Inside the Making of a Trilingual Epic.

For the actor Soji Arai, who plays Sunja's son Mozasu, Pachinko offered a rare opportunity to showcase his own Zainichi (the term for ethnic Koreans living in Japan) heritage. One of those readers was writer and showrunner Soo Hugh (Under the Dome, The Terror), who was given the book by Kang-Lowe in the hopes that she might want to spearhead the adaptation. In 2017, When film and tv agent Theresa Kang-Lowe read Min Jin Lee's epic novel Pachinko, which tells the story of a poor Korean family through generations and across borders, she feared it didn't stand a chance of receiving Hollywood's attention. [Extracted from the article]

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