Pied Piper (TV series)

 Pied Piper is a 2016 South Korean police procedural-crime drama television series. It replaced Cheese in the Trap and aired on cable network tvN on Mondays and Tuesdays at 23:00 (KST) for 16 episodes from March 7 to April 26, 2016.

Synopsis
Pied Piper focuses on a police negotiation task force that specializes in tense, worst-case scenarios that require highly trained communication. They handle all sorts of cases, from suicide to hostage situations to terrorist attacks, and even war. They do their work with words, not weapons, to neutralize volatile situations before they erupt into full-blown catastrophes.

Joo Sung-chan (Shin Ha-kyun) is a genius lead negotiator of the crisis negotiation police unit. Meanwhile, Yoon Hee-sung (Yoo Jun-sang) is the anchor of TNN Night News channel. Yeo Myung-ha (Jo Yoon-hee) is an inspector of the Crisis Negotiation Team.

Main

 * Shin Ha-kyun as Joo Sung-chan – A genius negotiator in the past, currently an outside advisor of the police Crisis Negotiation Team
 * Choi Won-hong as young Joo Sung-chan
 * Jo Yoon-hee as Yeo Myung-ha – An inspector, Crisis Negotiation Team member
 * Jeon Min-seo as young Yeo Myung-ha
 * Yoo Jun-sang as Yoon Hee-sung – The real Pied Piper, an anchor of TNN Night News channel
 * as Jung Soo-kyung – A Pied Piper

People around Joo Sung-chan

 * as Seo Geon-il – K-Group chairman
 * Choi Won-hong as Seo Joon – Seo Geon-il's son
 * as Kang Hong-seok – K-Group management director, chairman's brother-in-law
 * as Jung Tae-soo – a member of Assembly

People around Yeo Myung-ha

 * Jo Jae-yoon as Han Ji-hoon – SWAT team leader
 * Lee Jung-eun as Oh Ha-na – police officer of general switchboard 112
 * as Gong Ji-man – Crisis Negotiation Team leader
 * Oh Eui-shik as Choi Sung-beom – Sergeant, digital forensic expert
 * as Jo Jae-hee – Sergeant, profiler
 * Kim Jong-soo as Yang Dong-woo – Seoul district police chief

People around Yoon Hee-sung

 * as Yoon Bo-ram – TNN channel social affairs reporter, Yoon Hee-sung's junior

Extended

 * Go Yoon as Jung Hyun-ho – brother of the victim who died during the hostage kidnapping in the Philippines
 * Kim Ji-eun as Part-timer at the PC room
 * as director Lee Joon-kyung
 * Park Ji-hwan as Heo Tae-woong – the bank robber
 * Kwon Hyuk-joon – attempts suicide on the Han river bridge
 * as Kim Jae-gon
 * Kwak Dong-yeon as Gong Jung-in – Gong Ji-man's son
 * as Noh Kyung-seok – former TNN syndicate president
 * Lee Kan-hee as Moon Ji-hye – a doctor, Oh Jung-hak's friend
 * as judge
 * Park Hyo-seon
 * as Yeon Joon-hee
 * as Goo Dong-man
 * Park Shi-in as Jung Chan-gyu
 * Shin Cheol-jin as Shin Won-chang
 * Ham Sung-min as PC cafe customer
 * as factory magamement director
 * Kim Jung-seok as factory's CEO
 * Yang Fan
 * Cao Fei Fei as Shanshan
 * Lee Won-jong as detective Lee Cheol-yong
 * Heo Min-young
 * as airplane hacker
 * Heo Min-young
 * as airplane hacker
 * as airplane hacker

Special appearances

 * Sung Dong-il as Oh Jung-hak – former Crisis Negotiation Team leader
 * Kim Min-seo as Lee Joo-eun – Joo Sung-chan's lover
 * Lee Moo-saeng as Prosecutor (Ep.6)

Ratings
In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.


 * This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).