Seoul Vibe

Seoul Vibe (Korean: 서울대작전; RR: Seouldaejakjeon; lit. 'Seoul Grand Operation') is a 2022 South Korean action comedy film directed by Moon Hyun-sung from a story written by Sua Shin. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Yoo Ah-in, Go Kyung-pyo, Lee Kyu-hyung, Park Ju-hyun and Ong Seong-wu.

Seoul Vibe
Official release poster
Hangul	서울대작전
Hanja	서울大作戰
RR	Seouldaejakjeon
MR	Sŏuldaejakchŏn
Directed by	Moon Hyun-sung
Written by	Sua Shin
Starring	Yoo Ah-in Go Kyung-pyo Lee Kyu-hyung Park Ju-hyun Ong Seong-wu
Cinematography	Lim Won-geun
Edited by	Heo Sun-mi
Music by	Nene Kang DJ Soulscape
Production companies	Andmarq Studio MCMC United Artist Agency
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	August 26, 2022 (2022-08-26)
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Seoul Vibe was released on Netflix on August 26, 2022.^[1][2]

Plot

During the leadup to the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, Park Dong-wook, along with his ragtag team of mechanics and drivers featuring Oh Woo-sam, Bok-nam, Park Yoon-hee and Joon-ki are hired by prosecutor Ahn Pyung-wook to get into the good books of General Lee Hyun-kyun and Chairwoman Kang In-sook in order to extract information about the former government's secret fund. After completing the deliveries assigned by Kang, Dong-wook and his crew are appointed to work for them.

Meanwhile, Lee's aggression becomes the reason for Dong-Wook's apparent departure from the team and has a falling out with Woo-sam, who wants to go ahead with the plan of extracting the details of the secret funds as he has acquired the imprint of the key to the room that holds the documents. However, Lee soon finds about their identities where he captures Woo-sam and tortures him for questioning, while Dong-wook and the others escape. However, Dong-wook and his crew find that Ahn was killed by Lee and they are framed for his death.

Realizing that the walls are closing in on him, Dong-Wook goes to an isolated spot and listens to a mixtape, which eventually becomes the recording of the secret meeting between Kang and the three corrupt officials and also discovers that Kang will frame Lee for the secret funds, while she and the corrupt officials will leave with the money for US. Dong-Wook offers to help him get to Kang for a meager billion won before the prosecutor and his men arrive to arrest him. Left with no other choice, Lee accepts Dong-Wook's proposal.

Later, Dong-Wook recruits his car race rival Galchi and his minions and then the plan essentially involves getting Lee and Kang in the same place and dragging them through the dirt. While Yoon-hee rescues Woo-sam, Dong-Wook, Joon-ki and Bok-nam takes Lee and his men on a wild goose chase, where Lee dies in a car crash before the chief prosecutor gets to arrest him. Dong-Wook boards the plane that Kang is on board, along with the car filled with the last goods and records Kang admitting her involvement in secret funds.

Kang tries to shoot down Dong-Wook, but Dong-Wook gets into his car, where he accidentally lodges its spoiler into the net holding all the money, and then drives out of the plane. Later, Dong-Wook successfully releases the parachute installed in the car and lands safely. After this, Kang has been arrested for corruption, while Dong-wook and his crew steal some of the illegal money for their hard work in order to "upgrade themselves" before moving for Los Angeles.

Cast

Main

• Yoo Ah-in as Park Dong-wook^[3]
• Go Kyung-pyo as Oh Woo-sam, a DJ and Dong-wook's team member^[4]
• Lee Kyu-hyung as Bok-nam, Dong-wook's team member^[4]
• Park Ju-hyun as Park Yoon-hee, Dong-wook's younger sister and a team member^[5]
• Ong Seong-wu as Joon-ki, Dong-wook's team member^[6]

Supporting

• Moon So-ri as Kang In-sook, a very influential figure of the underground economy^[7]
• Kim Sung-kyun as Lee Hyun-kyun, the right-hand man of Chairwoman Kang^[7]
• Oh Jung-se as Ahn Pyung-wook, a prosecutor^[8]
• Jung Woong-in as Chief Prosecutor^[7]
• Song Min-ho as Galchi^[9]
• Chun-sik as Galchi's subordinate^[10]
• Kim Chae-eun as Kim Yoon-jae, the secretary of Chairwoman Kang^[11]

Special appearance

• Yoon Kyung-ho as Mr. Yoon^[12]
• Lee Se-young as a cinema employee^[12]

Production

In December 2020, it was first revealed that production company Andmarq Studio planned to produce upcoming film Seoul Vibe with actors Yoo Ah-in and Go Yoon-jung.^[13][14] MCMC and UAA joined the production with Netflix distributing the film.^[15] In June 2021, Seoul Vibe confirmed production with ensemble casting of Yoo Ah-in, Go Kyung-pyo, Park Ju-hyun, Lee Kyu-hyung, Ong Seong-wu, Kim Sung-kyun, Jung Woong-in, Moon So-ri, and Song Min-ho.^[16][17][18] Filming has begun in Eurwang-dong, Jung-gu, Incheon, in August 2021.^[19] It was halted twice in August and November 2021 due to the film staff's and Go Kyung-pyo's COVID-19 tests came out positive, and resumed filming in December 2021.^[20][21]

Release

Seoul Vibe was released on Netflix on August 26, 2022.^[1][22]