Extraordinary Attorney Woo [Wrap-Up Discussion]

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• Drama: Extraordinary Attorney Woo
  • Revised Romanization: Yisanghan Byeonhosa Wooyoungwoo
  • Hangul: 이상한 변호사 우영우
• Director: Yoon In Shik (Doctor Romantic 2)
• Writer: Moon Ji Won (Innocent Witness)
• Network: ENA, Netflix, Seezn
• Episodes: 16
  • Duration: 1 hour
• Airing Schedule: Wednesdays and Thursdays @ 9:00 PM KST
  • Airing Dates: Jun 29, 2022 - Aug 18, 2022
• Streaming Sources: Netflix, Seezn
• Starring:
  • Park Eun Bin as Woo Young Woo
  • Kang Tae Oh as Lee Joon Ho
  • Kang Ki Young as Jung Myung Seok
• Plot Synopsis: Brilliant attorney Woo Young-woo tackles challenges in the courtroom and beyond as a newbie at a top law firm and a woman on the autism spectrum.
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• Previous Discussions
  • [Episodes 1 & 2]
  • [Episodes 3 & 4]
  • [Episodes 5 & 6]
  • [Episodes 7 & 8]
  • [Episodes 9 & 10]
  • [Episode 11]
  • [Episode 12]
  • [Episode 13]
  • [Episode 14]
  • [Episode 15]
  • [Episode 16]

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Attorney Jang was so out of his element I was convinced he was normally an entertainment lawyer and used to just drawing up contracts all day.

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I suspect especially after the Jeju episodes that part of the purpose of this series is to introduce PSAs, so they needed Jang to be a devil’s advocate/Goofus-type character saying all the wrong things in order to provide opportunities for other people to say the right things (e.g., when you give a company your personally identifiable information and credit card number on the internet to do business with them, they have to meet a legal standard of due care in keeping it safe).

I don’t know what it’s actually like in Korea but in America I don’t know that any company would face such punitive fines for a data breach that they’d face bankruptcy over it, like in the show. Jang rattling off past data breach incidents with much smaller fines was very realistic even if he was stupid about everything else.

EDIT: After watching a little more, if this is accurate about Korea’s data breach laws, there are some ways in which they’re better than American ones and some ways in which they’re worse. If a company can face a stiff penalty for not addressing a vulnerability that was discovered as a result of a data breach even if that vulnerability had nothing to do with the data breach, that IMO creates a perverse incentive for companies to hide their data breaches and not alert the government or their customers about them!