Reimagined Korean version of ‘The Americans’ starring Lee Byung-hun and Lee Byung-hun of “Squid Game” fame Han Ji-minit has officially begun. ‘The Koreans’ will star the cast as North Korean spies who live secretly in South Korea. The narrative follows a seemingly ordinary middle-class family hiding a dangerous secret, set against the backdrop of South Korea’s democratization and rapid cultural transformation in the early 1990s.
More about Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min’s roles in ‘The Koreans’
The series will follow the pair as they struggle between their loyalty to their homeland, their sense of self, and their bond as a family, as a ruthless Korean counterintelligence agent moves closer to exposing them.Lee Byung-hun, known for ‘Squid Game’ and ‘No Other Choice’, and Han Jimin, from ‘Heavenly Ever After’ lead the cast.
Behind the camera of ‘The Koreans’
Ahn Gilho, whose credits include ‘The Glory’, directs the series. Park Eunkyo, known for ‘Made in Korea’ and ‘Mother’, adapted the script from the original series created by Joe Weisberg and directed by Weisberg and Joel Fields, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.The announcement positions the series as the latest addition to the expanding slate of Korean content.‘The Koreans’ will stream exclusively on Disney+ internationally and Hulu in the US
More about ‘The Americans’
The original series took home the Golden Globe for best drama in 2019 and earned AFI Television Program of the Year honors for its first five seasons, from 2014 to 2018. The series featured Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers, as an American couple in suburban Washington DC during the Cold War of the 1980s.
