip abroad. Then there's a CallBack in the series finale where Hye-rin is fiddling with the hourglass right before Tae-soo's trial.
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* MacGuffin: President hyoon's secret account book, in which he kept a record of all his bribes and corrupt deals. Much of the drama in the back half of the series revolves around people trying to obtain the account book. Eventually Hye-rin gives it to Woo-sun who uses it to put Kang the corrupt bureaucrat in jail.
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* MacGuffin: President hyoon's Yoon's secret account book, in which he kept a record of all his bribes and corrupt deals. Much of the drama in the back half of the series revolves around people trying to obtain the account book. Eventually Hye-rin gives it to Woo-sun who uses it to put Kang the corrupt bureaucrat in jail.
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* DisturbedDoves: A flock of pigeons dramatically flies off the prison roof at the end of the last episode, as Tae-soo is marched across the courtyard to his execution.
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* CantStopTheSignal: In the last episode, Woo-sun is arrested in order to stop him from pursuing his corruption investigation. Reporter Shin writes an expose, but the same corrupt government officials who had Woo-suk arrested lean on her editors to kill the story. So, with help from Hye-rin, Shin goes to an independent printer and has her story printed as a broadside. Woo-suk is freed.
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* MacGuffin: President hyoon's secret account book, in which he kept a record of all his bribes and corrupt deals. Much of the drama in the back half of the series revolves around people trying to obtain the account book. Eventually Hye-rin gives it to Woo-sun who uses it to put Kang the corrupt bureaucrat in jail.
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* TraintopBattle: Tae-soo and Jong-do have their final, fatal fistfight on top of a moving cargo truck on the docks at Pusan, in episode 23.
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* FlamesOfLove: With Tae-soo a wanted fugitive and both of them knowing that it's now or never, he and Hye-rin make love in front of a roaring fireplace in episode 23. (Since this show is PG rated like almost every KoreanDrama, there's a SexyDiscretionShot.)
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* SuccessionCrisis: The last third of the series focuses around Hye-rin, Tae-soo, and Jong-do all battling for control of her father's casino empire after President Yoon dies.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Jae-hee the loyal bodyguard is beaten to death by Jong-do's goons at the end of episode 22, with Jong-do himself delivering the death blow, while Hye-rin is ForcedToWatch.
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* CrusadingLawyer: Woo-suk, apparently the only honest prosecutor in South Korea. He dedicates himself to rooting out the endemic corruption in the construction industry, headed by crooks like Jong-do, even though Woo-suk's ow bosses are usually in bed with the bad guys and try to stop him.
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* SwissBankAccount: It turns out that Mr. Yoon was salting away the kickbacks for the government in Swiss bank accounts...but he changed the numbers. In episode 20 Hye-rin offers to give Mr. Kang the passwords if Kang lifts the ban on her casinos, but Kang angrily refuses.
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** Another subplot later in the series has a triangle between Woo-suk, Young-jin the IntrepidReporter, and Woo-suk's demure landlady who obviously adores him.
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** Another subplot later in the series has a triangle between Woo-suk, Young-jin the IntrepidReporter, and Sun-young, Woo-suk's demure landlady who obviously adores him.him. Young-jin is assertive enough to actually ask Woo-suk to marry her, but instead he picks the more traditionally feminine Sun-young.
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* LoveTriangle:
** For a while between Hye-rin, Tae-soo, and Woo-suk, except that Woo-suk obviously has no shot because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
** Another subplot later in the series has a triangle between Woo-suk, Young-jin the IntrepidReporter, and Woo-suk's demure landlady who obviously adores him.
** For a while between Hye-rin, Tae-soo, and Woo-suk, except that Woo-suk obviously has no shot because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
** Another subplot later in the series has a triangle between Woo-suk, Young-jin the IntrepidReporter, and Woo-suk's demure landlady who obviously adores him.
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* RooftopConfrontation: Tae-soo and his gang chase Jong-do to the roof of his hotel in episode 16. Tae-soo's lieutenant In-young is all for throwing Jong-do off the roof but Tae-soo settles for warning him to never come near Hye-rin again.
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* VisualTitleDrop: Episode 5 reveals that Mr. Yoon has an hourglass (a "sandglass") on his desk. He has a habit of flipping it over when giving orders.
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* VisualTitleDrop: Episode 5 reveals that Mr. Yoon has an hourglass (a "sandglass") on his desk. He has a habit of flipping it over when giving orders. The hourglass is referenced again in episode 16 when Mr. Yoon, whose empire is collapsing around him, picks it up and tells Hye-rin that it was a gift that her mother gave him on their first trip abroad.
