Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area

Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area TV Series Details:

Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area TV Series Cast & Character:

• The gang
  • Yoo Ji-tae as Professor / Park Sun-ho
  • Park Hae-soo as Berlin / Song Jung-ho
  • Jeon Jong-seo as Tokyo / Lee Hong-dan
  • Lee Hyun-woo as Rio / Han Joseph
  • Lee Won-jong as Moscow / Oh Man-sik
  • Kim Ji-hoon as Denver / Oh Taek-su
  • Jang Yoon-ju as Nairobi / Sim Young-mun
  • Kim Ji-hun as Helsinki / Ko Myung-tae
  • Lee Kyu-ho as Oslo / Lee Sang-yeon
• Task Force
  • Kim Yun-jin as Seon Woo-jin
  • Kim Sung-oh as Captain Cha Moo-hyuk
  • Park Su-yeong as Yun Chang-su
  • JEA Police Chief
  • Sun Woo-seong as Nam Dong-cheol
  • Gyeonggi Police Agency Sergeant
• Hostages
  • Park Myung-hoon as Cho Young-min
  • Lee Joo-bin as Yoon Mi-seon
  • Lee Si-woo as Anne Kim
  • Hong In as Hwang Hyun-ho
  • Gil Eun-seong as Park Chul-woo
• Others
  • Lim Ji-yeon as Seoul
  • Lim Hyeong-guk as Jeon Yong-soo
  • Jang Hyun-sung as Kim Sang-man
  • Gil Eun-seong as Kim Chul-yoon
  • Han Seo-jin as Kim Min-ah
  • Yi Yong-nyeo as Park Pil-sun
  • Kim Jun as Nairobi’s son
  • Jeong Jae-seong as Marshall Kim
  • Lee Chang-hoon as Oh Jae-yoon

Storyline:

The series follows the storyline and characters of the original Spanish series. “The Professor” (Yoo Ji-tae), a strategist criminal mastermind, plans to pull off a heist in the reunified Korean Peninsula. The operation involves strategists and desperados with different characteristics and abilities, who have to face unusual situations. Thieves overtake the mint of a unified Korea. With hostages trapped inside, the police must stop them, as well as the operation’s shadowy mastermind.

About Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area TV Series:

Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (Korean: 종이의 집: 공동경제구역) is a Korean television series and second series in the Money Heist franchise, based on the original Spanish series. The Korean series directed by Kim Hong-sun and written by Ryu Yong-jae, is an original Netflix series, starring Yoo Ji-tae, Yunjin Kim, Park Hae-soo, Jeon Jong-seo, Lee Hyun-woo, Lee Won-jong, and Park Myung-hoon.

In June 2020, it was reported that BH Entertainment was planning for a remake of Money Heist co-producing it with Zium Content. They were in talks with Netflix, and it was in the development stage. On December 1, it was reported that Netflix has confirmed a Korean remake of the series with Kim Hong-sun as director and Ryu Yong-jae as scriptwriter. BH Entertainment is in charge of production, with the series having 12 episodes.

On March 31, the casting line-up was confirmed by Netflix. After finalizing the cast, the story and characters were formulated. The focus was to keep the narrative of the original and the attributes of the characters alive. Lim Ji-yeon joined the cast in April 2021. Lee Hyun-woo replaced Park Jung-woo due to date conflicts with the series Fly High Butterfly. The Korean cast was compared by drawing the similarities and differences between the original and the adaptation.

Filming was suspended on July 7, 2021, to accommodate guidelines intended to limit the spread of COVID-19. On January 17, 2022, Netflix revealed the English title of the series: Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area. On April 29, 2022, it was announced that Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area would be released on June 24, 2022. On May 20, 2022, the official teaser was released.

The first six episodes were released on June 24, 2022, on Netflix. The second part was released on December 9, 2022.

Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area featuring in Global Top 10 weekly list of the most-watched international Netflix TV shows, topped the list with 33,740,000 viewing hours in the week from June 20 to June 26 and with 49,000,000 viewing hours in the week from June 27 to July 3. In the week of July 4 to July 10, it was at 3rd place with 15,630,000 viewing hours. Additionally, it ranked first in the Top-10 list of 51 countries.