Chairman Lee Yun Beom Is Samael?

I remembered watching Vagabond last 2019 for a rather stupid reason namely Suzy Bae. Though I was also quite enthusiastic to see her act together with Lee Seung Gi for a second time around even if they weren't lovey-dovey like in Gu Family Book. After I got WTFed by the ending of Vagabond - I decided to check the TV series Strangers which is alternatively titled Forest of Secrets which had Shin Hye Sun involved in a sidekick role. I think she requested that she be written off so she could pursue better offerings than to be part of the second season which I'm yet to see. Yet, the first season felt like a second season wasn't necessary, unlike Vagabond.

Now, the common denominator in them is that actor Lee Geung Young is in them. Both of them have him as the man behind the man. In Vagabond, he played Edward Park, who pretended to be all innocent, and lied that his airlines were hi-jacked by a terrorist when he did it himself. The very statement of Jessica (who you thought was the real antagonist) was that "What if what you thought real, isn't?" actually rings a bell. Edward was secretly manipulating the government under the code name of Samael. Yes, that one. But before that, we realized he was also playing a corrupt corporate executive in Strangers.

In Strangers, he shares the same surname as his villainous role. Unlike Samael, he's obviously running the show (at least to the audience). Some people may have known Edward is Samael because Geung Young was also the antagonist of Strangers. Well, his role as a corporate executive chairman is also pretty intimidating. He did ruin Eun Woo's life and presumably ordered her death (which was probably a result of the Real Life Writes Plot). Two years before becoming Samael - the actor Geung Young already was prepared to pull the role. I guess those who viewed Strangers before Vagabond already were prepared for the actor to play yet another antagonist.