Pachinko

March 25, 2022

Busan, 1915. Sunja (Kim Min-ha) grows up in Yeongdo — the daughter of an innkeeper, at home in the sea and the market. Her world is small, beautiful, and about to be fractured by both love and colonial violence.

March 25, 2022

Koh Hansu (Lee Min-ho), a wealthy Korean broker working for Japanese businessmen, becomes dangerously interested in Sunja. His attention is both flattering and catastrophic.

April 1, 2022

Sunja discovers she is pregnant with Hansu's child. His response — offering to keep her as a mistress rather than marry her — clarifies exactly who he is. She refuses.

April 8, 2022

A young Korean pastor, Baek Isak, agrees to marry Sunja and give her child a name. His goodness is the drama's moral counterweight to the colonial world's cruelty.

April 8, 2022

The family arrives in Osaka's Korean quarter, recreated using Jeonju's alleys. Their new world is smaller, harder, and full of people who understand exactly what they came from.

April 15, 2022

The family's survival in Japan through the 1930s and 1940s. Discrimination, economic hardship, and the specific violence of colonial subject status in an increasingly militarist Japan.

April 29, 2022

The season finale. Named to TIME's 100 Best TV Shows of 2022. A multigenerational epic that used the history of Koreans in Japan to examine what is inherited across generations — not just genetically but spiritually and structurally.