Cast of characters through Ep 1-3 (spoilers)

[humblestudent2]

In order to keep things straight I have tried to put together this list of characters through the end of episode 1. This is based on the d-addicts subtitles and the KBS screenplay and the KoreanWiz page. If I'm making mistakes, which is entirely likely, or you have anything to add (as of the end of episode 1), please write it!

The Police

Kang Oh-soo (Eom Tae-Woong) - Detective
Ban Chang-ho (Joo Jin Mo) - Kang's superior and leader of the detective team. He told Kang about Hae-in's powers.
Lee Min-jae - the female detective
Shin Jae-min - the male detective

The Kang household and intimates:

Oh-su's father, Kang Dong-hyeon (Jeong Dong-Hwan)
Oh-su's elder brother, Kang Heui-su (Choi Duk-Moon) .
They are in some kind of hotel/real estate business.
Choi Na-heui (Yoon Hye-Kyung) - Heui-su's wife, Oh-su's sister-in-law
Na Seok-jin (Kim Young-Jae) - He works for the Kang interests and is a childhood friend of Heui-su, who asks him to call him "elder brother". He is familiar with all their doings. He seems to have weird feelings about Seung-ha when negotiating with him over the Soon-ki settlement, although Seung-ha says they've never met before. He is also apparently carrying on some kind of romance with Na-heui.

Others:

Seo Hae-in (Shin Min-Ah) - Librarian, artist and psychic
Yeo Soon-ok (Lee Bo-Heui) - Hae-in's mother
Gong Joo-heui (Lee Eun) - Hae-in's friend and partner in the "Tarot Cafe".

Oh Seung-ha (Joo Ji-Hoon) - lawyer, appears on radio shows and defends the poor.
Cha Kwang-doo (Kim Gyu-chul) - lawyer (? or assistant?) in Oh's office.

Kim Soon-ki (Oh Yong) - mysterious convicted homicide and client of Seung-ha. His lawyer at trial was Mr. Kwon, now deceased. He has been involved in crime for a long time; it was a case involving Soon-ki that led Kwang-doo to leave the police force. He is associated with the Kang family in unknown ways; Soek-jin calls him "a friend of ours" and they are backing the financial settlement with his victim's family which may get him out of jail. In a conversation with Seok-jin, Oh-su says he is 'sorry and grateful' about this whole business.

Kwon Hyeon-tae (Lee Do-Ryeol) - he was sent a "Judgment" tarot card and then killed. He was the Kang family's main lawyer and a personal friend, and reportedly a benefactor of Kang Oh-su. Oh Seung-ha worked for Kwon for six months.

Jo Dong-seop (Yoo Yeon-Soo) - chief suspect so far in the murder of Kwon, he had some kind of grievance against him and angrily accused him of never contacting him for a year to apologize for "ruining a life".

Jeong Tae-hoon - the name of (apparently) the murder victim in the opening sequence (12 years ago)

Kim Young-cheol (Jo Jae-Win) - I have no idea who this guy is, except that he works in an office - and he had the third tarot card. (Has the same family name as Soon-ki but Kim is a pretty common name.)

[TheBo]

Thanks for starting this thread, HS2! I know people will find it helpful.

Bo

[humblestudent2]

Additional information through end of Ep. 2 -







New characters -

Hwang Soo-gon (Im Seung-Dae): Oh Seung-ha's older brother (half-brother?). Lives outside of Seoul. Hasn't seen much of him for 12 years.

Yoon Dae-shik (Han Jung-soo): A smarmy old friend of Detective Kang, apparently involved in some kind of loan sharking. Also knows Kim Soon-ki and doesn't like him much.

Jeong-yeon: A woman Dae-shik is trying to collect money from.

Sora: Jeong-yeon's little girl.

Oh, and I might as well throw in:

"Mr. X" - the man who, wearing black leather gloves, prepared the pasted-up note for Detective Kang, and then gave the packages to schoolkids to be delivered to Kang Oh-soo and Lawyer Kwon.

New information as of end of episode 2 about episode 1 characters:

Seung-ha has apparently been doing volunteer work at the Catholic church that Hae-in's mother attends, though Hae-in has only just now discovered this.

Cha Kwang-doo, who is working in Oh Seung-ha's office now, was, 12 years ago, the detective who talked with the child Hae-in about her vision of the killing of Tae-Hoon. (It's not clear yet if this was the case involving Kim Soon-ki which caused him to leave the force.)

Yeong-cheol, the mysterious guy who has the third "Judgment" card, gave a stuffed toy to Sora - perhaps, working with Dae-shik, as a threat to harm Sora if Jeong-yeon doesn't come up with the money.

Jo Dong-seop's grievance against Mr. Kwon stemmed from an old case when Kwon was a prosecutor. He hit Dong-seop with heavy burglary charges which resulted in Dong-seop's serving a long prison term. We now know from Hae-in's vision that Dong-seop did in fact kill Mr. Kwon, without premeditation, in a struggle over the knife that Mr. Kwon had. (Interestingly, this is similar to the original murder 12 years ago.)

By the end of the episode, Dong-seop has surrendered to police but is not talking. Seung-ha appears as his lawyer.

[KBSking]

I'm gonna have to say that I recorded The Episode 2 where the mysterious man post a ransom which claim to be a mephostoplies.

[humblestudent2]

Episode 3 update:

New characters/names:

Seong Joon-P'yo - a reporter

P'yo Joon-seong - the name on the return address of a letter to Dong-seop from his mysterious correspondent

Lee Bong-kyo - apparently another agent of Mr. X

More information on earlier characters:

Yeong-cheol is an old high school classmate of Na Seok-jin. (I am retracting my earlier update stating that he is definitely working with Dae-shik - see the Episode 3 recap thread)

Assuming that these were all the actions of one person, here are some things that Mr. X did:
- he sent a long string of anonymous letters to Dong-seop in prison
- he stole Tarot cards from the Café and created messages to Oh-soo with cut-out syllables
- he gave the two "Judgment" card packages to schoolkids to send express, and arranged to have Dong-seop text-messaged to set up an appointment in Lawyer Kwon's name
- in the person of the gentleman with white hair and a moustache, he gave a coat and hat to Lee Bong-kyo to wear when he sent off the "Justice" card