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Netflix K-drama Strong Girl Nam-soon: Squid Game star Lee Yoo-mi leads childish follow-up to modern classic Strong Girl Bong-soon
- K-drama Strong Girl Bong-soon was always going to be hard to match, but where Park Bo-young’s original protagonist was charming, Lee Yoo-mi’s verges on grating
- The Netflix series is flashy and high energy, but subpar visuals and action sequences make for a cartoonish follow-up to a K-drama classic
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![Lee Yoo-mi as Gang Nam-soon in a still from “Strong Girl Nam-soon”. Netflix’s series is high budget and high energy, but it fails to live up to Strong Girl Bong-soon, the classic K-drama on which it is based.](https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1020x680/public/d8/images/canvas/2023/10/17/d08c7905-4f22-44b1-84ec-b5e99631a3c3_c036f9ee.jpg?itok=3rMpKvSG&v=1697536295)
Lead cast: Lee Yoo-mi, Kim Jung-eun, Kim Ha-sook, Ong Seung-wu, Byeon Woo-seok
Latest Nielsen rating: 9.8 per cent
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Super-powered Korean women are back on screens in the bubbly K-drama Strong Girl Nam-soon, a spin-off of the popular 2017 series Strong Girl Bong-soon.
Lee Yoo-mi of Squid Game and All of Us Are Dead fame takes the reins from Park Bo-young, who played the previous title character, while Baek Mi-kyung returns as series writer.
Lee is Gang Nam-soon, the daughter of corporate tycoon Hwang Geum-joo (Kim Jung-eun, My Dangerous Wife) who disappeared as a child during a trip with her photographer father Gang Bong-go (Lee Seung-joon) to Mongolia.
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