# The Good Man (2025)

> The eldest son of a three-generation gangster family tries to protect his family, career and love through decades of ups and downs.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/132650

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 14
- Episode runtime: 70 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, crime
- Created by: Kim Woon-kyeong, Hyo-seok Kim
- Network: JTBC
- Cast: Lee Dong-wook, Lee Sung-kyung, Ryu Hye-young, Oh Na-ra, Park Hoon, Cheon Ho-jin, Park Myung-shin, Park Won-sang
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37439947/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: melodramatic, emotional, warm, tense, bittersweet

## Synopsis

The Nice Guy (2025) is a South Korean crime family drama created by Kim Woon-kyeong and Hyo-seok Kim for JTBC. Lee Dong-wook plays Park Seok-cheol, the eldest son in a family of three generations of gangsters, a man who keeps trying to shield his relatives, his livelihood and his love from the violence that surrounds them. Lee Sung-kyung plays Kang Mi-yeong, the woman tied to his heart, and Ryu Hye-young and Oh Na-ra play his sisters, whose own lives are pulled into the family business. Kim Do-yoon appears as detective Yun Byeong Su, a police presence that keeps the criminal world pressing in. Across a single fourteen-episode season, the series moves through the ordinary machinery of a crime household: negotiations that go sideways, debts that come due, and family dinners where old grudges surface. Each episode mixes gangster tension with domestic warmth, so the mood shifts between tears and laughter. The tone is melodramatic and emotionally earnest, with a strong focus on loyalty and sacrifice. Fans of Peaky Blinders, Vagabond and Oldboy will find a similar blend of family crime and personal longing, though this series leans more toward the Korean melodrama tradition of a tvN and JTBC style k-drama, with a warmer heart beneath its gangster surface. It suits viewers who want a crime story anchored in kinship rather than pure action.

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