The 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. Yangin, Sunja’s mother, had given birth to three sons who all didn’t make it to the age of one before she gave birth to Sunja (Jeon Yu-na). Intercut with scenes of Sunja’s birth, the show flashes forward to New York City in 1989, where a grown-up Solomon (Jin Ha) works at American bank Shiffley’s, where he anticipates a promotion to Vice President.
Solomon is Sunja’s grandson, son of her younger son Mozasu (Soji Arai), and Shiffley’s denies Solomon his promotion in favor of one more year of him working at a branch in Tokyo. Back in 1915, Sunja grows up close to her father, and she is not afraid to haggle a.