Space Sweepers : Jo Sung-hee’s Imagination that Took Off from Earth and into Space!

Sending Korean Characters Up into Space in Year 2092!

The beginning of S pace Sweepers traces back to 2009, even before Jo Sung-hee’s first popular commercial film A Werewolf Boy. Jo began developing the story of Space Sweepers after first learning from a friend about space junk that travels extremely fast in outer space. “Space workers” who collects “space debris” that travels faster than bullets and can kill people—the script that started off from these two keywords ten years ago features Korean “space sweepers” up in space instead of Hollywood heroes in costumes that give them superpowers, and in 2021, it is finally about to premiere on Netflix for audiences around the world.

The crew on spaceship Victory sometimes have to risk their lives to collect space debris for sale trying to throw their competitors off the track, only to end up with a pittance that can barely cover utility bills, and constantly worry about having no savings. Unlike the glamorous lives of the characters in Hollywood’s space sci-fi films, Victory’s humble crew shares the everyday problems that we all struggle with and create room for audiences to relate to them. The “victory” of these Korean space workers, who have been too busy making their ends meet to even dream of saving the planet, is all the more rewarding and exciting.

Space Sweepers, where heroes who are never free from worries about their livelihood much like the rest of us race in a spacecraft, throw a harpoon, and fight their enemy with all their might, will take the viewers to a new world that Hollywood films have not yet explored with real excitement and thrill that come from an authentic place.