Strong Girl Bong-Soon

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Drama: Strong Girl Bong-Soon (English title) / Strong Woman Do Bong-Soon (literal title)
Revised romanization: Himssenyeoja Dobongsoon
Hangul: 힘쎈여자 도봉순
Director: Lee Hyeong-Min
Writer: Baek Mi-Kyeong
Network: JTBC
Episodes: 16
Release Date: February 24 - April 15, 2017
Runtime: Friday & Saturday 23:00
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Bong-Soon (Park Bo-Young) was born with superhuman like strength. Her strength is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family. Her dream is to create a video game with herself as the main character. One day, Bong-Soon helps out a bus driver who is being attacked by a thug. Soon, a small mob of thugs attack Bong-Soon, but she is easily able to wipe the floor with them. During this time, Min-Hyuk (Park Hyung-Sik) drives up to the scene of Bong-Soon beating up the group of thugs. Min-Hyuk is the CEO of video gaming company Ainsoft. He has recently received anonymous threats and even followed by an unknown person. Min-Hyuk believes Bong-Soon would make a great bodyguard with her amazing strength. Besides offering Bong-Soon high pay, he even offers her the chance of working in the planning department of his gaming company if she does well.

Meanwhile, crimes against women take place in the neighborhood where Bong-Soon lives. Detective Kook-Doo (Ji Soo) also lives in the same neighborhood. They have been friends since they were kids. Bong-Soon is also madly in love with him, but he has a girlfriend. Kook-Doo tries to solve the case and Bong-Soon and Min-Hyuk are pulled in.

Notes

"Strong Woman Do Bong-Soon" takes over the JTBC's Friday & Saturday 23:00 time slot previously occupied by "Solomon's Perjury" and followed by "Man to Man" on April 21, 2017.
First script reading took place October 29, 2016 at JTBC building in Sangam, Seoul, South Korea.
Related titles:
1. Strong Girl Bong-Soon | Himssenyeoja Dobongsoon (JTBC / 2017)
2. Strong Girl Nam-Soon | Himssenyeoja Kangnamsoon (TBA / 2023)