A phishing call that costs a single mother her livelihood rarely turns into a caper, but Citizen of a Kind bets on exactly that reversal, following a woman who refuses to let a scam define the rest of her story.
What is Citizen of a Kind about?
Duk-hee runs a small laundry business until a fire wipes it out, and a bank's unusually generous loan offer arrives just when she needs it most. The offer is a trap: she has been drawn into a voice-phishing scheme, and the money is gone before she understands what happened. Police offer little beyond sympathy, so when the very phisher who tricked her calls again, this time with information about the network holding him hostage in China, Duk-hee sees an opening. Rather than wait on an investigation that goes nowhere, she gathers her friends and books a flight to chase the organization herself, turning a personal loss into a cross-border pursuit she never expected to lead.
About the cast
Ra Mi-ran leads the cast as Duk-hee, alongside Gong Myeong, Yeom Hye-ran, Park Byung-eun, Jang Yoon-ju, Lee Moo-saeng, Ahn Eun-jin and Sung Hyuk rounding out an ensemble built for the genre's quick tonal shifts between farce and real stakes. Director Park Young-ju keeps the group moving at a pace suited to a story that turns a financial crime into an unlikely chase.
Context & significance
Citizen of a Kind arrives as part of a wave of South Korean crime-comedies that use a scam victim's perspective to dramatize a genuinely widespread problem: voice-phishing fraud has become one of the country's most reported financial crimes, and the film leans on that familiarity rather than treating it as a distant threat. The 2024 release runs 113 minutes and sits at the crossroads of crime and comedy, favoring momentum and character over grim realism.
Watching Citizen of a Kind on Ktime
The film streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every twist of the scam and the chase that follows without leaning on a second language. A free K-Time account unlocks playback, and the page itself stays open to browse and read before you ever log in.