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This is a list of characters of the South Korean television series Stranger. Cast overview   = Main cast (credited)   = Recurring cast (3+)   = Guest cast (1-2) ^1 Gil Jung-woo and Song Eui-joon portray a young Hwang Si-mok in flashback scenes. ^2 Kim Jin-seong portrays a young Kim Jung-bon in flashback scenes. Main characters Hwang Si-mok Hwang Si-mok (Cho Seung-woo) is a prosecutor who works in the 3rd Division of Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office at the beginning of the first season. He was born in 1983 and is 35 years old at the beginning of the series. When he was 14, he underwent a lobotomy for his recurring intense migraines, which he suffered from due to hypersensitivity to certain frequencies of sound. After his operation, he lost his sense of empathy and lacks social skills, but he feels guilty for his parents' divorce and his mother's suicide attempt. He appears cold to people but his good memory and analytical mind are an asset when he works on cases. His working methods include reenacting crime scenes and reasoning in narrations that the audience can hear. While working on the murder case of Park Moo-sung, a businessman who appears to offer illegal services to prosecutors and political figures, Si-mok is tasked with leading the Special Investigations Task Force. After exposing corruption within the prosecution, he is sent to the Tongyeong branch. Two years later, at the beginning of the second season, Si-mok is appointed to the Criminal Legislation Division at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seoul and is asked to join the Investigative Procedure Reformation Council. Along with Woo Tae-ha and Kim Sa-hyun, Si-mok represents the interest of the prosecutors. He is tasked with bringing arguments forward to keep the investigation right within the prosecution and away from the police, who try to obtain the authority to initiate and terminate crime investigation without approval from the prosecution's office. After discovering and revealing the truth about Park Gwang-soo's death, he is transferred to the Wonju branch where he was originally supposed to relocate to after his term at Tonyeong ended. Si-mok slowly starts showing emotions throughout the seasons. During the first season, he can be seen smiling on a few occasions while talking to Han Yeo-jin, and goes as far as expressing his anger in the second season while working on Seo Dong-jae's kidnapping case. Han Yeo-jin Han Yeo-jin (Bae Doona) is a homicide lieutenant and later Senior Inspector at Yongsan Police Station. She is 30 years old at the beginning of the first season. After she graduated from the Korean National Police University, she worked two years within a precinct station. She then transferred to Yongsan Police Station where she worked for two years as a traffic officer before joining Homicide Team 3. She first meets Hwang Si-mok at the crime scene of Park Moo-sung, a failed businessman who bribed prosecutors and police officers. Throughout the season, they work closely together on the case and she eventually joins him as a member of the Special Investigations Task Force. Through their collaborations, Si-mok sometimes starts showing emotions to her. At the end of the season, she is promoted to Senior Inspector for successfully catching Eun-soo's murderer in Taiwan. In the second season, Yeo-jin is dispatched to the National Police Agency but remains affiliated with Yongsan Police Station. She does not feel at ease working in an office and often appears to miss field work. She becomes part of the Investigative Procedure Reformation Council with Jang Geon, who she recommends after being tasked to find a new member with specific qualifications. Throughout the season, Yeo-jin is torn between her principles and her allegiance to her direct superior Choi Bit, but usually decides to obey her orders out of respect for her. After revealing the involvement of Choi Bit in moving of Park Gwang-soo's body, the innovation team is disbanded. Yeo-jin becomes victim of workplace intimidation from her colleagues, who consider her a traitor for blowing the whistle on Choi Bit. Although having a hard time, she rejects the offer to re-join Yongsan Police Station and decides to join another branch of the Intelligence Bureau. There she again receives the cold shoulder from her colleagues until Director Noh, her new superior, gives her a warm welcome. He tells her that he looks forward working with her as he heard good stories about her from Choi Bit. Seo Dong-jae Seo Dong-jae (Lee Joon-hyuk) is one of Hwang Si-mok's colleagues at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office. Dong-jae is married to Lee Yoo-an with whom he has two sons. He studied law at a local university after being granted a full scholarship. After graduation, he became a prosecutor but quickly realized that he would only be able to be promoted to a certain level as he is not a SKY alumni, which causes him to develop a sense of inferiority. He started taking bribes and pleases his superiors whenever he can. In the first season, he briefly works at the Blue House when Lee Chang-joon, to whom he looks up to, is appointed as Chief Secretary, but he eventually returns to the Prosecutors' Office. He is involved in the corruption case surrounding Park Moo-sung but Hwang Si-mok gives him a second chance after Lee Chang-joon's death. In the second season, Dong-jae is relocated to the Prosecutors' Office of Uijeongbu where he takes a particular interest in cases involving the mysterious deaths of lawyer Park Gwang-soo and police officer Song Gi-hyun, because he thinks they might contain compromising evidence on Choi Bit. He approaches Woo Tae-ha with these two cases, hoping that it will be of use to him during the Investigative Procedure Reformation Council meetings. On one evening, whilst on his way to meet Woo Tae-ha, he is kidnapped. Si-mok and Yeo-jin eventually discover that Kim Hu-jung, the sole survivor of the Tongyeong drowning case, held Dong-jae captive and rescue him. While still unconscious in hospital, Dong-jae is visited by Lee Yeon-jae who threatens him to keep his mouth shut. After he wakes up, Dong-jae is being interrogated by the prosecution as a witness. He is asked about Hanjo Group's involvement with Park Gwang-soo but the scene ends before his answer is known to the audience. Lee Chang-joon Lee Chang-joon (Yoo Jae-myung) is the Chief Prosecutor at Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office and is later appointed as the Chief Secretary at the Blue House. Chang-joon was born on November 10, 1971, and is married to Lee Yeon-jae, the daughter of Hanjo Group's chairman. He graduated as member of the 25th Class at the Judicial Research And Training Institute; his contemporaries include Kang Won-chul, Oh Joo-sun and Park Gwang-soo. He is described as a righteous person and is mentor to Hwang Si-mok and Seo Dong-jae, but gets absorbed in the web of corruption by taking care of his father-in-law's dishonest business. .... Discover the Sungmoon Cho popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sungmoon Cho books.