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[[caption-width-right:250: Hmm ... yummy!]]

''Vampire Prosecutor'' (Hangul: 뱀파이어 검사, romanized: ''Vampire Geumsa'') is a KoreanDrama which aired on cable network Creator/{{OCN}}, starring Yun Jung Hoon as the titular character. Season 1 aired in late 2011, season 2 in 2012.

Prosecutor Min Tae Yeon is a [[ReluctantMonster reluctant vampire]]. As he uses his abilities in his day job, his main goal is [[MyGreatestFailure to solve a 7-year-old murder]] in which the victim was close to him and the culprit was undoubtedly another vampire.

[[TheHero Tae Yeon]] is asked to set up a special "detective-prosecutor" taskforce to investigate unusual homicides in the UsefulNotes/{{Seoul}} area. To this end, he is given several team members:
* Hwang Soon Bum, a grizzled veteran detective [[SecretKeeper who knows Tae Yeon's secret]];
* Yoo Jung In, a young female prosecutor with a gung-ho attitude and a shadowy past; and
* Choi Dong Man, the young enthusiastic intern and resident computer nerd.

The team is under the mantle of a chief prosecutor, who sometimes clashes with Tae Yeon. Together, they try to make Seoul safer for the living and the undead.

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!!This series provides examples of:

%%* ActionGirl: Jung In
* AgentScully: Interestingly, Tae Yeon, [[FurryConfusion the vampire]], plays this part to Soon Bum's AgentMulder.
%%* AgentMulder: Soon Bum
* AmoralAttorney: As the series deals with the law, there {{amoral attorney}}s pop up every now and then, but most notable is Park Hoon.
** Yoon Ji Hee in season 1, who has built her career on getting murderers off scot-free. [[spoiler: Later she's revealed to be the mastermind behind the murder of the episode 4's AssholeVictim.]]
%%* AntiHero: Park Hoon
%%* BadLiar: Dong Man
%%* BodyOfTheWeek
%%* ColdOpen
* DownerEnding: A great number of the episodes end on a sad note.
* {{Guyliner}}: Tae Yeon rockin' it out.
* FirstLove: Yup, Detective Hwang is still pining for Sook-ja.
%%* IcyBlueEyes: Check out the poster.
* ImprobableWeaponUser:
** [[spoiler: Yoo Won Gook beats his boss to death - with a cane. All it took was just [[BerserkButton one question]]: "How is your daughter?"]]
** Tae Yoon vs. [[spoiler: an Unknown Vampire]] in the bathroom includes strangling with a [[ImprovisedWeapon shower head]] and head-bashing with a toilet seat cover.
%%* TheIntern: Choi Dong Man
* MoodWhiplash: Any time something comical happens in this otherwise serious show. Imagine a random funny moment in a series like Series/LawAndOrder.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: The unsolved murder of Tae Yeon's sister Yeon Ji is the StoryArc of Season 1. He's still looking for her in Season 2.]]
%%* MysteryOfTheWeek
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They have no trouble walking in broad daylight, for one. And heal quickly. And never age. They can also flash back to the scene right before someone's death by tasting their blood.
* PolicePsychic: Min Tae-Yeon works alongside the police as part of a special joint unit, his particular talent known only to one other team member: As a vampire, he can drink a small amount of a victim's blood and see the last few moments of their life and then uses that knowledge to help push the police in the right direction.
* ReluctantMonster:
--> '''Tae Yeon''': (''to Soon Bum'') If I act human, does that make me human?
%%* SecretKeeper: Hwang Soon Bum. Runa.
%%* SympatheticMurderer: Almost always.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Hwang Soon Bum and Yoo Jung In have different methods for going about solving murders; their personalities clash.
* VampireDetectiveSeries: In the very title. Tae Yeon is part of the new detective-prosecutor team.
* VegetarianVampire: How else could Tae Yeon be our hero?
%%* WillTheyOrWontThey: Tae Yeon[=/=]Jung In

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[[folder: Season 1]]
%%* AlwaysMurder: {{Averted}} in [[spoiler: "Fight Club"]]
* ArmourPiercingQuestion:
--> '''Tae Yeon''': (''to Jung In'') Is there anything that makes you want to turn back time?
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The pastor who was also a [[PedophilePriest child molester]]]] in episode 4.
* TheBartender: The blood dealer/doctor at the bar where Tae Yeon frequents
* BerserkButton: Don't ask Jung In's father about his daughter. Just. Don't.
%%* TheBigBad: [[spoiler: Yeon Ji]]
* CastingGag: Yun Jung Hoon, who plays Min Tae Yeon, is famous for playing a prosecutor in ''East of Eden''.
%%* ChekhovsGunman: Jung In's father Yoo Won Gook
%%* TheChessmaster: Chief Prosecutor Jang Chul Oh
* TheCoroner: Sexy Soo Hee, who's always hitting on Tae Yeon
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: [[AvertedTrope But not when]] everyone's only out for themselves. [[KnightTemplarParent And their children]].
%%* DecoyDamsel: Episode 12.
* DebateAndSwitch: In episode 6. "The question is not [[TakeAThirdOption whether or not I believe]], since I know what I saw."
* DistractedByTheSexy: The boys (Hwang Soon Bum and Choi Dong Man) go 'ga-ga' over the medical examiner, Soo Hee.
* DragonInChief: [[spoiler: Chief Prosecutor Jang, TheChessmaster, works to feed Yeon Ji's insatiable appetite.]]
%%* DramaticChaseOpening
* EveryCarIsAPinto: {{Justified|Trope}}. The first scene ends in a nasty 3-car crash including a tractor-trailer, but there's no fire until someone uses a lighter. Even then, the tractor doesn't blow up till much later.
* EveryoneIsASuspect:
** [[spoiler: Episode 6. Everyone in the [[FightClubbing fight club]] injured the victim in some way and ]]as the mystery unfolds, the detective-prosecutor team can't figure out exactly ''how'' the victim died.
** [[spoiler: Episode 10's murder on the set of a RealityShow]]
* FacialDialogue: When Tae Yeon returns to work after being fatally stabbed while protecting Jung In, the two of them have this type of conversation.
%%* FightClubbing: in Episode 6
%%* {{Fingore}}: In episode 3
* {{Flashback}}: The characters' stories unfold in flashbacks.
* FourFingeredHands: The suspect in episode 3 has one.
* GoodCopBadCop: Cho Dong Min[=/=]Hwang Soon Bum. PlayedWith. They weren't even interviewing the same suspect! Or in the same room.
%%* {{Gorn}}
* GoneHorriblyRight:
--> '''TheBartender''': (''about the BigBad'') I ... I think ... I created Black Cape.
* HelloAttorney: Both our protagonist Min Tae Yeon and his opponent in episode 4, Yoon Ji Hee
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: "If you kill him, then you'll be a killer too!"
* InspectorLestrade: Bumbling detective Hwang Soon Bum, who knows Tae Yeon is a vampire, is fairly good at his job, but Tae Yeon is much, much better.
* JackTheRipoff: Tae Yeon's first case in the series proper mimics a vampire killer from 7 years ago.
* KnightTemplarParent:
--> '''Jung In''': (''about her gangster father'') He’s the bad guy. He’s someone I have to lock away. But when the reason he did those bad things is because of me, I can’t call him the bad guy. I can’t even hate him.
* LifeImitatesArt: InUniverse. In the 2nd episode, the murder victim (a director) is found lying in a pool on the set of his horror flick, ''Murderer.'' The entire cast had been shown earlier working on a scene in which the victim ends up dead in the pool. The film was also based on the unsolved murder of a young woman.
%%* MistakenForMurderer: Episode 11.
%%* NewMeat: Yoo Jung In
* NotAGame: Tae Yeon rains on Jung In's parade when they first meet by telling her that murder isn't "fun."
%%* NotBloodSiblings: Tae Yeon and Yeon Ji
* [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou The Only One Allowed to Kill Him]]: Tae Yeon says something like this in the first episode as his suspect is being stabbed to death.
%% * PedophilePriest: [[spoiler: Episode 4's AssholeVictim]]
* PrimaDonnaDirector: Episode 2's murder victim is an overbearing director, working on his debut film.
%%* RashomonStyle: Episode 9
* RealMenHateAffection: Episode 9. Tae Yeon goes to comfort Jung In--and stops short.
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tae Yeon's boss, Chief Prosecutor Jang
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Tae Yeon's sister Yeon Ji is alive! Well, undead. She's a hungry vampire and Chief Prosecutor Jang has been feeding her for the past 7 years until she decided to go looking for Tae Yeon.]]
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Tae Yeon finds one of these filled with newspaper articles in the house he inherited.
* SunglassesAtNight: Actress Seo earns a slap from her director for wearing SunglassesAtNight.
* TreacheryCoverUp: [[spoiler: Episode 7's victim covers up the fact that [[WhodunnitToMe his adulterous wife killed him]].]]
* "[[WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou You Made Me Do This]]," said the murderer in episode 3.
* VolleyingInsults: The medical examiner vs. Jung In
* WimpFight:
** Actress Seo vs. Director Cha in episode 2
** Also, hilariously, [[spoiler: all the fight club showdowns turn out to be this]] in episode 6.
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[[folder: Season 2]]
* AlmostKiss: Multiple times between Jung In and Tae Yeon
* AnswerCut
--> '''Dr. Jo:''' What do you hope to find by cutting her open?\\
''(Cut to ...)''\\
'''Jung In:''' Diamonds?
* BeautifulAllAlong: After Jung In [[UnnecessaryMakeover gets a makeover]], Soon Bum wonders if "a pumpkin can be made into a watermelon just by drawing lines." Tae Yeon's reply? "Jung In's not a pumpkin, she's a watermelon whose lines have been hidden."
%%* BuriedAlive: Runa
* BusmansHoliday: In episode 8, the team takes a break and goes on a trip together...and runs into a murder.
%%* ColdBloodedTorture: All over episode 1
* {{Crossover}}: Episode 8 is a crossover with tvN's "reality-documentary” show ''Rude Miss Young-ae''.
* {{Dualvertisement}}: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epp6QYKxpA pre-season ads]] show ''[[http://wiki.d-addicts.com/God%27s_Quiz#Season_3 God's Quiz]]'''s main character, who's a medical examiner, handing over a case of "bad blood" to Tae Yeon. (''Vampire Prosecutor'' was taking over the time slot from ''God's Quiz''.)
* {{Expy}}: No, Park Hoon is not Series/{{Angel}}. And Law Firm H is not [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_and_Hart Wolfram and Hart]]. Just ... similar.
* FailureKnight: Dr. Jo feels responsible to little Ji Ae because of the death of her family members.
* FirstNameBasis: Soon Bum insists on dropping the [[UsefulNotes/KoreanHonorifics honorifics]] and calling Dr Jo "Jung Hyun hyung."
* {{Introdump}}: Chief Prosecutor Joo, the new boss, goes over everyone's files in order to subtly introduce or re-introduce them to the audience.
%%* IronicEcho: "All the evidence points to you."
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: On the season's BigBad villain
%%* MeetTheNewBoss: Chief Prosecutor Joo
* NotMyDriver: In episode 5, it's Soon Bum instead!
* ParodyEpisode: Episode 8, "Rude Tae Yeon," is a parody of [[http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Rude_Miss_Young-Ae Rude Miss Young Ae]].
* RecursiveFiction: The movie, ''Vampire Prosecutor'', is based on the life of Chief Prosecutor Jang--[[FreakierThanFiction if he was a vampire]].
* RunningGag: Dong Man ''really'' wants to be [[UsefulNotes/KoreanHonorifics hyung-dongsaeng]] with Soon Bum.
%%* SadisticChoice: The BigBad's M.O.
* SayingTooMuch: In episode 8, when Young Ae says that she has to do SOMETHING or she feels like she'll go crazy, Dong Man agrees with a, "like you have to write on his forehead when he's asleep ... or something." FlashbackCut to Soon Bum, waking up with the words "BIG HEAD" written on his forehead.
--> '''Soon Bum:''' That was ''you''?
* ShipperOnDeck: Soon Bum gleefully ships Tae Yeon[=/=]Jung In.
--> '''Soon Bum''': (''to Jung In'') You're supposed to grab your head a little and collapse toward Tae Yeon. He'd catch you in his arms, you'd look into each other's eyes ... and fireworks would go off.
%%* SerialKiller: [[spoiler: Dr. Bae Ji Yeon]]
* SpearCounterpart: Medical examiner Soo Hee has been replaced by Dr. Jo Jung Hyun.
* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: episode 4. But ... but we caught the actual murderer. A full 24 hours before the statute of limitations ended.]]
* TactfulTranslation: Dong Man's translations for the Japanese psychic, Runa, is a hoot!
--> '''Jung In''': (''in Korean'') Is catching murderers a joke? Are we using psychics now! (''to Dong Man'') Translate. Translate! \\
'''Dong Man''': (''in Japanese'') 'Welcome to Korea.'\\
'''Runa''': (''in Japanese'') Arigatō.\\
'''Dong Man''': (''in Korean'') She said 'thank you.'\\
'''Jung In''': (''in Korean'') I know what 'arigatō' means too. For what? Did you translate correctly?\\
'''Dong Man''': (''in Korean'') What? Of c-course.\\
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'''Jung In''': (''in Korean'') We don't need you. I know you want to help, but this is dangerous work and you are better off returning home to Japan. (''to Dong Man'') Hurry up, translate.\\
'''Dong Man''': (''in Japanese'') 'Please stay in Korea a long, long time! Let's be good friends.'\\
'''Runa''': (''in Japanese'') Didn't she say much more than you translated?\\
'''Dong Man''': (''laughs nervously and says in Japanese'') Korean is longer than Japanese.\\
'''Runa''': (''in Japanese, to Jung In'') Arigatō.\\
'''Jung In''': (''to Dong Man, in Korean'') Hey!
%%* TagalongKid: Ji Ae
* TemptingFate: In episode 8, Jung-in cheerfully tells Tae-yeon there's no way they'll run into a murder while on a trip--and immediately hears a scream.
* TimeBomb: Multiples times. For Runa. Then Ji Ae. [[spoiler: And finally for Jung In. With an actual time bomb.]]
%%* TomatoSurprise: "Why are all of you prosecutors?"
%%* TortureCellar
* WhenItAllBegan: Park Hoon's scenes in the "cold open" are shown to have taken place much earlier than the current timeline. But seeing as how Park Hoon never ages, getting appropriate dates can be a bit of a hassle.
* YouNeverDidThatForMe: Dong Man gets jealous over the "brotherly" relationship between Soon Bum and Dr. Jo. "You'll drop [[UsefulNotes/KoreanHonorifics honorifics]] with him, but not with me?"
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