Lead cast: Park Bo-young, Kim Sung-cheol, Kim Hee-won, Lee Kwang-soo
Disney+’s latest Korean drama series is the crime show Gold Land, which takes the popular bag-of-money narrative trope and replaces it with a coffin full of gold bullion. Yet that is not the gold that the title of this series led by Park Bo-young refers to.
Gold Land is a gleaming casino that rises up from a densely wooded forest sitting within waves of nestled hills in northeastern South Korea. Gambling is technically outlawed in Korea, but this fictional casino is granted a permit to stimulate the flagging local economy, which is made up of jobbing miners and the struggling local businesses that support them.
