Crime procedures are a genre of a show that translates across borders and cultures, with South Korean television or K-dramas, especially fruitful in the production of crime thrillers. One particularly interesting crime show Exit Korea in the last few years is a remake to long -term US procedural "criminal minds". Also, carrying the title of "criminal minds", the K-drama version of the hit show premiered in 2017 and running for the Korean-standard unique season of 20 episodes. Despite this shortened length, compared to the 18-season of the American version, the K-drama "Criminal Minds" has many similarities to the original while putting its own spin on the material.

Korean "criminal minds" see veteran criminal profiler Kang Kang-Hing (Son Hyun-Oou) returning to active duty after a prolonged interruption after the bombing left by most of his team dead. Ki-Hijung is leading an unusual younger team to find serial killers across Korea, with each carrying their own special skills on the table. This includes Hotshot's volatile investigator, Kim Hyun-Oonun (Lee Oonun-Gi), who deeply repeated Ki-Hing for the last explosive incident. Thus, ki-Hing must learn to overcome his past trauma and work with his new team to stop the most notorious killers in the country.

All in all, this sounds like an inappropriate interpretation of "criminal minds". However, the concept makes it a real crime thriller, thanks to the way the show reviews it.

With its one -season running, the Korean "criminal minds" has a comprehensive narrative in a way that the American series only touches in a wider way. Ki-Hing returns to work and leads his team in search of a particularly wicked serial killer known as Reaper, played by Kim Von-Hae. There are lateral cases that the team also explores, most of which are variations of episodes of The previous seasons of the American "criminal mind", But the story of Reaper is what connects them all together. This vaguely reflects the bow of the original Boston Ripper show (F. Thomas Howell), but serves as more than a visible unifying narrative for the K-Drama.

Of course, what really shapes and defines the two versions of "criminal minds" is its main acting ensemble, with clear analogues between the two plays. Most important, ki-hing is arranged with Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson), but also Asoneyson Gedeon (liked Mandi) and his traumatic past that includes a bomber of American iteration. Meanwhile, Hyun-Aonun is similar to Derek Morgan (Schemar Moore), with his child tragedy about his father, but the tension between him and Ki-Hing is more Antagonist than Hotchner and Morgan. This gives the K-drama more interpersonal friction than the US counterpart, at least among the basic duo.

Currently, the Korean version of "criminal minds" is not available to be legally transmitted to the United States, adding its relative ambiguity. But it is always interesting to see how other cultures are examined by TVs, and this K-Drama certainly has its own crime procedure.