By Jae-Ha Kim
Teen Vogue
August 11, 2025
☆☆☆ (out of ☆☆☆☆)
Ahn Joo-hyung (played by Lee Jong-suk)
Kang Hee-ji (played by Moon Ga-young)
↑Note: Korean names denote the surname followed by the given name.
One of the elements I loved the most about this series was watching the friends eat together in every episode. Delicious jiggaes (stews), grilled meat — it was like a legal mukbang!
This show was included in my Teen Vogue round-up of the best K-dramas of 2025:
In his first K-drama since 2022’s Big Mouth, where he portrayed a wrongfully-imprisoned lawyer, Lee Jong-suk returns as matter-of-fact attorney Ahn Joo-hyung in Law and the City. He is skilled, but has no interest in office politics or rising up the ranks. His goal every morning is to get through each day. As the narrator says, “Joo-hyung’s workday stretches on forever, but he always punches in on time.”
There is a subplot between him and new attorney Kang Hee-ji (Moon Ga-young), but it’s not their relationship that drives this legal procedural. Rather, it’s the suspenseful cases they deal with and the mouth-watering lunch-bunch scenes, where the friends eat, bicker, and console each other. Throughout the K-drama, issues like poverty, physical abuse, and pampered chaebol children are addressed with satisfying conclusions. (Viki)
Airdates: Twelve 70-minute episodes aired on tvN from July 5 to August 10, 2025. (I watched this on Viki.)
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