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\n\tDisney+ has unveiled a Sept. 10 global premiere date for its tentpole K-drama series Tempest<\/em>, a nine-part international espionage thriller headlined by Korean A-listers Gianna Jun (Jun Ji-hyun) and Gang Dongwon, alongside U.S. actors John Cho and Michael Gaston. The series will debut with a three-episode launch on Disney+ internationally and Hulu in the U.S., followed by weekly drops culminating in a two-part finale on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n \n\tDirected by Queen of Tears <\/em>showrunner Kim Heewon and penned by regular Park Chan-wook collaborator Chung Seokyung (Decision to Leave<\/em>, The Handmaiden<\/em>), Tempest<\/em> unfolds in the shadow of an attempted assassination on a South Korean presidential candidate. As the investigation spirals into a web of state secrets, cross-border intelligence, and clandestine alliances, a former UN ambassador (Jun) and a morally conflicted mercenary (Gang) are pulled into an international conspiracy with ramifications stretching to the White House.<\/p>\n \n\tThe series marks Jun\u2019s debut on Disney+ and assembles one of the most globally diverse casts to date for a Korean drama, including Cho (Star Trek<\/em>), Gaston (Bridge of Spies<\/em>), and Spencer Garrett (Once<\/em> Upon a Time\u2026 in Hollywood<\/em>). Also starring are Lee Misook, Park Haejoon and Christopher Gorham.<\/p>\n \n\tTempest<\/em> is co-directed by veteran action choreographer Heo Myeonghaeng (The Roundup: Punishment<\/em>) and produced by Imaginus in association with Showrunners, AA, and Skydance.<\/p>\n \n\tThe release of Tempest<\/em> comes amid some growing momentum for Disney+ in the Korean drama space. The platform scored a major win earlier this year with Nine Puzzles<\/em>, the most-watched Korean original on Disney+ in 2025 to date. Tempest<\/em> is positioned as one of the streamer\u2019s top K-content titles for the second half of the year \u2014 aiming for buzz with its starry cross-border cast, elite creative team and timely storyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Disney+ has unveiled a Sept. 10 global premiere date for its tentpole K-drama series Tempest, a nine-part international espionage thriller headlined by Korean A-listers Gianna Jun (Jun Ji-hyun) and Gang Dongwon, alongside U.S. actors John Cho and Michael Gaston. The series will debut with a three-episode launch on Disney+ internationally and Hulu in the U.S.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3707,5320,284,1730,5322,5321],"class_list":{"0":"post-11822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-kdrama","10":"tag-release","11":"tag-sets","12":"tag-tempest","13":"tag-tentpole"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}