''Rural Police'' () is a South Korean

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broadcast on

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, where celebrities join small police centres in the countryside to experience their work as an amateur police officer. Assigned the rank of entry-level police officer (), the cast attend to emergency calls and community tasks under the mentorship of their experienced colleagues. Four seasons of the show aired from July 2017 to December 2018, with each season filmed in a different locale in South Korea. In April 2023, the show was rebooted with the title ''Rural Police Returns'', featuring an all-new cast. A second season of the reboot began airing in December 2023. Two

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were also produced: '' Sea Police'', which features the Korea Coast Guard, and '' Urban Cops'', which follows police departments based in the city.

Cast

Original series

Reboot series

* Kim Yong-man * Kim Sung-joo * Ahn Jung-hwan *

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* Shin Hyun-joon (guest)

Locations

The first two seasons were filmed in small "Security Centres" () serving

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s () that encompass several villages, while the later two seasons were filmed in larger police substations () serving relatively more populated geographical areas such as

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Cast

Original series

Reboot series

Locations

List of episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Notes

References

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