Limited series · ENA
The Scarecrow
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Park Hae-soo
Kang Tae-ju
12 eps
Lee Hee-jun
Cha Si-young
12 eps
Kwak Sun-young
Seo Ji-won
12 eps
Seo Ji-hye
Kang Soon-young
12 eps
Song Geon-hee
Lee Ki-bum / Cha Young-beom
12 eps
Jung Moon-sung
Lee Ki-hwan
12 eps
Bek Hyun-jin
Kim Man-chun
12 eps
Yoo Seung-mok
Cha Mu-jin
12 eps
Lee Suk-hyeong
Woon-hee
12 eps
Kim Hwan-hee
Min-ji
12 eps
Ahn Jung-ho
Reporter
1 eps
Hwang Moo-young
Choi Jung-mo
1 eps
Choi Nam-wook
Detective
1 eps
Jang Yoon-woo
Police Ceremony MC
1 eps
Yoo Yong
Prosecutor
1 eps
Park Sang-hoon
Lee Seong-jin [Suspect]
1 eps
Min Hye-su
Choi In-sook
1 eps
Park Ju-ri
Hee-Jin's classmate
1 eps
Kwak Ji-sook
Lee Joo-Hee's mom
1 eps
Ahn Soo-ho
Lee Joo-Hee's neighbour
1 eps
Oh Tae-eun
Lee Joo-Hee's neighbour
1 eps
Ma Jeong-pil
Doctor
1 eps
Jung Ji-hwan
Police Officer Jeong
2 eps
Ha Seong-min
Station Chief
1 eps
Lee Min-ki
Cha Yeon-ho
2 eps
Kim Byeo-ri
Choi Min-ja
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Scarecrow actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Scarecrow reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A fiercely competitive police officer and an idealistic prosecutor, former high school classmates, reunite while investigating a nationwide serial murder case, pulling them into both a dangerous pursuit and an unresolved personal past.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- 이지현Writer
Direction
- Park Joon-wooDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Rakuten VikiStreaming
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