Director: Byun Sung-hyun
By day she negotiates school pickups and a teenager's silent treatment; by night she is the most sought-after fixer in the assassination business.
What is Kill Boksoon about?
Gil Boksoon works for a firm that treats killing as a corporate trade, complete with contracts, performance reviews, and rival agencies competing for the same jobs. She has been the top earner for years, but the arrangement she has built her career on is expiring, and a new deal threatens to upend the balance between the firms that depend on her. At home, the job looks nothing like the polished efficiency of her professional life: her daughter is drifting further away, communicating mostly through slammed doors, and Boksoon is discovering that raising a teenager resists the kind of control she exercises over every other part of her world. As pressure mounts from both directions, the line between her two lives gets harder to keep separate.
Cast & crew
Jeon Do-yeon leads as Gil Boksoon, playing the character's icy professionalism and her far messier home life with equal conviction. Sol Kyung-gu plays the agency boss whose renewal deal sets the plot in motion, with Koo Kyo-hwan, Esom, and Kim Sung-oh filling out the wider cast of rival operatives. Kim Si-a plays Boksoon's daughter, giving the film's domestic scenes their own quiet tension. Director Byun Sung-hyun, known for stylish genre work, builds the action around Jeon's performance rather than around spectacle for its own sake.
Context & significance
Released in 2023, Kill Boksoon belongs to a run of South Korean genre films that fold hard-edged action into family drama, using the assassin's double life as a way to talk about the exhaustion of parenting and the compromises that come with any long career. Its guild-like structure for professional killers, complete with seniority and contract disputes, gives the action set pieces an unusually procedural backbone, distinguishing it from more straightforward revenge or hitman thrillers of the same period.
Where & how to watch
Kill Boksoon is available on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Farsi subtitles alongside the original Korean audio. Anyone can read the film's page without signing in; watching requires only a quick, free K-Time login. K-Time is built around a Farsi-first viewing experience, with search, subtitles, and recommendations designed for Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora.