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'Mousetrap' Turns Korean Folktale Into Netflix Thriller

Summary by The Korea Times
The stolen-identity thriller "Mousetrap" is officially primed for its global Netflix debut. The webtoon-based series follows Moon-jae (Ryu Jun-yeol), a novelist who loses his name, face and life to a mysterious entity known as "the Rat." He teams up with No-ja (Sul Kyung-gu), a loan shark, and Sun-yong (Lee Kyu-hyung), a detective, embarking on a high-stakes hunt to uncover the identity of the Rat. Helmed by director Kim Hong-sun, who was acclai…

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ko Ga-hye = Actor Ryu Jun-yeol has become the protagonist of the old folktale that "a mouse becomes a human if it eats its fingernails."

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[OSEN=Reporter Lee Dae-seon] A press conference for the Netflix series 'Maus' was held on the 20th at the Hotel Naru Seoul M Gallery. Based on the legend of the 'Maus that ate fingernails,' 'Maus' is a chase thriller about a novelist named 'Moon-jae' who has his name, face, and entire life stolen by a mysterious entity called the 'Maus,' a loan shark named 'No-ja' trying to recover his lost money, and a detective named 'Sun-yong' as they track d…

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조선일보 broke the news on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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