In Countdown,

Jeong plays Gun-ho, an efficient and stoic debt collector who discovers that he has liver cancer. Five years ago his son died and his organs were donated to a number of people whom Gun-ho now approaches in the hopes of getting a liver transplant. One of these beneficiaries is Ha-yeon, a demure con artist who is currently in jail. She is about to be released and agrees to the operation on the condition that she find someone for him, the man responsible for her incarceration.

The film boasts a terrific opening but it doesn’t take long for the melodrama signals to turn on. The death of Jeong’s character’s son, who was afflicted with Down Syndrome, weighs heavily on him. So much so that the memory of the loss has been suppressed by some sort of ‘han’-induced amnesia. It should also be mentioned that his parents are disabled. All this comes within the first 10 minutes.