One Dollar Lawyer (천원짜리 변호사/One Thousand Won Lawyer) is a Korean legal drama series directed by Kim Jae-hyun, starring Namkoong Min, Kim Ji-eun, Choi Dae-hoon, Lee Deok-hwa, Park Jin-woo and Lee Chung-ah alongside other cast members. Namkoong Min was last seen in 2021’s The Veil, while Kim Ji-eun was last seen in Again My Life.
The series takes up SBS’ Friday-Saturday 10 PM KST timeslot, previously occupied by Today’s Webtoon. One Dollar Lawyer episode 12 has a runtime of 67 minutes.
Disney+ describes the series as:
A LAWYER WHOSE COMMISSION FEE IS ONE DOLLAR CONFRONTS BLINDFOLDED JUSTICE TO DEFEND HIS CLIENTS.
– One Dollar Lawyer Episode 12 Recap Contains Spoilers –
One Dollar Lawyer episode 12 brings us the show’s finale and starts off with Ji-hun giving Min-chul a scare before convincing Choi Woo-seok to go for a retrial. On the other hand, Min-hyeok comes face-to-face with Choi Ki-seok and realises the dangers of working with him which makes him back away from getting involved with the case.
Elsewhere, Ji-hun brings the other two to his house and shows them the information he has been collecting on this case while letting Ma-ri know that her grandfather is not a suspect. This surprises Ma-ri while Ji-hun recalls his conversation with Hyun-mu that led to this result.
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Ji-hun now plans to corner Min-chul and visits him at various places while provoking him to expose the truth while taking pictures with him to show their closeness. This makes Ki-seok suspect Min-chul after he finds out that Woo-seok has applied for a retrial.
Ki-seok then tells Min-chul to kill Woo-seok to which the latter immediately complies and pays him a visit to the hospital with a murder scheme. However, things don’t go as planned because Ji-hun is ready with the trap and succeeds in luring his prey; as Min-chul’s video of attempting Woo-seok’s murder is publicised.
Min-chul asks Ki-seok for another chance and thinks that he has been able to convince the latter, however, he soon realises that he was wrong. He succeeds in escaping Ki-seok’s clutches with Ji-hun’s help and agrees to make his statement against Ki-seok.
On the other hand, Ma-ri breaks into Baek Law Firm restricted files which show that Ki-seok was bribing and lobbying officials to lift the regulations on narcotic painkillers. Elsewhere, Ji-hun escapes a murder attempt on him and arrives to meet Ki-seok at a restaurant.
There, they discuss Ki-seok’s attempt to kill Min-chul as well Kim Yoon-sub’s death and so on after which Ji-hun leaves and Ki-seok orders his men to find Min-chul. Ji-hun then meets up with Ma-ri and the two head to prosecutor Ye-jin and Min-hyeok with the JQ’s documents related to lifting the regulations on narcotics painkillers.
However, they still need the slush fund list to make the connection and prove their point, which is when Min-chul tells them that he had hidden a copy of the list before handing the original to Ki-seok.
The news breaks out but this is not enough to punish Ki-seok, so the prosecutors make a plan to get a statement out of Ki-seok with the help of Min-chul. He pretends to come back to Ki-seok’s side and lures Ji-hun into his trap where Ki-seok awaits him with a plan to kill.
One Dollar Lawyer Episode 12 Ending
One Dollar Lawyer episode 12 ends with the captured Ji-hun succeeding in getting Ki-seok to confess that he had killed Joo-young which is recorded in a camera hidden in his collar before he makes an attempt to escape. However, Ki-seok shoots him in the arm before Ji-hun falls into the water.
The next day, Min-chul states that he was forced to make a false statement by prosecutor Ye-jin which then calls for a team meeting where Ye-jin plays Ji-hun’s recording of Ki-seok’s statement. This flips the tables as she then goes on to arrest Ki-seok while Ji-hun is hired as a special prosecutor for the case.
Sometime later, the investigation comes to completion while Ji-hun rejects his team’s suggestion to increase his fee and they return to their days of bringing justice for the price of 1000 Won.
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One Dollar Lawyer Episode 12 Review
The show finally comes to an end but Ji-hun’s days of solving cases never stop and will continue for a long time. However, I have to say that the finale has come to a rushed stop while also dragging a few things along the way.
As much as we would have liked to see more content in the final episode, this is all that we get and need to just go with it. Anyways, we got the villain getting his deserved end and the heroic lawyer continuing his never changing days of serving the people along with a comic end where he gives his iconic introduction.
Altogether, this has been a fun watch for all viewers and I could even say that we wouldn’t mind some more stories of the 1000 Won lawyer.
What did you think about the One Dollar Lawyer finale? Let us know in the comments below!
One Dollar Lawyer is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
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Loved this show so funny fast paced and characters were great . Love the ml lead have watched in other shows he is excellent. To make it short would have loved a little romance but since it had to end at 12 episodes that was out.
Please watch is a great show