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* AdultFear: Su-yeong disappears in the [=DMZ=]. Then, when Dong-jin finds her in a dilapidated old house, she says a "nice man" brought her to his home. Made slightly less frightening when it turns out [[spoiler: Min-guk]], the man who found her, has no bad intentions; he rescued her from wandering onto a landmine. Then made more frightening again because [[spoiler: Min-guk]] is infected.
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* TheKindnapper: Su-yeong disappears in the [=DMZ=]. Then, when Dong-jin finds her in a dilapidated old house, she says a "nice man" brought her to his home. Made slightly less frightening when it turns out [[spoiler: Min-guk]], the man who found her, has no bad intentions; he rescued her from wandering onto a landmine. Then made more frightening again because [[spoiler: Min-guk]] is infected.
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''Search'' (써치; ''Sseochi''; also called ''The Search'') is a 2020 South Korean series starring Jang Dong-yoon, Krystal Jeong, Moon Jeong-hee, Yoon Park, and Lee Hyeon-wook. It aired on [=OCN=] in October and November 2020.
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''Search'' (써치; ''Sseochi''; also called ''The Search'') is a 2020 South Korean series starring Jang Dong-yoon, Krystal Jeong, Moon Jeong-hee, Yoon Park, and Lee Hyeon-wook. It aired on [=OCN=] Creator/{{OCN}} in October and November 2020.
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* ThereIsAnother: After they kill the murderer the search party assume their mission is over. Then they realise the another infected person is still in the [=DMZ=].
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* ThereIsAnother: After they kill the murderer the search party assume their mission is over. Then they realise the another infected person is still in the [=DMZ=].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jun-seong, Min-gyu, Min-guk, Baek-jun, and Ye-rim's parents]] are all dead and Mun-cheol is seriously injured. But Lee Hyeok is arrested and his crimes exposed, Min-guk's reputation is posthumously restored, and Dong-jin and Ye-rim are both alive and well.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jun-seong, Min-gyu, Min-guk, Baek-jun, and Ye-rim's parents]] are all dead and Mun-cheol is seriously injured. But Lee Hyeok is arrested missing presumed dead and his crimes have been exposed, Min-guk's reputation is posthumously restored, Ye-rim has learnt the truth about her parents, and Dong-jin has been discharged and Ye-rim are both alive and well.adopted Mac.
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* TitleDrop: The last line of the series is Dong-jin giving Mac an order: "Search!".
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The epilogue shows Dong-jin joined a wildlife rescue centre after leaving the army.
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* DyingAlone: [[spoiler: Min-gyu]]. After being fatally injured he walks away and tells Dong-jin not to follow. When he's alone he collapses, and dies soon after.
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* ThisCannotBe: Lee Hyeok shouts, "How can this be?" when he discovers [[spoiler: Min-guk]] is OnlyMostlyDead.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Lee Hyeok suffers one after accidentally killing [[spoiler: Jun-seong]]. Initially he's too shocked to react. Then he screams and fires wildly at everyone around him.
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* BackFromTheDead: Lee Hyeok shot [[spoiler: Min-guk]] repeatedly, and even shot him in the head to make sure he was dead. [[spoiler: Min-guk]] comes back to life anyway as one of the infected people.
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* BackFromTheDead: Lee Hyeok shot [[spoiler: Min-guk]] repeatedly, and even shot him in the head to make sure he was dead.repeatedly. [[spoiler: Min-guk]] comes back to life anyway as one of the infected people.
* InTheBack: Lee Hyeok shoots [[spoiler: Min-guk]] in the back.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Lee Hyeok kills Jun-seong.]]
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Lee Hyeok accidentally kills Jun-seong.]]
* TakingTheBullet: Lee Hyeok tries to shoot [[spoiler: Min-guk]] again. [[spoiler: Jun-seong]] jumps between them and gets shot instead.
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* TimeShiftedActor: Younger versions of three characters appear in the prologue or flashbacks. They're replaced with older actors when they reappear in the main story.
** Hong Ui-jun and Yu Seong-ju play Lee Hyeok.
** Park Chang-ik and Choi Deok-mun play Han Dae-sik.
** Jin Si-won and Kim In-woo play Baek Won-chul.
** Hong Ui-jun and Yu Seong-ju play Lee Hyeok.
** Park Chang-ik and Choi Deok-mun play Han Dae-sik.
** Jin Si-won and Kim In-woo play Baek Won-chul.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jun-seong, Min-gyu, Min-guk, Baek-jun, and Ye-rim's parents]] are all dead and Mun-cheol is seriously injured. But Lee Hyeok is arrested and his crimes exposed, Min-guk's reputation is posthumously restored, and Dong-jin and Ye-rim are both alive and well.
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* MaybeEverAfter: Dong-jin and Ye-rim aren't an OfficialCouple by the end, but their last interactions suggest they might start dating again in the future.
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''Search'' (써치; ''Sseochi'') ''Sseochi''; also called ''The Search'') is a 2020 South Korean series starring Jang Dong-yoon, Krystal Jeong, Moon Jeong-hee, Yoon Park, and Lee Hyeon-wook. It aired on [=OCN=] in October and November 2020.
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* AdultFear: Su-yeong disappears in the [=DMZ=]. Then, when Dong-jin finds her in a dilapidated old house, she says a "nice man" brought her to his home.
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* AdultFear: Su-yeong disappears in the [=DMZ=]. Then, when Dong-jin finds her in a dilapidated old house, she says a "nice man" brought her to his home. Made slightly less frightening when it turns out [[spoiler: Min-guk]], the man who found her, has no bad intentions; he rescued her from wandering onto a landmine. Then made more frightening again because [[spoiler: Min-guk]] is infected.
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* BackFromTheDead: Lee Hyeok shot [[spoiler: Min-guk]] repeatedly, including in the head to make sure he was dead. [[spoiler: Min-guk]] comes back to life anyway as one of the infected people.
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* BackFromTheDead: Lee Hyeok shot [[spoiler: Min-guk]] repeatedly, including and even shot him in the head to make sure he was dead. [[spoiler: Min-guk]] comes back to life anyway as one of the infected people.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Where to start... Dong-jin is the son of [[spoiler: Min-guk]], who was murdered by Lee Hyeok, who just happens to be the father of Dong-jin's teammate Jun-seong. Dong-jin stumbles upon video footage of Lee Hyeok committing the crime. Naturally Jun-seong is the only other person on the team to find out about it. Meanwhile, Ye-rim is [[spoiler: the daughter of Major Ri, the North Korean defector from the prologue. And her father is the infected person the team was formed to hunt.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Where to start... Dong-jin is the son of [[spoiler: Min-guk]], who was murdered by Lee Hyeok, who just happens to be the father of Dong-jin's teammate Jun-seong. Dong-jin stumbles upon video footage of Lee Hyeok committing the crime. Naturally Jun-seong is the only other person on the team to find out about it. Then it turns out [[spoiler: Min-guk]] was infected, has lived in the [=DMZ=] for over twenty years, and rescues Su-yeong shortly before the search party do. Meanwhile, Ye-rim is [[spoiler: the daughter of Major Ri, the North Korean defector from the prologue. And her father is the infected person the team was formed to hunt.]]
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Lee Hyeok kills Jun-seong.]]
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* {{Nephewism}}: Played with; Dong-jin is raised by both his mother and his uncle, but he has his uncle's surname and is entered on his family register. [[spoiler: His mother did this to avoid anyone connecting him with Min-guk.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Lee Hyeok plans to shoot a baby, but his gun is out of bullets. So he walks over to pick up another gun. On the way there he stands on a landmine. The explosion tears his leg off.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Lee Hyeok is willing to murder a baby. He fails, the first time because the gun was out of ammunition and the second time because he stood on a landmine.
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* BackFromTheDead: Lee Hyeok shot [[spoiler: Min-guk]] repeatedly, including in the head to make sure he was dead. [[spoiler: Min-guk]] comes back to life anyway as one of the infected people.
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* DecoyProtagonist: The series starts in 1997 with Jo Min-guk leading a group of soldiers into the [=DMZ=] and discovering a North Korean defector. You'd be forgiven for expecting him to be the main character. But then the series jumps forward twenty years, and Min-guk only appears in flashbacks.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Where to start... Dong-jin is the son of [[spoiler: Min-guk]], who was murdered by Lee Hyeok, who just happens to be the father of Dong-jin's teammate Jun-seong. Dong-jin stumbles upon video footage of Lee Hyeok committing the crime. Naturally Jun-seong is the only other person on the team to find out about it. Meanwhile, Ye-rim is [[spoiler: the daughter of Major Ri, the North Korean defector from the prologue. And her father is the infected person the team was formed to hunt.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: The series starts in 1997 with Jo Min-guk leading a group of soldiers into the [=DMZ=] and discovering a North Korean defector. You'd be forgiven for expecting him to be the main character. But then the series jumps forward twenty years, and Min-guk only appears inflashbacks.flashbacks [[spoiler: until the end]].
* DecoyProtagonist: The series starts in 1997 with Jo Min-guk leading a group of soldiers into the [=DMZ=] and discovering a North Korean defector. You'd be forgiven for expecting him to be the main character. But then the series jumps forward twenty years, and Min-guk only appears in
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** Dong-jin doesn't have a father. [[spoiler: Turns out his father is the other infected person living in the [=DMZ=].]]
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** Dong-jin doesn't have a father. [[spoiler: Turns out his father is the other infected person living in the [=DMZ=].[=DMZ=] -- otherwise known as Jo Min-guk.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Dong-jin doesn't have a father. [[spoiler: Turns out his father is the other infected person living in the [=DMZ=].]]
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** Dong-jin doesn't have a father. [[spoiler: Turns out his father is the other infected person living in the [=DMZ=].]]]]
** Ye-rim's father was [[spoiler: the murderer.]] She only discovers this after his death.
** Dong-jin doesn't have a father. [[spoiler: Turns out his father is the other infected person living in the [=DMZ=].
** Ye-rim's father was [[spoiler: the murderer.]] She only discovers this after his death.
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* AMinorKidroduction: The North Korean defector hands a baby to the South Korean soldiers in the DistantPrologue. Towards the end of the series we learn that baby was [[spoiler: Ye-rim]].
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* ICantFeelMyLegs: Mun-cheol says this after he suffers a spinal fracture.
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* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Ye-rim's]] mother, Major Ri, dies in the prologue.
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* AdultFear: Su-yeong disappears in the [=DMZ=]. Then, when Dong-jin finds her in a dilapidated old house, she says a "nice man" brought her to his home.
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* ThereIsAnother: After they kill the murderer the search party assume their mission is over. Then they realise the another infected person is still in the [=DMZ=].
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* CaughtOnTape: A camcorder records the entire 1997 incident, including [[spoiler: Min-guk's]] murder. The survivors assumed the camera either wasn't working or would never be found. Twenty years later Dong-jin finds it and watches the video.
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* CaughtOnTape: A camcorder records the entire 1997 incident, including [[spoiler: Min-guk's]] murder. The survivors assumed the camera either wasn't working or would never be found. Twenty years later Dong-jin finds it and watches the video. [[spoiler: Then Jun-seong destroys it to protect his father, the murderer.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Jun-seong learns Lee Hyeok [[spoiler: murdered Min-guk and hid it by claiming Min-guk defected to North Korea]]. He confronts his father over the phone, and hangs up in disgust when Lee Hyeok denies it while still ordering Jun-seong to bring him the footage.
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* UnpleasantParentReveal: Jun-seong is horrified to discover his father is a murderer. Played with, since in this case the parent raised the child instead of disappearing for years, but his true nature is still a shock to his son.
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* CaughtOnTape: A camcorder records the entire 1997 incident, including [[spoiler: Min-guk's]] murder. The survivors assumed the camera either wasn't working or would never be found. Twenty years later Dong-jin finds it and watches the video.
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* DecoyProtagonist: The series starts in 1997 with Jo Min-guk leading a group of soldiers into the [=DMZ=] and discovering a North Korean defector. You'd be forgiven for expecting him to be the main character, but he dies less than twenty minutes into the first episode.
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* DecoyProtagonist: The series starts in 1997 with Jo Min-guk leading a group of soldiers into the [=DMZ=] and discovering a North Korean defector. You'd be forgiven for expecting him to be the main character, but he dies less than character. But then the series jumps forward twenty minutes into the first episode.years, and Min-guk only appears in flashbacks.
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* HonourBeforeReason: Telling the truth about the 1997 [=DMZ=] incident would result in the dishonourable discharge of Min-guk and the other survivors. Min-guk plans to tell the truth anyway. [[spoiler: It gets him murdered.]]
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* TheScapegoat: According to Lee Hyeok's version of events, Min-guk murdered his friends and defected to North Korea. [[spoiler: Actually Lee Hyeok murdered Min-guk to avoid being involved in a scandal, and along with the other survivors came up with a story to explain his disappearance and keep suspicion off themselves.]]
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* UnfriendlyFire: Min-guk intends to report the truth about how North Korean soldiers opened fire on his group and a North Korean deserter, even though the incident would get him and the other survivors dishonourably discharged. [[spoiler: Lee Hyeok shoots him to prevent this.]]
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Blood drips out of Baek-jun's mouth after the murderer throws him across the room repeatedly.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Corporal Oh is found dead with bite marks and mysterious blisters on his body. He's brought back to the morgue, where he comes back to life and attacks Ye-rim.
* PlagueZombie: Corporal Oh's body and his attacker's blood contain a virus mistaken for rabies, and injecting a dead mouse with blood from an infected wild dog brings the mouse back to life.
* PlagueZombie: Corporal Oh's body and his attacker's blood contain a virus mistaken for rabies, and injecting a dead mouse with blood from an infected wild dog brings the mouse back to life.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Corporal Oh is found dead with bite marks These zombies are the "caused by a virus" variety. They're very strong and mysterious blisters on his body. He's brought back to very fast, and the morgue, where he comes back murderer in particular is smart enough to life follow and attacks Ye-rim.
attack people while staying out of sight. Cutting their medulla is the only way to kill them.
* PlagueZombie: Corporal Oh's body and his attacker's blood are found to contain a virus initially mistaken forrabies, and injecting a dead mouse with blood from an infected wild dog brings the mouse back to life.rabies.
* PlagueZombie: Corporal Oh's body and his attacker's blood are found to contain a virus initially mistaken for
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* PrecociousCrush: Ten-year-old Su-yeong has a crush on twenty-eight-year-old Dong-jin. In their very first meeting she tells him she wants to marry him, so he'd better make a lot of money, and laments he wasn't born later.
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* AnachronicOrder: Episode three jumps back and forth between Dong-jin getting lost in the [=DMZ=] and what happened in the hours leading up to his disappearance.
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* {{Understatement}}: A North Korean soldier sees the murderer running up trees and leaping from branches at incredible speed. His reaction? "That seems way too fast."
