Pied Piper (TV series)

For other uses, see Pied Piper (disambiguation).

Pied Piper (Korean: 피리부는 사나이; RR: Piribuneun Sanai) is a 2016 South Korean police procedural-crime drama television series. It replaced Cheese in the Trap and aired on cable network tvN on Mondays and Tuesdays at 23:00 (KST) for 16 episodes from March 7 to April 26, 2016.^[1][2][3]

Pied Piper
Promotional poster
Genre	Action Thriller Crime Drama
Created by	(CJ E&M) Choi Jin-hee Park Ji-young
Written by	Ryoo Yong-jae
Directed by	Kim Hong-seon
Starring	Shin Ha-kyun Jo Yoon-hee Yoo Jun-sang
Composer	Gaemi
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	16
Production
Executive producer	Park Ho-sik
Producers	Kim Sung-min Pyeong chang-woo Kim Jin-i
Running time	75 minutes
Production company	Content K
Original release
Network	tvN
Release	March 7 (2016-03-07) – April 26, 2016 (2016-04-26)

Synopsis

Pied Piper focuses on a police negotiation task force that specializes in tense, worst-case scenarios that require highly trained communication. They handle all sorts of cases, from suicide to hostage situations to terrorist attacks, and even war. They do their work with words, not weapons, to neutralize volatile situations before they erupt into full-blown catastrophes.

Joo Sung-chan (Shin Ha-kyun) is a genius lead negotiator of the crisis negotiation police unit. Meanwhile, Yoon Hee-sung (Yoo Jun-sang) is the anchor of TNN Night News channel. Yeo Myung-ha (Jo Yoon-hee) is an inspector of the Crisis Negotiation Team.

Cast

Main

• Shin Ha-kyun as Joo Sung-chan – A genius negotiator in the past, currently an outside advisor of the police Crisis Negotiation Team
  • Choi Won-hong as young Joo Sung-chan
• Jo Yoon-hee as Yeo Myung-ha – An inspector, Crisis Negotiation Team member
  • Jeon Min-seo as young Yeo Myung-ha
• Yoo Jun-sang as Yoon Hee-sung – The real Pied Piper, an anchor of TNN Night News channel
• Lee Shin-sung [ko] as Jung Soo-kyung – A Pied Piper

People around Joo Sung-chan

• Jung Gook-hwan [ko] as Seo Geon-il – K-Group chairman
• Choi Won-hong as Seo Joon – Seo Geon-il's son
• Park Sung-geun [ko] as Kang Hong-seok – K-Group management director, chairman's brother-in-law
• Kim Hong-fa [ko] as Jung Tae-soo – a member of Assembly

People around Yeo Myung-ha

• Jo Jae-yoon as Han Ji-hoon – SWAT team leader
• Lee Jung-eun as Oh Ha-na – police officer of general switchboard 112
• Yoo Seung-mok [ko] as Gong Ji-man – Crisis Negotiation Team leader
• Oh Eui-shik as Choi Sung-beom – Sergeant, digital forensic expert
• Jang Sung-beom [ko] as Jo Jae-hee – Sergeant, profiler
• Kim Jong-soo as Yang Dong-woo – Seoul district police chief

People around Yoon Hee-sung

• Jung Hae-na [ko] as Yoon Bo-ram – TNN channel social affairs reporter, Yoon Hee-sung's junior

Extended

• Go Yoon as Jung Hyun-ho – brother of the victim who died during the hostage kidnapping in the Philippines
• Kim Ji-eun as Part-timer at the PC room
• Jung Dong-gyu [ko] as director Lee Joon-kyung
• Park Ji-hwan as Heo Tae-woong – the bank robber
• Kwon Hyuk-joon – attempts suicide on the Han river bridge
• Woo Jung-gook [ko] as Kim Jae-gon
• Kwak Dong-yeon as Gong Jung-in – Gong Ji-man's son
• Park Choong-seok [ko] as Noh Kyung-seok – former TNN syndicate president
• Lee Kan-hee as Moon Ji-hye – a doctor, Oh Jung-hak's friend
• Kim Ik-tae [ko] as judge
• Park Hyo-seon
• Gong Ye-ji [ko] as Yeon Joon-hee
• Kim Ki-moo [ko] as Goo Dong-man
• Park Shi-in as Jung Chan-gyu
• Shin Cheol-jin as Shin Won-chang
• Ham Sung-min as PC cafe customer
• Kim Byung-choon [ko] as factory magamement director
• Na Kwang-hoon [ko]
• Cha Soon-hyung [ko]
• Kim Jung-seok as factory's CEO
• Yang Fan
• Cao Fei Fei as Shanshan
• Lee Won-jong as detective Lee Cheol-yong
• Lee Hae-young [ko]
• Heo Min-young
• Yoo Joon-hong [ko] as airplane hacker
• Kim Ji-eun [ko]

Special appearances

• Sung Dong-il as Oh Jung-hak – former Crisis Negotiation Team leader
• Kim Min-seo as Lee Joo-eun – Joo Sung-chan's lover
• Lee Moo-saeng as Prosecutor (Ep.6)

Ratings

In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.

Ep.	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		AGB Nielsen	TNmS
		Nationwide	Nationwide
1	March 7, 2016	3.307%	3.0%
2	March 8, 2016	3.625%	3.5%
3	March 14, 2016	2.347%	2.2%
4	March 15, 2016	2.516%	2.3%
5	March 21, 2016	2.066%	2.0%
6	March 22, 2016	1.428%	1.6%
7	March 28, 2016	1.869%	1.5%
8	March 29, 2016	2.036%	2.0%
9	April 4, 2016	2.170%	2.0%
10	April 5, 2016	2.421%	1.7%
11	April 11, 2016	1.452%	1.3%
12	April 12, 2016	1.900%	1.8%
13	April 18, 2016	1.464%	1.5%
14	April 19, 2016	1.744%	1.8%
15	April 25, 2016	1.891%	1.5%
16	April 26, 2016	1.932%	1.7%
Average		2.136%	2.0%

• This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).