‘Pachinko’ Season 1 Recap: What To Remember For Season 2
deadline.comThe television adaptation of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee returns with a second season of the family saga on August 23 on Apple TV+.
Unlike Lee’s book, the show mixes the timelines of Book 1 and Book 3 with Minha Kim portraying a young Sunja and Youn Yuh-jung playing the older version.
Season 2 picks up with older versions of Sunja’s two sons Noa and Mozasu and the start of World War II. Those in need of a refresher on what happened in Season 1 of Pachinko can read on for a recap. A Family Will Endure The show opens with Sunja’s mother (Inji Jeong), who visits a Korean shaman woman to reverse a curse she believes has fallen on her and her husband Hoonie (Lee Dae-ho).
Her husband has a cleft-lip deformity, which was seen as negative in society in Korea. This story takes place five years after Japan annexed Korea which led to a 35-year occupation of the country.
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