Hostage Drama from JK Films Aims for Chuseok Holiday
The upcoming star-studded Korean hostage thriller
The Negotiation will hit screens in September, just in time for the busy Chuseok holiday. From first-time director LEE Jong-
seok, the film features popular names
SON Ye-jin and
Hyun-bin.
SON plays Chae-
yoon, a hostage negotiator for the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency who goes head-to-head with
Hyun-bin’s weapons smuggler Tae-goo, who stages a hostage scenario that Chae-
yoon only has 12 hours to solve.
Last seen in the 2017 Lunar New Year box office champ
Confidential Assignment (2017) and the crime drama
The Swindlers (2017),
Hyun-bin takes on his first villain role in
The Negotiation. He will also be seen in the period action-horror
Rampant, scheduled for release in October.