Lee Je-hoon transforms into a ‘rural youth’ to punish fraud

Lee Je-hoon returned to farming to punish ‘elderly fraud’.

The 3rd episode of the SBS Friday-Saturday drama 'Model Taxi 2', which aired on the 24th, began with Kim Do-gi (played by Lee Je-hoon), who lives a satisfying daily life as a taxi driver for Rainbow Transportation but still cannot completely escape the trauma of losing his mother in the past.

On this day's broadcast, CEO Jang (played by Kim Eui-seong) pursued the identity of the sniper who killed the chairman of the overseas illegal gambling site organization Cheongeum (played by Park Seong-geun) right in front of Kim Do-gi. After confirming from Vietnam that the bullet casing lodged in the Chairman's chest came from Korea, CEO Jang flew to Kotaya.

After looking around the scene of the incident, CEO Jang realized that the sniper's goal was to kill and was unable to hide his sad feelings. I was worried that there was a dark force that mobilized snipers to silence the chairman, and that Kim Do-gi was exposed to such people.

The story of Lee Im-sun (played by Byun Jung-hee), an elderly man over 70 years old, was told to Rainbow Dark Heroes. Lee Im-soon was a victim of Yoo Sang-gi (played by Ko Sang-ho), a professional conman who only targets the elderly. Yoo Sang-gi, who was selling various medical devices to the elderly in the name of a filial piety performance, targeted Lee Im-soon, whose children did not visit often, and approached her in a friendly manner, calling her mother.

Yoo Sang-ki gained Lee Im-soon's trust by playing a 'sincere father who works hard to earn money for his sick son', and Lee Im-soon, who came to regard Yoo Sang-ki as a son, as he reminded him of his own son, signed the card issuance application form at Yoo Sang-ki's request. . This was the beginning of misfortune. Yoo Sang-gi turned Lee Im-sun, who had been in good faith in charge of the medical equipment sales counter, into a dealer of defective products and disappeared, and the medical devices used in the fraud were also paid for with a card issued by Lee Im-soon, putting him in a situation where he could not get rid of them.

Lee Im-soon, who was in the abyss of despair due to the risk of becoming a criminal and delinquent credit card payments, was worried that she would cause harm to her son, who was suffering in a foreign country, and it made her sad. At this time, Yoo Sang-ki called Im-soon Lee and urged her to make an extreme choice, saying, 'If you don't want to cause harm to your children and grandchildren, you can take it all and die.' Just as Im-soon Lee was about to follow Yoo Sang-gi's words and turn away from the world, she found a promotional sticker for a rainbow model taxi. thing.

'It's not your fault, grandma. Don't blame yourself. Lee Im-sun, who received CEO Jang's message, 'We will return everything', asked the rainbow model taxi for revenge with a tearful face. The Rainbow Dark Heroes, who unanimously agreed to take revenge on Yoo Sang-ki and his gang, headed to the medical device wholesaler in the 5283 model taxi and call van, which were upgraded by the returning Director Choi (played by Jang Hyuk-jin) and Director Park (played by Bae Yu-ram).

The Rainbow Dark Heroes were outraged after learning that the medical equipment sold to the elderly was a fake made insincerely, so they infiltrated Yongsori Village, where Yoo Sang-gi and his gang had become their new target. Among them, the chieftain was captured as a native infiltrating and collecting information. During this process, Kim Do-gi realized that Yoo Sang-ki's group was stealing a large amount of money by stealing the personal information of the elderly, opening Daepo Phone, and paying for paid items up to the limit.

Kim Do-gi visited the Daepo phone company that Yoo Sang-gi deals with and destroyed it, then joined forces with Go Eun (played by Pyo Ye-jin) and succeeded in canceling the victims' Daepo phone subscriptions, which was refreshing. Kim Do-gi, who returned to Yongsori Village to plan revenge in earnest, introduced a new sub-character. He appears as a simple rural bachelor in front of Yoo Sang-ki and his gang, who are in trouble when the 1-ton truck they were riding breaks down in the middle of a country road.

With the country diary BGM and green rice fields in the background, Kim Do-gi's natural virtuousness, as he appeared with a sweet cultivator instead of a model taxi and said in a sharp Chungcheong dialect, "What's going on?", made viewers laugh.

Meanwhile, 'Model Taxi 2' broke its own highest viewership rating, recording the highest rating of 17.4%, 14.2% in the metropolitan area, and 13.2% nationwide, ranking first among Friday-Saturday dramas. In addition, the 2049 viewer rating, which is a key indicator of channel competitiveness and topicality, also recorded 5.4% in the metropolitan area, an increase from the previous episode, ranking first among all programs broadcast on Friday (based on Nielsen Korea).

Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr