Miniseries · tvN
Mad Concrete Dreams
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ha Jung-woo
Ki Su-jong
12 eps
Lim Soo-jung
Kim Seon
12 eps
Kim Jun-han
Min Hwal-seong
12 eps
Krystal Jung
Jeon Yi-gyeong
12 eps
Shim Eun-kyung
Yo-na
12 eps
Lee Shin-ki
Jang Eui-sa
12 eps
Park Seo-kyung
Ki Da-rae
12 eps
Kim Geum-soon
Jeon Yang-ja
12 eps
Lee Ju-woo
Ko Ju-ran
12 eps
Nam Myung-ryeol
Mr. Kim
12 eps
Hyun Bong-sik
Oh Dong-ki
12 eps
Yoon Jun-won
Yoon Bo-ram
12 eps
MIYAVI
Morgan Lee
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Mad Concrete Dreams actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Mad Concrete Dreams reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
A debt-ridden building owner agrees to stage a fake kidnapping to save his family and property, only for the plan to spiral into a real abduction and a dangerously escalating situation.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Yim Pil-sungDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Rakuten VikiStreaming
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