"This post include spoilers"
Disney Plus's Moving, which was reborn as a work that surpassed the original, which recorded 200 million views, is receiving the best praise and cheers from viewers around the world. With colorful actions and stories that show anything beyond imagination, and the actors' perfect acting, Moving is truly creating a game-changing sensation in the OTT market in the second half of the year.
The video below is a preview of episodes 12 to 13, and you can watch it by clicking on the video.
In addition to its solid original webtoon, Disney Plus's Moving is a perfect script written by Kang Pool to overcome the limitations of webtoons, giving viewers around the world more film works than a single movie, not a drama, in every episode.
This post is the third time after the last two posts that I would like to introduce several characters that are shining Disney Plus's Moving.
Now, let's meet other superheroes who are clearly showing the spicy taste of Korea.
Table of content
The video below is another hero's character video and you can watch it by clicking it.
Lee Jae-man (Kim Sung-kyun)
Lee Jae-man was born on December 2, 1964, is the father of Lee Kang-hoon and currently runs a supermarket (in the original work, a fruit store) with his wife.
He has some hearing and intellectual disabilities, and sometimes he can't control his anger, so he has several assault battles and records. However, he is a person with tremendous power and fast speed that surpasses Jang Jou-won.
In the past, he made a living by running a street stall in Cheonggyecheon Stream with his wife, and in 2003, street vendors were on the verge of being kicked out due to the Cheonggyecheon restoration project.
At that time, his wife joined the protesters, and Lee Jae-man, who saw his wife being dragged by riot police who were suppressing it, couldn't contain his anger and knocked down dozens of riot police at once.
Lee Jae-man, who was stopped by Jang Jou-won, who was urgently deployed to the scene, will be sentenced to 12 years in prison and serve in prison.
After being released from prison after his sentence, he sits on a flatbed in front of the supermarket all day, whether it's hot or cold, waiting for his son Lee Kang-hoon to come home from school.
One day, he visits the school because he is worried about what happened because his son, Lee Kang-hoon, did not come home late. But as soon as he sees his son in danger to the villains there, he can't control his anger and fights them with tremendous strength he's never shown before.
Jeon Kye-do (Cha Tae-hyun)
It is a character that does not appear in the original, and has the ability to handle electricity by inheriting his father's ability, and can generate electricity from his hands to manipulate the surrounding electricity or attack his opponent with that electricity.
And just as you touch an object that contains electricity, like a battery, you can take out electricity stored in a battery, you can read the memory of the person who touched it in the form of electricity.
Jeon Kye-do, who transferred from Sang Do High School to Jeong Won High School, received an agent suitability test from Choi Il-hwan under the pretext of entering a physical education college, but his basic physical strength and athletic ability are so ordinary that he will eventually be judged unfit.
He went to the Department of Broadcasting Entertainment at the recommendation of Choi Il-hwan, and later passed the audition for the 2nd term of the children's musical Lightning Man and worked as a Lightning Man for a while.
However, Jeon Kye-do, who failed to properly control his ability, caused frequent accidents during the performance, and eventually lost his job after being kicked out of the theater company.
Having been looking for jobs several times but kept failing, he found a bus that ran out of battery at an unexpected opportunity and charged the battery with his ability. That allowed him to get a job at a bus company and work as a bus driver.
When he returns to the company after finishing the bus service, he suddenly receives a sad news that his father has died. Jeon Kye-do, who finds out that it was Frank who killed his father through the batteries left at the scene of the accident, fights with Frank to get revenge, but he is no match for him.
Frank (Ryoo Seung-bum)
Frank, like Jeon Kye-do, is a character that is not in the original. He is a murder contractor dispatched to Korea to remove superpowers who retired from working as a member of the National Security Planning Agency(NSPA) or National Intelligence Service(NIS).
Born to a Korean mother who was singing in a bar and a U.S. military father, he was forcibly adopted to the United States by the CIA as a child.
Many children brought by the CIA had to kill each other mercilessly to become the final seven killers.
The name 'Frank' was because he was in the sixth order, and it became 'F' in alphabetical order, so 'Frank'.
Before the final selection, each child's back was already engraved with different alphabetic characters.
The sixth letter 'F' was engraved on Frank's back, probably because he was the sixth child to be forcibly adopted for the CIA's killer training program or the sixth most capable of many children.
The video below is Frank's performance from episode 1-7 and you can watch it by clicking it.
Like Jang Jou-won, Frank, who has infinite regeneration ability that recovers quickly no matter how hurt he is, is a killer with excellent fighting power.
The CIA, which has done all sorts of dirty work with Korean agents in the past, has ordered them to be removed for fear that their atrocities will be exposed to the world by retired agents.
Therefore, Frank removes targets one by one, disguised as a courier, the most accessible job for them.
Having had no choice but to be a killer to survive from an early age, he surprisingly had a firm principle: he dosen't commit murder recklessly.
Frank can kill him enough in the fight against Jeon Kye-do, but Frank leaves, saying he won't kill him because Jeon Kye-do is not the target.
In episode 7, Frank tries to kill Jang Joo-won, but is defeated by Jang Jou-won. And his neck is pierced on an iron plate by Jang Jou-won, half of his skull is depressed, and he is eventually trapped in a delivery car and engulfed in flames, facing a ruthless end.
But he has the superpower to regenerate any wound infinitely, as everyone expects. Although the recovery speed is slower than that of Jang Joo-won, it is estimated that he will eventually recover and play a great second game with Jang Jou-won.
It would be nice if there was a huge twist like Frank trying to get out of his life as a killer after he recovered, or helping the South when South Korean heroes fight North Korean agents after the middle of the episode, but it would probably be very rare for that to happen.
Closing remarks
In addition to all-time action, perfect CG, and high-quality acting by the actors in the drama, the original author Kang Pool wrote the drama script himself, which was another key reason why the Disney+ original series Moving made viewers all over the world excited.
Writer Kang Pool said that he put aside all his work activities and devoted himself to the script of the drama to overcome the limitations that he had faced as various webtoons became dramas.
Although it was already a high-quality original webtoon, it is evaluated that Kang Pool's challenge showed a successful light and rather upgraded the original work to a more perfect level.
Therefore, Kang Pool was in a happy dilemma for a while whether to laugh or cry at the evaluation that it was much better than the original.
Media around the world are praising Disney+'s original series Moving, saying, "It's like the second squid game, watching in 2023", and calling it the best work of the year in terms of cinematic quality, fun, box office success, and popularity.
Korea praised K Content, saying that no matter what genre it makes, it adds a Korean sensibility that can never be imitated by other countries, allowing viewers to feel originality that they have never seen anywhere else.
I think this is the charm of K-Content, K-Drama. And I will cheer for K-culture, which will continue to develop further.
In the next post, although they do not have superpowers in the play, their existence itself is superpowers, and I will introduce the actors who are shining Disney Plus Moving even more by showing their presence as much as the main characters with high-quality acting.
Posts about Moving
If you're curious about other characters in Moving, read the posts below.
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Also, there are various posts of K-Content below, so please pay a lot of attention.