Red Swan

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Centered on Oh Wan-soo, a former golfer who married into the chaebol family behind Hwain Group and now chairs its foundation, and Seo Do-yoon, a former police officer turned bodyguard who comes to protect her after she faces a threat during relief work, Red Swan is a 10-episode Disney+ Original about the battle over Hwain Group's inheritance.

Disney+ released two episodes every Wednesday from July 3, 2024, with the final episode arriving on July 31. The Disney+ Korea page rates it 15+. Disney+ confirmed the series in May 2023 along with the casting of Kim Ha-neul and Jung Ji-hoon (Rain), and it was produced by Taewon Entertainment and Studio&NEW. According to a report carrying Kim Ha-neul's post-finale interview, the series was initially planned as 16 episodes but was reduced to 10 as work on it progressed.

The screenplay is by Choi Yoon-jung, who began her career as a drama writer with MBC's Kimga Iga in 1992 and went on to write Jjak, Propose and the daily dramas Golden Wagon and Three Sisters, among others. It is her first new work in 10 years, since SBS's Only Love in 2014, and her first project with an OTT platform. In an interview with the webzine of the Korea TV & Radio Writers Association, Choi said she began writing it in 2018, around the time people were saying serial dramas were disappearing from every network, because she wanted to write a miniseries again; it took six years to reach the screen, and the production company changed three times along the way. She also said that hearing about the sense of entitlement among chaebol families always made her angry, and that she wrote the series thinking that if anyone were to marry into the Hwain family, she would want them to live like Oh Wan-soo. It was directed by Park Hong-kyun, whose credits include New Heart, Queen Seondeok and The Greatest Love.

Kim Ha-neul plays Oh Wan-soo, who, after marrying the heir to Hwain Group, became chair of the Now Foundation and gained worldwide fame for her charity work. Jung Ji-hoon plays Seo Do-yoon, a former police officer with outstanding martial arts skills who joins Hwain Group's security team with an agenda of his own and is assigned to guard Wan-soo. At the launch press conference, Park Hong-kyun described the series as the story of Wan-soo, who married into a chaebol family, suffering a mysterious terror attack during relief work and then digging into the secret behind it with her bodyguard Do-yoon. Jung Gyu-woon plays Kim Yong-kook, heir to Hwain Group and Wan-soo's husband; Seo Yi-sook plays Park Mi-ran, chair of Hwain Group and Wan-soo's mother-in-law; Yoon Je-moon plays Han Sang-il, the Hwain family's legal adviser; and Ki Eun-se plays Jang Tae-ra, who wants to become the new face of Hwain Group.

Kim Ha-neul said she belongs to the generation that loved The Bodyguard, so she was intrigued to see this kind of premise come along after so long, and that to play the head of a charity, she studied how UN goodwill ambassadors speak and carry themselves. Jung Ji-hoon, who said he had been a fan of director Park Hong-kyun since he was young, explained that after talking it over with the martial arts director, he shot the action in long takes that show whole movements rather than chopping it into many cuts, and that because he had fewer lines than the other characters, he tried to convey emotion through his eyes. Park said it was a shame that Jung tends to be highlighted only as an action star, adding that he was struck during filming by how delicately the actor expresses emotion. Jung Gyu-woon, appearing in his first project in seven years since 2017, said he had told the director he wanted to be part of the series no matter what kind of transformation it took.

See alsoThe Greatest Love 2011Only Love 2014The Great Queen Seondeok 2009

Drama Lineup editors · Fact-checked against: Wikipedia, enews.imbc.com, tenasia.co.kr, n.news.naver.com, news.tf.co.kr, isplus.com, disneyplus.com · 2026-10-18