Park Hyung Sik in Talks for Thriller K-drama Treasure Island About an Amnesic Thief

I like Park Hyung Sik but he has so many mid K-dramas and only the occasional hit that I’m left wondering if it’s his inability to pick scripts or its himself. I totally dropped his last drama Dr. Slump with Park Shin Hye even though I liked it well enough at the beginning it just didn’t hook me and that interest quickly dwindled to actually forgetting the drama was airing on weekends. Same for his prior sageuk Our Blooming Youth. But perhaps a change of genres is needed and his next drama already in talks for will be a thriller caper of sorts, titled Treasure Island its about a man who steals a 2 trillion won political slush fund and then disappears, only to reappear with no memory. If he accepts the drama will go into production later this year.

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