Hwang had scripted the nine-part show back in 2008, drawing from his own humble beginnings and the financial struggle he faced growing up, but the idea was rejected by the production houses that he approached. Each ‘death’ adds KRW 100 million to the winner’s purse.Īmong the players is a driver played by the actor Lee Jung-jae, who has incurred massive debts because of his gambling addiction a former investment expert, played by Park Hae-soo who appeared in the 2017 Korean drama Prison Playbook, who has stolen from his clients and is fleeing the police and a North Korean refugee played by Jung Ho-yeon, who will move heaven and earth to get her remaining family across from the North.Įach of the players is at a very high level of desperation, which is their motivation to play the fatal game.
The players are sequestered in a giant warehouse, and monitored at all times by guards in masks and pink bodysuits, as they play unto death.
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