Money Heist Korea on Netflix: 6 differences with La Casa de Papel

South Korean remake Money robberyThe series Money Heist Korea is similar to the Spanish series Planetary Success, this new version tells the story of how a criminal conspiracy gathers eight thieves to arrange a hostage-taking at a currency house, which they hold in a spectacular way.

While the story is very similar to La Casa de Papel, Money Heist Korea has a political background – where the two Koreas are united on a major socio-economic issue – but also with some differences, more or less subtle. Did you notice them?

It’s a pretty subtle difference, but it exists. Sergio Makina, the same professor in the Spanish version, played by Alvaro Morte, has a special way of standing on the nose of the glasses. He does this in the middle between two glasses.

His Korean counterpart Park Sun-ho or a professor, played by Yo Ji-tae, raises his glasses with his right arm.

Cultural differences bind, personal stories of robbers contain certain differences. Thus, the Spanish Tokyo (Ursula Corbero) robber who fled after the death of his friend is different from the Korean Tokyo (Jeon Jong-seo).

The latter is a former student enlisted in the army who lost everything when the two Koreas merged and who had to combine several jobs before becoming a thief and seeking power.

For his part, the Spaniard Berliner (Pedro Alonso) is a thief wanted for multiple burglaries, while the Korean Berliner (Park Hae-soo) is a refugee whose parents were killed when they tried to cross the border, and who were arrested. Early age.

Moreover, Rio has become a wealthy family student in the Korean version, but he is also a hacker like the Spanish Rio (Miguel Heran).

Finally, the Korean version professor has an interesting feature, unlike his Spanish counterpart, as he was actually a former professor studying the economic impact of the union. His studies even brought him to Oh Jayun to participate in an economic cooperation plan.

It was then that he decided to “become Oppenheimer”, the scientist who created the atomic bomb. And so he created his own bomb, or case in the Fabrique de la Monnaie.

At La Casa de Papel, a professor meets Raquel Murillo (Itziar Ituno) in a cafe and offers to call relatives to call because the phone has run out of battery. Clearly, it is the professor’s strategy to approach him and have information about the police and the ongoing robbery.

If the negotiator is suspicious at first and almost stops him when he meets him again in the cafe, he will eventually fall in love. The Korean version takes the other side of the question: the professor prepared everything from the beginning and did not play a false random meeting card.

He was the one who arranged to hire Seon Wu-jin (Kim Yun-jin) as a negotiator in the case of these victims, in order to further approach him and get crucial information from him.

When robbers risk removing the mask because of a scrap car that was originally supposed to be sold in Helsinki, the professor has no choice but to eliminate the evidence of going to scrap.

At La Casa de Papel, the professor deletes all fingerprints, but leaves a hint that could lead police to Berlin and then ostensibly begging to escape Rachel Murillo and the police who took the place.

In Money Heist Korea, a professor is close to being caught by the police and can think of nothing better than driving a car and breaking through a police blockade. He rushes into the river at full speed and blows up the car. Fortunately, he then goes on foot so that the police do not know who he is.

At La Casa de Papel, a professor leaves a note about Berlin in a car left for scrap. It was thanks to these hints that the police identified Andres de Fonolo as Berlin and his photo goes on all the TV news.

The opposite happens in Money Heist Korea, because it is Berlin that reveals its identity to the world when negotiator Seon Wu-jin enters the Mint factory with a camera to confirm that the hostages are still alive.

He removes the mask and reveals that he can communicate. We later learn that he has nothing more to lose because he suffers from an illness like the one in Spanish Berlin and that he will then inevitably doom himself.

During the robbery, the police try to infiltrate an elite team. In the Spanish version, the mission is canceled as the robbers meanwhile change their masks and the commando soldiers take off the basic masks to take them hostage. So they go back to where they came from.

According to the Korean version, the commando leader still decides to stay hidden and invade among the hostages. He is spotted at one point and shot in Berlin. Police will then try to put pressure on the dead mind of the soldier to disclose information to the public in order to tarnish the image of the robbers.

But they are moving forward because Berlin did not kill a soldier wearing a bulletproof vest. So the robbers prove to the public that the soldier is not dead and that they do not want to kill anyone during the robbery.

Another different infiltration, according to the version, when an agent angel enters a money factory, ostensibly to treat Arturo as a doctor, the robbers take the opportunity to install a microphone in his glasses to spy on the police.

According to the Korean version, Captain Cha Mu-hyuk enters with a camera built into his glasses to shoot the robbers from the inside. But the latter realizes this and taps the microphone into the phone before leaving the factory.