Choi Sung-eun

Song Joong-ki on why Netflix’s My Name Is Loh Kiwan, about a North Korean defector, is ‘a healing movie’ and why starring in it ‘felt like fate’

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By Lee Gyu-lee Actor Song Joong-ki is returning to Netflix with the new original movie My Name Is Loh Kiwan, in which he will portray the titular character. This comes three years after his appearance in the platform’s sci-fi blockbuster Space Sweepers. The melodrama, adapted from Cho Hae-jin’s novel I Met Loh Kiwan (2011), centres … Read more

Netflix movie review: My Name is Loh Kiwan – Song Joong-ki plays a North Korean defector in Belgium-set drama that is more a schmaltzy romance

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2/5 stars A North Korean defector seeking asylum in Belgium falls in with a wayward young woman who is embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld in My Name is Loh Kiwan, the first feature film from writer-director Kim Hee-jin. The presence of superstar heartthrob Song Joong-ki in the title role will almost certainly guarantee a … Read more