[1][2][3] Due to Kim's Korean Wave fanbase, international broadcasting rights were pre-sold to Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
[4] But in February 2013, prospective broadcaster KBS denied it a slot in their 2013 drama lineup, because network officials found the series "too violent" and its quality not up to their standards.
Unable to secure a slot with the other two major channels in Korea, MBC and SBS, filming was halted and the project cancelled.
A young man named Baek Mi-reu blames his father for abandoning him and his mother, which sets him on the path of revenge upon the evils of society.
City Conquest was supposed to be the second project of Baek Jin-dong's "Media 100" production company, after the 2012 TV Chosun drama Ji Woon-soo's Stroke of Luck.