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[[File:slingshot-1_6815.jpg|frame| The main characters, from left to right: [[The Lancer|Jae Myung]], [[Rebellious Princess|Eun Soo]], [[The Hero|Shin]], [[The Sociopath|Do Woo]], [[High
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Kim Shin (Park Yong-ha) is a rich young playboy, the younger son of a family that operates a dumpling factory. He's content to mark time with his gorgeous girlfriend Seo Kyung-ah (Park Shi-yeon), until tragedy strikes in the form of a television news report accusing his family of putting unsafe ingredients in their dumplings. The charges are false, but the family business goes into bankruptcy anyway. His responsible, hardworking older brother, Kim Wook, is ruined, and kills himself. Kim Wook's widow and daughters are driven to a life of poverty, pursued by loan sharks looking to get back money that Kim Wook borrowed to try and keep the business afloat.
Kim Shin tries to save his sister-in-law and nieces but a bad decision (assuming the loan shark debts himself) and a rash act (attempting to hijack the television studio that ruined his family in order to tell his family's side of the story) land him in prison for attempted murder. There he finds out that the villain of the story is Chae Do-woo, only son of construction magnate Chae Dong Soo. Do-woo is building his own financial empire by underhandedly ruining other companies (like the Kim family dumpling business) and buying them on the cheap. When Kim Shin is paroled from prison, he emerges determined to wreak his revenge on Chae Dong Soo and Chae's family business, Chae Dong Construction which Shin (mistakenly) thinks was behind the whole plot.
Meanwhile, Seo Kyung-ah has become a courtesan in order to pay off Shin's family's debt. Also, after Do-woo orders the murder of Mr. Do, his father's right-hand man, Mr. Do's estranged son Do Jae-myung (Phillip Lee) vows revenge and joins Kim Shin's plot.
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* [[Anachronic Order]]: The first episode opens with Kim Shin attacking the news studio, and skips back and forth in time from there as we learn how things came to this.
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: In the final scene Shin anticipates that he and Do-woo will battle again.
* [[Astroturf]]: Another of Do-woo's tactics is to pay people to spread nasty Internet gossip about companies he's looking to ruin.
* [[Best Served Cold]]: Kim Shin's mob boss patron advises him that there are better ways to get revenge on someone than simply killing them. Later Kim Shin makes the same point to Do Jae-myung.
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* [[The Con]]: Kim Shin and his fellow conspirators impersonate Chinese business men to trick Chae Dong Construction into a bogus deal that will wreck their company.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Hoo boy. Do-woo doesn't even care about the Kim family dumpling business; he ruined them (and many other companies) in order to weaken and take over Byukjaewon, a large retail company that bought dumplings wholesale from the Kim family.
* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]{{context}}
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]{{context}}
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Chae Eun-soo. See [[Rebellious Princess]] below.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: The Myungdoshi police chief is in Do-woo's pocket, going so far as to cover up a murder.
* [[The Dragon]]: Kang (usually called "K"), Do-woo's creepy, intimidating henchman, who is completely devoted to Do-woo.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Kim Wook, {{spoiler|Kang}}.
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* [[Enfant Terrible]]: See [[Missing Mom]] below.
* [[The Faceless]]: The shadowy group of investors who conspire to take over Chae Dong Construction towards the end of the series are [[Literal Metaphor|literally a shadowy group]]. For some reason they like to have meetings in the dark.
* [[Had to Come
* [[Hidden Depths]]: When Do-woo isn't ruining lives, bankrupting companies or having people murdered, he's a pianist in a jazz band.
* [[High
* [[Hooker
▲* [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold]]: Kyung-ah. At least at first. She later undergoes a gradual [[Face Heel Turn]] and throws in her lot with Do-woo.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the final episode, of the [[Kneel Before Zod]] demand.
* [[Karaoke Box]]{{context}}
* [[Kneel Before Zod]]:
* [[The Lancer]]: Do Jae-myung.
* [[Left Hanging]]:
* [[Libation for
* [[Loan Shark]]{{context}}
* [[Low-Angle Shot]]{{context}}
* [[Magical Defibrillator]]: Eun-soo gets revived by one.
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Do-woo sure can wear a suit.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Dong Soo knows that his son is a monster because of this. When his wife (Do-woo's mom), was dying of cancer, the boy gave his mother an overdose of painkillers. It might have been a [[Mercy Kill]], or it might have been an accident, except for when Chae Dong Soo yanked the boy away from his mother in a panic--and saw his son ''smiling''.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Do-woo's sister, the gentle Chae Eun-soo, who appears to be the only person Do-woo has any feeling for.
* [[Prison]]{{context}}
* [[Professional Butt-Kisser]]: Manager Oh has no problem transferring his loyalty from Dong Soo to Do-woo after the son overthrows the father.
* [[The Rainman]]: Shin winds up making friends in prison with an odd young man named Kyung-tae, who happens to have a supernatural skill for picking stocks and giving financial advice, and got sent to prison for deliberately spreading false information. However, Kyung-tae has a series of Tourette-style tics, compulsively wears headphones all the time, and has difficulty communicating verbally unless he pushes a "button" (that is, touches something with his index finger). He helps Shin figure out Do-woo's scheme and joins Shin's plot to take down Chae Dong Construction.
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* [[Split Screen]] and [[Split-Screen Phone Call]]
* [[Staggered Zoom]]: When Do-woo visits Shin in prison and tells Shin his name.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]:
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Do-woo comes unglued in later episodes.
* [[Wedding Day]]: A rather grim one.
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