● The director of the film, Hoon-jung Park, admitted that 100% of the idea for the film came from "Infernal Affairs". According to Director Park, he likes " Infernal Affairs " very much , and he is particularly fond of this theme.
● The English adaptation rights of "New World" were purchased by Hollywood Sony Pictures. The American remake of "New World" was produced by Vertigo Entertainment, and the script was adapted by Will Fatters.
● "New World" successfully sold the copyright in North America to Wellgo USA at the EFMheld during the 63rd Berlin Film Festival .
● Hwang Jeong Min said that some of the characters in the film are overseas Chinese and need to master a certain amount of Chinese. However, compared with the Jeolla Province dialects, Chinese is too difficult, and in the end it reaches the level of listening and imitating.
● Hwang Jeong Min has a very special curly hair style in the film, but in fact, he himself has self-curly hair, not extra perm.
● The film investment was not in place and the shooting plan was stranded. CHOI MIN SIK even had to give up the performance. Fortunately, the film went on smoothly without any risk.
● The costume guide prepared 120 suits for the film, and the amount of costumes produced was 4 times more than that of ordinary films.
● Due to the hot weather, the actors' makeup is not good, and they often need to touch up their makeup. In the end, the cameraman simply gave up the original expected effect, no longer let the actors put on makeup, and used the lens to directly capture everyone's real state, even delicate to the facial pores and wrinkles, in order to create a sense of vicissitudes of life.
