{"id":48998,"date":"2026-05-01T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48998"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:11:41","slug":"disney-k-drama-gold-land-crime-thriller-with-park-bo-young-is-polished-but-lacks-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48998","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ K-drama Gold Land: crime thriller with Park Bo-young is polished but lacks urgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/01\/78996dd5-390f-436b-a718-d60bc1bd9835_b66febb3.jpg?itok=j3laWXHL&amp;v=1777630726\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Lead cast:<\/strong> Park Bo-young, Kim Sung-cheol, Kim Hee-won, Lee Kwang-soo<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Disney+\u2019s latest Korean drama series is the crime show <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Gold Land<\/em>, 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 <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Park Bo-young<\/span> refers to.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There are several casinos peppered around South Korea, but they only admit foreign nationals \u2013 visitors to the country\u2019s international airports are generally greeted by ads for them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There is only one casino that allows Korean residents, which happens to be in the mountains in the northeast, although it is a far more humble establishment than Gold Land \u2013 which looms large over the local town and is visible from any street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-drama\/article\/3352155\/disney-k-drama-gold-land-crime-thriller-park-bo-young-polished-lacks-urgency?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead cast: Park Bo-young, Kim Sung-cheol, Kim Hee-won, Lee Kwang-soo Disney+\u2019s latest Korean drama series is the crime show Gold Land, which takes the popular&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[21795,1372,2710,6999,6545,19441,3607,1677,21796,7333,21797],"class_list":["post-48998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-boyoung","tag-crime","tag-disney","tag-gold","tag-kdrama","tag-lacks","tag-land","tag-park","tag-polished","tag-thriller","tag-urgency","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}