How many episodes does The Apartment Job have?

The Apartment Job is a 12-episode JTBC drama, airing Saturdays and Sundays with 70-minute episodes.

Is The Apartment Job based on a true story?

No — The Apartment Job is an original script written by Kim Yoon-young.

Where can I watch The Apartment Job?

The Apartment Job airs on JTBC in Korea, with Netflix carrying it for international audiences.

When does The Apartment Job air new episodes?

New episodes air every Saturday and Sunday on JTBC.

📺 K-Drama Guide · Thriller · Mystery · Comedy

The Apartment Job

아파트 · 2026

📡 Ongoing · 8/12 eps 🎬 JTBC · Netflix ⭐ Not Yet Rated 🔞 TV-14

⚡ Updated · Aug 3, 2026

📋 Drama Overview

What to expect, before you press play.

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The Apartment Job

아파트 (Apateu) · 2026 · South Korea

WriterKim Yoon-young

DirectorJo Yong-won

Episodes12 eps · ~70 min each

⏱️ Binge Time14h 0m

AiredJul 11, 2026 – Present

GenreThriller · Mystery · Comedy

Content RatingTV-14

JTBCNetflix

Con GameFake FamilyCorruptionGangsterApartment Setting

Park Hae-gang used to run a gang. Now he needs 10 billion won, fast, to save the man who raised him — and the fastest route he can find runs straight through an apartment complex’s reserve fund. Getting access means winning the residents’ association presidency, and winning that means becoming exactly the kind of respectable neighbor he’s never been in his life.

His solution is audacious even by con-artist standards: stage a fake marriage to aspiring lawyer Kang Ha-ri, invent an ‘Intermittent Family Project,’ and become the most convincingly ordinary man in the building in under three months. The premiere makes clear this was never going to stay a simple money grab — the complex’s real secrets are bigger than any stash Hae-gang came looking for.

Episode Progress 8 / 12 📡 Ongoing

⚡ Quick Verdict

Everything worth knowing, distilled into one box.

⭐ Worth it?Worth starting now — early enough to catch the con before the corruption plot fully unfolds

⏱️ Commitment12 episodes · ~70 min each — 1 aired so far

💛 VibeEx-gangster runs a fake-family con on an entire apartment complex

📺 Skip if…You want your heist comedy to already reveal its full con by episode one

▶ Official Trailer

Went for a Debt, Found a Rich Secret

When the Fake Artifact Goes Viral

🎭 Cast & Characters

The ex-gangster, the reluctant lawyer, and the neighbors caught in an escalating con.

Ji Sung

Park Hae-gang

Lead

Ha Yoon-kyung

Kang Ha-ri

Lead

Moon So-ri

Jang Sook-jin

Supporting

Park Byung-eun

Lee Chung-won

Supporting

Bek Hyun-jin

Lee Kang-won

Supporting

Jung Seung-kil

Choi Young-jae

Supporting

🍿 Where to Watch

Stream The Apartment Job on these platforms.

JTBC Netflix

📺 Episode Guide

Recaps that jog the memory, not spoil the ride.

EP 01 EP 02 EP 03 EP 04 EP 05 EP 06 EP 07 EP 08 EP 09 EP 10 EP 11 EP 12 🏁 Ending

EP 01

The Intermittent Family Project

Jul 11, 2026

Park Hae-gang needs 10 billion won fast enough to save Yong-man, the father figure who raised him, and the apartment complex he targets has exactly that much sitting in its reserve fund. Getting access means winning the residents’ association presidency, which means constructing an entire fake identity — including a staged wedding to aspiring lawyer Kang Ha-ri — under what he’s calling the ‘Intermittent Family Project.’ Hae-gang gives himself three months to pull it off, and the premiere makes clear that’s an optimistic deadline even before the building’s actual secrets start surfacing.

EP 02

Fake Family

Jul 12, 2026

The number turns out to be even bigger than Hae-gang expected — 17.8 billion won sitting untouched in the reserve fund, more than enough to save Yong-man twice over. The problem is the same as before: a single man doesn’t win this election, a family man does. Hae-gang offers Kang Ha-ri 100 million won to play his wife for three months, and the ‘Intermittent Family Project’ stops being a plan and starts being a cast of people who have to actually convince an entire apartment complex they’re real.

EP 03

The Truth Behind the Kick

Jul 18, 2026

Hae-gang files for the residents’ association election and puts his manufactured family on full display, playing devoted husband and community man for an audience that’s already suspicious of newcomers. A video of him kicking an assailant gets edited to make him look like the aggressor, and the residents turn on him fast — until Ha-ri digs up the full footage and flips the narrative back in his favor. It’s the first time the fake wife’s competence stops being a liability and starts being the thing actually keeping the con alive.

EP 04

A Bloody Handshake

Jul 19, 2026

Winning the building-rep seat puts Hae-gang one step from the presidency, right up until council president Seo Kang-won outs his gangster past — former leader of the Oasis Gang — in front of the entire emergency meeting. Ha-ri, of all people, is the one who publicly vouches for him, which complicates whatever this arrangement was supposed to be. Cornered, Hae-gang escalates: planting fake cultural relics at a subway construction site, a scheme big enough to tank property values and rescue his image in one move.

EP 05

The 17.8 Billion Won Fund Is Gone

Jul 25, 2026

Hae-gang wins the council presidency thinking the hard part is over and starts quietly dismantling the fake family that got him there. It isn’t over — Jang Suk-jin has enough evidence now to know the marriage was staged, and Lee Chung-won traces the planted relics straight back to him. Both threats land the same episode Hae-gang finally tries to withdraw the 17.8 billion won, only to find the account empty. The heist he spent five episodes building toward was never actually there to take.

EP 06

The Heating Martyr

Jul 26, 2026

With the fund gone and Jang Suk-jin closing in on the truth about the marriage, Hae-gang and Ha-ri stop running a con and start running an actual investigation into where the money went. He also stumbles onto something real along the way — certain households have been illegally exempt from heating costs for years — and exposing it publicly earns him a nickname he never asked for: the heating martyr. Lee Chung-won finds the whole spectacle too entertaining to shut down, and Ha-ri, in deeper than she planned, starts treating the building’s actual problems like they’re hers to fix.

EP 07

The New Safekeeper

Aug 1, 2026

Chung-won’s suspicion of Hae-kang sharpens the moment the maintenance-dues push starts looking like more than building politics. Ha-jeong’s discovery of Ha-ri’s fake identity sends her spiraling into guilt bad enough that Hae-kang offers his own apartment as a hiding place, a request Big Brother finds hilarious. The real move is bigger than either subplot: Hae-kang angles to become Chung-won’s new safekeeper to get inside the money itself, a plan complicated fast by Chairman Seo’s sudden disappearance and Director Son Deun taking Park Yong-man hostage for ransom.

EP 08

Not Fake Anymore

Aug 2, 2026

Diverting ten billion won of Chung-won’s money catches up with Hae-gang the moment Yong-man’s terminal diagnosis turns a desperate money problem into a race against time. The investigation chief flatly refuses his bid for medical release, so Hae-gang doubles down on the riskier play: clawing back Chung-won’s trust well enough to become his money manager, the exact position his own elevator sabotage was designed to open up. Ha-ri, dealing with a career collapse of her own, finds enough comfort in Hae-gang’s presence to ask for something that blurs their fake marriage into something less fake.

EP 09

Coming Soon

Aug 8, 2026

Recap coming soon — check back after this episode airs on JTBC.

EP 10

Coming Soon

Aug 9, 2026

Recap coming soon — check back after this episode airs on JTBC.

EP 11

Coming Soon

Aug 15, 2026

Recap coming soon — check back after this episode airs on JTBC.

EP 12

Coming Soon

Aug 16, 2026

Recap coming soon — check back after this episode airs on JTBC (season finale).

🏁 Ending Explained

We’ll break this down in full once the series wraps up.

🏁 Coming once The Apartment Job wraps up — we’ll add the full ending breakdown after Episode 12 airs. Check back then, or bookmark this page.

✍️ KDramaWorlds Editor’s Take

Our honest take — is it worth your time, and who’s it really for.

🕴️ Gangster Turned Neighbor 💍 Fake Family Con 🏢 Apartment Corruption 😂 Heist Comedy

Ji Sung has spent his career alternating between charm and menace, and Park Hae-gang asks for both at once — a man who can sell ‘harmless retiree running for HOA president’ to a room full of skeptical neighbors while still radiating the danger of someone who used to run a gang. The setup, a criminal reforming himself while taking down a corrupt building from the inside, inevitably invites comparison to Vincenzo, though Hae-gang’s version trades mafia elegance for scrappier, funnier desperation.

The Apartment Job (2026) — cinematic still

The ‘Intermittent Family Project’ — an entire fake marriage and fabricated home life built solely to access a reserve fund — is a con elaborate enough that the show is clearly betting its comedy on the logistics of maintaining it. Fake-family premises have worked well for KDW favorites like Family by Choice, and Ha Yoon-kyung’s Kang Ha-ri looks positioned to be more than just a reluctant co-conspirator.

One episode isn’t enough to know how deep the apartment complex’s corruption actually runs, but the premiere plants its flag early: this was never going to stay a simple money grab. Whether Hae-gang’s transformation into an actual community hero feels earned or convenient is the question worth tracking over the next eleven episodes.

👍👍👍 BEST FOR 👍👍👍

🕴️ Fans of con-artist antiheroes who are more charming than they are trustworthy 🏢 Viewers who want their corruption plot grounded in a single building instead of a faceless conglomerate 😂 Anyone who wants their heist premise played for comedy first, thriller second

⚖️ Final Verdict

What works

•Ji Sung sells Park Hae-gang’s con-artist charm and underlying desperation in equal measure

•The ‘Intermittent Family Project’ is a genuinely inventive engine for episode-to-episode comedy

•The apartment-complex setting keeps the corruption plot human-scaled instead of abstract

What to know first

•Only one episode has aired — the corruption subplot is still mostly setup, not payoff

•No aggregator score exists yet since the show just premiered on July 11

•This is a weekend-drama pace (two episodes per week), so plot developments will arrive gradually

Too Early to Score— One episode in, The Apartment Job has a strong comic premise and an even stronger lead performance; we’ll revisit the score once there’s enough on record to judge it fairly.

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