A Bloody Lucky Day

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A Bloody Lucky Day

운수 오진 날 (Unsu Ojin Nal) · 2023 · South Korea

WriterKim Min-sung, Song Han-na

DirectorPil Gam-seong

Episodes10 eps · ~55 min each

Where to Watch✅ Paramount+

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Binge Time9h 10m

AiredNov 24 – Dec 8, 2023

GenreThriller · Crime · Drama

Content RatingTV-MA

TVINGtvNParamount+

Serial KillerCat and MousePsychological ThrillerWebtoon AdaptationRevenge

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The people in and around the deadliest taxi ride of the year.

Lee Sung-min

Oh Taek

Lead

Yoo Yeon-seok

Geum Hyuk-soo

Lead

Lee Jung-eun

Hwang Soon-gyu

Supporting

Jeong Man-sik

Kim Joong-min

Supporting

Choi Deok-moon

Go Joo-hwan

Supporting

Hong Xa-bin

Oh Seung-hyun

Supporting

Joo Yeon-woo

Gong Cheon-seok

Supporting

Kim Joon-sik

Detective Choi

Supporting

Lee Hwa-jung

Lee Ji-eun

Supporting

Tae Hang-ho

Yang Seung-taek

Supporting

Lee Kang-ji

Nam Yoon-ho

Supporting

Woo Mi-hwa

Jang Mi-rim

Supporting

Episode-by-episode, spoiler-light — a refresher, not a rewatch.

EP 01

Taxi Driver

Nov 24, 2023

Oh Taek is the kind of cab driver the meter barely keeps afloat — mild, a little slow, honest to a fault. Then a passenger offers a month’s income for a long haul to Mokpo, and Taek’s luck seems to turn. Past the city limits the man mentions, almost shyly, that he once killed someone. The premiere’s whole craft is how gradually the temperature drops, and how completely Taek’s decency becomes the thing locking him in the car.

EP 02

It’s Hard to Find Good People

Nov 24, 2023

A body at a rest stop confirms what Taek already fears, though he never sees it happen. In a parallel thread, Hwang Soon-gyu — a woman certain this man is why her son is dead — stops waiting on the police and starts hunting him herself. The episode sets a captive and a pursuer on the same stretch of highway, neither aware of the other yet.

EP 03

Everything Comes with a Price

Nov 24, 2023

The passenger narrates his kills like road-trip anecdotes while Taek drives, and a highway checkpoint hands Taek a clean chance to signal for help. He can’t take it. The show is clear-eyed about why — one threat against his family is enough — but it refuses to let him off the hook either, and the missed exit hangs over everything after.

EP 04

The Sheep and the Wolf

Nov 24, 2023

Detective Kim Joong-min lifts the killer’s prints from an abandoned camper, and Soon-gyu closes to within minutes of the taxi. Taek gets a short, violent window to run, takes it, and reaches a phone — the escape the last three episodes have been withholding. It should be the end of the ordeal. The season’s cruelty is that it is only the halfway mark, and that getting out was never the same as being safe.

EP 05

The Smiling Man

Nov 24, 2023

The game changes shape. The killer has Taek’s daughter, Seung-mi, and the price of her life is Taek returning to a remote house to help him disappear. Yoo Yeon-seok plays the pivot without lifting his voice — the smile never drops. A man who spent four episodes being acted upon now has to make himself useful to a monster to keep his child breathing.

EP 06

What Happens Happens

Nov 24, 2023

Taek gets a covert call out to Kim Joong-min with the killer’s location, and for a moment the trap looks set. The killer works it out almost immediately, and the consequences fall on Seung-mi. The Part 1 finale plays at a port and delivers the worst version of nearly every outcome the show has been threatening for six hours, without flinching from a single one of them.

EP 07

Misfortune Doesn’t Ask Why

Dec 8, 2023

At the dock Soon-gyu finally has a gun on the man, and a small nervous habit tells her this is not who the case file says it is. He shoots her before she can act on the realization and boards his boat. Dying, she makes Taek promise to see it through — passing her son’s unfinished business to the one other person it destroyed. Part 2 opens in the wreckage: no family, no witness, one thing left to do.

EP 08

Lucky Day

Dec 8, 2023

Taek travels to China chasing the passenger’s real name, running the same manipulations he watched the killer use on him. He finds Yoon Se-na — the killer’s first love and a survivor — and the picture resolves: the man in his taxi was Lee Byeong-min, who poisoned the real Geum Hyuk-soo and wore his identity like a coat. Back home, Taek’s son Seung-hyun has news that insists life is still moving.

EP 09

An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth

Dec 8, 2023

Byeong-min reruns the exact blackmail that once broke Taek, this time as bait, and Taek’s revenge plan collides with a police operation closing on the same target. It is the show at its most morally uncomfortable — Taek doing to Byeong-min what Byeong-min did to him — and asking how far a wronged man can go before the word justice stops applying.

EP 10

Even if Life Deceives You

Dec 8, 2023

The reckoning splits between a courtroom and a memory. Byeong-min’s insanity plea fails and the court hands him a death sentence; he comes apart as he is dragged out. Taek then serves his own time for the laws he broke chasing that verdict, and walks out to his son, his daughter-in-law Chae-ri, and a grandchild. The last image is Taek back behind the wheel, the back seat full of ghosts who are, for once, smiling.

Spoilers ahead — the finale, broken down in full.

The passenger was never Geum Hyuk-soo The man Oh Taek drives toward Mokpo introduces himself as serial killer Geum Hyuk-soo, and every piece of forensic evidence agrees — because he built it that way. He is Lee Byeong-min, Hyuk-soo’s accomplice. When the real Hyuk-soo planned to frame him and vanish, Byeong-min poisoned him first, then took his fingerprints, his blood, and his name, so a nationwide manhunt would spend itself chasing a dead man.

What the ride costs Oh Taek By the end of Part 1 the fare has taken almost everything. Byeong-min’s fixation on Taek’s daughter, Seung-mi, ends with her death, and Taek’s wife does not survive the grief. Detective Hwang Soon-gyu corners Byeong-min at the port, realizes from a nervous habit that he is not the man in the file, and is shot before she can say so. Dying, she makes Taek promise to finish it.

The revenge half Part 2 turns Taek into a version of the man who ruined him. He goes to China, finds Hyuk-soo’s first love Yoon Se-na, pieces together Byeong-min’s real identity, and spends the back stretch running Byeong-min’s own tricks back at him. The show deliberately makes this uncomfortable — Taek becomes effective precisely because he has learned to lie and bait like a predator.

How Byeong-min is punished Taek stops short of killing him. Byeong-min is arrested, pleads temporary insanity, and is denied — the court hands down a death sentence, and he breaks apart as he is carried from the room. Taek then serves his own prison term for the crimes he committed chasing that outcome, which the drama frames as the right price rather than an injustice.

The final scene Released, Taek reunites at the beach with his son Seung-hyun, daughter-in-law Chae-ri, and their new baby — the family that survived. The last shot puts him back in a taxi, imagining Soon-gyu and her son laughing in the back seat and his wife and daughter at a café as he drives past. It is the show’s single act of mercy: the loss is not undone, but Taek can finally carry his ghosts gently.