Character Relationship Map: D.P.

Characters

• An Jun-ho (played by Jung Hae-in) — protagonist

  Private who teams up with Corporal Han Ho-yeol to hunt down military deserters, navigating the harsh realities and bullying culture of the South Korean military.

• Han Ho-yeol (played by Koo Kyo-hwan) — protagonist

  Corporal assigned to the D.P. unit alongside Private Ahn Jun-ho, tasked with tracking down deserters and confronting the brutal military hierarchy.

• Park Beom-gu (played by Kim Sung-kyun) — supporting
• Lim Ji-seop (played by Son Suk-ku) — supporting
• Oh Min-u (played by Jeong Seok-yong) — supporting

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• An Jun-ho → Park Beom-gu (D.P. chain of responsibility) — Their professional connection places Jun-ho's field experience against Beom-gu's institutional pressures.

  "Jun-ho operates in the D.P. unit, while Beom-gu faces pressure to cover up recent events in Season 2."

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• An Jun-ho → Han Ho-yeol (Central duo) — Their paired perspective connects individual deserter cases to the series-wide critique of military abuse.

  "The season contexts repeatedly center missions undertaken by Jun-ho and Ho-yeol together, including the final Season 2 effort to help Jun-ho."

• An Jun-ho → Oh Min-u (Truth versus suppression) — Their opposition embodies the season's central struggle between exposing institutional wrongdoing and containing it.

  "Jun-ho's discovery of military secrets and Oh Min-u's pursuit of evidence to block its release define opposing narrative functions in Season 2."

• Park Beom-gu → Lim Ji-seop (Investigation allies) — Their alliance is driven by shared recognition that the military system is concealing damaging facts.

  "The Season 2 investigation plot explicitly places Lim Ji-seop and Beom-gu together as they identify that a military-death inquiry is misleading."

Story Analysis

The series moves from individual deserter pursuits to a broader confrontation with military abuse, secrecy, and government accountability.

Plot Progression

1. Season 1: Entering the Unit — Jun-ho enters the D.P. unit and begins learning the demands of deserter pursuit. His partnership with Ho-yeol becomes the operational center of the early story.
2. Season 1: Hazing and Flight — The missions increasingly expose the human damage caused by military pressure and hazing. A night escape and the deterioration of Suk-bong deepen the moral stakes.
3. Season 1: The Manhunt — The final pursuit expands from locating a deserter into a dangerous manhunt involving armed pursuers. Jun-ho and Ho-yeol must reach the target before the violence becomes irreversible.
4. Season 2: Institutional Shock — Jun-ho faces life after tragedy while Beom-gu is pressured to conceal recent events. A sudden military attack and a public motive push the system into crisis.
5. Season 2: Death and Secrecy — The partners continue pursuing cases while Beom-gu and Lim Ji-seop discover that a military-death investigation is distorted. Government accountability becomes increasingly unavoidable.
6. Season 2: Evidence and Justice — Jun-ho learns the scale of the military's secrets and makes a critical decision. Ho-yeol helps him endure the consequences as the government trial reaches a surprising conclusion.