'Mrs. Cop' offers arresting appeal for Korea's 'ajumma'

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.

"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."

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