- Original title: 아이쇼핑
- Air date: July 21, 2025
- Distributor: ENA
- Number of episodes: 8
- Genre: thriller, action
- Director : Oh Ki Hwan
- Cast: Choi Young-joon, Yum Jung-ah, Won Jin-ah, Dex, Ahn Ji-ho, Lee Na-eun
Adapted from a successful webtoon, the series lifts the veil on a network of illegal adoptions and the broken destinies of those abandoned a second time. Between survival, revenge and ruthless pursuit, The Defects promises a high-voltage face-off between victim and executioner, led by Yeom Jung-ah, Dex and Won Jin-ah.
The story highlights the tragic fate of children abandoned by their adoptive parents, who will do anything to survive... and take revenge. At the heart of this clandestine network, Kim Se-hee (Yeom Jung-ah) reigns as the true orchestra conductor of a system where innocent lives are traded like commodities. But everything changes when Kim Ah-hyun (Won Jin-ah), a young woman returned to her tormentors after a failed adoption, resurfaces. Against all odds, she has survived where no one would have staked a penny.
The first teaser plunges us into a suffocating atmosphere: an empty carriage in an icy setting, accompanied by a chilling slogan, "I want to give a child back". This sentence alone sums up the drama unfolding. The tension is ratcheted up a notch when Dex, aka Kim Jin-young, appears in the role of Jung Hyun, a veritable human weapon fashioned by Se Hee to protect his secrets.
Adapted from the hugely successful webtoon. Directed by Oh Gi Hwan and written by Ahn So Jung, the drama follows children abandoned by their adoptive parents, who fight for their survival... and their revenge.
Yum Jung-ah plays Kim Se-hee, a respected public figure, president of a major hospital and a charitable foundation. But behind this irreproachable façade, she runs a clandestine child trafficking network. Driven by a perverse ideology according to which only "good genes" deserve to live, she orchestrates unthinkable acts in the shadows.
Facing her, Won Jin-ah plays Kim Ah-hyun, a young girl "repaid" after adoption but who survived. A leader of broken children, she embodies the rage to live and the thirst for justice. This role marks a bold turning point in the actress's career, as she is now immersed in pure action.
Choi Young-joonas Woo Tae-sik, plays a remorseful former network enforcer. Today, he's trying to make amends by secretly rescuing rejected children and teaching them how to survive.
Finally, Dex embodies Jung Hyun, Kim Se-hee's ruthless right-hand man, raised to kill and carry out orders without question. His inevitable confrontation with those he hunts promises tense and memorable scenes.
