The police ask Sunja whether she's ever read any anti-government literature or attended meetings with negative views against the Japanese emperor, claiming she 'married an agitator.' Sunja is later taken for questioning by Japanese police who claimed Isak was involved in the General Council of Labor Unions of Japan. Netflix's 5 Binge-Worthy K-Dramas Climbing the Top Global TV Rankings.The 7 K-Dramas to Watch If You Love Netflix Hit 'Business Proposal'.

The 6 K-Dramas and Films Coming Out in May 2022 To Look Out For.Sunja heads over to the church where Isak worked and is shocked to hear her husband has been arrested by Japanese authorities for 'a crime of the most serious nature,' as told to a church official. In the series finale, Sunja's world is turned upside down one day after Noa-who is the son of Hansu (played by Lee Min-ho), a wealthy Korean fish broker residing in Osaka who she met in her hometown Busan-arrives home saying Isak never came to pick him at school that day. Sunja, the heroine of the series, left her motherland in 1931 to join Isak and his brother and sister-in-law in Osaka after Isak marries her while she's pregnant with Noa (played by Park Jae-jun), the son of another man, agreeing to raise the child as his own. For example, a string represents longevity, while coins symbolize wealth and food items mean you'll never grow hungry in life. The intriguing finale of this heart-breaking tale of love, loss, identity and redemption begins on a celebratory note in 1938, with Sunja (played by Kim Min-ha) and her husband Isak (played by Steve Sanghyun Noh), a Christian pastor from Pyongyang (the capital of North Korea today) in their home in Osaka, Japan hosting a 'doljabi' for their second son Mozasu (later played by Soji Arai as an adult).ĭoljabi is a traditional Korean ceremony that sees one-year-old babies be placed in front of a table of different items, with the first object they grab being symbolic of their fortune in life. The series, which spans several generations from the early 1900s to the late 1980s, unravels the story of Koreans who lived during the Japanese occupation period from 1910 to 1945, including those who lived in Japan under oppressive conditions and faced discrimination. Pachinko, the epic period K-drama set against the backdrop of Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula, has left viewers with more burning questions than ever following its open-ended finale.

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