Money Heist: Korea

The SAG Award nominee speaks to Newsweek about his take on the iconic character from the hit Spanish crime drama and more.

"But I can say he's very selfish and very rational in the choices he makes. Park said: "I think we all have the capacity to rationalize everything in life. Berlin is also brought to his knees in a battle with mortality. "The part I could relate to most is how he's a man on a mission. A jail break later ensues, which sees the prison being turned upside down, with Berlin sauntering out of the camp amid the chaos. Every time he was placed in isolation at the camp as punishment for the attacks, the number of those who feared him kept increasing.

Professor has recruited a team of people who will be robbing the mint at JEA and steal 4 trillion won.

Professor tells the team that they won’t touch the money inside the vault and will use the printing machines to print the amount of money they want. Luckily, Rio is fine and the Professor is ready to execute Step 2 of the plan. However, a bullet hits Rio and he falls to the ground. Professor is aware he would have to know who’s the negotiator and that’s where another twist blows everyone’s minds. The plan is simple: the team gets inside the mint wearing red jumpsuits and Hahoetal masks and takes away all the money. So, she decided to end her life and that’s when the Professor (Yoo Ji-tae) comes into her life as her guardian angel.

The Korean adaptation of Money Heist, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area is out on Netflix! The makers mentioned that the show is not very different ...

The views and facts appearing in the social media post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY, also LatestLY does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.) Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area is the Korean adaptation of the Spanish series, Money Heist. The series stars Jeon Jong-seo, Park Hae-soo, Lee Hyun-woo and other actors. Thieves, hostages, police chasing and of course the mastermind behind everything, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area is thrilling and captivating in every way, and is now available to stream on Netflix. Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area: An Utopian Tale, Hahoe Masks - What's New In This Adaptation of Netflix's Blockbuster Spanish Original?

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'Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area', a heist crime drama series, is now streaming on Netflix. The much-anticipated series is a spinoff series of ...

While we expect the South Korean context of 'Joint Economic Area' will play a big role in the look and feel of the series, the underlying structure should remain the same. Here is everything you need to know about 'Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area'. 'Money Heist' cast members like Úrsula Coberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño, Pedro Alonso, Miguel Herrán, among others have become household names around the world thanks to the show's unprecedented success. Kim Hong-sun's credits include dramas like 'The Guest', 'Voice' and more recently 'L.U.C.A.: The Beginning'. Ryu Yong-jae, on the other hand, was one of the two writers of Peninsula, the sequel to Train to Busan. The original story was praised by critics and viewers for its humour, subversion of medium and genre tropes, themes, and gripping storytelling. 'Money Heist' ended with its two-part fifth season in 2021.

Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area, a spinoff of Netflix's hugely popular Spanish series Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) has received rave reviews from ...

Just like the original Spanish series, Money Heist Korea seems to hit the right notes among fans. Black gowns and plunging necklines, Sara to Anushka Sharma, Bollywood beauties acing the look The Korean take on the series features Yoo Ji-Tae as The Professor, a strategist criminal mastermind who plans to pull off a heist in the Korean Peninsula. Meanwhile, Park Hae-soo, who became popular after playing Cho Sang-woo in Squid Game plays Berlin in the show which also includes Jun Jong-seo as Tokyo, Lee Won-jong as Moscow, Kim Ji-hun as Denver, Jang Yoon-ju as Nairobi, Lee Hyun-woo as Rio, Kim Ji-hoon as Helsinki and Lee Kyu-ho as Oslo.

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A Joint Security Area, located where North and South Korea are today divided, contains a mint which becomes the focus of the heist plan. The Korean adaptation is based on the plot of South and North Korea on the verge of unification. In a scene, she is heard saying, “Fans of K-pop group BTS, are called ARMY. They have members all over the world.”

Money Heist: Korea, Netflix's remake of their hit series La Casa de Papel, is just as disappointing as you expected it to be.

A Joint Economic Area is set up in what used to be the Joint Security Area of the DMZ, with “equal opportunities” for all, as well as a brand new mint that’s just waiting to be heisted. These versions of Tokyo, and Berlin, and Denver, and Moscow, may have different backstories, but none of that seems to change their characters in any significant way. (The original, which had them sitting at classroom desks for their first briefing, was a clever gag that also served to set up the unlikely character of the Professor.) There is no fun aside regarding their choice of masks. A beat for beat remake that is utterly unnecessary and completely dispensable. Especially since a better version of this is right there for you to watch in all its glory. It is a facsimile.

Money Heist has been given a Korea remake in Joint Economic Area on Netflix. Here's season 2's potential release date, cast and all you need to know.

The main heist players in season one of Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area are: But what exactly does that hold for this gang of ambitious thieves and their overruling Professor? Money Heist: Korea season 2 cast – Who will be in it?

Netflix's Korean remake of "Money Heist' will debut its first season in two parts. Here is what we know about when to expect Part 2.

Netflix first announced their plans for the Korean remake back in 2021 at a Tudum event, per Collider. If the second batch of episodes is nearly ready to go, it would probably hit the streaming service sometime in late 2022. The first six will debut on June 24, and as for the second batch, audiences may have to wait a little while. Netflix returns to the world of criminal masterminds on June 24, with Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area premiering Part 1 of its first season.

(L to R) Jun Jong-seo, Lee Hyun-woo, Jang Yoon-ju, Park Hae-soo, Lee Won-jong and Kim Ji-hun in 'Money Heist: Korea.'.

Here’s hoping that the second season will focus more on the backstories of the thieves — and their preparation for the pulling off their epic robbery — than any romantic affairs. And while director Kim Hong-sun keeps the story moving at a good pace, he has a tendency to veer towards campiness on occasion. But what stands out in this new six-episode adaptation (it drops on Netflix on June 24th) is the addition of quintessential Korean cultural elements — and some of these specific tweaks are key. The Korean version omits most of the sweaty trysts that made the Spanish version so damned sexy. Once again, a bespectacled and somewhat squirrelly braniac named “the Professor” (Oldboy‘s Yoo Ji-tae) gathers together a motley crew of criminals and masterminds a heist at a national mint. Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area is a mostly faithful adaptation of Álex Pina’s crime drama La Casa de Papel — you may know it as Money Heist, which aired from 2017 to 2021 and went from semi-successful Spanish TV series to global Netflix phenomenon.

Netflix's Korean spin on its original Spanish hit highlights the potential—and limitations—of betting big on the remake game.

And where the original Money Heist gets sentimental while playing with the archetype of the noble thief, the remake appears to be more self aware about that inherent contradiction—to the degree where it quickly becomes impossible to ignore. At the heart of the series is the Professor and the thieves’ preoccupation with the idea of pulling off a world-changing heist without having to get their hands dirty. The new show combines two of its biggest wins internationally—the Spanish hit Money Heist and a Squid Game–size foothold in Korean programming—into a Korean remake of the former, starring several familiar faces from the latter.

Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area is a Korean follow-up to the Netflix hit La Casa de Papel, and part 1 starts streaming on June 24th.

In the original Money Heist, the Salvador Dali mask was used to express resistance in the face of injustice, and the heist was a way of bringing financial restoration to people who have been hit hardest by the cruel edges of capitalism. It helps to sketch each character’s journey in a more nuanced manner, gives gravity to their cause, and allows us to understand why they might have joined the professor’s heist in the first place. In the first episode, she curses under her breath, “Welcome to capitalism.” The heist is her opportunity for a breakthrough — and to reclaim many times over what she feels she has lost through the cruelties of such an economic system. However, once we look past the charm of its main ensemble, one might question: why should I root for this group of thieves who are essentially seeking personal riches at the expense of hard-won reunification of the peninsula? Gaining the blessing of Money Heist creator Álex Pina for a Korean remake, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area launched its first six episodes (part 1) on June 24th. After setting up such a promising context and convincing universe, Money Heist: Korea sometimes feels like it is imprisoned by its own ambition and unsure of how to get out.

A group of criminals, fed up with their nation's wealth imbalance, decide to rob one of the biggest financial institutions in their country. This gang even ...

In the original Money Heist, you knew that things were about to get serious when someone pulled down their Salvador Dalí mask. In Money Heist: Korea, Berlin (Park Hae-soo) is an ex-worker who escaped serving in a forced labor camp in North Korea. For example, in the original Money Heist, Berlin was revealed to be a terminally ill mastermind who was secretly The Professor’s brother. A group of criminals, fed up with their nation’s wealth imbalance, decide to rob one of the biggest financial institutions in their country. The answer is a little bit of everything. But what exactly is Money Heist: Korea? Is it a new heist set in this same universe?

Money Heist: Korea's premiere works hard to establish its own identity from its Spanish-language source material. A recap of episode one of season one of ...

Her escape from all of these responsibilities is (1) smoking and (2) a cafe and the hot barista who runs the place. Those themes are here too, but this series has added another incredibly ambitious layer: the promise of reunification for the two countries of the Korean peninsula. Tokyo has finished her military service and has moved to Seoul. But the Korean capital is not like it is in the K-dramas — especially not for North Korean immigrants, who are increasingly being taken advantage of and discriminated against in a South Korea flooded by North Korean workers looking for a better life. Compared to the original, Money Heist: Korea broadcasts how this heist subverts genre expectations much sooner — namely, in the Professor’s partially political motivations for the crime and in how these initial stages of the robbery are really about buying time in order to print money. One such worker is Yoon Mi-seon (Lee Joo-bin), a North Korean accountant and Young-min’s mistress who may or may not be pregnant with his child. From here, Money Heist: Korea follows the same broad story and character beats as La Casa de Papel (called Money Heist for English-speaking audiences), with a few changes that could ripple out into a much different story but feel minor here. From the gaggle of school children who are on a field trip when the heist breaks out, there’s haughty, English-fluent teen Ann (Lee Si-woo), who’s still pissed that her father is making her attend school in Korea. Representing the Mint, we have South Korean director Cho Young-min (Park Myung-hoon), who watches porn instead of doing his job and attacks workers with his lips and grabby hands. It says a lot about the chemistry of these two and also how much I already want good things for Woo-jin that I am still hoping this somehow works out. An extended prologue follows a character we will know as Tokyo (Jeon Jong-seo), a university student living in Pyongyang with seemingly not a care in the world other than how she will get her hands on the next Bangtan comeback (same, friend). From there, the premiere whiplashes us through the next decade of Tokyo’s life and this near future’s history. He shields a suicidal Tokyo from the rain and promises her a future with greater purpose. When a loan shark attempts to rape Tokyo for daring to question their violent abuse of another woman, Tokyo fights back and begins a life of targeted crime as “the robber who only steals from bad people who prey on immigrants” — the Professor’s (Yoo Ji-tae) words, not mine. BTS bops and neon-noir vengeance define the first ten minutes of Money Heist: Korea, which is tonally distinct from not only La Casa de Papel but the rest of this episode.

Money Heist Korea: JEA (L to R) Jun Jong-seo as Tokyo, Lee Hyun-woo as Rio, Jang Yoon-ju as Nairobi, Park Hae-soo as Berlin, Lee Won-jong as Moscow and Kim Ji- ...

“I wanted the story to be the gang’s desperate findings for survival.” When the mask was first brought to me, I was able to feel the sense of overwhelming power when it was worn by everyone in the cast.” Yoo Ji-tae, who plays the Professor, noted his character as a “pure genius strategist”, and a man of conviction as he vows not to hurt or injure people even while committing a crime. “We assumed that there is an island the size of Yeouido in the Demilitarized Zone in Gaesong, Paju, and Munsan to build a city on it,” said director Kim. “We wanted our Berlin to be someone who have joined the gang with no reason to live but end up finding one. The North and South Korea situation is something I want to depict, and if this happens, how would it happen? But that’s where the two shows diverge — here, we’re looking at “the chaos just before the unification”. Added writer Ryu: “What if a currency reform takes place by common currency, and its Mint stands on the military demarcation line where the JSA used to be? The storyline unfolds at a fictitious setting that sees the Korean peninsula “on the verge of unification”, where a band of, perhaps opportunistic, robbers in Hahoe masks use the chaos to plan a heist within the Unified Korea Mint. That was the part I put the most effort in,” he started. Korean content is now so beloved by so many people all around the world, probably because the content creators have such clever ideas and smart approaches, and that was done on this show as well; our own charms and sense of humour were infused into the show.” I thought if we translate the background and characters, we can birth something novel.” The hit series, also known as La Casa de Papel, streamed on Netflix to much fanfare, and gained quite the cult following way before Part 5 wrapped up in December last year.

This article, “do Rio and Tokyo get together,” contains spoilers regarding the Netflix K-Drama series Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area season 1,

For instance, The Professor and Seon Woojin have sex in part 1, and so do Denver and Youn Misun. It feels like he was confessing his feelings for Tokyo in this moment, but the series does not strongly hammer it home. But I suppose with all the tension the characters have to go through, it’s no surprise that some of them feel hot and heavy for each other to relieve the tension.

Meet Netflix's new cast of thieves from 'Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area,' including Park Hae-soo, Yoo Ji-tae, and Jeon Jong-soo.

Helsinki and Oslo are the muscle of the team, two ethnic Koreans who are former members of a Chinese gang. Nairobi is a charming con-woman who has extensive experience with counterfeits, which comes in handy in the mint. Moscow's hard-headed son Denver is a notorious gangster and fighter, who can't seem to stay out of trouble. After being scammed and discriminated against, the young woman is on the verge of giving up when the Professor asks her to join the heist. Berlin, who leads the thieves inside the mint, is a North Korean prisoner who escaped after living in a concentration camp for 24 years. Moscow is an expert miner who's in charge of building a tunnel under the mint.

Wondering if 'Money Heist: Korea' Will have a Season 2? Here's your guide to what we know about 'Money Heist: Korea's new episodes.

Based on this timeline, it seems to take about a year to a year and a half to make a new season of this particular remake. If it really only takes a year and Netflix quickly renews Money Heist: Korea, we’ll likely see Season 2 in the summer of 2023. But if Money Heist: Korea is even half as popular as the original La Casa de Papel, we’re going to be seeing a new season. Consider this your guide to when you can expect new episodes of Money Heist: Korea. We’re definitely getting new episodes, but we don’t yet know if we’re going to get a whole new season. After all, the break between Money Heist’s two-part final season was only a few months.

The Money Heist formula is given a Korean twist when the Professor and his crew target the mint for an area managed by both North and South Korea.

Sleeper Star: Park Hae-soo is Berlin, who is one of the few people to escape a North Korean concentration camp. It speaks to the idea that the Koreas are going to reunite in the near future, and inserting the possible issues that a reunification will bring up makes for story elements that will separate this version from the Spanish original. Part of that plan includes getting into a shootout with police, putting the hostages in their signature jumpsuits and masks, and getting South Korean negotiator Seon Woo-jin (Kim Yun-jin) to inadvertently help them out, especially against the more militaristic-minded North Korean Captain Cha Moo-hyuk (Kim Sung-oh). That will be the target of a new Professor and his city-named gang of thieves. Now the long version: Money Heist: Korea brings up all of the same haves and have-nots issues that drove the Spanish original, but adds in everything that has made Korean dramas like Squid Game popular here in the States. The Professor and the members of his crew are all introduced in ways that show immediately what they bring to the team, with Tokyo being our narrator and the person much of the story revolves around. We see how she turned to petty crimes after moving to the JEA, and The Professor saved her from getting killed doing those risky robberies.

Against The Professor's orders, Berlin uses fear to take control of the heist. A recap of episode two of season one of Netflix's 'Money Heist: Korea.'

While the Professor may have planned this entire thing, his control has limits now that he is physically removed from the scene. Her mom seems to have dementia and is not interested in going to the hospital about it. • When Rio sees Berlin send Denver to kill Mi-seon, he runs to get Tokyo rather than answer the Professor’s phone call. As the episode progresses and we learn more about Denver through his many emotional outbursts, it becomes clear that he is at least partially driven by a desire to secure the kind of outcome for this (maybe) baby that he never had: one with a mom who is present. (The actress playing Ann is 24. We don’t know much about the Professor yet, and I’m sure that, like all of these characters, he’s experienced some real hardship, but Berlin and his North Korean cigarettes are still judging him. (True, my girl’s got a lot going on.) The tears stay in his eyes even after Woo-jin has gone, and we’re left to wonder: Is this all an act, or does he have feelings for her? For the viewer, it’s proof that Young-min is spineless (but also understandably scared). He is part of a team holding this woman and her co-workers hostage, and he is worried the proffered milk might be too cold for her fragile, (maybe) pregnant body. She went to work in the morning thinking her biggest problem was telling her selfish boss/lover that she is (maybe) pregnant with his child — which, to be fair, does sound like a pretty shitty day — only to be embroiled in a terrifying hostage situation. “Don’t resent me for this,” is the last thing Denver says to Mi-seon before pulling the trigger off-screen. In Kacheon, Berlin learned to become the biggest bully.

Mmm, it's not great that the heist has descended into complete chaos. A recap of episode three of season one of Netflix's 'Money Heist: Korea.'

Is it a matter of ethics?” He really is trying to understand why the Professor might want to avoid killing people. • There’s some effective editing in this episode, seen in subtle moments like a cut of the Professor opening his cafe door to Nairobi opening the office door to the robber’s group meeting. Denver is called Taek-su. The Professor is called Sun-ho — or at least that is the name he has given Woo-jin. This show follows the blueprint left by La Casa de Papel, but that show was set in our world and therefore had a different, easier relationship to establishing the setting. Moscow is probably afraid of many things, but he is most afraid of his son being doomed to a life like his. Later in the episode, we see more of Denver’s street fighter moves as he tries to take down Oslo, who is not easily felled. What will it mean for Woo-jin, who gave the order to shoot a hostage? Even when self-preservation is the emotion that fuels actions, how the surrounding mess of humans responds can be unpredictable. Berlin uses the group’s eventual confirmation of his leadership as proof that his strategy is working and that fear is the best motivator. It’s why he is so distraught when he thinks Denver has killed Mi-seon. It’s what drives him out onto the steps of the Mint and into the crosshairs of the waiting task force. It was probably inevitable, given that there are so many factors and he is physically distant from the action. I’m not talking about an emo Batman staring off into the rainy mists of Gotham; I’m talking about the physical and mental consequences that come with causing others pain.

With its plot-packed first season comprising just 6 extra-long episodes, the show somehow manages to both way too long and way too short all at the same ...

From Denver (Kim Ji-hoon) to Moscow (Won-jong Lee) to Rio (Hyun-Woo Lee) to Nairobi (Yoon-ju Jang) to Helsinki (Ji-Hoon Kim) to Oslo (Kyu-Ho Lee), they are styled the same, act the same, and are given the same mannerisms—down, and I am not kidding, to Denver’s iconic laugh. Of course, the trouble is, if you establish that any follow-up Money Heist exists in the same universe as the original Money Heist, then you’re stuck connecting them all, which in turn would mean that the genius required for each subsequent team to make their way into their respective national mint to would only ever grow exponentially. I mean, given that the point La Casa de Papel went to such pains to underscore when launching that crew’s follow-up heist was that the Professor’s first plan was so ideologically effective that it had caused a global upswell of popular anti-capitalist fervor, expanding that movement in a tangible way to other countries just makes sense. But at the same time, is it likely that any warning one grumpy critic might give about the (too-long) length of Joint Economic Area’s episodes or the (too-short) length of its season will keep the Korean language market holdouts Netflix is clearly targeting this project to from finally springing for their own Netflix subscription? When the Professor gives her something much more tangible to fight for—taking from the haves to give to the have-nots who had no say in how reunification rolled out but are suffering all the same—she understands its value implicitly; when she picks her code name, she does so with articulate, culturally resonant aggression, choosing the clearest signal she can to let the world know that “[they’re] gonna do something bad.” This is great! On the South Korean side, you have negotiation specialist Seon Woojin (Lost’s Yunjin Kim), an almost perfect analogue of Itziar Ituño’s Raquel Murillo down to her abusive ex-husband, her dangerously senile mother, and her tendency to pull her hair int a ponytail before getting down to business trying to rescue hostages. Based on Álex Pina’s Madrid-set La Casa de Papel (aka Money Heist), the cumbersomely titled Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area is the first of what are sure to be many international La Casa de Papel remakes. Not only does the clash between South Korea’s aggressively capitalist 21st century culture and North Korea’s equally aggressive communist one make for compelling, believable tension—both between the members of the heist team and between those of the negotiation task force—but it also gives the writers the opportunity to be dead clear, from the very start, about the sociopolitical and ideological motivations behind the Professor’s plan. In Joint Economic Area’s version of things, this makes Tokyo (Jeon Jong-seo) not an impulsive party girl burning the candle at all ends, but rather an ex-North Korean soldier who, having found herself violently disenchanted by the South’s false promises of neoliberal capitalism, is recruited by the Professor (a suitably charming but may not so convincingly nebbish Yoo Ji-Tae) after she’s gone on a murderous vigilante rampage against the predatory loan sharks taking advantage of North Korean women like her. From the standpoint of someone who just wants TV to embrace (or even just understand!!) the things that make TV a uniquely effective artform, this is an enormous bummer. To their credit, when it came to trimming enough fat off the Casa de Papel plot that Joint Economic Area mirrors with almost maddening exactitude (I’ll get to that in a minute), writers Ryu Yong-jae, Kim Hwan-chae, and Choe Sung-jun at least chose to excise the original’s most toxic storylines—e.g., Berlin’s sociopathic hostage-rape-as-relationship arc, and Ángel’s extramarital romantic fixation on Raquel—proving, in the process, how completely unnecessary either was to the Spanish series. Too unwieldy to maintain any kind of meaningful narrative rhythm—not least in the context of a densely plotted heist story!—each 70(ish)-minute episode of Joint Economic Area stretches the viewer’s patience past the point of breaking.

Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area pilfers Spain's global blockbuster series with a fresh take on the gang of robbers and the greatest heist ever.

The tried-and-true Money Heist fans won’t get their fix of the groundbreaking franchise, just a reminder of how great it was and how Money Heist: Korea pales in comparison. The biggest failing of Money Heist: Korea is that it doesn’t deliver cliffhangers like the original. In Money Heist: Korea, the Professor hides out in a café he launched as part of the plot. But disregarding having seen it before, Money Heist: Korea lacks the cinematic pacing of the original. There’s a sense of humor to Money Heist that emerges in the first episode when Rio (Miguel Herrán), Denver (Jaime Lorente), Moscow (Paco Tous), and Berlin (Pedro Alonso) discuss if the Dali mask is scary enough. Despite the undisguised communism versus capitalism themes (and it’s important here to remember that Money Heist: Korea is produced in South Korea) the show lacks the subversiveness of original had with its political commentary. After the original series became a banner for the resistance, Money Heist: Korea is more self-aware of its potential as a protest parable, but that nearly undoes its effectiveness here. Instead of the Royal Mint of Spain, Money Heist: Korea targets this Mint in the Joint Economic Area for their heist. His mother was shot and killed right in front of him when he was a child when they tried to cross the border to the south. Set in 2025, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area imagines North and South Korea on the brink of reunification. The original Money Heist became an international symbol of discontent and resistance. The breakout success of Money Heist took the world by storm.

Rounding out the team are Berlin (Park Hae-soo), Moscow (Lee Won-jong), Denver (Kim Ji-hun), Rio (Lee Hyun-woo), Nairobi (Jang Yoon-ju), Helsinki (Kim Ji-hoon) ...

And because the Professor taps criminals from both sides of the border — Tokyo is among the North Koreans handpicked for the heist — “Money Heist: Korea” joins other K-dramas including “Squid Game” and “Crash Landing on You” in offering a rare window into life in the totalitarian dictatorship. “And Netflix, which has heavily invested in K-dramas in recent years, regularly encourages subscribers to overcome the ‘one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles,’ as ‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon-ho memorably called them, with foreign programming and international reality franchises.” (“Money Heist: Korea” is available with English subtitles or dubbed in English like the original.) “Money Heist: Korea” is subtitled “Joint Economic Area” because the series takes place in a near-future that finds North Korea and South Korea on the cusp of reunification. The characters in “Money Heist: Korea” use the exact same monikers. Fans of the original “Money Heist” know that the Professor’s recruits use international city names to hide their identities from one another during their criminal exploits. But the latest iteration manages to feel like a different show because it’s specific to its setting — and very much a K-drama. Here is everything you need to know about “Money Heist: Korea.”

Apart from the fresh background against which the heist unfolds, the show remains an almost faithful remake of the original and it is this predictability ...

There’s palpable tension between the workers at the Mint, and the task force officials who are both from North and South Korea. We also get elaborate backstories for some characters rooted in the social and economic outcomes of the geopolitical changes that have taken place. The six episodes set the stage for a second season, and end on a cliffhanger. Apart from the fresh background against which the heist unfolds, the show remains an almost faithful remake of the original and it is this predictability which becomes its undoing. A soldier and a BTS fan who moves from North Korea to the South, Tokyo (Jeon Jong-So) soon takes to crime before she is scouted by the Professor to join his crew of thieves. South Korean shows over the last year have done exceptionally well for the platform, with the likes of Squid Game and All of us are Dead still being discovered on a daily basis. Berlin (Park Hae-Soo) is the only one who has managed to make it out of a North Korean Labour camp where he was imprisoned for 25 years.