Director: Kim Seong-je
"Bogotá: City of the Lost" follows a young Korean immigrant's climb through Colombia's black market, a 2024 thriller-drama directed by Kim Seong-je and led by Song Joong-ki.
What is Bogotá: City of the Lost about?
Chasing the promise of a better life, a young Korean man relocates to Bogotá with little more than ambition and a willingness to take risks. What starts as an attempt to survive in an unfamiliar city gradually pulls him into the city's underground economy, where quick money comes bound to steep consequences. As he climbs higher within the black-market networks that run parallel to the legitimate city around him, the line between opportunity and danger keeps narrowing, and every gain seems to demand something he cannot easily give back. The film traces that ascent as both a personal reinvention and a slow reckoning with what it costs.
Cast & crew
Song Joong-ki plays the lead, an immigrant navigating Bogotá's underworld far from home. Lee Hee-jun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Hyun-chul, Park Ji-hwan, Kim Jong-soo, Juana del Río, and Im Sung-jae fill out the film's Korean and Colombian ensemble.
Context & significance
Director Kim Seong-je frames the story around a Korean diaspora community operating on the margins of Colombian society, using the black-market setting to explore how far someone will go to build a life in a country that offers no easy path to one. That framing gives the film a double focus: it is at once a crime story about the pull of Bogotá's underground economy and a character study of an immigrant remaking himself far from home. Song Joong-ki plays the young Korean man whose ambition and willingness to take risks carry him from mere survival into the black-market networks that run parallel to the legitimate city, and the film measures each rung of that climb by what it costs him. The surrounding ensemble spans both Korean and Colombian characters, keeping the immigrant experience and the local underworld in the same frame. Released in 2024, the thriller treats its lead's ascent as both a personal reinvention and a slow reckoning, so that the higher he rises, the narrower the line between opportunity and danger becomes.
Where & how to watch
"Bogotá: City of the Lost" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, presented through a Farsi-language interface built for Iranians living abroad. Reading about the film costs nothing; watching it requires logging into a K-Time account.