Streaming platform Disney+ will add four new Korean-language original series to its 2024 lineup.
Its “Blood Free,” “Unmasked,” “The Tyrant” and “Gangnam B-Side” land in addition to a third season of “The Zone: Survival Mission” and the previously announced “Uncle Samsik” and “Light Shop” from webtoon pioneer and creator of the platform’s 2023 series hit “Moving.”
“Blood Free,” which is to star Ju Jihoon (“Kingdom”) and Han Hyojoo (“Moving”), follows a former bodyguard haunted by the failures of his past. He finds himself recruited to protect the CEO of a controversial lab-grown meat company who is also a survivor of the fateful attack that changed his life.
Set in modern-day Seoul, “Unmasked” follows a group of investigative journalists who are fighting for their careers after broadcasting a controversial story. With time running out, the team are given an impossible task if they want to save their jobs – solve a twenty-year-old cold case involving a famous actor who disappeared without a trace. Kim Hyesoo (“Under The Queen’s Umbrella” stars.
Action-thriller series, “The Tyrant” follows a U.S. government agent as he tries to recover a deadly virus stolen from the South Korean government. With everything at stake, global intelligence agencies battle against nefarious parties to prevent the virus spreading.
Crime drama, “Gangnam B-Side” follows a pariah detective pulled back into the game after his daughter’s friend becomes the latest women to go missing in Seoul’s fashionable Gangnam area. The detective will delve into a world of vice, drugs and corruption to uncover something that threatens to topple some of the city’s wealthiest elite.
Korean variety-survival show, “The Zone: Survival Mission” goes into a third season with Kwon Yuri and Yoo Jaesuk returning alongside new hosts, former UFC fighter Kim Donghyun and popular YouTuber Dex. The four will try to survive an increasingly complex range of challenges.
The streamer enjoyed success last year with “Big Bet” and “Moving,” and has already announced “Uncle Samsik” and “Light Shop.”
Starring Song Kangho and Byun Yohan (Mr. Sunshine), Uncle Samsik is a societal drama set in 1960s Korea that follows an idealistic politician, and a mysterious political fixer called Uncle Samsik who operates in the shadows. Together the pair form an uneasy partnership with the goal of transforming a struggling post-war Korea into a prosperous country where everyone can afford three meals a day.
An adaptation of the hit webtoon of the same name, “Light Shop” follows a group of strangers, each struggling to come to terms with a traumatic event in their past. Each is mysteriously drawn to a light shop that sits at the end of a seedy alleyway. Guarded by a vigilant shopkeeper, the shop could hold the key to the strangers’ pasts, presents and futures. It stars Ju Jihoon (“Kingdom”), Lee Jungeun (“Parasite”), Park Boyung (“Oh My Ghost”), and Bae Seongwoo (“Veteran”).
