Gyeongseong Creature (Season 1) Web Series Details:
| Original title | 경성크리처 |
| Also known as | 京城크리처 (Hanja); Gyeongseongkeuricheo; Kyŏngsŏngk’ŭrich’ŏ; K Project |
| Genre | Historical, Mystery, Horror, Thriller, Action |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean, Japanese |
| Season | 1 (Part 1-2) |
| Episodes | 10 |
| Release date | December 22, 2023 |
| Running time | 65–73 minutes |
| Age rating | 16+ |
| Starring | Park Seo-joon Han So-hee Claudia Kim |
| Created by | Kakao Entertainment (planning) |
| Directed by | Chung Dong-yoon Roh Young-sub |
| Written by | Kang Eun-kyung |
| Produced by | Hwang Jee-woo Jang Se-jung Park Beom-soo Park Eun-kyung |
| Executive producers | Kim Do-hyuk (CP) Park Hee-seon Kim Min-ji So Jae-hyun |
| Cinematography by | Song Yo-hun |
| Edited by | Jo In-hyung |
| Music by | Kim Tae-seong |
| Production Company | Story & Pictures Media Kakao Entertainment Studio Dragon |
| Distributor | Netflix |
| Budget | ₩70 billion |
Gyeongseong Creature (Season 1) Web Series Cast & Character:
- Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang / Ho-jae: a wealthy man who is the owner of the House of Golden Treasure (Geumokdang), the best pawn shop in Gyeongseong. He is also the best informant in Gyeongseong.
- Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok: a specialist in finding missing people.
- Claudia Kim as Yukiko Maeda (Japanese: 前田有紀子, Hepburn: Maeda Yukiko): a powerful Japanese noblewoman who secretly controls the Gyeongseong area.
- Supporting
- Kim Hae-sook as Mrs. Nawol: deacon of Geumokdang who has been with Tae-sang since he was a child, she guards and takes care of orders when the owner is not around.
- Jo Han-chul as Yoon Jung-won: Yoon Chae-ok’s father and husband of Choi Seong-sim.
- Wi Ha-joon as Kwon Jun-taek: an independence activist and Tae-sang’s close friend.
- Park Ji-hwan as Gu Gap-pyeong: Geumokdang’s butler.
- Ok Ja-yeon as Na Young-chun: the owner of Moonlight Bar.
- Ahn Ji-ho as Park Beom-o: a boy who works at Geumokdang.
- Choi Young-joon as Lieutenant Colonel Kato (Japanese: 陸軍中将賀東, Hepburn: Rikugun-Chūjō Gatō): the chief of the military at Onseong Hospital.
- Hyun Bong-sik as Ichiro (Japanese: 一郎, Hepburn: Ichirō): the director of Onseong Hospital.
- Kim Do-hyun as Commissioner Ishikawa (Japanese: 石川委員, Hepburn: Kyokuchō Ishikawa): the chief of Japanese police in Gyeongseong and husband of Yukiko Maeda.
- Woo Ji-hyun as Ryu Sachimoto (Japanese: 幸本龍, Hepburn: Sachimoto Ryū): an artist who is assigned by Ichiro to draw the results of experiments at Onseong Hospital.
- Lee Kyu-sung as Mori: Ishikawa’s subordinate who is given the task of keeping an eye on Tae-sang.
- Ji Woo as Myeong-ja: a gisaeng from Chunwol-gwan and Ishikawa’s mistress who has disappeared.
- Kang Mal-geum as Choi Seong-sim / Seishin: Chae-ok’s mother who is the subject of biological experiments by the Japanese military.
- Im Chul-soo as Mr. Oh: an independence activist disguised as a cleaner at Onseong Hospital in order to find his missing brother.
- Kim Yoon-woo as Choi Yeong-gwan:
- Jo Jae-ryong as Soma: a Japanese military officer who is assigned to manage the prisoners at Ongseong Hospital’s underground prison.
- Yeon Je-wook as Lee In-hyuk: an independence activist who is also Jun-taek’s comrade.
- Kim Yool-ho
- Special appearance
- Lim Ki-hong as Mr. Wang:
- Woo Jung-won as Shim Sun-deok: as Tae-sang’s mother.
Storyline:
In the spring of 1945 in Gyeongseong, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, Jang Tae-sang, the master of the city’s most lucrative pawnshop, and Yoon Chae-ok, a tracker searching for her missing mother, confront a strange creature born from biological experiments conducted in secret within Ongseong Hospital.
About Gyeongseong Creature (Season 1) Web Series:
Gyeongseong Creature (경성크리처) is a South Korean horror-thriller historical drama series written by Kang Eun-kyung, and directed by Chung Dong-yoon and Roh Young-sub, it stars Park Seo-joon, Han So-hee, and Claudia Kim.
In January 2022, the production team confirmed the casting and revealed that the filming was currently in progress.
On March 3, 2022, it was reported that Wi Ha-joon tested positive for COVID-19 and the filming was suspended since the actor was self-quarantined.
On August 3, 2022, it was reported that actress Han So-hee suffered a minor injury to her face while filming an action scene for the series. On August 11, Han’s agency confirmed that she had recovered from the injury and returned to filming the following week.
In October 2022, it was reported that the series had finished filming and started post-production.
Gyeongseong Creature premiered on Netflix on December 22, 2023. The series consists of 10 episodes split into two parts, with the first seven released as Part 1, and the remaining three episodes released as Part 2 on January 5, 2024.
Gyeongseong Creature ranked first in South Korea three days after its release, was Number 3 in Netflix’s “Global Top 10” weekly list of the most-watched non-English television shows, and received a warm response in 20 countries, being listed in the Top 10 including India, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan. It remained a Top 10 Netflix show for an additional three weeks.
The second season will be released in 2024.
