The reviews and average ratings on this site are way too high. This show is a waste of great production values, direction, music, and amazing acting. The story just doesn't live up to whatever it tried to be or could have been.

The first couple of eps are amazing, and then it goes downhill. Forcing myself to watch final episodes was a chore.
Let's meet the characters:

Sim Eun Seok, also known as Judge Sim. Judge Judy it is not. She hates underaged criminals, and that's 99% of her personality. She doesn't need to eat or sleep, and almost never gets tired in her pursuit of totally not personally motivated revenge against all and any such offenders. In her self-righteous crusade, she doesn't hesitate to do illegal things like conducting her own investigations, trespassing, and even blackmail, because these vile criminals just need to be punished. In the end, she is always proven right and always has her way.

Cha Tae Joo, is an empathetic judge who disagrees with Sim's takes. What could be a great character who might serve as a rival or antagonist to her ways, is nothing more than a useless extra beta male. Seriously, he's a pussy. Every episode it's the same story: he disagrees with something Sim says or does on empathetic grounds, then she calls him an idiot and a dumbass and other insults, he just takes and eventually apologizes and agrees with her like a puppy. He is nothing more than her yes man, and his only purpose in the story is to do her chores.

Kang Won Jung is their boss. He's a veteran judge with anger issues. He has ambitions to get into politics, and now you should figure out how it's going to end. Until that point, his role in the story is lashing out at Sim, then being proven wrong by Sim, rinse and repeat.

Na Geun Hee, also known as judge Na, is also Sim's boss. She's cold and has no personality beyond that. Her idea is to close the juvenile cases as soon as possible because there are just too many of them. Eventually, just like Cha and Kang she agrees that Sim was right about everything and her ways were wrong.

Juvenile Criminals, although composed of various different characters, should be treated as a character on their own. Because they share a collective consciousness, a nearly identical psychological profile. They make funny psycho faces, laugh at inappropriate moments, have no remorse, and are utterly unredeemable. Just as judge Sim described them. Who would have thought that she'd be right after all?

The Victims. Just like the criminals, they are a copy pasta of the same person. Always innocent, always scarred for life, always crying and begging judge Sim to take revenge on the young criminals in their name. Which she does with vengeful satisfaction.


And that's the gist of the show. You can predict what's gonna happen every single episode, and if you sprinkle it with melodrama, you get Juvenile Justice: a mary sue's crusade to prove the author's ideology right.