2 months ago
Lee Byunghun (Squid Game) and Han Jimin (Heavenly Ever After) are group to prima successful The Koreans, a reimagining of FX’s The Americans, astatine Disney+.
Production has begun connected nan series, which will watercourse exclusively connected Disney+ internationally and Hulu successful nan U.S.
Set during nan activity of democratization and taste modernization that swept crossed South Korea successful nan early 1990s, The Koreans will travel a middle-class family hiding a treasonous secret. While seemingly mean citizens successful nan eyes of their friends, neighbors, and moreover their children, some parents are really elite North Korean spies moving to bring down nan South from within. Highlighting nan stark quality betwixt these 2 formerly agreed countries, nan bid will travel nan spies arsenic they wrestle pinch conflicting feelings of patriotism, loyalty, personality and love, while a ruthless Korean counterintelligence supplier draws ever person to discovering their identities.
Byunghun and Jimin will prima arsenic nan undercover spies.
Produced by Imaginus and Studio AA, nan bid is directed by Ahn Gilho (The Glory) and adapted by Park Eunkyo (Made In Korea, Mother) from FX’s The Americans.
Created by Joe Weisberg, showrun by Joel Fields and Weisberg, and starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, The Americans won nan Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Drama and was named AFI TV Program of nan Year for 5 consecutive seasons.
The Koreans joins Disney+ APAC’s expanding slate of Korean originals, alongside titles specified as Tempest, Made successful Korea, and The Tyrant.
