The second season of the Apple TV drama Pachinko, in which Professor Haerry Kim, a theater major at kookmin University, participated as an acting coach, was released on Friday, August 23rd. Professor Kim also participated in season 1 as an acting coach for the main male actors. 

Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Korean-American author Min Jin Lee, Pachinko was written and produced by Korean-Hollywood producer Soo Hugh and filmed in South Korea, Japan, and Canada. Season 1 was critically acclaimed in the U.S. and around the world, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Television Series, AFI Award for TV Program of the Year, and Independent Spirit Award for Best Ensemble Cast. 

The drama is considered to be a masterful portrayal of the history and times of people discriminated against as outsiders, following the lives of the Japanese diaspora and Zainichi from Korea to Japan from the Japanese occupation to the late 1980s. In season 2, the show will follow the characters' choices to survive the changes in history from the Japanese occupation to the 1950s and the lives of their descendants in the 1980s. Yoon Yeo-jung and Kim Min-ha will star as the main characters, “Sun-ja,” and Lee Min-ho will play “Hansu,” a strong man who enters the yakuza world and gains wealth and power. After interviewing with the production company, Professor Kim Hye-ri was hired as an acting coach for Season 1, and in Season 2, she coached Lee Min-ho, who plays Hansu, a man who tries to survive in a changing Japanese society by any means necessary, and Noh Sang-hyun, who plays Isaac, the husband of Sun-ja, who is willing to make sacrifices to live a meaningful life.

Acting coaching has become a necessary system for actors in Hollywood and the United Kingdom who participate in big movies. Rather than acting instruction as it is commonly understood, coaching in a work is a process of working with actors to design characters through the work, analyzing scripts and scenes in detail to prepare them to embody the characters according to the direction and intention of the work, and conducting customized preliminary work so that the actors can unlock their effective potential by utilizing their expressiveness and presence in the scene. In addition to her work as an acting coach, Haerry Kim appeared in the final episode of the six-part drama series “Expats,” starring Nicole Kidman, which premiered on Amazon Prime TV in February as Hye Soon, the mother of one of the main characters, Mercy (played by Ji-young Yoo). In November, she will be translating and directing the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick, which will be performed at Sinchon Sanwolimso Theater as a reading alongside her one-woman show FACE. The Flick will have its Korean premiere as a completed work next year.