Director Kim Tae-kyun of ‘The Witch’ revealed his desire, “I want to tell the story of someone‘s sincerity that was not ignored when everyone was labeling them.”

Channel A’s new Saturday-Sunday drama ‘The Witch’ (directed by Kim Tae-kyun, written by Jo Yoo-jin, planned by Channel A, produced by Showbox, Mr. Romance, overseas distribution by A&E Korea) is a mystery romance between ‘Dong-jin’ (Park Jin-young), a man who tries to break the laws of bad luck surrounding women called witches, and ‘Mi-jeong’ (Noh Jeong-eui), a woman who became the seed of tragedy and cut herself off from the world, and who end up saving each other after a journey that they do not give up on. The dramatization of the popular webtoon ‘The Witch’ by Kang Full, the author of ‘Moving’, ‘The Lighting Store’, and ‘The Fool’, is garnering much anticipation.

Director Kim Tae-gyun, who especially displayed his dense directing skills through the movie ‘Dark Figure of Crime’, has added his own sensuous interpretation to herald the birth of another well-made drama that continues the worldview of writer Kang Full.

Director Kim Tae-gyun said, “I‘m a fan of writer Kang Full, and I thought his works had something in common emotionally”, and he said that there was an unexpected point of connection between his representative works, ‘Dark Figure of Crime’ and ‘The Witch’.

Director Kim said, “‘Dark Figure of Crime’ is the story of a detective tracking down a hidden truth that no one in the world is interested in. And in the end, he ‘excavates’ who the victim is. In a way, uncovering the truth until the end, who the victim is and how they died, is salvation. He explained, “‘The Witch’ is also a similar story.”

In ‘The Witch’, Dong-jin is a character who pursues the truth. In a society where many people label a person a ‘Witch’ and turn their backs on them, he is the only character who has truth and sincerity, saying, “That’s not true.”.

Regarding this, Director Kim Tae-kyun stated, “The sincerity of the only person who wanted to save the ‘Witch’ who was cut off from the world convinced me and led me to this work.”.

Also, what made Mi-jeong a ‘Witch’ is the extreme and irrational collective emotion of hatred for others. However, ironically, the way to save the witch is the truth that can only be understood rationally. In this way, irrationality and reason collide in ‘The Witch’, and the irony that arises between them leads to the love of salvation. They say that if you like Mijung, death will follow, so Dongjin embarks on a dangerous journey risking his life.

Director Kim Tae-kyun added, “Dongjin, who has become a ‘data miner’ with the best treatment in the industry, tracks down events that happened in the past one by one to ‘excavate’ facts, and filters and organizes useful information from that large amount of data.” He further explained the journey to find the Witch‘s Law.

What kind of data will Dongjin collect and how will he mine it? What secrets are hidden in the Witch’s Law that Mijung could not escape, and how will their fates save each other?

‘The Witch’ will premiere on Saturday, February 15th at 9:10 PM as the follow-up to ‘Check In Hanyang’.

Photo=Showbox, Mr. Romance

Reporter Lee Seul-bi, Donga.com misty82@donga.com

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