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Posted in TRENDS on 29/09/2022 21:21
The new korean series Narco Saints which premiered on September 9 at Netflix just six chapters is already a resounding Success-less than a month after its premiere- on the platform of diffusion by telling a story, based on real events, where crime is the protagonist.
The Netflix series is in the Skin 10 Contents the most viewed on the platform. The story is directed and written by Yoon Jongbinwhich follows a businessman forced to risk his life to bring a prominent Korean drug lord operating in Suriname to justice.
While several elements of the story are fictional. The creator clarified that many details were dramatized. However, the existence of drug dealer It's true. The character is based on Jo Bong Haeing.
« A businessman joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America,” the official synopsis for “Narcosantos” on Netflix describes.
The series tells the story of Kang In-gu (Ha Jung-woo), a businessman who moves to Suriname to start a fish export business to Asia.
Driven by ambition, he and his partner catch the eye of one of the world's most powerful Asian drug lords. Soon they will be involved in a complex drug trafficking network.
The tipping point is when Kang is captured by South Korea's National Intelligence Service for his involvement in a cocaine shipment to Asia. The businessman intends to bring the real culprit to justice.
Narcosantos features an international cast including both Korean and international characters. Leading the cast are Ha Jung-woo (Entourage) as Kang In-gu and Hwang Jung-min as Jeon Yo-hwan, though the most popular face is probably Park Hae- soo (Memoirs of the Alhambra) for bringing Cho Sang-woo to life in The Squid Game and Berlin in The Paper House: Korea.
He plays the character of Choi Chang-ho. In all of this large-scale commotion, they're joined by Jo Woo-jin, Yoo Yeon-seok, Chang Chen, Jordan Preston (Ellas de la coup, Good Trouble), Daniel C. Kennedy (Squid Game) and Bryan Larkin (Vikings , Rosamund Pilcher).
Who was Jo Bong Haeing?
Although there is no record of a businessman who infiltrated Korean narco in South America, there was an Asian drug lord who built his empire from the American continent. It is about Jo Bong-Haeing, a criminal accused of having created the largest drug trafficking network between America and Asia in the world in the 1990s.
According to reports, the criminal moved to Suriname in 1994 when he was charged with fraud in his country. To survive, he approached major cocaine producers in the area and offered to work with them.
In 2009, authorities in Seoul identified Jo Bong for collaborating with one of Latin America's largest drug cartels in shipping more than 50 kilograms of pure cocaine. That same year, he was arrested in Brazil at the age of 59 and then extradited to South Korea.
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