Overview
- The series premiered with Episodes 1–2 on Friday, June 26, on SBS in South Korea and on Netflix, generating online attention for its action sequences and tone.
- Episodes 3 and 4 are scheduled to arrive on Friday July 3 and Saturday July 4 under the same twice-weekly double-episode release pattern.
- New episodes air domestically at 9:50 p.m. KST on SBS and appear on Netflix with regional posting times that vary by territory, with morning availability across the Americas on release days.
- So Ji-sub stars as Kim Do-hyeon, an ex-intelligence operative turned single father who resumes covert skills to find his kidnapped daughter, and the show is directed by Lee Seung-young and Lee So-eun from a script by Nam Dae-joong.
- The adaptation of the webtoon Manager Kim follows a common Korean model of pairing national broadcasters with Netflix to boost domestic ratings and reach international viewers in near real time, which may raise the global profile of the cast and the source material.