Beyond the Bar, the series was released on August 2, 2025, on Netflix, which is the premiere episode about a South Korean law firm. The first episode title is “Induction” and the mindblowing direction by Kim Jae-hong, written by Park Mi-hyeon. In this drama, introducing the Yullim law firm, the firm is meant for a world-class work environment with ambition and justice chemistry.
The eye setter cast by Lee Jin-wook as a calm and cold attitude, and Jung Chae-Yean as a brilliant and ambitious attitude. The first episode is all about the entry of Jung Chase-Yean to the Yullim law firm, which hits a new level. Let’s deep dive into the first meeting of Lee Jin-wook and Jung Chae-Yean. Are you excited?
First Of Scene: Beyond The Bar
Great start, Outstanding entry by Jung Chae-Yean, character name Kang Hyo-min. She is excellent in her studies, but she is clumsy with things. The impression of her was not good because she had an interview at the Yullim law firm she came late for the interview.
When she was travelling in a train, she saw a book that someone had left that book in the train, so she saw the book and started reading book, and she missed the station and arrived late to the interview. Kang Hyo-min’s dressing sense is very pathetic, and her appearance is.
By seeing her appearance in the interview, Lee Jin-wook is not impressed, who is one of interviewers and tells her to go out of the interview. Here, Lee Jin-wook’s character is completely opposite to Kang Hyo-min; he is very clean, and he follows his rule very strictly. Lee Jin-wook’s character name is Yoon Seak-hoon.
One of the interviewers will tell about her achievements in college, that she won the National mock trials in law school. Yoon Seak-hoon goes flashback how she presented the topic in a super confident manner. So they have planned to reinterview her.
She will come back for an interview, and she will impress all interviewers with her flawless answers. She will return home upset because she reached the interview late owing to that, she might get a job offer. In meanwhile, she will get an offer message from Yullim that she is selected for a job.
The next day, the induction program for new interns. All interns gave an introduction about themselves. All leaders will give their team introduction in an interesting way, but Yoon Seak-hoon gave his team introduction in a rough intro, so all interns got scared. Now is the time for all interns to select their team.
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All interns selected the easy team, but Kang Hyo-min selected the Yoon Seak-hoon team, which is the litigation team. It was surprising to everyone that Kang Hyo-min was selected to the litigation team even though Yoon Seak-hoon said there was no work-life balance.
Still, Yoon does not agree to get on his team because she does not value the time. Even though she missed her internship opportunity at Lee & Seo since she arrived late for the interview. Its buddy attorney is convincing to keep her on the team.
As his buddy attorney brought her into his office and started convincing him, even Kang Hyo-Min started being compelled by her motto. Yet he did not respond. Buddy Attorney and Kang came out of the office, discussed Yoon and how he is.
Kang Hyo-min joined the litigation team with three other buddy interns. The attorney started explaining the team and their first assignment to the interns. He started explaining all assignments to the interns on what they should do in the assignment.
All interns are getting an assignment review by Yoon. Yoon started a new, interesting thing with his attitude toward doing things. 3 Interns got a shout from Yoon, but Kang got appreciation for their work. The actual interesting situation is coming up in this series. Who is reading here says, “ I am reading.”
3rd Of Scene: Beyond the Bar
Kang is attending a conference meeting, which was her assignment. She some something fishy in the company’s revenue, so she decided to take a look at it. She went to ask the person who presented a document and disagreed with her. She got upset, and she took action to research it, and she went to the factory to analyze the situation.
For two days, she was busy researching the factory revenue process, and after 2 days, she came to the office. Her colleagues’ interns are scared that she has not come to the office, and now she their in the office. Even the buddy attorney got scared and went to Yoon’s office to say sorry, and first he got angry, and later he listened to her and took strict action about the circumstance.
In this condition matter went to a court. The Kang team started explaining the situation, and they won the case. Kang got more appreciation from all of them. Yoon’s eye is not letting down of Kang by seeing her excitement about the case.
Yoon silently sees Kang’s argument and enjoys its literary amazingness. People are beginning to give visiting cars to her, and they ask for help. Yoon does not smile, actually, but in this case he he got lightly smile on his face, it’s very interesting.
Now it’s very interesting to come, that is Kang Hyo-min’s boyfriend, there are college mates who are dating, and both lawyers. Now they are having a dinner date at the hotel. At the same time, her boyfriend’s colleague had also come to the hotel, and he introduced her as his girlfriend.
Kang got upset because of her introduction. He introduced her with the father and mother designation, which made her upset. She asked her boyfriend why you likes me, so he got to know that he had introduced her to her parents status.
He explained why because interested in the real reason why he liked her, and he talked about genetics. She is worried by his words. She has a past, which is why she is scared, and she went home.
Yoon is in his house thinking about his past life, which did not work out. Seeing old videos and being upset by seeing that. He was watching his wife and the dogs’ old video, which made him emotional.
The key factors of the series
- The entry of Kang Hyo-min was outstanding.
- The Yoon Seak-hoon personality suits his attitude.
- The buddy attorney’s supporting role is amazing.
- The 3 other interns’ performances are excellent.
Till now, it’s a great story. Are you enjoying it? Tell me about Kang Hyo-min and Yoon Seak-hoon. Share your thoughts in the comment box
Stay tuned for the Next 2nd episode
