K-drama Joseon Attorney: A Morality – Woo Do-hwan, Bona lead romance-infused legal period drama

The Korean legal drama trend gets a Joseon era makeover in Joseon Attorney: A Morality, starring Woo Do-hwan of The King: Eternal Monarch and Bona of WJSN

The show seems a little uncertain as to what it wants to be, and has seesawed between legal drama, period intrigue, revenge saga and romantic comedy

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Bona (left) as princess-in-hiding Lee Yeon-joo, and Woo Do-hwan as young lawyer Kang Han-soo, in a still from Joseon Attorney: A Morality, a romance-infused legal period Korean drama.

Published: 7:45pm, 6 Apr 2023

This article contains minor spoilers.

Woo Do-hwan of The King: Eternal Monarch returns to screens in his first post-military-service starring role in the period legal drama Joseon Attorney: A Morality. He shares the screen with Bona of the K-pop group WJSN, who takes on her first leading part after her breakout turn in 2022’s Twenty-Five Twenty-One.

Following the likes of Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Doctor Lawyer, the red-hot Korean legal drama trend gets a Joseon era (1392-1897) makeover here that adds legal gymnastics to the usual period-drama cocktail of palace scheming and revenge.

Woo is Kang Han-soo, a brash young lawyer who we first meet aboard a ship as he flicks on his baby blue hanbok and pinches his gat (a traditional black horsehair hat worn by men in Joseon) into position.

He saunters off the boat with his elastic-faced assistant Dong-chi (Lee Kyu-sung) and they make their way into Hanyang (the Joseon era name of Seoul) to set up a legal practice in search of fame and fortune.

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