Navigating both the criminal underworld and law enforcement agencies, professional snitches called "yadang" provide covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile second-generation VIPs entangles those involved into a dangerous conspiracy, a seasoned yadang must do everything in his power not just to make it out on top, but alive.

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Yadang: The Snitch (2025)

Blowing the nation's drug scene wide open.

★ 6.9/10 April 16, 2025 123 min

ActionComedyCrimeDramaThriller

Director: Hwang Byeong-gug  ·  Writer: Kim Hyo-seok

Navigating both the criminal underworld and law enforcement agencies, professional snitches called "yadang" provide covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile second-generation VIPs entangles those involved into a dangerous conspiracy, a seasoned yadang must do everything in his power not just to make it out on top, but alive.

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Director

Hwang Byeong-gug Hwang Byeong-gug

Cast

Kang Ha-neul Kang Ha-neul Kang-soo Yoo Hai-jin Yoo Hai-jin Koo Gwan-hee Park Hae-joon Park Hae-joon Oh Sang-jae Ryu Kyung-soo Ryu Kyung-soo Cho Hoon Chae Won-bin Chae Won-bin Uhm Su-jin You Seong-joo You Seong-joo Yeom Tae-soo Kim Keum-soon Kim Keum-soon Kim Hak-nam Lim Sung-kyun Lim Sung-kyun Chang-rak Cho Wan-ki Cho Wan-ki Manager Oh Kwak Ja-hyung Kwak Ja-hyung Detective Park Yoon Tae-soo Yoon Tae-soo Jong-soo Yoon Hyun-gil Yoon Hyun-gil Park Hyun-sook

User Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf May 18, 2025
★ 7/10

I must admit I didn’t quite understand just what was going on at the start of this. “Lee Kang-su” (Kang Ha-neul) is a brash and confident young man who manages to get information on drug dealers which he then passes on to the police and/or the public prosecutors in return for a cut and them getting a reduced sentence if they turn state’s evidence. Thing is, the further up the food chain they get the more political “interference” the investigators encounter and pretty swiftly that causes problems for this young “Yadang” as he ends up a victim of his erstwhile protector, ambitious prosecutor “Ku Gwen-hee” (Yoo Hae-jin) and pumped full of blue methadone to the point where he doesn’t know day from night. Once released, though, he unites with similarly manipulated former police captain “Oh Sang-jae” (Park Hae-joon) and an young actor (Chae Won-bin) whose career was w…