The Fin lands on K-Time as a compact, eighty-minute dystopian drama built through a co-production spanning South Korea, Germany and Qatar, with Park Sye-young credited as director.
What is The Fin about?
The Fin is catalogued for 2026 and carries a South Korean ensemble on screen, among them Yeon Ye-ji, Kim Pureum, Goh-Woo, Jeong Young-do, Maeng Joo-one, Moon Hye-in and Woo Seo-yeon. The story unfolds in a post-war, ecologically devastated Korea where mutated outcasts known as Omegas are exploited as cheap labour: Su-jin (Kim Pureum), a young government worker, begins to question the state's ideology as she pursues Mia (Yeon Ye-ji), an Omega living in hiding. What is also notable is the shape of the production itself: a short-form, scripted work stitched together across three countries rather than a single national studio system, which already sets it apart from most entries in the same catalogue section.
About the cast
The names attached to The Fin come entirely from South Korea's screen community: Yeon Ye-ji, Kim Pureum, Goh-Woo, Jeong Young-do, Maeng Joo-one, Moon Hye-in and Woo Seo-yeon all appear across the runtime. The two leads are clearly mapped, with Kim Pureum as the government worker Su-jin and Yeon Ye-ji as the hidden Omega Mia, while the remaining performers fill out the citizens and outcasts around them, so this note describes that supporting group as an ensemble rather than assigning each participant to a specific segment.
Context & significance
A three-way co-production of this kind, with South Korean creative direction and German and Qatari backing, is unusual enough to be worth flagging on its own for viewers who follow how independent films get financed in 2026; the film had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. The Fin sits in K-Time's documentary section rather than alongside scripted Korean drama, but it is a work of fiction, a dystopian parable rather than non-fiction, so anyone expecting a conventional documentary should recalibrate before pressing play.
Watching The Fin on Ktime
The Fin streams on K-Time behind nothing more than a free account login, and browsing the page itself costs nothing. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available for this title, giving the diaspora audience that makes up much of K-Time's base a fully localized way to watch rather than leaning on English text throughout. The platform's Farsi-first interface makes switching between the dub and the subtitle track a one-tap affair.