Director: Han Jae-rim
Money turns eight strangers into rivals in "The 8 Show," a South Korean thriller from director Han Jae-rim that traps its cast inside a rigged game with a staggering payout.
What is The 8 Show (Deo Eiteu Syo) about?
Deep in debt and out of options, eight people sign up for a mysterious competition called Money Game, where the reward pool starts at 44.8 billion won. The catch: they must stay inside a windowless, multi-floor studio for 100 days, and every hour they remain adds to the pot. Food, medicine, even a blanket cost a thousand times their normal price, quietly draining the winnings the longer anyone lingers. As alliances form between floors and desperation sharpens tempers, the contestants start treating survival itself as a strategy game, each choice weighing comfort against the shrinking prize. Based on a pair of webtoons, the series leans into pitch-black comedy as often as dread, using its confined set to needle at class, debt, and the theater of televised suffering.
Cast & crew
Ryu Jun-yeol and Chun Woo-hee anchor the ensemble alongside Park Jeong-min, Lee Yul-eum, and Bae Sung-woo, with the cast spending most of the runtime confined to a single stark set that forces every performance into close quarters.
Context & significance
Han Jae-rim, known for films like "The Face Reader," adapts the story from the webtoons "Money Game" and "Pig House," both by Bae Jin-soo, translating their satire of financial desperation into a serialized eight-episode format that premiered in 2024. The production drew attention for its elaborate multi-level set, built specifically to represent the social hierarchy the contestants are trapped inside, with each floor granting slightly different privileges and comforts.
Where & how to watch
"The 8 Show" streams on K-Time with a Farsi-language interface, Persian dubbing, and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow every twist in their own language. The page itself is open to browse without an account; watching the series just needs a free K-Time login.