Yoon Ji-woo's father has been publicly named as a key member of the Dongcheon criminal cartel. This leads to her being ostracised at school as well as being hassled by the cops who are watching her apartment in the hopes of catching the fugitive.
On Ji-woo's birthday, her father sneaks past the police cordon to bring her a gift. Unfortunately, a hooded figure ambushes him at the apartment door and guns him down.
When the police are unable to identify the killer, the distraught Ji-woo goes to Choi Mu-Jin, her father's close friend and head of the Dongcheon cartel for help. Although reluctant at first, Mu-jin takes Ji-woo under his wing, encouraging her to become strong enough to get her revenge. He also reveals that he has the gun that killed her father: it's a police issue weapon, which explains why the cops never found the assassin.
Mu-Jin places Ji-woo in his fight training gym with other gang recruits and personally gives her hand-to-hand training. The plan: once her training is complete she will be given a new identity - Oh Hye-jin - under which she will infiltrate the police and find her father's killer.
My Name is a South Korean action-drama serial of eight episodes. Its concept of a gang member infiltrating the police reminds me somewhat of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (remade in the US as The Departed), though it's certainly a very different tale over all.
The mystery of her father's death will of course be more complex than Ji-woo/Hye-jin expects. I don't think that a genre-savvy audience will be as surprised by the twists and turns as our protagonist is, but the plot developments are executed well and the show maintains tension throughout. It also features a wide variety of excellent action sequences. The people in charge of the fight choreography really know their stuff.
If cops and gangsters media is at all your thing, this is worth your time.
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