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Chief Kim

김과장
Comedy · Drama

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01 / A closer look

The story, without the spoilers.

Kim Sung-ryong is a gifted accountant who has spent years cooking the books for gangsters in a small town. He is funny, fast-talking, and very good at finding money that is not supposed to exist. His plan is simple: take a quiet middle-management job at TQ Group, a huge company, and quietly skim enough cash to disappear to a warm country. Instead, he walks into a company rotting from the inside, where executives steal from their own workers and honest employees pay the price. Sung-ryong could look away and take the money. He does not. Using the same tricks he learned from criminals, he starts turning them on the corrupt bosses, one audit at a time. His deputy Yoon Ha-kyung, a principled manager who has fought the system for years, is not sure whether to trust him. Neither is ambitious prosecutor-turned-executive Seo Yul, who has his own reasons for protecting the company. Sharp, silly, and surprisingly angry, this is an office comedy about a crook who accidentally becomes the hero the workers needed.

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02 / The watch guide

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20
Episodes
Completed

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04 / A closer look

The Oxfea take.

Oxfea Score: 8.1/10 — Highly recommended

Verdict in one line: Namkoong Min is electric as a gangster accountant turned accidental hero, and the office satire bites — though the plot repeats itself late on.

Why you'll get hooked

  • A crooked accountant joins a corrupt conglomerate to steal from it — then starts stealing justice instead.
  • Namkoong Min's comic timing turns accounting into the funniest battlefield on television.
  • The workers-versus-bosses fight gives every joke a real target.

Story, in plain words

Kim Sung-ryong is a certified accountant who learned his trade working for gangsters. He takes a job as chief of accounting at TQ Group with one goal: embezzle a fortune and retire somewhere warm. But TQ Group is already being looted by its own executives, and the people losing out are ordinary employees.

Sung-ryong decides to fight back using the only skills he has. He forges, audits, bluffs, and outsmarts the men above him, while Yoon Ha-kyung watches him with suspicion and Seo Yul tries to keep the company — and himself — safe. The show is at its best when it treats office life as a crime scene: every budget line hides a theft, and every meeting is a negotiation. Some late episodes repeat the same trick, but the lead performance never coasts.

Chief Kim: at a glance

  • Original title: 김과장
  • Genres: Comedy · Drama
  • Network / platform: KBS2
  • Episodes: 20
  • First released: 25 January 2017

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Sources: TMDB record and the broadcaster's official page. Facts checked November 2026. Streaming availability varies by location.

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