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An investigative reporter seeks to expose the whereabouts of a slush fund belonging to the former president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak.

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.

Part of the Insight Asia series, 'Asian Corridor in Heaven' is a six-episode documentary series about the world's oldest trade route, the "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road". Pre-dating the Silk Road by 200 years, the Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road crossed from the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China over mountainous terrain into Tibet, Nepal, and India.

On a snow-covered road, a couple hits a kid with the car they were in. After a fight, a woman locks herself in the car and calls the police, while a man threatens her to come out and help him hide the body. However, after the man blows their secret, the woman starts experiencing inner conflict.

The film is based on the 1925 short story of the same title by Na Do-hyang and revolves around the story of a deaf farm hand who is in love with a landlord's daughter-in-law.

The film's director KIM Saebom, the daughter of Small Bird and Mr. Pig, decides to open an exhibition for the two of them and goes to Busan, where they live. As she records their daily life and artistic activities, she learns about their lost dreams, hopes and their love.

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

So-Eun is a safe breaker planner. She plans a heist with expert safe breaker Jang-Choon and thief-actor Cheol-Soo. They dream of changing their lives with this job. Meanwhile, Gyu-Cheol is former elite prosecutor, but he lost his memory in a mysterious accident. Nowadays he does foolish acts.

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…

Hana, who lives in a gloomy basement without sunlight, moves to a sunny rooftop. Hana, who begins to grow plants after being able to use her rooftop to her heart's content, gradually recovers from her exhausted daily life through her plants.

Lee Jae-hyun, the protagonist of “Link”, has a sister who is in a coma. He spends his life wishing to see his sister come back to life however his hope eventually dies out. While grief stricken Lee meets an attractive girl, Su-jeong, through his trusted friend, Gu Seong-wu. Su-jeong and Jae-hyun not only build their friendship but they develop a link that let them share their five senses and even their thoughts. As the link gets stronger, Jae-hyun becomes ever more addicted to Su-jeong’s power. This infatuation with the link endangers Jae-hyun. Woody Han, the director, marks his debut for a full-length film with “Link.” Han shows how satisfying humans’ desires can be hazardous throughout the film. The artistic side was respected at this year’s Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival as the film was invited by the festival, which came to an end on Sunday. The film sold out all tickets during the festival period.

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.

A mother finds a cigarette in her daughter’s bag. Even though her mother starts to bombard her with questions, the daughter keeps her mouth shut. Then the father returns home from work and begins to suspect the cigarette is not just a cigarette, after all.

A woman facing financial struggles becomes obsessed with a former classmate who seems to have the perfect life, blurring the line between admiration and identity theft.

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.

Younghee visits her boyfriend, Chulsoo who lives on Ulleung Island, in order to bid him farewell. However, she gets stuck on the island due to a sudden windstorm alert. Younghee should have an awkward and troubled day with Chulsoo. An unexpected companion that begins with an unannounced declaration of separation details their funny and mournful last day.

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.

Ji Hoon, who showed great promise as an athlete, is released from jail after serving time for his friend Dong Jin's crime. Dong Jin is now the head of a mob organization and he tries to lure Ji Hoon to work for him. Ji Hoon tries to start over and begins a job in a stable and refuses to work for Dong Jin when Dong Jin's men approach him. But Dong Jin is relentless in his pursuit of his old friend. He will do what it takes to bring Ji Hoon into his organization. As Ji Hoon continues to refuse his offer, Dong Jin gets his one and only sister involved. By using Soo Ah as bait, Dong Jin tries to convince Ji Hoon to come to him. Meanwhile, Dong Jin's father ridicules his younger brother, Dong Suk, being a good-for-nothing ingrate. Dong Suk, in an attempt to prove himself to his family, takes things too far. He takes his brother's men on a raid of a local nightclub.

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.

A group of swordsmen takes on a hard-fight battle to possess a precious sword named Loegeom. Ahn Gil-won, one of the swordsmen, heads to enemy camp by himself, looking for the sword. He manages to swipe out the gang of enemy, finds his sword and heads on his way with his lover.

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.

There are people whose lives have been shaken by the 'Gwangju Video'. On May of 1980, the course of their lives changed in front of a huge wave of truth in Gwangju. The people who made and spread the 'Gwangju Video' are also the people who had their bodies on the waves. The hidden stories of these people, the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising, and the pursuit to trace the missing 4 hours of mass shooting will be revealed for the first time.

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.

Chung Guyon is a second-generation Korean modern architecture. By implementing the Miracle Library Project for children in six major metropolitan cities nationwide for instance, he confronts and fights society, displaying his indefatigable will to build a better one through architecture.

Isolated in his kitchen, a young cook is trying to make the perfect red snapper dish.

3 short movies: "Enemies in Four Directions": A bunch of thugs, an assassin who uses a screwdriver as a weapon of choice, a young gigolo and his housewife "customer," and other motley crew of guests converge in a hotel, creating havoc for one another through a series of misunderstandings and identity confusions. "My Nike": In contrast, is a modest, gentle but savvy evocation of an urban lower-middle class family life in 1980s Korea. The chapter is told from the point of view of a 14 yo junior high school student whose greatest desire in the world is to own a pair of Nike sneakers. "The Church Sister": Stars Kim Il-yong as a young soldier on a vacation leave. He is secretly in love with the friendly and beautiful "big sister" from the Sunday school, whom he has known since childhood. They go see a movie, eat lunch together, walk around the neighbourhood aimlessly, waiting for the train to carry him off to the barracks. Will he confess his true feelings to her in time?

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.

Baek-i used to be known as the best fighter in his high school along with Hyuk and Jul-byuk. They clashed constantly with ‘The Picks’, a gang led by Jin-han. They were always better than the Picks. Twenty years later, Baek-i’s crew, now nearing forty, meet for drinks. They mull over the news that Jin-han donated a scholarship to his high school, even though he had been expelled. And when Baek-i's friend Hyuk and Jul-byuk get beaten up by the members of the Picks for a trivial reason, a new situation arises. The old bachelor Baek-i falls in love with a woman named Jin which complicates relations among everyone.

Tortoise, a street thug with a hard life, happens to land a big mission, which he considers a ‘game changing’ chance; an opportunity to go from rags to riches. He volunteers to set up Hare to bring the liver of Hare for his big boss the Dragon King, who needs a transplant. As the fate would have it, however, he finds out that Hare is actually his childhood friend from the orphanage and Tortoise's sister owes Hare a lot from a long time ago. Torn between friendship and ‘a better life’, Tortoise is faced with a life and death choice.

Moon-ju has arranged to meet Jae-heung, a journalist she has always admired. Suddenly, Jae-heung asks her if she believes in UFOs.

A young woman must care for her paralysed mother, but in the darkest corners of their home, the most chilling horrors start emerging…

Suyeon works in nail care at a hair salon in Brickstone in South London. Maya, a mischievous punk girl, steps into the salon. When their fingers touch, Suyeon begins to feel confused with her own feelings.

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.

An independent triptych of stories about troubled people.

Yeong-mi swears that she will revenge herself against Ku Yeon-su after he ruins her family. First she gains his trust and eventually moves in with him. Then she sets her plans of his destruction in motion.

Soo-Jung (Lee Seung-Yeon) has a bright and honest personality. She is loved by many people. Soo-Jung works as a magazine photographer. When Soo-Jung gets tired of work and life in general, she goes to her friend Young-Ha's (Park Yong-Ha) workroom. Although she always shows others her bright side, she confides to Young-Ha about her sadness and loneliness. Yong-Ha wants to embrace her pain, but there is a wall between them. Soo-Jung again faces a difficult situation. She then meets Ji-Hwan (Lee Kyoung-Young).

A wise martial arts teacher, knowing that the future will need his treasure, hid his hoard of gold before he died. His daughter and a rival teacher have other plans for gold and each send their agents to try and find it

I just watch the news of war in a distant country on my mobile. My fingers go back day by day to the day the war broke out and pose to see comments posted on the Facebook News Feed that I follow. Outside, I have friends who participated in anti-war rallies.

A promising program developer braves adulthood with a new perspective when an unplanned pregnancy fills her reality with questions, chaos and courage

Middle-class housewife Ae-soon is excessively vain and neglectful of her duties as a homemaker. Unable to tolerate her any longer, Ae-soon's husband kicks her out, and she leaves him and their daughter Jeong-hee to take up with her lover in a hotel.

The Colosseum is often depicted as a bloody stadium of gladiators with violence and murder! Is it all in the Colosseum? In fact, the 'Colosseum' in Roman times was a thorough political stage in which the emperor was able to show off the power of the emperor and to meet and communicate directly with the citizens. The emperor was a political space that was not an original one that gained the support of the Roman people and the people were actively exchanging their demands. The fact that even the Roman emperor, who was a symbol of absolute power, did politics through communication with the Roman people would be a valuable lesson for us to live in modern society beyond 2000 years.