Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Huiju learned of her biopsy test results, but lied to her mum about them. Feeling guilty about the lie, she embarks on her journey to find cancer patients who have the same diagnosis as hers and learns about their experiences. After hearing their stories, she finds the courage to tell the truth to her mum.

“Flatterer” tells the story of various quirky high school students who relate to each other while navigating their school lives. Park Gun is a student who transfers to a countryside school and becomes the subordinate to his older classmates.

In a small town in Incheon, there is a thirty years old man 'Won-June' who works at a small civic group. For him, the normal life which is having a career, getting married, and having a relationship is the difficult thing. One day, a bioengineering doctor comes to him and suggests being a subject for a medical experiment on a living body. Finally, Won-Jun who is full with a sense of inferiority, takes the offer without self-esteem.

The Whagoklee village, there has been a continuous serial rape murder cases in the past decade. The police has not yet outlined any of it and villagers have left one by one, the town is almost now in ruins. The police abandoned the case and nothing was happened for two years, the town became peaceable again. Then one day, the fear swept over the town with the result an incident that two college women were raped and murdered. CHOI Kang a ghost hunter insisted that it was not by a man but by an evil spirit, as opposed to a police. Another ghost hunter Mr. SHIN that is a press man also came to the village for being after it. The evil which is only visible to CHOI Kang and Mr. SHIN committed a murder by having a string on people. Guess who the real criminal is and what's going to happen next.

Cheol-woo, a Korean law student at Waseda University in Tokyo, secretly leads a student reading club that doubles as an independence movement. He falls in love with Yumiko, daughter of Miike, a Japanese official behind colonial policies, and struggles with their forbidden romance.

The town of Baek-ha chooses a head of security every three years. The security head Jo-chil is ruthless and there are many complaints against him. Then Ho-saeng challenges Jo-chil and ends up as the head of security. Ho-saeng is in love with Chi-chi, the blacksmith's daughter. As the head of security, Ho-saeng governs wisely and the lives of the villagers grow stable. Ho-saeng runs No-sam out of town for forcing women into prostitutes, and also opens up new opportunities for these women. Meanwhile, No-sam hires the hit-man Dong-duk and tries to have Ho-saeng killed. Dong-duk inflicts a terrible wound on Ho-saeng but he's saved by Noh Kae-gul who teaches him how to fight. Ho-saeng drives out Dong-duk who was even crueler than Jo-chil. Peace returns to the village.

A thoughtful young man ambles around the Han River, providing an expansive setting for his contemplations. During a telephone call on the Jamsu Bridge, connecting the districts of Yongsan-gu and Seocho-gu in Seoul, he discovers his umbrella has been lost by the girl he lent it to, and judging by his disappointed reaction, we can see he is hurt at being forgotten. Another lost soul is on this bridge, a man with a guitar asks for a light and a song. Soon the young man’s problems are put into context, when arguments about umbrellas seem to fade into meaninglessness.

In both the past and the present, two people walk deep into a mountain forest. For these two women born and raised in the city, there is no place more unfamiliar. It is a place where all kinds of living things are breathing.

In the cartoon room, Joo Yeon, who got spoiler, starts the mystery of finding the criminal!

Seung-Hyeon was good in the study at a high school at Mokpo city (Southwestern city in Korean Peninsula), and is excellent in the sports. He is transferred to another school. In new high school, a student named Sam-Yuk can exercise strong physical strength and do sports game well, but is poor in the study. Both young students compete each other in various fields, and Sam-Yuk is steadily influenced by Seung-Hyeon to devote himself to the study to become an exemplary student.

On the brink of marriage, Doyeong, an employee of a major corporation, meets a man in a café who claims to work for the NIS. His unbelievable story draws him in.

Sang-gu heads to his hometown with his girlfriend on his mother's birthday. They have an unexpected day and console each other.

Part 1 In-suk, a former professional ballerina is a professor at the department of dance and having a normal marriage life. However, she feels bored of the present peaceful life, she happened to encounter Jun-ho at the parking lot. She came back to her normal life despite being attracted by Jun-ho’s young and tough charms. He turned out to be a boyfriend of In-suk’s student. In-suk became more attracted to Jun-ho without consciousness and at last she began to shadow him… Part 2 Jin-woo is a pro-gamer and a playboy. He knows nothing but playing and flirting with other chicks. One day, as he was staggering in an alley while drunk as usual, he found an old joystick and brought it home tying to operate it. As time went by, Hitomi, the heroine of a game, whom he felt in love with appeared to him in person and they started spending every day, making love vehemently. But he began to feel something weird…

Su-jin, who works as a karaoke helper at an entertainment district in Seoul and a press office salon, asks Ji-yeon, a college student who lives with her, to work for her for one day when her father suddenly asks her to meet her. Su-jin meets Ji-yeon's boyfriend, Seung-yeong, in liberal arts class at her school, where Ji-yeon took her place, and falls for her.

To resolve the conflict between the Korean and Manchu border villages, the Korean protagonist sets fire to the Korean village and forces the Koreans and Manchus to put out the fire together.

Middle-aged worker Jae-bok recently lost a lawsuit asking for the invalidation of his recent dismissal. Jae-bok returns home but what awaits him are his daughters neglecting him and the feeling of worthlessness.

Currently, Sunwoo and Ikjune are lovers and co-directors of a movie. The film starts with a landscape shot at dawn. Ikjune is smoking a cigarette from the veranda of his house, looking at the village across the street. In the bedroom, Sunwoo is lying on Ikjune's bed with her eyes open. Next to them are the same movie scenarios. You can predict what they are thinking by looking at their faces. Production is half-way and the two are having a long conversation about what to shoot today as they are headed to the set. At the set, they are talking with the actors and giving acting directions. In the process, Sunwoo and Ikjune experience various feelings about love, either individually or together.

When the head of a powerful criminal organization is released from prison, he must take steps to squash the small gangs that sprang up during his absence.

After a close call with her sleazy new boyfriend, Jae-in discovers a prominent soap company is offering a service to clean up more than just your average mess. Discreet, corporate-minded, and methodical, the outfit in question does a good job, allowing Jae-in to go back to her life as an aspiring actress. She’s haunted by lingering paranoia, however, and soon she remembers a loose end that needs attending to…

The 20 horses that the old man Kim cared for all his life have suddenly disappeared from his pasture on Jeju Island. Kim looks for them for more than a month, but to no avail. One day he hears that illegal immigrants are secretly butchering stolen horses and livestock in the forest to sell their meat. Kim puts together a crackdown squad to raid the forest.

An abused boy, Gun-tae, goes under Dr. Hell’s knife because his girlfriend demands revenge. He has a machine gun inserted into his groin in exchange for his penis. He fires at the moment of orgasm, attacking his enemies. However, he soon learns that he cannot go back to who he used to be.

John Kim, a struggling Korean-American immigrant mechanic, reaches out to a young boy and his mom caught in the middle of an exploding violence in the same apartment complex. When John finally confronts the husband, he uncovers something far more insidious below the surface and must choose to come to terms with his own dark past.

Working in the same documentary team, Jin-seong and Mira receive a call that they should go shooting again right after a night shooting. Jin-seong driving a car asks Mira to shoot some insert shots because he should get some sleep when arriving. Mira takes insert shots with the camera that she handles for the first time. Soon, she falls into the world of the frame.

Hwa-Sim is a prostitute who believes in love. Joon-Chi is a novelist. He wanders around aimlessly and eventually settles in with Hwa-Sim. Sunny, also a prostitute and someone that looks up to Hwa-Sim, appears in their relationship.

Sul Won is an out-of-work young man whose mother runs a low-cost boarding house for students and men who don’t have enough money to buy or rent an apartment on their own. But when his mother suddenly has to up sticks to return to her provincial hometown, she leaves Sul Won in charge of the boarding house – becoming the de facto live-in landlord. The residents of the boarding house are a mixed bunch. They include a high school senior, who also happens to be Sul Won’s cousin. There is also Sul Won’s former college friend, as well as Kim Chun Seo, a high school teacher. Rounding out the number is a third-year Art student who dreams of becoming a cartoon author. As the young men spend more time together, a close bond of friendship begins to form in the house. But when Sul Won discovers that some of the tenants have begun to develop a crush on him, Cupid could well come calling!

As a sole witness of the theft, Yubin secretly finds it amusing when Yerim, the most popular girl, loses her laptop. Yubin approaches Gayoung, the culprit, and volunteers to help her out.

Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China and South Korea. With the money she gets, she plans to reunite with her two North Korean sons after years of separation.

A young woman struggles to tell her beloved grandmother a truth that she believes may ruin their relationship.

The earth is ruined. I'm on the moon alone. 100 experts are sent to the moon to prevent the meteorite 'PI' that is approaching Earth. With the moon as a shield, they prepare a project to prevent damage to the Earth, and the experts return to Earth. However, Moon You is left alone on the moon... This is the story of Moon You's moon survival!!!

The 10-year struggle of the families who lost their children from the Sewol Ferry Disaster.

When he finds himself forcibly evicted from his house and with nowhere to go, Inmok lays wastepaper under a bridge and begins to stay there. Inmok’s companions under the bridge include an old man, who collects wastepaper; Kidong, who is kind and naive; and Seoyeon, a girl who wanders the streets. Inmok becomes their friendly guardian, but also becomes a crafty exploiter, blurring the boundary between good and evil.

Suk-yoon, a successful toy designer, and Jin-won, a respected textile designer, started off as a campus couple in college after falling in love at first sight. They are now happily married and well off, but have no children. Jin-won, raised by her aunt after the early death of her parents, anxiously craves her own motherhood. Her desperation grows despite Suk-yoon's efforts to comfort her. Then one day, the couple receives the miraculous news that they are pregnant. They are overjoyed and their days are filled with anticipation and love until they find out that what they thought would be a lifetime with their child will not last more than a day.

Choi-hyeok, a CF director who achieved so much at a young age considers his daughter, Mi-na, as his driving force. However, Mina feels as if her father’s lover, Min-jeong, is only dating him for his money and looks, hence, they don’t get along so well. One day, Mi-na and Min-jeong met on set, and while they were in the middle of a fierce fight, their souls exchanged.

Ji-hun is confused about his relationship with Da-hye. He wanders off to run into Young-ah working on the street. His relationship with Da-hye started out of sympathy about her experience of abuse. Da-hye refuses to be pitied by him and becomes engaged to another man. He seeks comforts in Young-ah and Da-hye commits suicide due to the trauma in her past. Ji-hun comes to Busan to see pregnant Young-ah but she refuses his proposal.

A girl works part-time at a bowling alley. She either cleans the bowling balls or waters the plants, and nothing more. There is not a customer here. The girl encounters three people: A Cheon, who has lost his job; Bo, who comes to pick up coffee cups at 2 everyday; and Eddy, who cannot play the cello anymore. Each of them has his or her story but the girl does not know why they are here and why they end up leaving. However, the reason is not important to her because just like them, she cannot tell why she is here.

Jinmu starts to record things he should remember with a camera after hearing that he could lose his memory due to the prearranged brain surgery. Memories of family and his forgotten father comes to Jinmu's mind as he takes records of his life.

Zoo-young and her contrabass are wandering in space after leaving their planet due to a food shortage. Meanwhile, Earth is overflowing with plastic, their staple food, and Pu-reum lives there. Pu-reum's song guides Zoo-young and the contrabass back to Earth, and after a long journey toward each other, they finally meet.

The new talent show "Moon Queen" gathers bright teams to reveal the most talented participants. To win, you need to collect a million likes by performing in teams on various stages. The most prominent is the ambitious Hera, whose mother has already received the title of Moon Queen. Hera is an excellent dancer and singer, but does not get along well with the band members. Can she succeed or will the title go to another contestant?

One night in the rain, a couple with their first child is just doing yoga in the middle of the night. Then a sudden contraction comes to the mother. The couple rushes to the hospital and meets a car that is blocking the road. After a while, the Lecca driver throws Gastan into the couple's car. When he opened his eyes in the morning, he had no wife, and his car was in a deserted forest...

A couple meet and then part, shown in the course of a candlelit dinner.

Se-ran earns her living by playing the role of her clients’ lover which is called “Dating Service”. Sun-woo who works as a taxi driver, desperately desires to talk to his passengers. One day, Se-ran takes his taxi as a passenger.

Hye-seon grew up in an orphanage with Myeong-gu. They marry when they get older but strain on there relationship tears them apart. Pregnant and alone, Hye-aeon wonders where to turn.

Man-seok, a servant, longs for Jin-sa's only daughter, Seon-rye. On the day of her first wedding ceremony, Man-seok runs away with the refusing Sun-rye and starts a new life in the mountains. However, a year later, when the 6.25 broke out, Man-seok enlisted as a substitute for a few land guards, and Seon-rye, who believed that he died due to the division of the country, followed the man outside, ignoring her young daughter Kkot-sil. After returning from the military, Man-seok takes a flower thread that had grown from someone else's hand and grows it with love and sincerity for 15 years. However, her flower room also runs away to the city following the man she loves, leaving behind her love for her father. A mother and daughter who betrayed Manseok one after another and left. After waiting for the flower room, Man-seok goes all over the country to find it.

An omnibus film produced by Indie Forum. The directors made a short film of about five minutes under the theme of "self-reliance".

Across 29 shows in 22 cities around the world, SEVENTEEN's [BE THE SUN] tour was the moment SEVENTEEN became the sun, shining as one with CARAT! Relive the electrifying start in Seoul, and feel the heat once more in cinemas from July 10-13, 2025, as part of HYBE Cine Fest in Asia!