"Who's that woman?"
In AppleTV+ original drama 'Pachinko', the fish broker Hansoo (Lee Min-ho) is curious about the good man (Kim Min-ha) who walks the Busan fish market with a strong foot. Hansu is looking at herself in the mature Feelings girl who is strange in the strange appearance of the face, the pure atmosphere, and the young appearance. Like the Zen, actor Kim Min-ha has stimulated the curiosity of viewers around the world with his subtle charm.
'Pachinko' is an epic drama that depicts the modern and contemporary history of Korea from the 1910s to the 1980s as a turbulent story of the first Korean family who went to Korea, Japan, United States of America. All of them were released until the eighth episode on the 29th; Kim Min-ha played the young days of the heroine, the Sunja. The Zen was born in Busan Youngdo between a lame and uninformed father and a mother who was the youngest daughter of a poor house. After leaving his father, who had tuberculosis at the age of 13, the Zen runs a boarding house with his mother and makes a living. The Zen conceives a married man's child, becomes a pastor's wife, leaves his hometown, settles in Japan, and grows two sons alone after losing his husband. Kim Min-ha portrays the toughness and frustration in it while playing the Zen who must survive even if it is a tough life.
In Korea, Lee Min-ho, 'Pachinko', better known for his appearances in Yoon, but the actual protagonist is Kim Min-ha. Kim Min-ha made her debut as a web drama in 2016 and starred as a supporting actor in "School 2017" and "Sword and Law Man and Woman". It is surprising that the main character of the masterpiece, which cost about 100 billion won in Apple, is a new actor who is not known in Korea, but he can not help but nod his head after seeing his performance.
Kim Min-ha, who said he had only seen Audition for three to four months, said, "The Audition method I have not tried so far has been hard, but I have got more. It was time to look back at myself, and I learned to listen to someone's story with my heart. " "It contains what happened in Korea and historical events, but it focuses on a more humane appearance. I have a strong sense of responsibility and pride to be able to represent a strong woman and mother in the story. "
In the play, the Zen makes love to Hansu with his body and mind; Kim Min-ha said of Lee Min-ho and affectionate deity: "It was short but intense; I poured a lot of emotions and thoughts. Love was intense because it was a god that showed a lot beyond emotion. " Lee Min-ho said, "I first saw Kim Min-ha and the chemistry Audition, and I received Feelings as a good man." "I think I have been together three or four times. I was surprised and I remember that I was playing wildly as Feelings."
Foreign media have been well received for Kim Min-ha's strong performance and character interpretive power, including "excellently depicting the Zen, a survivor of the times, and showing both the weak and strong sides of the character" (Indiwire), "easily possessing the amazing ability to capture and express the character's fragility and strength at the same time" (Collider).
The surprise to Kim Min-ha in foreign media is not only his powerful performance but also his excellent English ability comparable to native speakers. Kim Min-ha, who has not been abroad for several months and has never been abroad, has interviewed the 'Pachinko' World Premiere and foreign media in United States of America LA without interpreting. Kim Min-ha's fluent English skills are thanks to his harsh education by his mother, who wanted to become an English professor. He said, "I liked to see Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings, but when I saw foreign currency, I had to see it without subtitles. When I saw a movie with an original, there was a rule to see the original work in English first. " "When I was a kid, I didn't want to study English so much. I cried all the time because I didn't want to. I cried while memorizing words in the bathroom. "Her strictness to keep rules that I do not want to do is the basis for her emergence as the next generation global actor.
The reason why 'Pachinko' and the main character Kim Min-ha are more talked about overseas than domestic is because Apple TV + viewing is still limited in Korea. Android operating system users can not download the app, so there are fewer paid subscribers, and the content in service is not much higher than other OTTs. Kim Min-ha first announced his face overseas because Apple's iOS users are more overseas than domestic ones.
The first episode of "Pachinko", which was released free of charge through YouTube, exceeded 10 million views. AppleTV + also confirmed the production of "Pachinko" Season 2. More viewers can see the 'Pachinko' and Kim Min-ha's Zen. In Season 2, it is expected that the figure of the ancestor who is responsible for the livelihood of his family members will be drawn in earnest. Kim Min-ha is expected to perform sophisticated acting in the form of a strong woman who endures discrimination and oppression in other countries in the turbulent era and protects her family.