Though the drama received mediocre ratings in its home country, it gained a fanbase overseas and made Ji Chang-wook known outside Korea.
Synopsis
A decades-old incident involving a group of friends who ran an illegal broadcasting station brings together three different people—an illegal mercenary with the codename "Healer" (Ji Chang-wook) who happens to possess top-notch fighting skills, a reporter from a second-rate tabloid news website (Park Min-young), and a famous journalist at a major broadcast station (Yoo Ji-tae). In trying to uncover the truth from that 1992 incident, they grow into real, honest reporters, while dealing with the conflict between truth and fate.
Main characters
Ji Chang-wook as Seo Jung-hoo/Park Bong-soo/Healer
Park Si-jin as young Jung-hoo
Choi Jung-hoo as child Jung-hoo
An illegal mercenary who works under the alias "Healer". Renowned for being the best in his field, Jung-hoo is equipped not only with advanced technology and a trusty hacker sidekick, but also his superb fighting skills. His ultimate goal is to save money and buy a deserted island off the coast of Panama and to live there alone, but that changes after being given an order by his client, Kim Moon-ho, to protect a girl named Young-shin from the people who want her dead.
Park Min-young as Chae Young-shin/Oh Ji-an
Kim So-yeon as young Young-shin
Ku Geon-min as child Ji-an
A strong-willed and quirky internet news reporter who dreams of becoming a legendary reporter. However, her dreams are put to the test when she finds out about her hidden past as the lost child Oh Ji-an. Due to her abusive past, Young-shin is traumatized and panics whenever she sees violence. She later falls in love with her protector, Jung-hoo.
Yoo Ji-tae as Kim Moon-ho
Kim Seung-chan as young Moon-ho
A star reporter, and brother to Kim Moon-sik, the CEO of a large news company. His goal is to last each day and to find Oh Ji-an, a supposedly dead child who is rumored to still be alive. He pays Jung-hoo to find and protect Ji-an (now Young-shin) from the people that want her dead out of guilt for not fully investigating the truth about a 1992 incident that ended in the tragic deaths of 5 best friends.
