Advocate - 16 eps

Sohn Chang Min, Song Yoon Ah, Lee Yong Ae 


Min-Kyu, graduating the law school, is standing on the separate ways whether to be a judge, a public procurator, and a lawyer. Working on the final report, he inspects a court scene. The case is on a man who died during driving to the office. The dead man's family claims that the office should pay for the death for the sudden death was caused by the hard work and fatigue. Getting absorbed in the case, Min-Kyu decides to be a lawyer himself. 
Hyung-Man, an old lawyer, wants to pass all his knowledge onto Min-Kyu and another female student Eun-Ji. Therefore Min-Kyu and Eun-Ji joins a little law office run by a female lawyer Hwa-Young under the custody of Hyung-Man. 
"Sin-Hwa" is the biggest law firm in Korea and a female lawyer, Hae-Mi, is their treasure. She is practising to be the prominent lawyer while Min-Kyu is dealing with trivial cases in a humble law office. And finally the day comes when Min-Kyu and Hae-Mi stand against each other in a court. It has happened as Min-Kyu found out that his childhood friend, Myung-Seok, is suspected of a murder. Min-Kyu jumps into the case only to help his miserable friend but soon realizes that it is not a trivial case. Behind it is a dark conspiracy of a big enterprise "Dong-Jin Group" run by notorious Hyuk-Soo. 
Knowing too well his friend Myung-Seok's character and that he is never a man to murder anyone, Min-Kyu does his best to prove Myung-Seok's innocence. Min-Kyu goes to the house of the dead victim and obtains a diskette that may hold some important factors. He even chases the criminals himself endangering his life. His sincerity finally reveals the truth and Myung-Seok is proved not-guilty. 
One day Min-Kyu returns home and finds out that someone has ransacked the house. He vaguely feels that there might be something big about the diskette he had found from the murdered man's drawer. But before he proceeds to do anything he is proposed to join the law firm "Sin-Hwa". 
Seung-Kwon, the head of "Sin-Hwa" is attracted to Min-Kyu and his purity and sacrifice in his duty, proposes him to join his group. Min-Kyu is reluctant to leave Eun-Ji and his little law office but he has no choice when he finds out that his mother is dying of cancer and that she urgently needs a great deal of money to go to the hospital. 
Joon-Sung is the promised successor of the "Sin-Hwa Law Firm" and he is anxious to know that the head of the office is interested in Min-Kyu. But with the intention of victimizing Min-Kyu as the "fall-guy" of the group, he agrees on bringing Min-Kyu into the "Sin-Hwa Law Firm". 
Eun-Ji is worried to see Min-Kyu joining the dreadfully big law firm. But she soothes herself thinking that it is all for the best and returns alone to Hwa-Young and their little law office. 
Min-Kyu is amazed at the high pay and the abundant benefit of the law firm as well as its heavy work and training. He feels himself adjusting to the new environment much sooner than he thought. And sooner he also gets close to Hae-Mi which ignites the jealousy of Joon-Sung who has been after her for several years. Min-Kyu's first case is to save a man from paying too much indemnity to the man he had injured by running over with a car. Min-Kyu is trained to do anything to win the case. He sneaks around the injured man's poor house and takes photos of the man in active motion to prove that the man is not actually critically injured. The opponent lawyer is Hwa-Young under whom Min-Kyu once worked when he was beginning the career. But nothing stops Min-Kyu with his ambition to win the case. Eun-Ji is sad to see how Min-Kyu has changed for he had always stood by the little people. 
When Eun-Ji hears that Min-Kyu's mother is dying in a hospital and that it is very costly, she urges his father Dong-Kwan to sell some of his jewelry. Dong-Kwan has a secret of his past which Eun-Ji does not know. He has been a notorious thief when young but was caught by Seung-Kwon. And when his little daughter was killed in a car accident in the arresting scene, he kidnaps Seung-Kwon's little daughter for revenge. Dong-Kwan is a notorious thief but he is pure in his heart that he can never hurts others. He kidnaps but does not hurt Seung-Kwon's little daughter. He raises her with affection as if she is his own and... that is Eun-Ji. He would do anything to fulfill Eun-Ji's wish and he sells out the precious ancient jewelry. But it is such a precious one that the jewelry market talks about it and it also reaches Seung-Kwon. Recognizing that it is his own, long lost jewelry, Seung-Kwon feels that Dong-Kwan and his daughter might be living somewhere and he sets out men to search for them. 
Not knowing anything about the secret of her birth, Eun-Ji's heart aches to see that Min-Kyu seems to be in love with Hae-Mi. Thinking that it is all for the best for Min-Kyu, she gives him up. She sets out again to study law which she had stopped in the middle and becomes the professional lawyer herself. 
In the meanwhile, Joon-Sung, who can not stand the jealousy to see Min-Kyu and Hae-Mi getting closer to each other, tricks Min-Kyu to fall in a trap. Min-Kyu is suspected of a false crime set up by Joon-Sung and Min-Kyu gets imprisoned. Even Hae-Mi suspects his innocence and Eun-Ji is the only one who believes in Min-Kyu's innocence. She alone tries to reveal the truth. In doing so Eun-Ji naturally approaches "Sin-Hwa" and Seung-Kwon notices his long lost daughter. Joon-Sung, who dreams to be the successor of the "Sin-Hwa" law firm, is anxious at Eun-Ji's appearance and tries to prohibit her from being exposed to the truth. He kills Dong-Kwan, the step-father of Eun-Ji and makes Eun-Ji think that he is murdered by Seung-Kwon. 
At the verge of Seung-Kwon's confessing the past to Eun-Ji, Joon-Sung loses his mind and fires at Seung-Kwon. But the miss fired bullet injures Eun-Ji critically. Min-Kyu is freed from the prison by the evidence of innocence gathered by Eun-Ji and he is moved by Eun-Ji's deep true love.
In the hospital, Hae-Mi sees that Seung-Kwon and Min-Kyu insist to transplant their own kidney to save Eun-Ji from her fatal condition and she feels that there is only one last thing left for her to do before she goes away to train more on her career. She attacks "Dong-Jin Group" and regains the diskette she once have handed to Joon-Sung and the diskette has it all. The good and just are the ones who remains at the end to grin in happiness and peace.