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The Great Flood’ Hits Netflix December 19 as Director Highlights Love at the Story’s Core

Kim Byung-woo used a Seoul press conference to stress the film’s emotional focus over disaster spectacle.

Overview

  • Netflix has set a December 19 global streaming release for The Great Flood, confirmed by the official Netflix Geeked channel.
  • At a December 16 press event in Seoul, director Kim Byung-woo said the film asks, “What is love and where does it come from?” and emphasized feeling over spectacle.
  • The story follows An-na, a single mother and AI researcher, as a security agent races to get her and her son to safety during a planet-wide flood.
  • Billed as a Korean Netflix original, the film stars Kim Da-mi and Park Hae-soo and blends disaster scale with science-fiction ideas.
  • One outlet listed December 15, but Netflix’s official promotion specifies December 19, following a world premiere at Busan in September.