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Thu, August 11, 2022 | 04:34
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'Mrs. Cop' offers arresting appeal for Korea's 'ajumma'
'아줌마가 총 잡으면 어떤지 보여드릴께요'
Posted : 2015-07-29 17:43
Updated : 2015-07-29 17:53
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Kim Hee-ae in a scene from 'Mrs. Cop' / Screen capture from YouTube
Kim Hee-ae in a scene from "Mrs. Cop" / Screen capture from YouTube

A new TV detective series that pays tribute to Korea's working moms -- known as "ajumma" -- is raising public interest.


SBS airs the first episode of "Mrs. Cop" next Monday.

The program's official website describes ajumma as a "precious manpower that the nation's police force must regret for not having hired."



"Having an intuitive precision 20 times that of men, ajummas can correctly guess who their husbands had illicit affairs with by checking out a single strand of hair left on their husbands' clothes, a slightly tilted position of a passenger seat in their family cars, or by filtering out a perfume scent that's not hers," the site says.


The series depicts detective Choi Young-jin (played by Kim Hee-ae), a skillful leader of the violent crime division in the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, who struggles to be a good mother.

Kim Hee-ae in a scene from 'Mrs. Cop' / Screen capture from YouTube

"Living as a working mom or a police officer is difficult in Korea," the program's director, Yoo In-sik, was quoted by a media report as saying. "Like Choi, many ajummas in reality are faced with two inevitable jobs, one of which they must sacrifice. I wanted to sympathize with them by making the series."



'아줌마가 총 잡으면 어떤지 보여드릴께요'

SBS 새 월화드라마 '미세스캅'의 유인식 PD가 29일 서울 목동 SBS 사옥에서 제작발표회를 열었다. 그는 드라마를 통해 “대한민국 워킹맘을 위로하고 싶었다'고 전했다.

유 PD는 '대한민국에서 엄마로 산다는 것, 경찰로 산다는 건 참 어려운 일'이라며 '슈퍼우먼처럼 두 가지를 다 잘할 수는 없는 (대한민국 엄마들의) 고민을 공감하고 위로하고 싶었다'고 덧붙였다.

미세스캅은 최고의 경찰이자, 최악의 엄마인 '아줌마 형사(김희애 분)'의 생활과 고민을 그린 드라마로 8월 3일 첫 방송된다. 
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