Siren’s Kiss, a new Korean thriller on Prime Video, touts that it’s a romance along with being a thriller. Sometimes that works, but we’re not sure about the way the romance part of this story is going to fit in, given what we saw in the first episode.

Opening Shot: We’re shown a smelting factory. In a side room, a man is numbing his hand in liquid nitrogen, with the idea that he’s going to cut his fingers off with a circular saw.

The Gist: The man is going to cut his fingers off as part of a false insurance claim. The man who arranged the claim — and paid the man to cut his fingers off — is getting a shave when Cha Woo-seok (Wi Ha-joon), an insurance investigator for the Nonghyup Life Insurance company, enters. A fight ensues, but Cha prevails.

Cha used to be a cop, and when he gets a case, he tends to not let go until he feels justice is served, like when he sees that a little girl whose claim he investigated a year prior is injured again, this time even more severely. He knows her mother is responsible, and vows to the woman that he’ll peg these “accidents” on her eventually.

In the meantime, at Royal Auctions, chief auctioneer Han Seol-ah (Park Min-young) knows her business, as we see when she identifies a fake painting right before an auction. But she’s facing a challenge from the associate auctioneer, Kim Yoon-ji (Lee Elijah). It seems that Kim knows some of Han’s secrets and she’s going to use them to get Han’s job.

Kim calls Cha Woo-seok to report a murder that...

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