‘Bogota,’ featuring Song Joong-ki, resumes filming after shutdown

The crime drama “Bogota: City of the Lost,” featuring Song Joong-ki, has resumed shooting in Korea after it halted filming in Colombia due to the pandemic.

“Following a hiatus for COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, filming has resumed on Bogota in Korea. It has about three months of material left to shoot,” the film’s distributor Megabox Plus M said in a statement, Wednesday.

The filming began in January 2020 in Colombia, but two months later, the “Bogota” team shut down production as the pandemic forced film and TV shoots to pause work.

In March last year, Colombia imposed an entry ban on travelers from South Korea as well as those who had visited the country. So the cast and crew returned to Korea and abandoned their original plan to shoot the entire film in the South American country.

Directed by Kim Sung-je, who previously helmed “Minority Opinion” (2015), the film tells the story about Koreans who migrated to Colombia in the 1990s in search of a better life.

In the film, Song will play the role of Guk-hee, who arrived penniless in Bogota at the age of 19 and becomes a successful entrepreneur. Song most recently starred in Netflix’s sci-fi blockbuster “Space Sweepers” and tvN’s drama “Vincenzo.”

Actor Lee Hee-jun will portray Soo-young, who initially came to Colombia as dispatched employee for a trading company but then built his own business. Veteran actor Kwon Hye-hyo will be featured as the head of a Korean merchant association in Bogota.