‘Squid Game’, ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ & ‘Exit’ Actors Board Netflix’s Korean Crime Thriller ‘Paper Man’

Netflix is following the money in Korea.

The streamer has cast Park Hae-soo (Squid Game, Narco-Saints), Claudia Kim (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Gyeongseong Creature, The Atypical Family) and Cho Jung-seok (Hospital Playlist, Exit) to lead crime thriller series Paper Man (working title), which has gone into production.

The series follows a man (cho), who works at a company making imitation character stickers. Though technically the head of his household, at home he’s constantly overshadowed by his highly competent wife, and when he creates a counterfeit bill so flawless it’s indistinguishable from the real thing, he’s pulled into a dangerous world.

Cho will play the man, Cha Myung-jo, who transforms from a weary head of household into someone awakened to a dangerous new desire, and Park Hae-soo will be Oh Seung-eop, the First Deputy Director of the Anti-Counterfeiting Division at the Korea Mint — a sharp, relentless investigator who stands in Myung-jo’s way.

Kim (plays Ko Hye-seok, Myung-jo’s cool-headed wife and an elite judge, who faces real dilemmas and family issues beneath the appearance of a perfect life.

The series, which has been in active development for several months, has Lee Il Hyung as director.

Earlier this year, Deadline analysis showed the Korean content craze has helped the streamer to more than four billion views, with demand going far deeper than Squid Game. This showed Korean-language titles across film and TV had amassed at least 4.5BN streams since Netflix first started publishing views in What We Watched reports from July 2023.