Every single korean drama dealing with business or politics is also always about the corruption. There seems to be no honest businessmen or politicians in Korea or if there are any they are quickly threatened or killed in order to shut them up. The rich and powerful always get away with everything, usually putting blame on "little" people, those who are not rich or have the power to rule.

I guess I have seen one drama too many having this plotline and I cannot stand it any more. Is Korea really such a corrupt country where the powerful can get away with anything? And they mostly do even when they are caught, the punishment somehow does not seem to equal all the bad deeds they commited!

Argon is that drama too many! It is a good drama at its bases but this plot is so repetitive. Usually it is a super honest policeman but, in this case, it is a super honest journalist who stumbles upon a huge cover up involving his own company CEO.

The beginning of this drama reminded me a lot of Newsroom, a US show about workings behind the screen of a late night news show. But once they delved into the highly predictable territory of rotten chaebols and politicians, I lost interest really quickly. I finished it since it was only 8 episodes long. And that was a good and a bad thing at the same time. On the good side the drama was finished quickly and I could let a sigh of relief when all the corruption plot left my screen. On the downside, I was not happy with the episode count because the drama had an amazing cast of characters which were not sufficiently explored. Apart from the main character, the Argon anchor, everyone else was left behind very quickly and was eventually used as aprop for the ML's redemption arc.
For example, there was the rookie journalist, a mercenary who was hated when she arrived but managed to keep her cool and prove herself. Another one was a journalist who ruined the show because he hero worshipped the anchor. There was also the slimy rival anchor who was more worried about ratings than reporting the facts and corrupt to the bone. There was also another journalist with interesting family only slightly hinted at but never really talked about. And so on and so on...

I really hope that Korea is not the country represented in these dramas: highly corrupted and easily corruptible individuals who rule over it and its economy together with the millions of hate filled envious and anonymous netizens who spew their frustration at the slightest misstep and arte used as a guideline. This is the real horror. Zombies and monsters are CareBears in comparison!