The Heyday of the Bad Guys [Film and TV Commentary]

In 1990, South Korean President Roh Tae-woo launched the "war against crime." During the severe crackdown by the Busan police, Choi Min-sik, the man behind the gang, Choi Min-sik ) was arrested for detaining an entrepreneur, which revealed his legendary story of wandering between black and white... In 1982, Cui Yixian, then a civil servant in the Supervision Section, was at home in the fat and oily customs, but when his boss was reported, Cui Yixian was pushed out and took the blame. Cui Yixian, who had a gloomy future, desperately started a drug business against Japan, and got acquainted with Cui Jiongbai (played by Ha Jung-woo), a gangster of the same ethnic group. Cui Yixian, who was proud of the Cui family's noble family background, quickly formed an alliance with Cui Jiongbai. The two relied on their respective connections and violence to create a world in Busan's underworld. In 1985, Cui Yixian was entrusted by an entrepreneur to take a stake in a nightclub and cooperated with Choi Jiongpai to overthrow the Busan gang leader Kim Banhu. When the Choi gang was booming, the relationship between Yixian and Jiongpai cracked in the chaotic era...