‘Pachinko’ returns: In conversation with showrunner Soo Hugh and actor Jin Ha

Any time a book is adapted for the screen, debates and discussions are aplenty. For a book as celebrated and revered as Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, these questions have always loomed large over the TV series adaptation, which is now back for a second season. It seems rather befitting that we get to interview Soo Hugh, the showrunner, along with actor Jin Ha, who plays Solomon. “What was most interesting in the writers room for this season was Jin Ha’s Solomon,” Soo Hugh smiles and points to his star. He calls his arc in the second season a ‘blazing new story’, and a chance to chart a new path for Solomon, all while telling the larger, original story of the book.