The film premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival on February 22, 2020, making it the first Korean film to be screened in the Berlinale Special section.
The film was originally set to be released in theaters on February 26, 2020 but it was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID19 pandemic. On March 23, it was announced that Netflix would release the film on April 10.
The movie scheduled to stream exclusively on Netflix worldwide from April 10th, 2020, but on April 9th, 2020 the South Korean courts sided with distribution company Contents Panda on its injunction to stop the release of the film on Netflix. Contents Panda claims to hold international distribution rights, prior to the Netflix agreement with studio company Little Big Pictures. An agreement was then made between Little Big Pictures and Contents Panda to have the film distributed via Netflix from April 23, 2020.
Lee Je-hoon, Park Jeong-min and director Yoon Sunghyun previously worked together in the movie La frappe (2010).