A new character trailer and character posters for Made in Korea 2 have dropped, mapping a late-1970s fight between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Investigation Headquarters. The drop shows how Baek Ki-tae, Jang Geon-young, and Baek Ki-hyun stand nine years after the first season closed, with each man now holding a different kind of power and a narrower way out.
Made in Korea is a period political noir set in the upheaval of 1970s South Korea, where state office, illicit business, and private hunger run on the same circuit. The first season followed Baek Ki-tae (Hyun-bin), a Korean Central Intelligence Agency operative who treated national machinery as a tool for wealth and rank. Prosecutor Jang Geon-young (Jung Woo-sung) spent that season trying to stop him, even when the cost reached his career and his safety.
Their collision also pulled in Baek Ki-tae’s younger brother, Baek Ki-hyun (Woo Do-hwan), and a wider ring of operators who benefited from the same underground trade. Season 1 ended with Baek Ki-tae closer to the summit than anyone around him. The win looked complete on paper and unstable in practice, leaving a debt that the second season now collects.
Made in Korea 2 is set nine years after the Season 1 finale and picks up once that unfinished contest finally breaks open. Baek Ki-tae now sits at the peak of power inside the Central Intelligence Agency, more entrenched and more exposed than before. Jang Geon-young has used the intervening years to prepare a counterattack through the Joint Investigation Headquarters, while Baek Ki-hyun tries to reach influence by a route that is not his brother’s.
As those ambitions accelerate, the alliances around them twist and the distance between the two brothers turns dangerous. The story stops being a chase after one man and becomes a fight over who will occupy the vacuum left by a shifting political order. The new season treats loyalty as a perishable asset rather than a family guarantee.
The character trailer frames that conflict as a war already in motion. With a ruthless expression, Baek Ki-tae says the fight will not end until one side is dead, while Cheon Seok-jung (Jung Sung-il) argues that the Joint Investigation Headquarters must be cut off at the root. Ikeda Yu-ji (Won Ji-an) asks whether anyone opposes her becoming kumicho, and Pyo Hak-soo (Noh Jae-won) answers the scramble with the line that the result is fine so long as he is not the one who falls.
Watch the new trailer below:
Jang Geon-young then corners Baek Ki-hyun, now inside the Joint Investigation Headquarters, with a brutal choice: die and disappear, or walk out alive. Oh Ye-jin (Seo Eun-soo), the first female prosecutor attached to that headquarters, rejects the idea that gender should define the work and steps into the same fight. Hwang Dae-shik (Heo Jung-do) vows to take responsibility to the end for what has been done for him, and Madam Shin (Jang Hye-jin) appears as a new, tightly guarded presence inside the intelligence world.
Baek Ki-hyun’s reply turns the political war into a family rupture when he asks whether he is being told to betray his brother. The trailer ends on Baek Ki-tae’s insistence that once something has been started, it has to be finished. Those lines leave little room for a quiet settlement among the three men at the center of the series.
The new character posters isolate that hunger in still images instead of a single group pose. Baek Ki-tae is shown racing toward the top of the power structure, Jang Geon-young as a prosecutor who has returned looking for revenge, and Baek Ki-hyun as a younger brother caught between blood and conviction. Around them stand Oh Ye-jin as South Korea’s first female prosecutor and Ikeda Yu-ji as a contender for control of her organization.
Cheon Seok-jung appears as a figure of nearly unchecked authority, and Pyo Hak-soo is identified as director of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Busan branch. Baek So-young (Cha Hee) is recast as the mind behind an illegal business, while Madam Shin and Hwang Dae-shik complete a field of players whose goals overlap only long enough to make the next collision worse.
The first two episodes of Made in Korea 2 will premiere on Disney+ and Hulu on September 9. Two new episodes will then be released every Wednesday through the rest of the six-episode season.
Sources: Naver; Hulu / Disney+ Korea
