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Family go on a picnic after a long time. But It's not all fun.

Second-generation migrant worker, Soo is released after receiving probation and community service sentence for his use of violence. Along with his friend Pil-sung, he ends up working as brokers for illegal migrant workers. While fulfilling his community service duty, he meets surfers. Soo falls in love with surfing as the surfers Ddong-ggo and Hae-na teach him how to surf.

Sunwoo, a trumpet major nearing graduation, reunites with his older brother Jiwoo, who left home years ago. As they each express their emotions in their own way, the two brothers come to understand each other's silence. On a shared stage, they begin their first and possibly last performance together.

In Dandong, the border city facing Sinuiju across the Amrok River, a North Korean defector named Choong-shim works as a massager. When the police chase the illegal immigrants, Choong-shim sneaks into a house of a Korean businessman who showed generosity to her. He once promised her that he would take her to the South. But he isn't there anymore, and Choong-shim gets devastated.

After losing his son in the Itaewon disaster, taxi driver Seongjun endures a numb, hollow routine, estranged from his wife as well. Then, an unexpected connection with Min-ah, an aspiring actress, begins to gently unsettle his tightly closed heart, and ultimately breathes life back into the part of him that had stopped living.

Hye-sung grew up poor but he has a gifted talent for baseball. Eom-ji has watched over him since they were young. Hye-sung falls in love with Eom-ji but when she transfers to another school, they don't see each other for years. Hye-sung and Eom-ji meet again at a baseball field but Um-ji is now the girlfriend of the exceptional hitter of high school, Ma Dong-tak. Hye-sung competes endlessly with Dong-tak over Eom-ji. But he ends up with a serious shoulder injury and gives up baseball. Then Manager Sohn Byung-ho gathers up dismissed baseball players and forms a team. Manager Sohn puts his team through extreme training and Hye-sung returns to the baseball world. He competes once more with Dong-tak, who is by Eom-ji's side.

Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary without much enthusiasm, then drops out. After doing his military service as a KATUSA, he teaches at the U.S. educational center. When he is given a job teaching in America, he hastily marries in preparation for the move. He is suddenly struck blind, then begins contemplating suicide. Instead he has a religious vision and dedicates himself to the ministry, and opens a church for the blind.

A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition which outcome has left the trainee disappointed.

During a summer vacation, Ok-ju and Dong-ju move into their grandpa's house. While Dong-ju adapts to his new home, Ok-ju feels awkward about this new environment. Once their soon-to-be-divorced aunt also moves in, and as Ok-ju spends time with her family, the house and her grandpa start to grow on her.

Soo-min, a bookstore owner entering menopause; Eun-young, a homemaker already in the midst of it; and Hyun, a corporate manager who has not yet experienced it — each faces her own struggles, from work and love to changing bodies and fading confidence. And just when life feels overwhelming… even their friendship begins to fall apart. Can they ever return to the way they once were?

Jang Jung-Han is a commander of 330 unit who is with his wife and son Kyu-Shik. By chance Kyu-Shik meets a country boy In-Dol who asks him to find out his sister. The 330 unit comes upon Kyu-Shik's kidnap while it is searching for a couple burglar on motor cycle. Kim Min-Su stole money to pay for his son's medical charge 7 years ago. At that time he solicited Jang Jung-Han not to arrest him but he is arrested and jailed. After finishing his imprisonment, he finds that his wife remarried and his son is dying of maltreatment. He kidnaps Kyu-Shik to retaliate, but he gives up because Kyu-Shik is so simple and innocent. The commander solves the motor cycle case and finds that the woman is In-Dol's sister who feels regret her faults.

Sixteen year-old girl Jeong-ae receives a letter from her mother, who left home long ago. Jeong-ae is living with her father in the redevelopment area of Seoul. He was diagnosed with an end-stage cancer and is waiting for his death while giving up treatment. Jeongae is on her way to find her long lost mother, thinking that it is her only hope left.

A love for a cousin, deeply engraved in childhood. Twelve years later, a stopped heart begins to beat again.

Commissioned by South Korea's National Human Rights Commission, If You Were Me is an innovative omnibus film project to promote tolerance and human rights and shed light on the hardships disadvantaged people face in Korea. After the success of the first anthology, a second series, If You Were Me 2, was released this year. Five notable Korean directors - Park Kyung Hee (A Smile), Ryoo Seung Wan (Crying Fist), Jung Ji Woo, Jang Jin (Guns & Talks), and Kim Dong Won - participated in the second installment, creating shorts on human rights issues of their choosing.

Kang-soo is a third-rate street thug in Busan; he's an alcoholic and gambling addict who's always on the run from loan sharks. But when his rebellious teenage son Jong-chul is diagnosed with kidney cancer, he tries to be a real parent for the first time and seeks out Jong-chul's biological father, Tae-suk, a pimp. Tae-suk, however, refuses to help.

Time passes by, and nothing has changed.

Based on a true story that depicts the pressures placed on students to achieve and gain admission to prestigious colleges and universities.

An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small village in Seoul. He often causes domestic trouble by being nasty to his wife and his children. Kim Hyeon-ok, a daughter of a young widow who runs Nahana Beauty Shop, is in love with Choi Du-yeol, an obstetrician across the street. Kim Hak-gyu has great distaste for western medicine, and at the same time, is jealous of the obstetrician. He always gets in the way of Choi Du-yeol. Kim's son, Hyeon-gu, dates Jeom-ryae, a daughter of a bar owner.

Sooin, a piano teacher, decides to attend a debut concert at her professor's request after a long absence. As she prepares for the concert, she reflects on her memories and feelings.

There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member of the team and they all go drinking together to welcome him.

Oh Tae Shik, rather, Oh Kyeon Shik, who has been preparing to become a detective while working a different job, is a private establishment security guard who earns 880,000 won in Daechi Dong, Gangnam. Thanks to his dream of becoming a detective, he is like a bulldozer who does not know how to give up. He always watched CSI and Detective Columbo's movies, analyzing their traits and building his dream of becoming a great detective. He manages to pass the written test, but he doesn't meet the hearing baseline and fails. Then one day, coincidence happens and a fugitive on the run gets caught by Kyeon Shik when he throws a bottle of water he just bought at the runner. Kyeon Shik becomes a hero thanks to this.

Tae-jun accidentally brakes Jin-uk's kite. Perhaps because he feels sorry for it, Tae-jun begins to show his interest in Jin-uk and becomes close with him by remaking a kite. Bum-seok, a friend of Tae-jun, has conflicts with Jin-uk, without any clear reason for it. This film is a story of the three boys, Tae-jun, Jin-uk, and Bum-seok.

A social drama about a young student activist who hides from the authorities by working in a small mining town.

The evil Silver Fox is back and he must search for a secret message that was put on a young man who was supposedly killed with his father by Silver Fox's bandits. Years later, the young man returns to avenge his father's death by facing off against the high-kicking Silver Fox.

In Seoul's Seochon neighborhood, stories unfold across seasons. On an autumn day, Han-kyung, an artist, meets women while seeking love. In summer, Bo-ra finishes work at a nail salon and uses a man to attract another at her favorite bar. In winter, Ma-ri, an actor with memory loss, joins a film director's ambiguous story. Their lives intersect, weaving a tapestry of hope, desire, and reality within the same space over time.

Daean School is a school of hope; however, in reality, its actually a place of despair where the students are treated like garbage. It's unbelievable but true. The teachers of Daean School are drowned in desire to an extent that they step on the students' dreams.

Yoo-ri, a seemingly model student from a well-to do family suddenly commits suicide. Detectives suspect suicide, but her mother Hye-young believes that Yoo-ri’s classmate Ye-na and homeroom teacher Gi-beom were the killers. As the investigation dives into the lives of these people, it spirals out of control due to conflicting statements between the three, but detectives find out that Hye-young caused cracks in Yoo-ri’s heart. Deeply believing that she was doing everything possible for her child out of love, can Hye-young uncover the truth behind her daughter’s death?

A Korean girl in the past visits in the future Korea. She is a Korean independence activist for protest against Japanese colonial rule on Mar 1st, 1919.

Chang-gil, who spent time in prison as a drug offender, plans a new life after being released. Then, the existence of her courtesan Chun-ja approaches him, and Chang-gil gradually develops feelings for her.

Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life.

Seong Ji-yeon, a female officer of the North Korean army, is discovered by southern forces on a snow covered mountain. She suffers from severe frostbite so she is taken to a military hospital. There she falls in love with a doctor, Captain Lee. However, when he is sent to the front, she is sent to try to survive the hardships of a POW camp.

Jung-kyoung is looking for her younger sister Hoo-kyoung while Chang is a computer whiz who stays on at the rest stop after losing his job. KIM Bak is a reporter and photographer for the local Tongyeong media who frequents the rest stop. Onna is a famous blogger who works at the rest stop and dreams of a new Asian highway. It is also the virtual journey of the 880-thousand-won generation. They show the sense of loss, loneliness, and communication in this digital age. An older sister searching for a young sister who has run away from home, an animator who wanders around aimlessly after leaving his job, a reporter, and the employees of the rest stop.

A corrupt detective infiltrates a gang and tries to save his daughter. One day he finds out the heart his daughter would receive as a transplant is from a magician he falsely accused.

A gangster with terminal illness discovers that he has a son by his ex-wife.

A new virus (a.k.a “fantomal virus”) is transmitted to a small rural village. Dasol, a three-month nurse working in the village hospital, is being workplace bullying (a.k.a “burned”). In the meantime, Dasol begins to educate a new nurse Eunbi earlier than expected due to the poor ward situation.

Time-Consciousness offers four mutually contradictory versions of a series of events. The constant factors are a middle-aged poet with a gammy leg, a prostitute who may or may not be dead, and the woman’s humble room (which may or may not be tidy), where the poet does his writing. Asking "What did happen at 9:20 that evening?," the film underlines the unreliability of memory and the impossibility of objectivity.

To Joo-young, Korea’s first Olympic gold medalist in women’s curling and the skip (captain) of the team, the Olympic medal was everything. She quits curling with a sense of responsibility and guilt after her teammate’s suicide. Living as a high school curling teacher, she accidentally meets Hyuk-soo, the coach related to her teammate’s suicide. After the encounter, Joo-young can’t stand Hyuk-soo anymore as he even threatens her students. She decides to disclose who he really is and starts a new plan with a helper…

Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised the previous king to depose the queen. He becomes crueler by the day. But in 10th year of his reign, he is kicked out of the throne and dies a tragic death.

Prince Yeonsan-gun attempts to sexually harass Yahwa, the wife of Yun Pil-u who was beheaded after being branded as a traitor. Yahwa commits a suicide following her husband but, before she dies, has already asked her cat to make revenge. Since that time, the bodies of the court ladies and the patrol guards are found every morning and ghosts of Pil-u and Yahwa regularly appear along with the mewing sound of the cat. Kim Chung-won, head of the guardsmen and also a former friend of Pil-u, borrows the supernatural power of a senior Buddhist priest and succeeds in getting rid of the ghosts for the peace of the nation.

In 1946, Tae-woong, a man nicknamed "The Bear" who dominated the streets of Busan with his fists, have returned after twenty years. Tae-woong is still haunted by his former love, Yeonsuk, and is confused when he meets Jung-hee, who looks exactly like Yeonsuk. Meanwhile, Dal-ji, a former subordinate of Tae-woong's, schemes to get rid of him.

In a tilting and subsiding town, everybody has left. Jae-ah is still waiting for her brother to come back. She lives in the shadow of fear, as her house begins to tilt.

Fifteen-year-old So-min is upset that her family has to move after her father’s business flops. Her family arrives at their new home, but even before their possessions are unloaded, So-min and her younger brother head to their old home.

Jon Chul (Tak Jae Hoon) is a workaholic man who has no time to his wife nor son since he's always too much concentraded in his job, until an incident turns into an accident and both, his wife and son, dies. Driven by the guilty of never paying proper attention to his wife or son and the pain forgetting about them little by lite everyday Jong Chul turns into an alchoholic man putting his job aside, ignoting life itself. However circumstances turns his life around when he meets a boy with a chronic illness, Jong Chul.is reluctant and determinated.not to care at first however he is unable to ignore the boy who was left behind by his mother and a new.found men who could handle the problems that the little boy could bring.

Two friends in the Korean Navy, Lee and Kim are both part of an elite diving squad, specialising in emergency deep sea salvage dives. Lee is straight-laced and takes his duties seriously, while Kim treats the Navy as a lark. When Kang, a diving instructor and Kim's former girlfriend, is posted to the unit, this creates tension between the friends as they compete for Kang's affections. The tension is heightened when Lee is promoted ahead of Kim, creating a rivalry between the two. Kim's gung-ho approach to diving, and the danger he poses for himself (and his fellow divers), leads to further problems. Matters come to a head when an incident at sea causes the sinking of a submarine, requiring the unit to attempt a dangerous salvage rescue of the sunken submarine.

Did one say that humans are animals controlled by hormones? Hong-ki, a middle-aged man, finds it hard to hold himself back due to male menopause. His hormones are stirred up and he gets caught up in emotion at the fact that he can't meet his married daughter at Korea's biggest holiday, Lunar New Year's day... Hong-ki heads to his son-in-law's place where his daughter is.

An omnibus movie consisting of three shorts by CHOI Ikhwan, SHIN Yeonsik, and LEE Gwangguk. A delightful dissection of human rights in this day and age through a student who gets punished for wanting to eat deokbokki, a man with delusions of grandeur, an insurance agent who spends a strange day.

Ttosun, a young hard-working woman with a good heart, falls in love with a driver but her father disapproves of the match.

Keun-Ok, a barmaid, has been brought up in an orphanage after losing her parents in her early childhood. One day, Cho Yong-Jin, the teacher in charge of the bar owner's son, visits the bar to see his pupil. Seeing him Keun-Ok feels love for him and begins to seek his attention. He doesn't dislike her but keeps away from her for several reasons. In the long run, he quits the school and makes every effort to change her life for better one. In the meantime, he finds her working in a hotel as a cleaner. Yong-Jun hugs her tight and decides to marry her.

A Korean mercenary, Ivan, begins to protect a Korean girl named Jihye, who goes to the Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. The two fall in love. One day, Jihye gets kidnapped by the Russian mafia.

Eighteen year-old Tae-hoon and Mi-jung have been going out for 100 days. During winter break they decide to take a trip to the beach to celebrate their anniversary. When they are back home after a few days, they have to confront a harsh situation – Mi-jung’s parents don’t allow them to see each other until they become college students. Tae-hoon struggles to keep their love and wanders around Mi-jung but she is eventually changed and avoids him as her parents wish. Winter turns to spring, and Tae-hoon and Mi-jung both turn nineteen.

Film director Hyun encounters a mysterious woman and asks her to be his muse. Intrigued with his daring proposal, she accepts. Soon she invites him to her villa in the country to give him some isolated space to write his screenplay. But her masochistic acts slowly consume his desire and longing. He bears escalating humiliation and pain that are inflicted on him for the sake of being with her and ultimately signs over his life to her as her slave.