Hacker Commemoration Like Bjorka, Here Are 5 Korean Dramas That Make Brains Up And Down

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JAKARTA - Hacker Bjorka has become the talk of the town for spreading personal data of Indonesian government officials. Many people are interested in how hackers act, but this action actually risks threatening cybersecurity.

Because of his uniqueness, there are not a few stories about the hacker being raised to the small screen and giving new perspectives to his audience. In a slick and attractive package, the audience is often lulled in admiration, as well as "degant" by hackers in cyberspace.

For those of you who are curious and want to get to know more about a hacker's point of view, here are five recommendations for Korean dramas about hackers that are exciting to follow citing Viu's press release, Tuesday, September 13.

ction Ghost (2012)

This drama tells the story of Kim Woo-hyun, a specialist detective in cybercrime who is investigating a hacker with the initials mediate.

At first this episode was chased by detective Woo-hyun, because his crime was hacking the system, but unexpectedly he became a fugitive on suspicion of murder.

Ketika Woo-hyun akhirnya berhasil menangkap banyak, ia harus diketahui karena ternyata senjata satu angkatannya di academia polisi.plikasi tentu saja tidak mengakui tuntutan pembunuhan tersebut dan meminta Woo-hyun untuk membantu membersihkan namanya.

The excitement in this drama is formed because the characters of detective Woo-hyun and mediate are played by the same actor, namely So Ji-sub.

Healer (2014)Ji Chang-wook plays the main character in the drama Healer tells the story of three people with different talents who join one group. This group has a mission to try to solve cases of illegal broadcasting a decade ago.

Its members are Healer, a hacker who is good at martial arts, a journalist from an online media, and another who is a popular journalist from the largest broadcast media.

Healer was initially asked by a popular journalist named Kim Mun Ho to protect a woman named Chae Young-shin (Park Min-young). Apparently Chae Young-shin is a journalist from online media who is linked to an illegal broadcaster case and has drowned a decade ago.

Because they investigated this case, the three of them had a close relationship and some even ended in a romantic relationship. Their closeness became stronger after learning that their parents were victims of the case.

Circle (2017)

This drama is arguably fantasy and dystopia because it tells the story of technology, space creatures, to the condition of a new world in the future. However, this drama presents the story of a hacker with an interesting flow to follow because it tells three backgrounds in 2007, 2017, and 2037.

Meanwhile, Yeo Jin Goo, Kim Kang Woo, and Gong Seung Yeon are actors in this drama. Separating a space alien named Byul (Gong Seung Yeon) who eventually became a famous hacker under the pseudonym "Bluebird".

But before he was famous, Byul was previously an alien who got lost and landed on Earth. He met a family with one pair of twins, unfortunately Byul had to be the subject of the twin's father.

The father isolated himself and left his family to further research the figure of Byul, making his two children lose their father. The incident became the starting point of how the story in "Circle" can happen and give common threads in that long span of time.

Mad Dog (2017) Yoo Ji Tae became the main character in this drama known as a former detective named Choi Kang Woo. During his time of upholding justice, he was nicknamed Mad Dog, but he had to quit the police and become a private detective due to the plane crash that took his wife and child.

Having a private detective job, Mad Dog works as a leader of the insurance investigation team with the task of preventing fraud in the process of disbursing insurance funds. One day he meets Kim Min-joon (Woo Do-Hwan) who is the younger brother of the family-carrying plane pilot.

Min-joon said that the plane crash that happened to their family was intentional. Of course this makes Mad Dog and his team try to collect evidence about the incident.

To gather this evidence, Mad Dog is assisted by his team of reliable hackers, martial arts experts, and undercover experts played by Ryu Hwa-young, Jo Jae-yoon, and Kim Hye-sung.

Police University (2021)

In "Police University" the main character told is Kang Seon-ho, played by actor Jung Jin-young, a genius hacker who hacked the computer system to finance his father's cancer treatment.

Unfortunately he was tracked down and had time to deal with the police but was eventually released from charges by the detective who handled the case.

Shortly after, he met his dream woman Oh Kang-hee (Krystal Jung), a beautiful woman who is good at martial arts and has aspirations as a police officer.

Oh Kang-hee registered with the police academy which made Kang Seon-ho also register and left the world of hackers he had been involved in so far.

Problems arise when he meets a former detective who used to investigate his crimes as a hacker.

The former detective is named Yoo Dong-man (Cha Tae Hyun) and plays an investigative lecturer on his campus.

With a complicated start, it turns out that the two of them can unite and work together to uncover money laundering cases within the police through online gambling.