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* RoofHopping: Dal-gun does this in the first episode when chasing after the man he saw at the hotel--the man who should not be there, since he was caught on the video Hoon sent his uncle from the plane.

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Dal-gun does this in the first episode when chasing after the man he saw at the hotel--the man who should not be there, since he was caught on the video Hoon sent his uncle from the plane.plane.
** He does this again in episode 7, when he's back in Tangier, hopping roofs in the tightly-packed slums, trying to find the hideout of Kim Woo-gi, the copilot of Flight B357.
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* LoveTriangle: It takes a while to develop--Tae-ung does not even show up until episode 3--but eventually the love triangle sets in. Hae-ri is attracted to Tae-ung but also to Dal-gun, who is jealous.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: A batch of drugged noodles knocks out the NIS guards and allows an assassin to enter the safe house and come after Dal-gun.
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* DramaticGunCock: Happens from time to time, like in episode 6 when Hae-ri dramatically chambers a round in her automatic before going into the karaoke club to arrest Chief Min.
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* BitchSlap: How President Jung works out his frustration with Director Ahn of the NIS, slapping him hard across the face after Dal-gun hijacks his meeting and reveals the coverup of the accident to the world.

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* TheAlcoholic: Chief Kang, Hae-ri's immediate supervisor at NIS, who seems to have been driven into alcholism by his depression over the NIS basically turning into a PR agency for the Blue House. On a couple of occasions people smell alcohol on him, and in episode 5 he's unashamedly swigging from a flask right in front of Hae-ri.



* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: How Chief Kim eventually figures out that Michael was murdered: the gun was in his right hand but Kim knows Michael was a lefty.



* MadeOfIron: It's impressive enough when Ho-sik manages to crawl through a hospital window and run away after he's shot InTheBack, but it's ''really'' impressive when he stands back up after Hae-ri ''hits him with her car'' as she drives up to the scene at high speed (episode 3). The suicide pill he swallows moments later does the trick.

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* MadeOfIron: MadeOfIron:
** Dal-gun twice walks away from accidents that flipped vehicles. He spills out of a moving car and down a rocky incline in Morocco. He jumps from a three-story building and lands [[CarCushion on a car windshield]]. He takes a licking, and keeps on ticking.
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It's impressive enough when Ho-sik manages to crawl through a hospital window and run away after he's shot InTheBack, but it's ''really'' impressive when he stands back up after Hae-ri ''hits him with her car'' as she drives up to the scene at high speed (episode 3). The suicide pill he swallows moments later does the trick.

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* TheVoice: Hoon's MissingMom, who didn't care back in the day but calls Dal-gun in episode 4, suddenly very interested now that there's the prospect of financial compensation for relatives of the victims of the crash.

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Hoon's MissingMom, who didn't care back in the day but calls Dal-gun in episode 4, suddenly very interested now that there's the prospect of financial compensation for relatives of the victims of the crash.crash.
** "Shadow", Jessica Lee's boss and the BigBad, who is directing events; not seen even when he's talking to Jessica on the phone.
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* EverythingIsOnline: In episode 4 Lily the assassin is able to "cut" the brakes of the car Dal-gun is in, by remotely hacking in to the car's control system and disabling the brakes.


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* VehicularSabotage: Lily the assassin tries to kill Dal-gun in episode 4 by remotely disabling the brakes on his car using [[EverythingIsOnline some kind of fancy hacking device]]. He survives the crash.
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* ProductPlacement: Weirdly averted with Subway, a common product placement sponsor of Korean dramas. In one episode, Hae-ri's friend Hwa-sook is plainly eating at a Subway, and in another Lily the assassin and her sidekick are plainly drinking from Subway cups--the yellow and green color scheme is visible in each. Yet in both scenes the shot does not reveal the Subway logo.

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* {{Flashback}}: Many. A flashback in episode 4 reveals the uncomfortable history between Hae-ri and Tae-ung: she got drunk at a party and made a pass at him. In the present day the ultra-serious and very strict Tae-ung tells her she should have been fired.



* MadeOfIron: It's impressive enough when Ho-sik manages to crawl through a window and run away after he's shot InTheBack, but it's ''really'' impressive when he stands back up after Hae-ri ''hits him with her car'' as she drives up to the scene at high speed (episode 3). The suicide pill he swallows moments later does the trick.

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* MadeOfIron: It's impressive enough when Ho-sik manages to crawl through a hospital window and run away after he's shot InTheBack, but it's ''really'' impressive when he stands back up after Hae-ri ''hits him with her car'' as she drives up to the scene at high speed (episode 3). The suicide pill he swallows moments later does the trick.


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* TheVoice: Hoon's MissingMom, who didn't care back in the day but calls Dal-gun in episode 4, suddenly very interested now that there's the prospect of financial compensation for relatives of the victims of the crash.
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* EvilInc: John & Mark defense contractors, perfectly willing to blow up a plane and kill over 200 people in order to discredit a rival for a fighter jet contract. And it's not the first time, since they were apparently responsible for some sort of NoodleIncident in Chechnya that got a lot of people killed.
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* ShowerScene: This isn't a romance like many {{Korean Drama}}s but there's still a shower scene in episode 4, as the show gets to show off Dal-gun's chiseled physique while he takes a shower and thinks about events in his investigation.

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* LeParkour: Dal Gun chases the culprit through the rooftops and ended up landing on the culprit's car.

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* ItWasHereISwear: Dal-gun says this to the police when the body of the murdered reporter (episode 4) disappears from the hotel room.
* LeParkour: Dal Gun Dal-gun chases the culprit through the rooftops and ended up landing on the culprit's car.

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* {{Qurac}}: In the HowWeGotHere 2019 prologue, Dal-gun is sitting in a sniper's nest, waiting for a target, in the North African "Kingdom of Kiria". This is a little weird, since much of the rest of the story will take place in the entirely real country of Morocco.

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* {{Qurac}}: In the HowWeGotHere 2019 prologue, Dal-gun is sitting in a sniper's nest, waiting for a target, in the North African "Kingdom of Kiria". This is a little weird, since much of the rest a good chunk of the story will take place in the entirely real country of Morocco.



** This happens again at the end of this same episode when Dal-gun sees a killer approaching through the reflection in Hae-ri's sunglasses.

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** This happens again at the end of this that same episode when Dal-gun sees a killer approaching through the reflection in Hae-ri's sunglasses.


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* SecondFaceSmoke: In episode 3, a mysterious man in a uniform blows cigar smoke in the airplane bomber's face, before casually shooting the said airplane bomber, who bungled things, in the head.


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* SleepCute: The ship teasing gets strong in episode 3 when Hae-ri nods off on Dal-gun's shoulder during the long plane flight back to Korea from Morocco.

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* ClickHello: Dal-gun is outside Hae-ri's door in episode 2, calling for her, when she greets him by putting a gun to his head.

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Dal-gun is outside Hae-ri's door in episode 2, calling for her, when she greets him by putting a gun to his head.head. It turns out that her gun wasn't loaded.
** The lady terrorist in Morocco does this with the sniper (the same guy who blew up the plane) in episode 3, just as the sniper is about to put a bullet into Dal-gun.

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* RevealingReflection: Dal-gun escapes from the assassin sent to kill him in episode 3, because they are in a convenience store, and Dal-gun sees the killer reflected in the glass of a cabinet of drinks, JustInTime.

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* RevealingReflection: RevealingReflection:
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Dal-gun escapes from the assassin sent to kill him in episode 3, because they are in a convenience store, and Dal-gun sees the killer reflected in the glass of a cabinet of drinks, JustInTime.JustInTime.
** This happens again at the end of this same episode when Dal-gun sees a killer approaching through the reflection in Hae-ri's sunglasses.
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* ProfessionalKiller: Lily the hitwoman, hired at the end of episode 3 by Jessica to kill Dal-gun. She [[GratuitousEnglish drops into English]] to proclaim herself "[[BadassBoast Angel of Death]]."
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* AnswerCut: Upon being told in episode 3 that one Gi Tae-ung has ordered a security sweep of the NIS offices, a supervisor asks "Where is that prick?". Cut to the man the audience has previously seen at a memorial, laying flowers.

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* AnswerCut: Upon being told in episode 3 that one Gi Tae-ung has ordered a security sweep of the NIS offices, a supervisor Chief Kang asks "Where is that prick?". Cut to the man the audience has previously seen at a memorial, laying flowers.
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* AnswerCut: Upon being told in episode 3 that one Gi Tae-ung has ordered a security sweep of the NIS offices, a supervisor asks "Where is that prick?". Cut to the man the audience has previously seen at a memorial, laying flowers.
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* CrazyPrepared: In episode 3 Ho-sik, who's been shot and wounded, runs out of a hospital. Dal-gun and Hae-ri chase after him, and find themselves on a back street...where, somehow, a sniper is already perched and waiting.
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* MadeOfIron: It's impressive enough when Ho-sik manages to crawl through a window and run away after he's shot InTheBack, but it's ''really'' impressive when he stands back up after Hae-ri ''hits him with her car'' as she drives up to the scene at high speed (episode 3). The suicide pill he swallows moments later does the trick.

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* {{Qurac}}: In the HowWeGotHere 2019 prologue, Dal-gun is sitting in a sniper's nest, waiting for a target, in the North African "Kingdom of Kiria". This is a little weird, since much of the rest of the story will take place in the entirely real country of Morocco.



* {{Qurac}}: In the HowWeGotHere 2019 prologue, Dal-gun is sitting in a sniper's nest, waiting for a target, in the North African "Kingdom of Kiria". This is a little weird, since much of the rest of the story will take place in the entirely real country of Morocco.

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* {{Qurac}}: WithinArmsReach: In episode 3 a masked assassin is garroting Hae-ri. She pushes him backwards and they smash through her coffee table together, but he is able to maintain his grip on the HowWeGotHere 2019 prologue, Dal-gun is sitting in a sniper's nest, waiting for a target, garrote--until her flailing hand finds her letter opener on the floor. She stabs him in the North African "Kingdom of Kiria". This is a little weird, since much of the rest of the story will take place in the entirely real country of Morocco.leg with it and escapes.
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* MicrowaveMisuse: In episode 3 Dal-gun escapes from an assassin in a convenience store by throwing a spray can of--something (WD-40?)--into a microwave and turning it on. The microwave explodes as the killer is passing by, delaying him long enough for Dal-gun to get out.
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* RevealingReflection: Dal-gun escapes from the assassin sent to kill him in episode 3, because they are in a convenience store, and Dal-gun sees the killer reflected in the glass of a cabinet of drinks, JustInTime.
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* MissingMom: A flashback reveals that after Dal-gun's brother, Hoon's father, died, Hoon's mother dumped the boy at an orphanage. Dal-gun took him home.
* MonochromePast: Used in episode 2 to show that Hae-ri was sent to Lisbon to investigate Michael's suicide (actually murder). Not used for the many other flashbacks in the series.


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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Episode 2 reveals that the co-pilot's Spanish-language conversation with a girlfriend in Episode 1, right before the plane took off, was actually with the black-clad bomber. The co-pilot is revealed to also be a co-conspirator.


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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Smart People Play TabletopGame/{{Go}}, in the case of President Jung and his prime minister Hong, who play a game in Jung's office. This establishes them both as not just smart, but schemers.

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* ActionGirl: Hae Ri is an NIS agent who investigates the mysterious deaths of 200 people in the plane crash and capable of shooting firearms.

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* ActionGirl: Hae Ri Hae-ri is an NIS agent who investigates the mysterious deaths of 200 people in the plane crash and capable of shooting firearms.


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* ClickHello: Dal-gun is outside Hae-ri's door in episode 2, calling for her, when she greets him by putting a gun to his head.
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A mysterious plane crash kills over 200 civilians, including Cha Dal-gun’s (Lee Seung-gi) nephew. Determined to find out the truth behind the accident, Cha Dal-gun embarks on an investigation that leads him to a tangled web of corruption. His life intertwines with Go Hae-ri (Bae Suzy), a covert operative for the National Intelligence Service.

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A mysterious plane crash kills over 200 civilians, including Cha Dal-gun’s (Lee Seung-gi) nephew. Determined to find out the truth behind the accident, Cha Dal-gun travels to Morocco and embarks on an investigation that leads him to a tangled web of corruption. His life intertwines This leads him to get mixed up with Go Hae-ri (Bae Suzy), who appears to be a ditzy intern with the South Korean consulate in Tangier, but is actually a covert operative for the National Intelligence Service.
Service. Together they investigate the plane crash, which leads them to a criminal conspiracy that may reach up to the highest levels of South Korean government. The conspiracy may also involve one Jessica Lee, president of the Asian branch of an arms manufacturer called John & Mark; her company was bidding for a lucrative fighter plane contract, against the company that also made the civilian airliner that crashed.

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Vagabond (Korean: 배가본드; RR: Baegabondeu) is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Lee Seung-gi, Bae Suzy and Shin Sung-rok. It premiered on SBS TV on September 20, 2019. It airs worldwide via Netflix.

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Vagabond ''Vagabond'' (Korean: 배가본드; RR: Baegabondeu) is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Lee Seung-gi, Bae Suzy and Shin Sung-rok. It premiered on SBS TV on September 20, 2019. It airs worldwide via Netflix.



* {{Determinator}}: Dal Gun. He chases the man responsible for the death of his nephew through the streets of Tangier and despite the culprit pulling the brakes catapulting him out, he still stands up moments later.
* LeParkour: Dal Gun chases the culprit through the rooftops and ended up landing on the culprit's car.

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* DeathOfAChild: Dal-gun's little nephew Hoon is killed in the first episode when the plane to Morocco that he was on is bombed out of the sky.
* {{Determinator}}: Dal Gun.Dal-gun. He chases the man responsible for the death of his nephew through the streets of Tangier and despite the culprit pulling the brakes catapulting him out, he still stands up moments later.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When the president of South Korea, President Jung, first appears in the first episode, he complains about his makeup as he's getting ready to address the nation about the plane crash. He later is more concerned about liability for the aircraft manufacturer than he is about the deaths of over a hundred of his citizens, including twenty-odd children on a taekwondo team.
* FaceDoodling: In episode 1 little Cha-hoon draws a kitty face on his uncle, who is apparently passed out from drinking.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Jessica Lee is introduced in the first episode with her high heels click-clacking across a stage as she walks up to a podium, to make a pitch to a large audience for her company's new fighter jet.
* HowWeGotHere: The opening scene of the first episode shows Dal-gun, in a sniper's nest, waiting for a target who turns out to be Hae-ri. As he hesitates to shoot her, the series jumps back thirteen years to 2006 and the story starts to play out.
* LeParkour: Dal Gun chases the culprit through the rooftops and ended up landing on the culprit's car.car.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: To her coworkers at the Korean consulate in Tangier, Hae-ri comes off as a ditzy BrainlessBeauty, scatterbrained, often late for work. This is a deliberate disguise for Hae-ri, who is actually a secret agent with Korean intelligence.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: The death of Dal-gun's nephew Hoon brings Dal-gun to Morocco, first to go to the mass funeral, then to find out what happened.
* PrecisionFStrike: In episode 1, after the presentation about the plane doesn't go great, Jessica yells at her flunky Michael. Michael seems to be of Slavic extraction instead of Korean, so she addresses him in English, saying that they have to make that deal about the plane, or "Otherwise, we're dead. You and me--so fucking dead!". (Maybe they got away with the F word because it was in English.)
* RoofHopping: Dal-gun does this in the first episode when chasing after the man he saw at the hotel--the man who should not be there, since he was caught on the video Hoon sent his uncle from the plane.
* ShesGotLegs: Mixed with DistractedByTheSexy. Hae-ri is caught by another intern at the embassy in a locked room, a place where she really shouldn't be. So she rips her stockings and, when the man comes in, dangles her long legs at him while claiming that she has to change her stockings.
* {{Qurac}}: In the HowWeGotHere 2019 prologue, Dal-gun is sitting in a sniper's nest, waiting for a target, in the North African "Kingdom of Kiria". This is a little weird, since much of the rest of the story will take place in the entirely real country of Morocco.
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Vagabond (Korean: 배가본드; RR: Baegabondeu) is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Lee Seung-gi, Bae Suzy and Shin Sung-rok. It premiered on SBS TV on September 20, 2019. It airs worldwide via Netflix.

A mysterious plane crash kills over 200 civilians, including Cha Dal-gun’s (Lee Seung-gi) nephew. Determined to find out the truth behind the accident, Cha Dal-gun embarks on an investigation that leads him to a tangled web of corruption. His life intertwines with Go Hae-ri (Bae Suzy), a covert operative for the National Intelligence Service.

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* ActionGirl: Hae Ri is an NIS agent who investigates the mysterious deaths of 200 people in the plane crash and capable of shooting firearms.
* BigBad: Jessica Lee is shaping up to this.
* {{Determinator}}: Dal Gun. He chases the man responsible for the death of his nephew through the streets of Tangier and despite the culprit pulling the brakes catapulting him out, he still stands up moments later.
* LeParkour: Dal Gun chases the culprit through the rooftops and ended up landing on the culprit's car.

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