'Trunk' starring Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-jin, 3rd place in the non-English category of Netflix's Top 10 TV

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The series "Trunk," starring actors Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-jin, ranked third in the Netflix Top 10 TV Non-English category.

'Trunk' recorded 4.1 million viewers in the second week of its release (the value of the viewing time divided by the total running time of the work) and ranked third in the Netflix Global TOP10 TV (non-English). It is also on the list of 41 countries, including Korea, Brazil, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates, and is gaining popularity.


'Trunk' is a mystery melodrama about a secret marriage service that begins to be revealed by a trunk floating on a lake and the strange marriage story of two men and women in it. Through the unique subject of fixed-term marriage, it has attracted global viewers by melting the story of love and salvation, and the universal message that "love changes people."

Director Kim Kyu-tae, who was in charge of directing, built a "bold but not excessive" concept and style while enhancing the completeness of the work by not missing the directing details of mise-en-scène and sound. Director Kim said, "I intended a duality and ambiguity that is unfamiliar and uncomfortable but strangely attracted," adding, "If you look at Han Jung-won's house in the play, curves are emphasized in the shape of spiral stairs, walls and pillars. Usually, curves feel soft and comfortable, but Han Jung-won's house set envisioned a disproportionate image of a "cold curve," according to the story behind the production.

The chandelier is one of the most important objects in the space of a limited circle as if it were trapped in a castle. Coach Kim Kyu-tae said, "At first glance, it looks spectacular, but I tried to make it look like a daunting feeling of being tied up and suppressed. Han Jeong-won had to reflect such a state of mind because it reminded him of trauma such as surveillance, domination, and violence. That's why I had a lot of concerns about shape and texture," he said.

In addition, regarding the trunks of No In-ji (Seo Hyun-jin) and Lee Seo-yeon (Jeong Yoon-ha), he interpreted, "Marriage seems to have been a light burden for In-ji and a heavy burden for Seoyeon." "We struggled with the shape and pattern that could be understood as an expensive luxury brand product, and the results were satisfactory," he said.

It is also interesting to note that Han Jung-won's two wives, No In-ji and Lee Seo-yeon, were given color. Director Kim said, "We intentionally placed the color. Cognition was set to Red and Seoyeon to Blue. It will be fun to find them in the actors' costumes and props, he said, adding that it will also be fun to find things with meaning and symbols in the work.The power of music and sound that led to the overall atmosphere of

{Trunk} was also great. Director Kim Kyu-tae said, "I pursued 'strangeness' and 'functions' that encompass both mystery and melodrama," adding, "I used a scratchy sound that bothered me when expressing the trauma of the garden. "In the scene where the past and the present intersect (with a murder case), the tempo music of synthesizer sound was consistently arranged so that viewers could intentionally notice the change in the tense," he explained.

Meanwhile, the entire eight-part series of "Trunk" was released on Netflix on the 29th of last month.

[Photo source = Netflix Top 10 website (Top10.netflix.com ) / Netflix]

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