Director: Park Dong-hee
A YouTuber with a devoted following becomes the reluctant star of a broadcast she never agreed to make in "Drive," a tight, single-location South Korean thriller from director Park Dong-hee.
What is Drive about?
Yoo-Na has built a career out of being watched, and it has made her hundreds of thousands of subscribers happy for years. That familiarity with a camera turns into a curse the night an unseen captor takes her and forces a brutal proposition: raise 650 million won inside a single hour, live, or face the consequences. What follows plays out almost entirely through her own broadcast feed, as she has to keep her audience engaged, plead for donations, and think her way past a captor who is always listening. The film leans into the discomfort of an online audience treating a real crisis like content, using that tension to keep the pressure mounting scene by scene rather than relying on conventional chase sequences.
Cast & crew
Park Ju-hyun anchors nearly every frame as Yoo-Na, carrying the film's tension largely through reaction and improvisation under pressure. Kim Yeo-jin, Kim Do-yoon, Jung Woong-in, and Ha Do-kwon round out a small supporting circle that includes both allies and threats she can't easily tell apart in the moment.
Context & significance
"Drive" arrives from South Korea in 2024 as part of a wave of thrillers built around livestream and screen-life formats, a structure that has become a distinct subgenre in Korean genre cinema. Running a lean 90 minutes, the film keeps its scope narrow by design, trading large set pieces for claustrophobic real-time pressure.
Where & how to watch
"Drive" streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, and the page itself is free to browse without signing in. Watching the film does require a K-Time account login, and the wider catalog is built around a Farsi-first interface for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere.