Iris (아이리스) is a
South Korean espionage television drama series...
Premiering in October 2009, the series was a critical and commercial success, with an average viewership of over 30% in addition to ranking as the top program consistently every week after its debut.
[3] The series also took home many of the highest honors at the 2009
KBS Drama Acting Awards, including
Lee Byung-hun winning the top recognition, the Daesang Award. Among other nominations and recognitions, Lee and
Kim Tae-hee were also named as one of the best on-screen couples.
The plot revolves around two friends from the
707th Special Mission Battalion recruited into a secret South Korean
black ops agency known as the National Security Service. Of the pair, recruit Kim Hyun-jun begins to uncover evidence that his foggy past may not be so irrelevant to his joining of the secret organization after all. As the two friends find their loyalties tested and forge new, unlikely alliances, the journey takes them from their home country to
Hungary,
Japan, and
China where they find themselves at the center of an international conspiracy.
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