South Korea / SEASON

Season 1

16 listed episodes · First aired January 15, 2020

Season overview

When Jeongin Bank faces bankruptcy, the Financial Services Commission aims to preempt Korea from another economic meltdown as it did in the 1997 financial crisis. With the Korean government having a substantial stake in the bank, things get serious. Chae Yi Hun is the chief of financial policy at the FSC. He hides the fact that renowned economist Chae Byung Hak is his father. Heo Jae is the chairman of the FSC and has ambitious intentions of fortifying the country's financial infrastructure. Lee Hye Joon is a girl who came from nothing. She works at the Ministry of Economy and Finance and wants to see the utopian economy with change. The money game begins now.

EPISODE GUIDE

Episodes

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E1Under Fire

The National Policy Committee puts the chairman of the Financial Services Commission in the hot seat after the Corruption Task Force reveals fraud of five billion dollars involving Woojin Industries and Jeongin Bank. Du…

E2The Disposal Plan

Yi Hun's father, Chae Byung Hak, dies, and as the funeral progresses, Heo Jae's guilty conscience haunts him. However, Heo Jae becomes the chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and soon becomes in conflict…

E3Jungin Bank’s BIS Capital Ratio

Na Joon Pyo, the director general of the International Finance Bureau, rebuts Chae Yi Huns' statements claiming Jungin Bank's BIS capital ratio was wrong. And when Yi Hun refuses to keep his mouth shut, Heo Jae, now the…

E4The Blue House

Na Joon Pyo figures out that Lee Hye Joon was the one who leaked Jungin Bank's BIS analysis report, and he reports it to Heo Jae. With the press disclosing the government's manipulation of Jungin's BIS capital ratio, He…

E5Jungin Bank’s Director of Strategic Planning

At Hye Joon's disciplinary hearing, Yi Hun makes a bold confession. Later, Hye Joon gets in contact with Seo Yang Woo, the director of Strategic Planning at Jungin Bank, regarding the fabrication of Jungin Bank's BIS ca…

E6Peril at the Doorstep

Amid Seo Yang Woo tragic death, amid the quieting focus on Jungin Bank's manipulated BIS capital ratio, amid Eugene Han's list of insolvent companies owned by Jungin Bank, and amid the secret selling of high-priced powe…

E7Smoothing Operation

Problems arise, and the government splits for and against Heo Jae, the chairman of the FSC. With Kim Ho Joong, the deputy prime minister, urging Chae Yi Hun to bring down Heo Jae, stands Lee Hye Joon at the other end, w…

E8Leverage

Eugene Han suffers a tremendous loss with the exchange rate because of Lee Hye Joon. He confronts her but gets stopped by Chae Yi Hun. Later, with a recording in hand, she warns Na Joon Pyo not to put her up to any more…

E9The Tobin Tax

The MOEF gets shocked when they see Chae Yi Hun become the newly-appointed deputy prime minister Heo Jae's right-hand man. Especially Lee Hye Joon, who mistakes his promotion as a deal made with Heo Jae using the incrim…

E10A Race Against Time

A fierce race against time between Eugene Han and Chae Yi Hun for the passing of the Tobin tax bill presses on. Will Eugene sell Jungin Bank before the bill gets passed? Or will he succumb to Yi Hun's preemptive move ba…

E11A Conference of Finance Ministers

The government does everything in its power to stop Eugene Han's plan to sell Jungin Bank. However, the government faces a crisis due to Eugene and an influenced assemblyman. Meanwhile, as the conference of finance mini…

E12Eugene Han’s Accomplice

Eugene Han takes a bullet protecting Lee Hye Joon of an unexpected attack from Sumar's former president's bodyguard. Amid all the unforeseen events happening around Eugene Ha, Chae Yi Hun becomes disoriented. However, h…

E13The Korean Won Drops

Heo Jae faces a crisis of the plummeting depreciation of the Korean won brought upon by Eugene Han's trickery and attempts to stop it. However, no one in the government wants to take on the task. Meanwhile, Eugene Han's…

E14Another Deal

After winning the foreign exchange battle with Yi Hun's help, Heo Jae quickly rises to the ranks of a presidential candidate. Seo Yang Woo's conversation over the phone right before his death reveals who was behind it a…

E15Shattered Trust

With the ongoing Jo Hee Bong investigation by the prosecution connecting Eugene Han in the scheme of things, Eugene starts to lose his support from Bahama and elsewhere. Meanwhile, a video exposing Chae Byung Hak's deat…

E16The Fine Print

Deputy Prime Minister Heo Jae gets arrested under suspicion for Professor Chae Byung Hak's murder. While Bahama takes measures to sue under ISDS, the Korean government faces another crisis. To prevent a catastrophe, Lee…