Based on the webtoon KARMA by Hwang Joon-ho

Shin Min-a and Park Hae-soo have been cast in new Netflix original Korean series Karma (WT), Netflix said Thursday.

Based on the webtoon of the same name by Hwang Joon-ho, the crime thriller revolves around characters who are tightly entangled in ill-fated relationships amid failed attempts to escape from one another.

Shin of Our Blues (2022) and Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021) plays a doctor who lives with psychological trauma after experiencing an incident as a child. Park, who starred in Squid Game as Cho Sang-woo (Player 218), plays a witness who makes a secret deal with a man trying to cover up an accident that he witnesses.

Other cast members include Lee Hee-joon, Kim Sung-kyun, Lee Kwang-soo and Gong Seung-yeon. The series will be directed by Lee Il-hyung of A Violent Prosecutor (2016) and Remember (2022).

Its release date has yet to be disclosed.

Cast members of Karma (WT) -- Park Hae-soo, Shin Min-a, Lee Hee-joon, Gong Seung-yeon, Lee Kwang-soo and Kim Sung-kyun, (clockwise from top left) -- are shown in this photo compilation provided by the actors' agencies. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

By Woo Jae-yeon