20 July 2026
K pop Stars in Newly Released Crypto themed Movie Twenty Hacker
A galaxy of K-pop stars-turned-actors will lure music and cinema fans to a new South Korean crypto-themed movie that may be streaming on major international platforms in the coming days.
Last year, the pop star Kwon Hyun-bin of the K-pop boyband JBJ, was recruited to play the lead role in what was initially planned as a mini-series later edited into a movie. Originally named Romantic Hacker, the movie has now been released in South Korea as "Twenty Hacker". Per Newsen, the film marks the star's cinematic debut.
Cho Hyun-young- a former member of the girl group Rainbow, is also a part of the film. Cho has started acting in recent years after the dissolution of the chart-topping group. Another girl group, star-turned-actress, plays Kwon's romantic interest – Im Na-young, a former member of the pop acts I.O.I. and Pristin. Im has also performed one of the songs on the film's soundtrack. Another boyband member, Lee Su-Woong of Boys' Republic, also plays a lead role in the movie.
Twenty Hacker narrates how Kwon's character, Jae-min, saw his father driven to suicide after hackers used ransomware and attacked his company's servers. Jae-min decides to take his revenge and throws his energy into becoming a computer boffin, developing extraordinary "white" hacking skills. His abilities grabbed the attention of Cho's character, who recruits him to work for her underground gang of hackers.
Meanwhile, a small, rival group of young and elite but ill-intentioned hackers decided to wreak havoc on the country's biggest crypto exchange. They succeed in breaking through the security defences of the exchange's security system and send the user's of exchange phishing text messages about the withdrawal of the tokens in their wallets. Kwon's character, along with the rest of Cho's gang, is forced into a race against time to stop the hackers from escaping with the exchange users' funds.
In a further crypto bent, Im plays the role of Jae-min's childhood friend and turns to help when her father becomes the victim of a crypto-themed scam.
If all this crypto asset-flavoured South Korean screen fun leaves you wanting more – you're in luck. This movie is armed with an eye-watering USD 540m budget; production is ongoing on Pumping Time, which will feature A-listing stars from South Korea and Hollywood stars. Already shaping up to be the crypto world's answer to Game of Thrones, the soon-to-be-released series is expected to run for ten seasons.
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