Director: Kwon Young-il
A mismatched team of corporate auditors trades spreadsheets for detective work in "The Auditors," a South Korean office drama that turns internal fraud reviews into genuine mystery cases.
What is The Auditors about?
Inside a major company's audit division, a composed, rule-driven team leader is paired with a group of junior auditors who each bring their own habits, blind spots, and personal stakes to the job. What starts as routine expense checks and paperwork reviews keeps sliding into something bigger: hidden kickbacks, falsified records, and executives who assume no one below them is paying close attention. The show moves between individual cases and the slower rhythm of office life, letting rivalries, small victories, and mutual respect build across the team as they figure out how far a colleague or superior is willing to go to cover a mistake. Rather than framing auditors as background bureaucrats, the series treats their work as its own kind of investigation, with each episode peeling back a different scheme inside the company while the wider question of who can actually be trusted at the top keeps building toward a larger reckoning.
Cast & crew
Shin Ha-kyun anchors the team as the unflappable lead auditor, playing the role with a dry, understated confidence, while Lee Jung-ha and Jin Goo round out a supporting cast whose chemistry gives the office scenes their energy between the more tense investigative sequences.
Context & significance
Directed by Kwon Young-il, the series belongs to a wave of Korean workplace dramas that use a specific, less-glamorous profession as a lens for larger questions about corporate ethics and accountability. Its 2024 run leans into procedural detail about how audits actually uncover wrongdoing, giving the crime elements a grounded, paperwork-driven feel rather than high-action theatrics.
Where & how to watch
"The Auditors" streams on K-Time with a free account login, complete with a Farsi-language interface, Persian dubbing, and Persian subtitles for viewers who want either format.