{"id":3577,"date":"2026-03-25T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/03\/25\/lee-byung-hun-the-koreans-begins-production-with-squid-game-star-lee-byung-hun-and-han-ji-min\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:38:44","slug":"lee-byung-hun-the-koreans-begins-production-with-squid-game-star-lee-byung-hun-and-han-ji-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"Lee Byung-Hun: ‘The Koreans’ begins production with \u2018Squid Game\u2019 star Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min"},"content":{"rendered":"


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South Korea is set to debut ‘The Koreans,’ a reimagined version of ‘The Americans,’ featuring ‘Squid Game’ stars Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min as North Korean spies undercover in the 1990s. The series explores their dual lives, caught between homeland loyalty and family bonds, as a counterintelligence agent closes in.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The reimagined Korean version of \u2018The Americans, \u2019 starring \u2018Squid Game\u2019 fame Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min<\/a>, has officially begun. \u2018The Koreans\u2019 is set to star the actors as North Korean spies living undercover in South Korea. The narrative follows a seemingly ordinary middle-class family concealing a dangerous secret, set against the backdrop of South Korea\u2019s democratisation and rapid cultural transformation in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

More about Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min\u2019s roles in \u2018The Koreans\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

The series will track the pair as they are pulled between allegiance to their homeland, their sense of self, and their bonds as a family, while a relentless Korean counterintelligence agent edges closer to exposing them.Lee Byung-hun, known for \u2018Squid Game\u2019 and \u2018No Other Choice,\u2019 and Han Jimin, of \u2018Heavenly Ever After\u2019 lead the cast. <\/p>\n

Behind the camera crew of \u2018The Koreans\u2019 <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Ahn Gilho, whose credits include \u2018The Glory\u2019 directs the series. The screenplay is adapted by Park Eunkyo, known for ‘Made in Korea’ and ‘Mother,’ from the original series created by Joe Weisberg and showrun by Weisberg and Joel Fields, which starred Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.The announcement positions the series as the latest addition to expanding the Korean content slate.\u2018The Koreans\u2019 will release exclusively on Disney+ internationally and on Hulu in the U.S. <\/p>\n

More about \u2018The Americans\u2019 <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

The original series took home the Golden Globe for best drama in 2019 and earned AFI TV Program of the Year honors in each of its first five seasons, from 2014 to 2018. The series starred Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married American couple in suburban Washington, D.C., during the 1980s Cold War.<\/p><\/div>\n


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South Korea is set to debut ‘The Koreans,’ a reimagined version of ‘The Americans,’ featuring ‘Squid Game’ stars Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min as North Korean spies undercover in the 1990s. The series explores their dual lives, caught between homeland loyalty and family bonds, as a counterintelligence agent closes in. The reimagined Korean version of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}