Lee Byunghun & Han Jimin Begin Production on 'The Koreans,' A Reimagined Version of Hit Show 'The Americans'
Lee Byunghun and Han Jimin are starring in a new TV series!
The South Korean actors will lead The Koreans for Disney+ and Hulu, and production has begun, the streamers reveal.
The Koreans is a reimagining of the hit FX series The Americans, which starred real-life couple Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, who started dating after reconnecting while working on the show.
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Here’s a synopsis: Set during the wave of democratization and cultural modernization that swept across South Korea in the early 1990s, The Koreans will follow a middle-class family hiding a treasonous secret. While seemingly ordinary citizens in the eyes of their friends, neighbors, and even their children, both parents are actually elite North Korean spies working to bring down the South from within. Highlighting the stark difference between these two formerly united countries, the series will follow the spies as they wrestle with conflicting feelings of patriotism, loyalty, identity and love, while a ruthless Korean counterintelligence agent draws ever closer to discovering their identities.
Lee and Han will star as the undercover spies in the upcoming series.
Ahn Gilho will direct the series, which was adapted by Park Eunkyo.
The Koreans is set to stream on Disney+ internationally and on Hulu in the United States.