Sungkyu Kim and Lee Minho in the second season of ‘Pachinko’.
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A Korean family’s generations-long struggle with war, forbidden romance, and business survival continues in the second season trailer for Apple TV+. Pachinko, which falls on Monday.
The parallel storyline in the latest series teaser sees Minha Kim starting out in Osaka, Japan, in 1945 as young Sunja who makes dangerous decisions to ensure her family’s survival in wartime, before Marking Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn as the elderly Sunja, now a grandmother, is shown with her Western-educated grandson Solomon Baek (Jin Ha) in 1989 Tokyo.
Time-hopping trilingual English Pachinko The trailer shows financier Solomon grappling with his family roots and the biggest deal of his career as an American-educated Japanese businessman pursuing his own fortune and future.
“Don’t forget who you are. Can you do that?” Sunja, now the older head of the family, asks Solomon at one point in the trailer. After all, the Baek family’s story spanning four generations — and told in Korean, Japanese, and English — raises the question: Is Solomon Korean, Japanese, or American?
The look of surprise on his face as his grandmother warns him not to forget his family heritage suggests Solomon doesn’t know himself as he enters into a business relationship with a Japanese businessman in the second season of this generational tale. “I’ll find a way. You know I will,” Solomon tells Naomi, played by Shogun Anna Sawai star.
The season two trailer also flashes back to Sunja as a young adult, played by Minha Kim, who reunites with her ex-lover Koh Hansu (Lee Minho) in wartime Osaka after 14 years apart. Sunja asks how he found her. “I never lost you,” he replies.
Pachinko Creator Soo Hugh has repeatedly said that he has plans for four seasons (with eight episodes in each) to tell the sprawling, multigenerational story based on Min Jin Lee’s 2017 novel of the same name for Apple TV+.
Produced by Media Res studio, Pachinko created and written by Hugh, who serves as executive producer. Pachinko produced by Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer of Media Res, and Theresa Kang for Blue Marble Pictures.
The second season trailer features a new cover of Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” as the score performed by Rosé of K-pop group Blackpink. Apple TV+ will premiere the second season Pachinko globally on August 23 with one episode, followed by weekly episodes every Friday until October 11.
