A terrorist group known as "Athena" and led by evil mastermind Son Hyuk threatens South Korea and the world. It is now up to special agent Lee Jung Woo of the National Security Agency to foil their terrifying conspiracy. Jo Soo Young, the daughter of the South Korean president, is kidnapped and hidden away in Italy. Jung Woo and his team are given the assignment to find her and bring her back.

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  Jung Woo Sung (Lee Jung Woo)

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  Soo Ae (Yoon Hye In)

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  Cha Seung Won (Son Hyuk)

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  Kim Min Jong (Kim Ki Soo)

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  Lee Ji Ah (Han Jae Hee)

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  Jung Hwan (Seo Min Hyuk)

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• Jan 11, 2012 18 of 20 episodes seen

  iAcchan
  10 of 10 people found this review helpful
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  • Overall  7
  • Story  9
  • Acting/Cast  7
  • Music  8
  • Rewatch Value  5

  Well, the spinoff from Iris was not close to the original, why? Let me tell you!
  
  Story/Love plot - A forbidden love between two warring organizations? I have to say that this was a great idea. Although this was different from Iris, it made the drama extremely interesting. Whenever there were collisions from the opposing sides, the love story would blossom during the most intense parts of the drama. Well done from the directors part for portraying it as such and the writers for coming up with this idea. Now, the actual drama, pretty good. An easy to follow story line but still throws in twists and turns to keep viewers interested.
  Acting/Cast - Not as good as Iris, but the actors/actresses did their part. It was enough to keep viewers interested, but bringing in Kim So Yeon as a guest role showed that there was some wavering for the drama and needed a small help from the cast of Iris(Kim SoYeon was phenomenal in IRIS, but I digress)
  Music - Kim TaeYeon sings one of the OST's, what more is there? Hah, I kid, the music was alright honestly.
  Rewatch Value - Ehhh... The story drops off during the middle of the drama and it becomes a bit troublesome watching the episodes.
  Overall - Yeah, it was ok, nothing great.
  Circumstances - due to someone getting injured, production of the last two episodes were stopped for about 2 months, so I have not had the chance to see the last two episodes but I did read the summary, with a relatively predictable ending. read more

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• Jun 11, 2012 20 of 20 episodes seen

  delta777
  9 of 10 people found this review helpful
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  • Overall  8
  • Story  7
  • Acting/Cast  8
  • Music  8
  • Rewatch Value  4

  CSW does dark so well....
  
  I gave "Athena" 8.5 stars due to the glorious cinematography (the N. Italy mountain region was awe-inspiring/a magnificent location) and because once again Cha Seung-Won's performance is mesmerizing. He's an outstanding physical Bad*ss and his voice... dark seduction. The action was good (not of John Woo's caliber of course, but acceptable) The so-called love story/no chemistry between Soo Ae and JWS, wasn't remotely believable and annoyingly boring. Like I wrote earlier, I watched it for CSW and rarely am I disappointed in his performances.

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  IRIS 2

  Athena is a spin-off of Iris and the shows are set in the same universe

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