City Hunter: The Hero's Journey

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City Hunter, a Korean drama created in summer of 2011 and has a jaw-dropping rating of 9.4 on asianwiki, is a great example of the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is an archetype that was studied by different scholars such as Joseph Campbell. He noticed a pattern that went through various types of books, t.v. shows, dramas, movies, etc. This t.v series includes the protagonist Lee Yoon-Sung, Lee Jin-Pyo, the adopted father and lone survivor, and five antagonists also known as The Council of Five. The council of five betrayed their own troop of 21 men to bury dark evidence by killing them. They did not know however that Jin-Pyo survived and continued on their lives, however, Jin-Pyo constantly remembers seeing the five members shooting the men in the waters of Nampo after they were returning from accomplishing their given mission. The drama starts off…show more content…
From there on his road of trials begin. In the very beginning around episode three Yoon-Sung is caught trying to reveal a member’s identity in which he has to escape and reveal the video in time for every social media in the conference to record. This is a challenge for him he has to overcome in order to arrive at the end of his mission. Another trial he had to cross in the later episodes was searching for the identities of the other four targets which was unknown. Finding them before his adopted father did was important or his father would end up killing the target instead of turning him in. Yoon-Sung didn’t want his only family member to become a murderer and ending up in jail far from him. The last and the foremost important trial he had to go through was protecting his beloved, Kim Na-Na. Because of Yoon-Sung, her life was threatened over and over again. Every time he went in risking his life to protect her without the consideration of his ultimate
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