The director of the second season of Gyeongseong Creature talks about the historical theme and explains that it is not anti-Japanese

By Park Jin-hai

This article contains spoilers for Gyeongseong creature Season one.

The director of Netflix Gyeongseong creatureChung Dong-yoon, expressed his surprise and gratitude at the global response to the drama series, especially from Japan.

He acknowledged the difficulties of crafting a narrative based on the harsh historical reality of Japanese military experiments during South Korea’s colonial period, when the country was under Japanese rule.

“Given the influence of the Korean Wave [the rise in global popularity of Korean popular culture]Especially in Japan, Korean actors have been reluctant to take on projects of this kind for almost a decade.