Lee Byung Hun, Han Ji Min headline Korean adaptation of 'The Americans'

MANILA, Philippines — A Korean adaptation of award-winning series "The Americans" is currently in production, streaming platform Disney+ confirmed.

The original Cold War-set show created by Joe Weisberg, which he ran with Joel Fields for six seasons, starred Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Soviet intelligence officers posing as an American married couple.

"The Americans" won a rare two Peabody Awards and the Golden Globe for Best Television Series (Drama) for its last season. It also won four of its eighteen Emmy nominations, two of them for guest actress Margo Martindale, on top of guild recognitions.

This new adaptation — aptly named "The Koreans" — will follow the same premise but in a Korean context, with two elite North Korean spies pretending to be South Korean married parents during the early 1990s as the country experiences a wave of democratization and cultural modernization.

"Highlighting the stark difference between these two formerly united countries, the series will follow the spies as they wrestle with conflicting feelings of patriotism, loyalty, identity and love, while a ruthless Korean counterintelligence agent draws ever closer to discovering their identities," goes the show's logline.

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Korean stars Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min will play the married couple under the direction of Ahn Gil-ho, whose previous projects include "The Glory," "Record of Youth," "Memories of the Alhambra," "Stranger" and "Marry My Husband."

"Made in Korea" and "Mother" screenwriter Park Eun-kyo will adapt the story while IMAGINUS and Studio AA, the companies behind "Tempest," will produce.

Locally, Byung-hun is best known for "Squid Game," "Joint Security Area," "Concrete Utopia," and "No Other Choice" while internationally viewers will know him from "KPop Demon Hunters," "The Magnificent Seven" and two "G.I. Joe" movies.

Ji-min, meanwhile, starred in "Jewel in the Palace," "Lee San, Wind of the Palace," and "The Practical Guide to Love," and previously worked with Byung-hun on "Our Blues" and "All In."

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