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The second season of one of the best television shows currently on streaming is finally here. Pachinko Season 2 just premiered, and once again, we are thrown back into the lives of Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung/Minha Kim) and her grandson, Solomon (Jin Ha). As our main protagonists for this intergenerational story, Pachinko follows two timelines as it explores a Korean family's experience living in Japan. Season 2 kicks off in 1989 for Solomon, shortly after being fired from Shiffley's, with him trying to cobble together his destroyed career. In 1945, we follow Sunja as World War II is raging and Japan is in the thick of it. Once again she meets Hansu (Lee Minho), who implores her to leave Osaka, though Sunja is adamant in staying until her husband, Isak (Noh Sang-hyun) is brought back from political prison. The premiere promises an even more dramatic and complicated season than the show's Freshman turn.
Koh Hansu has always been the complicated antagonist of the series whose constant morally dubious acts contrast with his love for both Sunja and his son Noa (Kim Kang-hoon). In the first season, we saw him fall in love with Sunja only for him to offer her a life as his mistress rather than his wife when she gets pregnant, forcing Sunja to marry Isak in order to protect her reputation. We see him continuously making questionable decisions, only to learn in the penultimate episode of the season that he has been forced down the path of this morally ambiguous life.
We learned his backstory and the tragic loss he faced during the Great Kantō Earthquake, where he not only lost his father but witnessed mobs of vigilante Japanese people use Koreans as a scapegoat and brutally attack and murder them. Despite now also being a war profiteer (mining and selling tungsten during the war), he still maintains his close eye on Sunja and Noa, unable to stay away.
We spoke with actor Lee Minho about his role as Hansu, discussing returning to Pachinko for Season 2 after the success of Season 1. We also discussed that penultimate episode from Season 1 and Hansu's complex relationship with Sunja.
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The second season of one of the best television shows currently on streaming is finally here. Pachinko Season 2 just premiered, and once again, we are thrown back into the lives of Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung/Minha Kim) and her grandson, Solomon (Jin Ha). As our main protagonists for this intergenerational story, Pachinko follows two timelines as it explores a Korean family's experience living in Japan. Season 2 kicks off in 1989 for Solomon, shortly after being fired from Shiffley's, with him trying to cobble together his destroyed career. In 1945, we follow Sunja as World War II is raging and Japan is in the thick of it. Once again she meets Hansu (Lee Minho), who implores her to leave Osaka, though Sunja is adamant in staying until her husband, Isak (Noh Sang-hyun) is brought back from political prison. The premiere promises an even more dramatic and complicated season than the show's Freshman turn.
Koh Hansu has always been the complicated antagonist of the series whose constant morally dubious acts contrast with his love for both Sunja and his son Noa (Kim Kang-hoon). In the first season, we saw him fall in love with Sunja only for him to offer her a life as his mistress rather than his wife when she gets pregnant, forcing Sunja to marry Isak in order to protect her reputation. We see him continuously making questionable decisions, only to learn in the penultimate episode of the season that he has been forced down the path of this morally ambiguous life.
We learned his backstory and the tragic loss he faced during the Great Kantō Earthquake, where he not only lost his father but witnessed mobs of vigilante Japanese people use Koreans as a scapegoat and brutally attack and murder them. Despite now also being a war profiteer (mining and selling tungsten during the war), he still maintains his close eye on Sunja and Noa, unable to stay away.
We spoke with actor Lee Minho about his role as Hansu, discussing returning to Pachinko for Season 2 after the success of Season 1. We also discussed that penultimate episode from Season 1 and Hansu's complex relationship with Sunja.
#pachinko #LeeMinho #pachinkoseason2
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