The Story: Oldest brother Jang Dong-soo (Lee Beom Soo), middle brother Jang Dong-chul (Jae Joong Kim), and youngest brother Jang Dong-woo (Yim Siwan) are three siblings who got separated at a young age after their father tragically died from a type of black lung disease (he was a miner), and their mother deserted them. They are split up by social services and adopted out to three different families.

They meet again twenty years later, but fail to recognize one another at first due to their different cover names and personalities and backgrounds. The oldest brother is a violent crimes detective with a short fuse, the middle brother is a casino operator who dallies with the mob, and the younger brother was raised by an exceptionally wealthy family and grew up cold and distant, with a good eye for business opportunities but poor at personal relationships.

Lee Beom Soo as Jang Dong-soo, oldest brother

Their ill-fated paths converge in an area where factories went bankrupt and a casino and resort opened up in their place to keep the residents employed. Here they will meet again and undergo many conflicts together before the truth of their shared heritage is revealed. The two youngest both fall in love with the same woman, Oh Jung-hee (Baek Jin Hee) and the oldest brother renews a relationship with a young woman he knew in his youth, Hwang Shin Hye (Oh Yeon Soo as the adult version, and once again pretty Kim So Hyun as the teen version). She begins to work with him on the force as a profiler but is concerned about his often impulsive nature, like going to investigate a crime without a search warrant. So it takes awhile before she can trust him enough to love him again.They eventually gain a mutual respect for each other as colleagues, but find themselves in conflict once again when they learn that the gangster they're after is in fact Dong-soo's own brother, Dong-chul. Where will Dong-soo's real loyalty lay, with family or the law?

When we first meet Dong-chul (Jae Joong) he is a complete wildcard, living for the fast life, bedding women he barely knows, blackmailing them for money otherwise he will inform their boyfriends / husbands what they are up to in secret. He is pretty much a thug, living by his wits and fists, and at a young age he rises to the top of a crime syndicate. However, they have his back: if there ever comes a time he wants to be transformed into a decent person it's obvious the mob bosses won't just shrug and leave him alone. On the streets Dong-chul uses the fictitious name of Heo Young-dal. It's as this person that he meets a young girl who will change his life through love, Jung-hee. She came from a poor family and tries to make ends meet as a casino dealer, though her heart has never been in it. She simply needs to do it to support herself and her family. 

Yim Siwan as Jang Dong-woo, youngest brother

Youngest brother Jang Dong-woo (Yim Siwan) was adopted by a rich chaebol family, and now lives under the name "Yoon Yang-ha", and is being groomed as the heir to a gambling empire. With no memory of his biological family and raised believing that the world revolves around money, "Yang-ha" is cynical and cold. That is, until he too meets Jung-hee, who changes the way Yang-ha sees the world. Which one will she fall in love with?

Jung Hee (Baek Jin Hee) changes Dong-chul's (Kim Jae Joong)
life for the better

After losing a high-stakes gambling game to "Young-dal", "Yang-ha" becomes furious and has both "Young-dal" and Dong-soo arrested and put in jail. Upon release, the two older brothers decide to embark on a mission to get revenge on everyone who has wronged them, including Dong-woo's father, Yoon Tae-joon (Kim Byung Ki), the CEO of Daejung group, and Go Bok-Tae (Kim Byung Ok), the gang boss who helped Yang-ha put Young-dal in jail.

However, always there is Jung Hee reminding Dong-chul that he will never be happy if he bases his life on revenge and greed and not love. Will there ever be true repentance and forgiveness between all the brothers, or will one of them have to pay the ultimate price with his life?

The very last moments of this show were stunningly beautiful, filmed high up in the mountains - Jae Joong's soft narration reminded me of the poetic ending to Postman To Heaven. In that film he talked about how his life was empty when he was younger and through love and tragedy he matured and changed. I started tearing up at the end of Triangle, hearing him say similar poetic words. He has SUCH an exquisite voice, both in speaking and singing, especially the songs he wrote for this show. If you love Jae Joong Kim then this really is an essential watch.

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