Hwang Jung Min and Jung Hae In's new film, "I, the Executioner," reached a milestone!
Heo Joon Ho and Park Hyung Sik's new K-drama is confirmed to premiere on SBS.
On September 17, SBS confirmed the production of the upcoming political K-drama Treasure Island. Heo Joon Ho and Park Hyung Sik are the confirmed main leads. The broadcast channel also revealed that the series will air in 2025.
Treasure Island will tell the story of a man who got the opportunity to hack a political slush fund account amounting to 2 trillion Korean won (approximately $1.5 billion) to survive and the man who killed the hacker without knowing that he got hacked and blew away his money.
The upcoming K-drama will be the collaboration work of director Jin Chang Gyu (Military Prosecutor Doberman) and writer Lee Myung Hee (Money Flower and Oh My Geum Bi).
Aside from Heo Joon Ho and Park Hyung Sik, actors Hong Hwa Yeon, Woo Hyun, Lee Hae Young, and Yoon Sang Hyeon will also be part of the cast.
Treasure Island will exclusively premiere on SBS. The K-drama will have a total of 16 episodes and it will possibly premiere in the first half of next year.
Heo Joon Ho will portray the role of Yeom Jang Sun. He is a former officer of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and also a professor of law at a law school. He secretly controls everything in society and enjoys the power to move people around like puppets.
This will be the second upcoming K-drama of Heo Joon Ho for 2025. The veteran actor will also lead the new series Mercy for None with So Ji Sub, Ahn Kil Kang, Lee Bum Soo, Gong Myung, and more.
Park Hyung Sik will portray the role of Seo Dong Joo. He works as the head of the Public Affairs team of the Daesan Group's presidential office. Although he seems like the most loyal and will do anything for the Daesan group, he hides his desire to secretly swallow Daesan Group whole when an opportunity arises.
This K-drama will be the follow-up K-drama project of Park Hyung Sik after the popular series Doctor Slump. Aside from Treasure Island, the idol actor will also lead the upcoming melodrama Desperado directed by Jang Hoon (A Taxi Driver).
