Gold Land
Overview
Gold Land is a gripping crime thriller series that follows Kim Hee Joo, an airport worker whose quiet life is upended by her boyfriend's gambling debt. Kim Hee Joo scans bags at an airport for a living. It is steady, invisible work and she is good at it. Then her boyfriend Do Kyung, a co pilot carrying massive gambling debt, drags her into something she never signed up for. She accidentally receives gold bars from a smuggling organisation and suddenly has 150 billion won sitting in her hands.
Cast
Park Bo-young
Kim Sung-cheol
Lee Hyun-wook
Kim Hee-won
Moon Jeong-Hee
Lee Kwang-soo
Fun Facts
- One of the biggest draws for this series is screenwriter Hwang Jo-yoon. He’s the legendary scribe behind the 2003 cult classic Oldboy, but his thriller resume is deep—he also wrote the heart-pounding Memoir of a Murderer and the historical action hit Masquerade. This marks his first-ever project for a streaming series, so expectations are sky-high.
- While the titular 'Gold Land' casino is a fictional hotspot for the Geumsung gang, the show's backdrop is grounded in reality. The story heavily features the characters' hometown which is a struggling, desolate area modeled after real South Korean mining towns that fell into decay after the coal industry collapsed. This 'forgotten town' vibe is used to emphasize why the characters are so desperate for the 150 billion won in gold.