Netflix has a growing library. It brings on series and films every single day. In this growing library of Netflix, one that has been constantly going up is Korean content, in the forms of movies and series. Netflix has become the hub for Korean dramas that everyone wants to watch. Every sort of K-Dramas are available, while some might be Netflix originals, some others are old hits that rocked South Korea, back when it was released. Amongst those is a series called “Witch At Court” or “Witch’s Court” if you go with the literal Korean translation of the title. The show on Monday released on Netflix, and if you are someone who loves legal drama, this is one K-drama that you should look out for.
For starters “Witch at Court” was originally released in 2017 and stars Jung Ryeo-won and Yoon Hyun-min in lead roles. The series was released at a time when legal dramas are slowly starting to come up and the reason most might not have heard this is maybe because of the low popularity of such genres back then. A few years ago, South Korea was registering massive hits in terms of rom-coms and melodrama series. Series in such genres found it hard to survive, but even then “Witch At Court” was able to register high viewership ratings along with a story that was hardly touched by any creator in South Korea.
The story of “Witch At Court”, being a legal drama, focuses on a female prosecutor named Ma Yi-deum and a man who recently got into the legal world as a prosecutor, who is named Yeo Jin-wook. The series has one original story that is focused on finding. While Yi-deum is one woman, who will do anything to win her case, Jin-wook uses his psychology background to get through his cases. Both of them come together as a team is formed for cases against women amd children, that includes harassment, violence, abuse, and sex trafficking. Though the hidden agenda for the Yi-deum is to get justice for her mother, who was wrongly acquitted for a crime, she cannot shake off the cases that come in as those remind her of her mother.
“Witch At Court”, is a breakthrough in the sense that it focuses on women issues and crime against women. For a country like South Korea, which has a dark history of severe patriarchy and not to mention hate crime against women, it’s uncommon to see stories where women’s issues are highlighted. So, even if this might be a series that you haven’t heard, it’s mostly because it didn’t get its chance to rise up, amongst the bundle of romantic Korean dramas floating all around released in those years.
Now, in 2021 and thanks to Netflix, bolder concepts are being picked and creators don’t have to fear being canceled because even if it doesn’t air on cable TV, they will have a chance with Netflix. With an IMDb rating of 7.6, Witch At Court is definitely one series that should be on your watch list, it has the right amount of romance and the best part is being a legal drama, the courtroom, and cases are more in focus than the romance, which makes “Witch At Court” an out of the ordinary series.
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