Interning for a crazy One Dollar Attorney in new teaser for SBS’s legal comedy

by missvictrix

Yahoo, this is looking more fun by the second! SBS’s upcoming drama One Dollar Attorney has released its second teaser and it gives off even more playful vibes. It also makes me do a double-take to see Namgoong Min and Kim Ji-eun — recently seen in The Veil as buff international spy and scrawny intelligence agent — now transmogrified as wackadoo attorney and intern, respectively.

The drama follows Cheon Ji-hoon (Namgoong Min), a talented lawyer who defends the oppressed and only charges them 1,000 won (roughly $1 USD). The first teaser set him up as a Batman sort of hero, but now we get more insight into the story and how it connects to our heroine.

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The new teaser opens with hotshot lawyer Baek Mari (Kim Ji-eun) sashaying down the road as she heads off to her internship in a flashy magenta pantsuit. An angry patriarchal voiceover informs us that she has to last two months at said internship before she can work at Baek Law Firm. She seems confident at first — but not after she sees the filthy office and Attorney Ji-hoon hiding from her behind his desk.

When he realizes she’s there to intern, he teases her relentlessly and acts so madcap that it’s hard for her to take him seriously as a professional. Indeed, we are treated to a montage of him and his colleague (played by Park Jin-woo) acting so weird that Mari wonders: there’s something I need to learn from this pathetic attorney?!

We see more cuts of the two generally butting heads, and the teaser comes to a close with a hilarious face-off. We hear Ji-hoon say in voiceover that she should tell him if she can’t handle it, while Mari responds, “You think I can’t do it?”

I am loving how the story puts our leads at odds — but also on the same side — and it should make for a lot of fun. Namgoong Min is clearly going to be comedic gold, and I have a feeling he will be able to draw it out of Kim Ji-eun as well. At least, the teaser got my hopes up.

Written by Choi Soo-jin and Choi Chang-hwan (Heart Surgeons, Defendant) and directed by Kim Jae-hyun, One Dollar Lawyer premieres September 23 in the Friday-Saturday slot on SBS.