If John Wick escalates when someone touches his dog, how would he react if someone kidnapped his daughter? That must have been what the author of “Manager Kim” had in mind. The manhwa is about an unassuming guy who was once the most dangerous special agent in the world and served as South Korea's ultimate weapon. However, when he learns that the woman he loves is pregnant, nothing can keep him in his old job. Eighteen years later, his relationship with his daughter is strained when she suddenly stops coming home. As it turns out, she was bullied, then (accidentally) beaten to death, and her body wasdisposed of by gangsters.

Why watch John Wick? For the action, one person vs. an army. “Manager Kim” initially succeeds in implementing this really well, partly because it soon becomes clear that he is racing against the clock to perhaps still save his daughter—or at least recover her body.
What doesn't work so well, however, is everything else. What's particularly annoying is that the story makes fun of the fact that both the reader and the protagonist think the whole time that the daughter must be just around the corner and that father and daughter will be reunited in the next panel! Instead, it turns out again and again that there was a misunderstanding or something similar. While the situations were plausible at the beginning, it developed into a series of such stupid coincidences that it's more likely you'll win the lottery than something like this happening. The first or second time, you can ignore it and dismiss it as bad luck, but by the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th... 10th time, you just feel like you're being taken for a ride. I was fed up when the father and daughter missed each other by a hair's breadth AGAIN.

My conclusion: If you can read a manhwa and are able to ignore these stupid coincidences, then I can recommend “Manager Kim.” I definitely can't ignore it, 2 out of 10 potato points.