New World (2013 film)
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Promotional poster for New World
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| Revised Romanization | Sinsegye |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sinsekye |
| Directed by | Park Hoon-jung |
| Produced by | Han Jae-duk Kim Hyun-woo |
| Written by | Park Hoon-jung |
| Starring |
Choi Min-sik Hwang Jung-min Lee Jung-jae |
| Music by | Jo Yeong-wook |
| Cinematography | Chung Chung-hoon Yu Eok |
| Edited by | Moon Se-kyung |
| Distributed by | Next Entertainment World |
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134 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean, Mandarin |
| Budget | ₩7.3 billion |
| Box office | US$31,670,607 |
New World (Hangul: 신세계; RR: Sinsegye) is a 2013 South Korean crime drama film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jung-min and Lee Jung-jae, the film shows the conflict between the police and the mob through the eyes of an undercover cop.New World is the first entry in a planned trilogy.
Chairman Seok Dong-chool of Goldmoon International, South Korea's largest corporate crime syndicate, is killed in a mysterious car accident, and the possible successors are Jung Chung, Lee Joong-gu, and to a lesser extent, Jang Su-ki. Goldmoon is an amalgamation of several crime factions that were assimilated by the dominant Jaebum clan. Jung Chung was the former head of the Chinese-descended Northmoon clan, the largest of Jaebum's rival factions, until it merged, and has since become senior managing director of Goldmoon. Lee Joong-gu is the former second-in-command of the Jaebum clan, but was pushed down by Jung after the merging and serves as a managing director instead, despite being backed by the Jaebum faction, which as a whole holds the most power. Jang Su-ki, as the vice chairman of Goldmoon, is officially the heir apparent but his Je-il clan was dissolved during the merging and his position in the group is strictly a formality, with no real power or involvement in day-to-day operations of the syndicate. Although Jung has the highest chance of becoming the heir, Jung's right-hand man, sales director Lee Ja-sung (Lee Jung-jae), is really an undercover police officer. Ja-sung has been operating for eight years and is exhausted and constantly worried of being discovered. He was promised reassignment to an overseas position in the police force, but he is forced to keep working undercover with the threat of having his true identity leaked if he refuses.
Chief Kang (Choi Min-sik) and Director Ko wish to influence the succession to favor the weakest candidate, Jang, with the plan resulting in the syndicate being taken down before it grows too powerful for it to be contained by the police. They first ask Ja-sung to leak incriminating evidence about Jung. Then they go to Jung, and convince him to leak evidence about his rival Lee in exchange for not being prosecuted. Once Lee is in jail, they inform Lee that Jung betrayed him, the result of which is that Lee sends directions for Jung's murder.
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