Season 2 of Pachinko, starring Lee Min Ho, Kim Min Ha, Youn Yuh Jung and more, will premiere on August 23. The prequel was released in March 2022. Based on the novel by Min Jin Lee, the drama tells the story of a Korean immigrant family across four generations and how they survive. It tries to tell the story of a woman through the ages and her family.
Pachinko Review: The Story So Far
Sun Ja is the main character in Pachinko’s story. We follow the character from her childhood to late life, when she becomes a grandmother. She comes from a family of poverty, and the fact that she was born in colonial Korea doesn’t help her much.
The drama tells the story of her family, who run a guesthouse. She has been confronted with class differences since childhood. When she was young, she witnessed Japanese soldiers torturing the tenant who wanted a free Korea and realized what it means to rebel.
Young Sun Ja loses her father to tuberculosis and is raised by her mother.
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The love story of Kim Min Ha and Lee Min Ho
An older Sun Ja, played by Kim Min Ha, is young and spirited and falls in love with Lee Min Ho’s character, the charming Ko Han Su. He was a smart and brilliant young man who was good at mathematics. When he was younger, he had bright hope in his eyes and a desire for a successful future. He marries for convenience and starts a family. He is new to the fishing village and has all the means and money.
But when Sun Ja becomes pregnant and he tells her that he cannot marry her, she takes control of her pride and leaves him. Although he was willing to take care of her and her child, she did not want to be someone’s secret and live half a life.
Ko Han Su is a proud man, but one should not hurt that pride. After Sun Ja sells the pocket watch he gave her, he buys it back and vows that he will make her regret her decision. But deep down, he is also a caring father and always keeps an eye on his and Sun Ja’s son.
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Kim Min Ha’s new life with Noh Sang Hyun
Baek Isak is a preacher who is staying at Sun Ja’s guesthouse for a few days. Sun Ja is brave and is not afraid of starting a new life with Baek Isak in Japan. In a new country, she starts a new life with her husband, his brother and his wife. Even when Baek Isak is taken away due to suspicions, she stands firm and remains brave.
Although she left Korea at a young age, Korea has never left her. She always carries a part of it with her. When she is old, she returns to her hometown of Busan with her son and realizes that if she doesn’t leave now, she may never be able to travel there again.
Solomon’s Bow
Baek Solomon is Sun Ja’s grandson, who has a hunger for success that was also seen in previous generations of immigrants. He works for an American bank and is given the task of acquiring a piece of land from an old Korean lady in Japan. He tries to convince the lady to sell the land, but she refuses, no matter the price.
When the lady, Baek Solomon, and the bank employees sit together for a meeting, the lady asks him if he would ask his grandmother to sell her land after hearing about all the hardships she has been through. This completely changes his perspective on the situation. He changes his mind and changes his decision.
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