Song Kang-ho, Cho Jung-seok and Bae Doona in "Drug King"

Song Kang-ho, Bae Doona and Cho Jung-seok finally finished the first take of "Drug King".

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The movie cranked in on the 5th along with Lee Sung-min, Kim Dae-myung, Kim So-jin, Lee Hee-jun. Jo Woo-jin and more.

The director of "Inside Men" Woo Min-ho is in charge of "Drug King" which is based on the motive of the drug case that occurred in the 1970s in Korea and the drug lord Lee Doo-sam.

Song Kang-ho takes on the role of Lee Doo-sam, an underground drug seller who opens up to drug trafficking and becomes the drug lord. He produces and sells the biggest amount of meth in Korea.

Song Kang-ho is reenacting a real life character that used to avoid all raid and took the world by storm.

Cho Jung-seok plays Kim In-goo, a prosecutor from Seoul to cooperate with the Busan prosecutor's office.

Bae Doona is Kim Jeong-ah, a lobbyist who leads Lee Doo-sam to the highest of class. She is working with Song Kang-ho for the second time.

Lee Sung-min takes on the role of Seo Sang-hoon, a prosecutor from the drug division who keeps a lookout for Lee Doo-sam. Kim Dae-myung is Lee Doo-sam's cousin, Lee Doo-hwan.

Kim So-jin is Lee Doo-sam's wife Seong Sook-kyeong. Lee Hee-jin is a smuggler from Busan who helps to carry the drugs to Japan and Jo Woo-jin is Jo Seong-kang, who helps to expand the drug business in Korea.

The movie will be released in 2018.