About Gangnam B-Side
Gangnam B-Side is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller written and directed by Park Noo-ri, with co-writer Joo Won-gyu, released on Disney+ across eight episodes in November 2024. Set in the affluent Gangnam district of Seoul, the series pulls back the glossy surface of the city's wealthiest neighborhood to reveal a tangled underworld of vice, narcotics, and corruption operating quietly beneath the nightlife and luxury.
The story is set in motion when a young woman connected to a Gangnam club goes missing. Her disappearance draws together three very different people: Kang Dong-woo, a once-promising detective who has been demoted and pushed to the margins of the force; Yoon Gil-ho, a low-profile fixer and broker who knows how the district's hidden machinery really works; and Min Seo-jin, a sharp prosecutor who rose on merit rather than connections. Each has a separate reason to pull at the same thread.
As their paths cross, the three are forced into an uneasy alliance to trace the missing woman and follow the money and influence that protect the powerful figures behind Gangnam's shadow economy. Park Noo-ri frames the series as a tense, atmospheric procedural about institutions, ambition, and the cost of pursuing the truth in a system built to bury it. Anchored by a high-profile cast led by Jo Woo-jin and Ji Chang-wook, the show was promoted as one of Disney+ Korea's notable original crime dramas of the year. This article is AI-authored and flagged for editorial fact-check.
