About Law and the City
Law and the City is a 2025 South Korean legal drama that aired on the cable network tvN and streamed internationally on Disney Plus from July to August 2025. Set in Seocho-dong, the judicial district of Seoul that houses the country's courts and many of its law firms, the series follows a circle of young attorneys as they navigate demanding caseloads, office politics, and the everyday friendships that hold them together. Rather than chase courtroom spectacle, the show leans into a grounded, slice-of-life register, treating the practice of law as ordinary work done by recognizable people.
At the center is Ahn Joo-hyung, a senior associate known for his coolly logical mind, whose carefully ordered professional life is unsettled by the arrival of Kang Hee-ji, an outgoing and confident lawyer with a more instinctive, people-first approach. Around them orbit colleagues and peers across neighboring firms, including the earnest associate Jo Chang-won, and the drama draws much of its warmth from the lunches, late nights, and small kindnesses these characters share between cases.
The series balances individual legal matters with the longer arcs of its central relationships, using each case to illuminate questions of ethics, ambition, and the personal cost of a high-pressure career. With a cast led by Lee Jong-suk and Moon Ga-young, Law and the City positions itself as a comfortable, character-driven workplace drama about finding meaning and connection inside an unforgiving profession. [Editorial note: AI-authored from public knowledge and flagged for fact-check. Character firm affiliations and case-level plot details vary across published sources and should be verified against the official tvN listing, Wikipedia, and MyDramaList before publication.]
