Lee Sang-Un faces Lee Je-hoon as The Long Shot Trial's cold rival

Actor Lee Sang-Un has joined SBS's new drama The Long Shot Trial. In the legal comedy built around Kwon Baek, the former attorney played by Lee Je-hoon, Lee Sang-Un will take on the role of Wooseok, an attorney at a major law firm, adding a colder and more sharply opposed kind of tension to the story.

The Long Shot Trial follows Kwon Baek, a man who lost his attorney qualification and returns as the office manager of a law office, as he works with a ragtag team to solve difficult cases. The series is being prepared with a 2027 broadcast target. Kwon Da-som will direct, while Jeong Jin-yeong and Kim Eui-chan are writing the script.

Wooseok, the Mujin attorney who faces Kwon Baek

Kwon Baek, played by Lee Je-hoon, was once a star attorney, but he is now the office manager of the law office Seungsan. After becoming entangled in a bribery scandal, losing his license to practice law, and disappearing from view, the character returns and is introduced as someone who lays traps and shakes up the board in order to uncover the truth.

Wooseok is an attorney at Mujin, described as the top law firm in South Korea, and he is defined by a mindset that puts results and victory first. The character is set up as a realist with strong professional ability, quick judgment, and a refusal to miss any opening that might help him win. If Kwon Baek pushes cases forward with a more human, lived-in approach, Wooseok reads as the figure who embodies the cold reality standing in front of him.

Connection director Kwon Da-som and veteran sitcom writers join the project

Director Kwon Da-som previously co-directed Connection and My Demon. Writers Jeong Jin-yeong and Kim Eui-chan are names with long experience in the rhythm of popular comedy, having worked on Soonpoong Clinic, You Can't Stop Them, and Three Guys and Three Girls.

Because the project has presented itself from the start as a bright comic legal detective drama, the progression of courtroom-style cases and the timing of comedy will need to move together. Rather than placing only legal terminology and case resolution at the center, the drama appears likely to depend on revealing the heart of each case through the rhythm created when its characters collide.

Lee Sang-Un's recent work and Lee Je-hoon's new legal character

Lee Sang-Un played Cho Chi-young, a police officer marked by distorted paternal love and madness, in the SBS series Shin's Law Office. The lived-in quality he has built through Fanatic's Daughter, True to Love, and The Fabulous may add another texture to Wooseok, an elite attorney character.

For Lee Je-hoon as well, The Long Shot Trial is a choice that differs from his established image. He led SBS's success through the Taxi Driver series as Kim Do-gi, leaving a strong dark-hero impression. At a media day event, he said the appeal of this drama is its cheerful, direct way of speaking out without shrinking even in front of enormous power, unlike the heavy and rigid trial process people often associate with courtroom stories. He also explained that Kim Do-gi and Kwon Baek stand on opposite sides in the way they deal with evil.

If his words are taken that way, Kwon Baek is closer to a character who overturns the board through words and showmanship than to someone who punishes wrongdoers from the shadows. Wooseok, in turn, needs to stand not merely as a supporting figure who receives Kwon Baek's jokes, but as the person on the opposite side whom Kwon Baek must confront. The Long Shot Trial is currently being prepared with a 2027 broadcast target.