Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

In a case of mistaken identities an unemployed thug (Yang-gu), and a doctor (Ki-min) on a career fast track; are mistaken for one another after an accident. Ki-min is thought to be murder suspect Yang-gu, and must go on the run. The thug Yang-gu excels as the Sky Doctor in a small island village. The story is a modern adaptation of the Prince and Pauper.

A poor aspiring filmmaker juggles between intermittent assistant director-work and distributing flyers on the street. He marries a Thai woman who moves in with him without a decent wedding. She struggles to adjust to life in Korea, learning Korean while searching for work. Unfortunately things are not so easy, and her husband’s dream of becoming a filmmaker just seems like a mirage. The man breaks his wife’s heart when he brings her recycled clothes from a female filmmaker friend or accepts a TV network friend’s request to shoot him for a program introducing the daily life of an assistant director who has no hope of breaking into the business. His wife is ashamed that their life is considered miserable and that their poor state will be broadcast on national TV, nevertheless the man takes no account of her feelings. She cannot take it anymore and declares she is returning to Thailand.

Seok-gu, a documentary producer specializing in current events and accusations, wishes to find meaning in the dark and inconvenient things of the world. Old women who fell in love with Hangeul (Korean alphabet) appear in front of him. Over and over again, they say "old people should die," but their joyful lives are more exciting than anyone else's.

A woman who entered the island to collect doctoral degree information meets a shaman who received the gods, a hereditary shaman, a shaman who has learned God, and a musician to hear various stories about Jindo shamanism. While having nightmares about an unfamiliar young shaman's suggestion and going through troubles such as seeing ghosts, she finds that there is a shaman in her family. The main character thought the bad relationship between her maternal grandmother and the shaman's maternal grandmother was problematic. However, there is a hidden twist...

Young-bok happens to discover that Bong-gu, his ex-boyfriend who had unilaterally notified her of separation, came to the sea with his new girlfriend, and in a fit of anger, She appears with side-kick at him. She makes a fuss that she can never break up, and he begs to let him go. Young-bok wants to dance right now as a condition of separation.

As her dementia deepens, Yoon Young-ja, who has spent her entire life as a shaman, moves between a nursing home and her family home. Her words drift between conversations with the dead, memories of her youth, and the confusion of the present. Amid her repeated wandering and anxiety, the family prepares a final ritual to close the long-shuttered shrine. When the doors finally open and the ritual begins, with family and disciples gathered around her, her body rediscovers a rhythm it seemed to have forgotten. Different times collide, and long-buried emotions begin to surface.

Gun-woo(age18), is a defendant who made a living selling cigarettes to his classmates at school. Na-yeon(age18), who will punish him as a prosecutor in school trial, tries to get him suspended in connection with the fact that Gun-woo has been an unfaithful student. To do so, more evidence is needed. While she was sneaking along him, she founds out a disturbing fact.

Tae-jun, seeing the beauty of Young-hee, was inflamed with passion for her. However, her brother Young-jin prevented him from approaching the girl. By placing Young-jin in a mental hospital, Tae Joon finally has free access to his sister.

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.

Servant Je-ho and maiden Mae-hyang are from a respectable family… One day in the past when it was raining, the two had to love in secret due to the opposition around them. They were secretive but still happier than anyone else. However, several obstacles parted them and they worry they might forget each other. Years pass and they meet as customer and gisaeng. They don’t recognize each other right away but feel attracted to each other in some way…

Yeri goes to film again for her film shot last year with her mother and father just before their divorce.

Chang-hyeon, a transgender prostitute encounters a visitor who seems both familiar and alienated to him.

Kyung-soo knock on Yoo-jin's door. As she lets him in, He's looking for a chance to get her back.

Two wounded souls meet in Hiroshima, a city that remembers everything, and together they confront the love and pain they've tried to forget.

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18-year-old Yeong-seon lives in a residential facility for teenagers. She tries to leave the place and stands on her own two feet, although a social worker advises her to stay a little longer. On her birthdays, Yeong-seon meets with her mother. On one of these occasions, her mother delivers the unexpected news of her pregnancy.

Korea is facing a population decline crisis, compounded by the emergence of a new virus called PT3 that destroys red blood cells. The only treatment is transfusion of young blood, but with only 11 million elderly patients eligible for donation and a mere 900,000 young donors, the price of blood has skyrocketed.

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles are dedicated to their art and culture. Amin travels to remote towns and villages to record the music of the surviving masters whose numbers decline each year. His nomadic family are selling their meager belongings to help support their son's education in performance and ethnomusicology at Tchaikovsky's Conservatory in Kyiv, Ukraine, but it is not enough. Amin, desperate to finish his academic education, sells his violins one at a time just to pay for his tuition.

It's not her turn, but she's pregnant.

The film is a melodrama in which Na Woon-gyu's character breaks up with his girlfriend and becomes a vagabond. The girlfriend marries another man. When Na returns and discovers her married, he leaves again.

This documentary is about musician Jang Beom-joon from the band Busker Busker, Superstar K second runner up and hit maker of its 1st and 2nd albums.

Truck driver Mansu drives dreams of owning an orchard where he can live in peace with his mom. He is in love with Inok yet kills her ex-boyfriend by accident in a fight. Bumgu makes it look like a murder and gives him an alibi. Mansu wants to refuse but goes along for the sake of his mom and brother. The Police are informed of drug dealing and search through cars and Mansu is arrested. Will Detective Jung find more evidence? Will Mansu defend himself? Or will the guilt over the death land him in prison?

YouTuber, Miss Terry’s team plans a new item to find an abandoned theater for the homeless, and head over there to cover the story. But they run into another crew who have beaten them to it, and they witness an unexpected shocking scene together. This is a kind of epoch report criticizing YouTuber’s behavior, and voicing a number of views regarding morality and humanity.

After his casket is stolen and prepared for a recently deceased warrior, a dead man's spirit battles the soul of the dead warrior for ownership of the casket.

Korean action thriller short.

Goyeon applies for a legal euthanasia program to end what she thinks is her mundane existence. Then she has an unexpected blind date.

A story of a dance crew and their long-suffering wanderings to bring together their dreams, after a long audition process.

Youngjin and Kiseok were once lovers. Meeting by chance after a long time, they spend a night and a morning together.

As a young couple living together, Jiyoung works during the day and Woocheol works at night. The only time they can share is the one hour between 7 and 8 in the morning, when Woocheol comes back from work and Jiyoung is preparing to go to work.

Min-joon is resting with his eyes closed on the bench. At that time, Woo-yeon begin to tell Min-joon worries about her acting, and Min-joon sincerely listens to them. After a while, all friends are gathered in the park, from Si-ho to Soo-young... They've been talking about youth and worries

Ha-neul, an actress, works part-time as a client at a suicide counseling center. While acting at the counseling center, there are moments when Ha-neul reveals personal stories instead of performing, which gradually helps heal his heart.

Two people are talking and drinking. You may wonder what they’re talking about – perhaps you can guess from the background music’s lyrics. When the song finishes and you can finally hear the conversation, you’ll be dumbfounded. Freelancer Suhyun created a job to do something and hired himself for it.

Do-eun, a door-to-door saleswoman in her thirties, visits the home of a former classmate with whom she has little to no rapport, simply to make up for her unsatisfactory sales performance. A few days later, the classmate's mother, Su-jung, comes looking for her.

"Forgiveness" chronicles the families affected by South Korean serial killer Young-chul Yoo. Yoo's murders occurred between September 2003 and July 2004. Eventually, Young-chul Yoo was convicted of 20 murders (predominantly prostitutes and elderly), with one additional case thrown out on technicalities. Young-chul Yoo admitted to have eaten the livers of some of his victims.

Desperate for a grandson, the Lees hire a surrogate mother for thei son Man-ho and their daughter-in-law Seok-hyang. However, when they discover that it is Man-bo who cannot father children, the Lees enlist the services of the merchant Hong Du-gae to impregnate Seok-hyang. However, they have no intention of allowing him to live afterwards and run the risk of a scandal to their family name.

In 2011, social network and the Hope Bus initiated a new movement which fractured the firm and unilateral media while demanding the arrogant political and financial circles to be awakened. They jumped over the high fences of Hanjin HIC using their mobile phones and ladders and finally embraced the moment when the rally became a festival. The Hope Bus slowly evolved to become a great big carnival that invited anyone and everyone to join in.

Hyeon-ji wants to live a normal life, but she has a special gift passed down from her family family - the power to send dreams to other people. When a series of cruel murders occur, she must face her fate. She sends a dream through time and dives into a world of mystery to save her younger self.

Kim Joe Rang, the new appointed chief of the village, takes charge of a strange case from the first day. A villager is dead just after telling that he saw a ghost. Kim Joe Rang offers his daughter for reward and sends monk Chon-Won and his pupil Min-Do to get rid of the ghost. But they are killed by the ghost. Kim Joe Rang goes to Jeom-Sa who tells him that is wolf's mischief and they should sacrifice a young lady born in Mu-Jin year to solve the problem. Kim is looking for the right person and his daughter Ran volunteers to be a sacrifice. When Ran is alone in the mountain trembling with fear, an eminent monk appears to help her and they defeat the ghost.

Yonghan's got a failing business, a great girlfriend, and a complicated past - but when his overbearing father and estranged daughter show up in Seoul for an unannounced visit, his carefully structured life begins to fall apart.

While her father remains in a vegetative state. His daughter carries around a robot that stored her father’s memory in her bag.

Cheonae orphan, Deok, is accidentally discovered by Park Chi-sam in Namsadang, and disguises himself as a man and enters Namsadang. Deok becomes close with Man-jin, a man of the same age, and endures all kinds of hardships.

Haruma, her son, is greatly disappointed by her father, who takes a young lover Nanase after divorce from her mother and makes a love affair without even attempting. Besides, not long after, my father cheated on Nanase again. Haruma, who was comforting Nanase, who was hurt, soon began to touch her body as well as her heart.

Ba-Wool is a student at Daemyung High School which is Christian School. Every morning, a hymn resounds throughout the high school. Ba-Wool is a student president, but he is also non-Christian. He is unable to accept the required religious services and classes that all students have to attend. Ba-Wool talks to the principal, but the principal doesn't listen to Ba-Wool. Making things worse, Ba-Wool's only counselor, the school chaplain, is kicked out of the school. Ba-Wool's friends and his parents do not understand Ba-Wool. Finally, Ba-Wool refuses to take religious services and he begins a one person protest, while going on a hunger strike.

Follow up to the Korean martial arts movie Vindictive Venom (독종). It also features Won Jin "The Scorpion King".

The history, structures and rhythms of human history are seen through a glorious, massive pyramid.

During the pre-democracy era when publications were under oppression, some people dreamed of a city for books and some architects came along to dream together. Then, they created an one-and-only ecological city for books in an abandoned swamp in the military border of Paju. This is the story of book and culture that dreams of peaceful unification, and its building process over 30 years.