{"id":152948,"date":"2024-01-10T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/?p=152948"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:24:41","slug":"gyeongseong-creature-streaming-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/gyeongseong-creature-streaming-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyeongseong Creature – streaming review"},"content":{"rendered":"

K-dramas (from South Korea), have been making a huge impact on Netflix in the past few years (e.g. Squid Game), with one of them, The Glory, making it into the top 10 for 2023. Gyeongseong Creature arrived with much hype, with the irresistible pairing of a couple of well-loved actors \u2013 Park Seo-Jun and Han So-Hee \u2013 and yes, a creature.<\/p>\n

Regular audiences of K-dramas will know that they often have the production values of big budget feature films, with sumptuous settings and stunning, cinematic framing of every shot. The episodes are a full meal and yet somehow leave you wanting more.<\/p>\n

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Such is the case with Gyeongseong Creature, set just before the end of WWII, when the Japanese are the intimidating occupiers of Korea. Deep in the bowels of Onseong Hospital, terrible medical experiments are being done on the poor souls unfortunate to find themselves locked up there. These happenings are based on fact, which makes them all the more disturbing and sometimes hard to watch. The Japanese see the locals \u2013 who they call by the derogatory name of Josenjing \u2013 as inferior beings to themselves and they show no mercy or humanity towards them.<\/p>\n

Park Seo-Jun plays Jang Tae-Saeng, the owner of a pawnshop who actually has his hands in a lot of what goes on in the district of Gyeongseong. He knows people and has influence and money. He’s ordered by a high-ranking Japanese official to find his missing Korean mistress. While on the case, he crosses paths with Chae-ok (Han So-Hee) and her father (Jo Han-Chul), who are sleuths looking for her mother and his wife who disappeared ten years earlier.<\/p>\n

They join forces and end up in the dreaded Ongseong Hospital, where they encounter a frightening monster created by the Japanese. This brings about several extended chase scenes where the heroes have to dodge the numerous forces trying to do them harm, mainly the occupiers who aren\u2019t happy about what they\u2019ve been getting up to being revealed to the world.<\/p>\n

With superstar Park in the lead role \u2013 known for romantic comedies such as What\u2019s Wrong With Secretary Kim? and She Was Pretty, and the harder hitting drama, Itaewon Class \u2013 you know that there will be some romantic tension. He and Han manage to make eyes at each other in between running for their lives, and being shot at and beaten to a pulp.<\/p>\n