Not sure why it is called Gap Dong on IMDB and not Gab Dong.
It is a very well acted and scripted story of a serial killer and a copy cat killer years later, who are pursued by the police who all have a connection with the original killer. Admittedly you have to stretch your imagination a bit to believe the plot on occasions but if you just go with it, it is worth the ride.
3 Reviews
Gap : a hole between two objects & Dong : A resonant sound
ankithbk-0098013 March 2019
And you will exactly feel what the title says....which no one yet understands...through out this psychodrama...Its a long resonanting sound that goes thorough 2 decades and no one can hear it...hence cant catch it!!!
The name is so apt after watching this fabuluosly crafted series....It gives you a hinge to hold on to everytime you even thing that you are loosing interest. The characters are perfectly placed with the right kind of development. The story might be inspired but relatively it gives a new direction to what actually have had happened...After watching a 100+ korean movies/dramas... i do say that it is one of the best.....although i stay true to my word " I saw the Devil".. will stand out forever!!!
There are flaws in the story line... but that dont matter when you have crafted something so beautiful and intellectually creative for everyone to indulgue with.
The name is so apt after watching this fabuluosly crafted series....It gives you a hinge to hold on to everytime you even thing that you are loosing interest. The characters are perfectly placed with the right kind of development. The story might be inspired but relatively it gives a new direction to what actually have had happened...After watching a 100+ korean movies/dramas... i do say that it is one of the best.....although i stay true to my word " I saw the Devil".. will stand out forever!!!
There are flaws in the story line... but that dont matter when you have crafted something so beautiful and intellectually creative for everyone to indulgue with.
felt like it was written as they produced
jnicolette-130 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Warning: spoilers
I hoped this series was going to be a good one. But in the end it felt like the series was being written one week at a time rather than being fully fleshed out.
Spoilers here: the young male lead I thought did a great job. There was the tension between the old cop and the younger man whose father was accused of the crimes. It reminded me a bit of Memories of Murder. Of course a number of these Korean crime dramas have the Hwaseong serial killings as a theme. But the series kept going off the rails for me. Dr. Oh, who survived the original killer, was just a horrible character. Early in the series she has a split personality, then that confident vengeance-seeking persona just disappears. The young woman who does the web series accurately predicts everything about the new killings? The young killer is told by the young cop that Gab Dong was responsible for his father's death, even though Gab Dong killed women only? This leads to an obsession to find the original killer to teach him how to control his murderous impulses (where did that come from) and to do this he starts mimicking the original killings? Killing a flight attendant...on a plane...when everyone knows you were a suspected serial killer? I can stretch my imagination but not that far. Would have been more believable and in line with mimicking the original killings if he had killed the female cop. Possibly some of the translation from Korean to English hurts...I'm finding it hard to believe that the original killer's cop victim left a note in a book that just said 'i like you' and he was to get that message, and that it remained in that book decades later.
A great idea, just not executed by the producers to bring the story together as a whole from the outset.
I hoped this series was going to be a good one. But in the end it felt like the series was being written one week at a time rather than being fully fleshed out.
Spoilers here: the young male lead I thought did a great job. There was the tension between the old cop and the younger man whose father was accused of the crimes. It reminded me a bit of Memories of Murder. Of course a number of these Korean crime dramas have the Hwaseong serial killings as a theme. But the series kept going off the rails for me. Dr. Oh, who survived the original killer, was just a horrible character. Early in the series she has a split personality, then that confident vengeance-seeking persona just disappears. The young woman who does the web series accurately predicts everything about the new killings? The young killer is told by the young cop that Gab Dong was responsible for his father's death, even though Gab Dong killed women only? This leads to an obsession to find the original killer to teach him how to control his murderous impulses (where did that come from) and to do this he starts mimicking the original killings? Killing a flight attendant...on a plane...when everyone knows you were a suspected serial killer? I can stretch my imagination but not that far. Would have been more believable and in line with mimicking the original killings if he had killed the female cop. Possibly some of the translation from Korean to English hurts...I'm finding it hard to believe that the original killer's cop victim left a note in a book that just said 'i like you' and he was to get that message, and that it remained in that book decades later.
A great idea, just not executed by the producers to bring the story together as a whole from the outset.
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