Ma Dong-seok headlines The Roundup, a 2022 South Korean production credited to director Lee Sang-yong, with Son Suk-ku and Choi Gwi-hwa filling out a large supporting cast. The film sits at the crossing point of drama, historical setting, and war-adjacent stakes, a combination that gives it a heavier register than a standard genre outing.
What is The Roundup about?
Rather than centering on a single figure, The Roundup spreads its weight across an ensemble — Park Ji-hwan, Heo Dong-won, Ha Jun, Jeong Jae-kwang, and Nam Moon-chul all take meaningful space alongside the leads. That structure suits a story pitched at the scale of historical and wartime pressure rather than one person's arc, with the drama built from how a group of characters responds under strain rather than from a single hero's decisions. K-Time presents the film as delivered, letting the ensemble framing and period setting speak for themselves rather than promising a plot twist the page can't verify.
About the cast
Ma Dong-seok's screen presence anchors the top of the bill, with Son Suk-ku and Choi Gwi-hwa as the names most likely to be recognized by viewers who follow South Korean cinema closely. The remaining cast — Park Ji-hwan, Heo Dong-won, Ha Jun, Jeong Jae-kwang, and Nam Moon-chul — rounds out a roster large enough to suggest a story told through several intersecting characters rather than one central perspective.
Context & significance
South Korean cinema has built a reputation for genre work that folds historical weight into commercial storytelling, and The Roundup's mix of drama, historical, and war tags places it in that lineage. At 115 minutes, it runs to feature length rather than a compressed short-form cut, giving the ensemble room to develop across a full arc. Lee Sang-yong directs, working with a cast list long enough to carry parallel storylines rather than a single throughline.
Watching The Roundup on Ktime
The Roundup streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles both available, so viewers can choose the format that suits them. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is readable without one. K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built around exactly this kind of catalog entry — South Korean cinema made easy to find and easy to watch for Persian-speaking audiences wherever they are.