Throwing as many similar sounding and confusing names at the screen as the punches and kicks, Mercy for None is the latest South Korean action-crime series to hit Netflix.
Crime organisations Joowoon Group and Bongsan Group co-exist in harmony following an incident that split their original gang Beomyeongdong a decade ago.
After Joowoon’s leader Lee Joo-woon (Huh Joon-ho) names Nam Gi-seok (Lee Joon-hyuk) as his successor, the move sets off a cascade of events that lead to Gi-seok’s brutal murder, which in turn brings his older brother Gi-jun (So Ji-sub) back to Seoul.
Formerly the best fighter within Beomyeongdong, Gi-jun carves a path of revenge looking for his brother’s killer, which eventually causes an all-out war between Joowoon and Bongsan, with various factions attempting to use Gi-jun’s return as the fuel for their own ambition.
