Episode 1

**Does Daddy Have No Pride?** is the first episode of *Manager Kim*.

## Summary

After Manager Kim's daughter, Minji, disappears without a trace, he sets out to find her, starting it off with a random hair tie he found outside a bloody alleyway.

## Characters

In order of appearance:

* Manager Kim
* Minji Kim
* Hyeri Ju
* Mrs. Ju
* Gangchan Ju
* Nam
* Taesan Ju
* Minho Seong
* Mincheol Oh
* Kye
* Sangman Kim
* Hyojun Jang

## Synopsis

Manager Kim apologises to the Ju family for his daughter, Minji, having hit their daughter, Hyeri, despite Hyeri having started the altercation.

While walking home, Minji is furious and breaks down, expressing her frustrations at his weakness and lack of power. She even goes as far as to tell him that he shouldn't have had her if he was so incompetent. Finally, she leaves Kim, telling him not to come looking for her, noting that she will be at her friend, Hyeryong's house.

Shortly after, Minji encounters Hyeri and some other delinquents. Hyeri and Minji begin fighting while grabbing each other's hair. The fight, however, is interrupted by Minho Seong, a member of the KK Crew, who kicks Minji. Minji says they are all low-class and cringe for ganging on her. Minji's words infuriate Minho, who begins slapping her. At the same time, Hyeri strikes her with a rock. The attack causes Minji to fall to the ground, hitting her head on a rock on the floor. Blood oozes from Minji's motionless body, and the delinquents begin to panic. However, Minho cautions them about calling 911 and calls KK Crew's boss for a favour. Mincheol, KK Crew's boss, ignores Minho. Still, Hyeri snatches the phone from him, telling Mincheol that she is the daughter of the Chairman of Juyoung Construction. She asks Mincheol for people who do cleanup work.

Meanwhile, Manager Kim sits alone at the dinner table, waiting for Minji. He looks at the clock and notices that Minji is late.

Packed into a car, Hyeri meets the people sent by Mincheol, who do cleanup work. The group's boss scares Hyeri by explaining how they will cover it up. He says that once they sent the body to Japan, they would use compression tech to compress it. He then brings up his fist, saying it would be about that size after coming out of the machine. Hyeri is scared by the man's statement as he finally tells her to leave the car, stating that only he and his men could pass this point. In the trunk of the vehicle, Minji twitches her hand.

The next day, Manager Kim awakes at the dinner table and realises that he had not eaten and that Minji had also not returned.

Kim leaves his house with his briefcase. While walking, he sees a group crowding near an alleyway and goes to investigate. He sees a trail of blood and a hair tie belonging to Hyeri, who he'd encountered yesterday at Minji's high school. Kim then calls Hyeryeong, the friend Minji said she would stay with, and asks whether she met Minji last night. After hearing her response, he closes the phone. He is furious, realising that Minji is in danger and that it may be related to the bloody alleyway.

Minho and a shaken-up Hyeri are walking down a quiet alley together. Minho tries comforting her, telling her that nobody would find out about their crimes and that he would walk her home. Then, Manager Kim confronts them, introducing himself as Minji's father and tries to ask about Minji. However, Minho interrupts and shouts at him, grabbing him by the collar and telling him they don't know anyone named Minji. But that is when Kim brings out Hyeri's hair tie, which he found in the bloody alley, asking Hyeri if it's hers. His words further frustrate Minho, threatening Kim and telling him to leave.

We cut to a flashback of Manager Kim when he was in the military. This flashback shows Kim, then Seargent Kim, holding his superior hostage with a knife to his neck and a pistol to his head. Other soldiers point their rifles at him while another tries to negotiate with Kim. Kim is asking them to discharge him for reasons relating to his woman and a kid she has. That is when he fires the gun into the gun, causing the room to go silent and his superior to begin urinating in his pants. His superior goes on to curse Kim, saying that he's a madman and a lunatic and that he was going to kill everyone there.

Returning to the present, Kim remains unthreatened by Minho's threat and doesn't budge. However, Minho sees Kim's boldness and takes off his shirt, preparing to beat him up. After Kim tells Minho to watch it, calling him kiddo, Minho, in a fit of rage, rips away Kim's shirt. At the sight of Manager Kim without his shirt on, Minho and Hyeri are dumbfounded.

We cut to a continuation of Kim's flashback in the military when he held his superior hostage. They are saying that Kim's discharge is impossible because their outfit needs to remain a secret from the world.

Kim's ripped and scarred physique is revealed as dialogue from his flashback overlaps. The person speaking says all his missions, including an assassination attempt on a North Korean supreme Leader. Then Kim blitzes Minho, striking him all over his tattooed body. Kim then sweeps Minho, sending him into the air. Before hitting the floor, Kim pins Minho and asks him for Minji's whereabouts.