Behind the cheerful script of a call-center training program sits a workplace that grinds young employees down, and Next Sohee traces what happens to one teenage intern who gets caught inside that machine.
What is Next Sohee about?
Sohee is a vocational high school student who lands what looks like a solid placement: a customer service job at a call center, arranged through her school's job-training program. The work looks routine on the surface, sales scripts, call quotas, performance boards, but the pressure from a company chasing its own numbers starts to close in on her fast, with little support from either the employer or the school that placed her there. Detective Oh Yu-jin becomes involved afterward, and as she digs into what happened to Sohee, she finds her own frustrations with rigid, indifferent systems mirrored back at her. Her investigation moves outward from a single case file into the training pipeline itself, the quiet agreements between schools and employers, and the gap between what those programs promise students and what they actually deliver. Next Sohee builds its tension less through plot mechanics than through accumulation, small compromises and unanswered warning signs stacking up until they can no longer be ignored. It's a drama that treats institutional failure as its real subject, using one student's experience as the lens the audience sees the whole system through.
About the cast
Bae Doona leads as Detective Oh Yu-jin, with Kim Si-eun as Sohee. Jung Hoe-ryn, Kang Hyun-oh, Bahk Woo-young, Lee In-young, Park Hui-eun, and Kim Yong-jun fill out the supporting cast across the school and call-center storylines.
Context & significance
Written and directed by July Jung, Next Sohee is a 2022 South Korean thriller-drama running 135 minutes, holding a strong 7.2 rating and widely discussed for the way it handles its social-issue material without turning didactic.
Watching Next Sohee on Ktime
Next Sohee is available on K-Time with both Persian dub and Persian subtitle options, letting Farsi-speaking viewers choose how they prefer to watch. This page is free to browse for anyone; streaming the film itself just requires logging into a free K-Time account, with the platform's Farsi-first interface built for the diaspora audience.