Team Bulldog: Off-Duty Investigation

Team Bulldog: Off-Duty Investigation
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Hangul	번외수사
Hanja	番外搜査
Literal meaning	Further Investigation
Revised Romanization	Beon-oesusa

Genre	Action Crime
Created by	OCN Team Gorilla^[a]
Written by	Lee Yu-jin Jung Yoon-sun
Directed by	Kang Hyo-jin
Starring	Cha Tae-hyun Lee Sun-bin Jung Sang-hoon Yoon Kyung-ho Ji Seung-hyun
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	12
Production
Producer	Han Seok-won
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Zium Content (JTBC Studios)
Release
Original network	OCN
Original release	May 23 (2020-05-23) – June 28, 2020 (2020-06-28)

Team Bulldog: Off-Duty Investigation (Korean: 번외수사) is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Cha Tae-hyun, Lee Sun-bin, Jung Sang-hoon, Yoon Kyung-ho and Ji Seung-hyun. It is the third series of OCN's "Dramatic Cinema" project which combines film and drama formats. It aired from May 23 to June 28, 2020.^[1]^[2]

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Synopsis

Known as an enthusiastic and impressively effective detective, Jin Kang-ho (Cha Tae-hyun) will stop at nothing to catch criminals he’s assigned to pursue. With the passion to solve the unsolvable cases, Kang-ho finds it’s better to work alone. Or so it was, until the day he meet Kang Moo-young (Lee Sun-bin), the overly zealous producer of a low-rated investigative program. Moo-young is as enthusiastic about solving cases and catching criminals as Kang-ho. The two then agree to team up and work together.

Cast

Main

Cha Tae-hyun as Jin Kang-ho^[3]
Lee Sun-bin as Kang Moo-young^[3]
Jung Sang-hoon as Lee Pan-seok^[4]
Yoon Kyung-ho as Teddy Jung^[5]
Ji Seung-hyun as Tak-won^[6]

Supporting

Park Jung-woo as Min Dae-jin
Park Tae-san as Manson
Jang Jin-hee as Senior
Lim Chul-hyung as Seo In-jae
Kim Kyung-sik as Shin Ki-chul
Kim Young-sung as Detective Jo
Yoo Young-chae as Detective Maeng
Son Kwang-eop as Myung Ki-chul
Song Yoo-hyun as PD Hong
Park Sung-joon as Kang Moo-taek
Jung Chan-bi as Lee Ga-eun
Seo Hye-won as Cho So-yoo
Cha Woo-jin as Park Hyun-goo
Kwak Ji-yoo as Main writer
Han Yeo-wool as Sub writer
Kim Hong-kyung as Youngest writer
Na Kyung-min as Fact Check host
Sung Byung-sook as Kang-ho's mother

Special appearances

Ma Dong-seok as Jin Woo-taek (ep. 1)
Kim Kwang-kyu as Gang boss (ep. 1)
Park Chan-woo as Jo Sang-baek (ep. 1)
Noh Su-min as Goo Hyung-jin (ep. 1–2)
Han Ki-woong as Kim Min-seok (ep. 2)
Han Ki-won as Kim Min-soo (ep.2)
Lee Young-suk as Ji Soo-chul (ep. 2)
Min Kyung-ok as Noh Soon-yi (ep. 2, 9)
Ji Chan as Jang Min-ki (ep. 2–5)
Son Byung-wook as Kang Soo (ep. 2–5)
Kwon Hyuk-bum as Lee Tae-sung (ep. 3, 5)
Seo Jin-won as Han Seok-ho (ep. 3, 5)
Jo Seung-yeon as Yoo Sung-gook (ep. 3–5)
Kim Ye-jin as Kim Jin-kyung (ep. 3–5)
Sul Ji-yoon as Choi Mi-na (ep. 4–5)
Lee Ha-nee as Jang Sung-soo (ep. 4–5)
Moon Ha-yeon as Kwak Hyun-sook (ep. 5, 7–8)
Noh Young-hak as Park Jae-min (ep. 6, 8–9)
Jung Hyun-joong as Park Jae-min (teen) (ep. 6–7)
Uhm Tae-hyun as Jo Jin-soo (ep. 6–7)
Kim Tae-won as Min Dae-jin (teen) (ep. 6)
Lee Seung-yeol as Kwon Ki-woong (teen) (ep. 6–8)
Lee Poong-woon as Kwon Ki-woong (ep. 7–8)
Kim Jin-seong as Jo Myung-soo (ep. 7–8)
Do Yeon-jin as Son Ji-young (ep. 9–10)
Kim Young-moo as Shin Ki-jung (ep. 9–10)
Jang Kyug-su as Ham Deok-soo (ep. 9–10)
Kim Bum-suk as Pi Cheon-woo (ep. 9)
Ok Joo-ri as Ji-young's landlord (ep. 9)
Jang Myoung-un as Police officer (ep. 9)
Baek Seung-chul as Doh Ki-tae (ep. 9–11)
Cha Gun-woo as Ji-young's father (ep. 10)
Kim Young as NFS video engineer (ep. 10–11)
Lee Su-hyung as NFS staff (ep. 11)
Ri Min as Ji Soo-chul (young) (ep. 12)

Viewership

Team Bulldog: Off-Duty Investigation : South Korea viewers per episode (thousands)

Season		Episode number												Average
Season		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Average
	1	571	618	535	607	627	663	875	878	725	646	739	1135	718

Source: Audience measurement performed nationwide by Nielsen Korea.^[7]

Average TV viewership ratings
Ep.	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		Nielsen Korea^[8]
		Nationwide	Seoul
1	May 23, 2020	1.947%	2.198%
2	May 24, 2020	2.485%	2.832%
3	May 30, 2020	2.151%	2.932%
4	May 31, 2020	2.458%	3.095%
5	June 6, 2020	2.323%	2.944%
6	June 7, 2020	2.674%	2.811%
7	June 13, 2020	3.786%	4.670%
8	June 14, 2020	3.318%	3.851%
9	June 20, 2020	2.799%	3.374%
10	June 21, 2020	2.843%	3.163%
11	June 27, 2020	2.908%	3.219%
12	June 28, 2020	4.389%	5.064%
Average		2.840%	3.345%
In the table above, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings. This drama aired on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).