‘Netflix Prince’ Park Hae-soo is back.

Park Hae-soo, who has been nicknamed ‘Netflix exclusive actor’ and even ‘Netflix civil servant’ for starring in the most Netflix original works, is aiming for global success by releasing four works in a row this year.

Park Hae-soo, who first formed a relationship with Netflix in 2019 with the original film ‘Persona’, has since released ‘Time to Hunt’, the three films ‘Yasha’, the first season of ‘Squid Game’, the ‘Money Heist: Joint Economic Zone’, and the ‘Suriname’ three-part series, presenting a total of six works through Netflix. In particular, ‘Squid Game’, released in 2021, rose to the ranks of ‘The highest grossing film of all time worldwide’, and instantly became a global star.

This year, he is releasing a series of highly anticipated works in collaboration with Netflix. The Netflix works that he will present to global viewers this year are the series ‘Evil Romance’, which will be released on April 4th, ‘The Price of Confession’, which is scheduled to be released in the second half of the year, and the films ‘The Great Flood’ and ‘Good News’.

‘Evil Romance’, which is being released first, is a crime thriller that depicts the story of six people entangled in a bad relationship that they want to escape from but cannot. Park Hae-soo plays the ‘Eyewitness’, who witnesses a suspicious accident in the middle of the night. He accepts the dangerous proposal of the ‘Glasses Man’ to cover up the accident and gets entangled in a bad relationship. Park Hae-soo described him as “a very interesting character with the gap between being a dogmatic and repulsive person, but also a foolish and stupid person,”, raising curiosity.

He said, “I have never encountered a work that strongly carries a story with such an extreme tone. The plot twist and the composition were really attractive,” and expressed his confidence that ‘Bad Relations’ will be a differentiated thriller.

Park Hae-soo‘s other series, ‘The Price of Confession’, is a work that depicts the hidden truth between a woman (Jeon Do-yeon) who is accused of killing her husband and another woman (Kim Go-eun) who is called a witch. In the drama, he plays a prosecutor who digs up the secrets of the two women while risking his beliefs and the honor of his organization. It is expected to portray a character who pursues the truth with sharp intuition and diligence as weapons.

In addition to the series, two original films are also waiting in the wings. ‘The Great Flood’, starring Kim Da-mi, is Netflix’s first disaster blockbuster, depicting a struggle in an apartment that is submerged in water on the last day of the Earth after a great flood. It also attracted attention as a work directed by Kim Byung-woo, who realistically depicted a terrorist disaster situation in ‘The Terror Live’ in 2018.

He will also appear in ‘Good News’, the new film by director Byun Sung-heon, who directed ‘The Villainess’, ‘Gil Bok-soon’. It is a film based on a true story that deals with the Yodoho incident that occurred in the 1970s, and stars Seol Kyung-gu, Hong Kyung, and Ryu Seung-beom.


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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