Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

A woman must move her grandma's tomb, and none of the family wants to assist. She sets off on a lone journey to her grandma's grave site.

After his girlfriend leaves him for a successful businessman, Seong-hun feels dejected. Then on a train trip, his ex-girlfriend Kyeong-a realizes that Seong-hun is on the same train and is thrilled to see him again. Regardless of the fact that Kyeong-a is headed for her honeymoon with her newly married husband. When the two men meet, trouble then brews.

In the near future, remote healthcare services have become prevalent. Bohyung, who suffers from chronic allergic rhinitis, receives a very unique treatment in the form of… a nose on the run.

Today is the day of making filming. The actress comes in and the male actor is waiting. Male actors and female actors are actors with previous experiences. They are awkward but they have a new feeling. During the filming, the two became excited with each other. The thought of loving each other comes up. Shooting seems to be a space for only two people...

Minjae, a delivery man, waits every day for the courier supposed to arrive at Samjin Corporation. It is because he has a crush on Dayoung who works there. One day, he finds that the members of Samjin treat her poorly. In order to help her, he quits the delivery and gets a job in Samjin.

3 months ago in Gangwon-do province, there were the most biggest forest fires in Korean history. 27 years old film student Seung-Hoon and his seniors and juniors party go to seaside town in Gangwon-do for taking documentary about climate crisis. But some problems arise between Seung Hoon and other crews, all left but cinematographer Jihoon stay behind. There's a homosexual tension between the two men, and over time, Seung-hoon's secret is slowly revealed. Memories of a hometown you'd rather forget, a first love, and a current love. This film is a message of some hope.

A coming of age story of a rebellious Korean American teenager named Hayoung who discovers the complexities of her mother’s love.

Park Dong-geun is falsely accused of a crime by Yu-jin. During his arrest by the police, Dong-geun loses his hearing. His sister, Kyeong-ah, attempts to exact revenge on Yu-jin but she is killed in the process. Dong-geun plots a revenge scheme of his own, unaware that other forces are gathering against him

Hui-Yong is a childish father who has never played a role of father. One day, he realizes that he will die of cancer soon. He sets out to find his son with Seung-Cheol, a childhood friend, before he dies. The son is getting out of prison. He is reunited with his son for the first time in four years. But the son stares at him with cold eyes. This alludes to their journey, which will not be fair or easy.

Because of grandfather's will, Ju Won somehow feel uncomfortable about this flight. He accidentally reunite with a manager of J- one, Gu Reum. After they finished their flight, something shocking happens to Ju Won and Gu Reum.

All sorts of people gather at a Korean barbecue restaurant for different reasons. Twenty pairs of shoes are left outside. Because of one person's mistake, the pairs are all mixed up, and...

Han-do is a closeted gay student. He was studying with his school friend in his apartment when his drunk boyfriend comes in.

A feature film loosely inspired by a 2011 essay by the late Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, titled "How Old People Survive."

Joon-bae was working at a health foods company until one day he gets diagnosed with cancer. Hee-jin, who works at the factory, suddenly has a lung disease. A middle man named Gwang-woong approaches them and tells them about ‘human horns’, which are considered only a legend. A hunter has to make money for his mentally-ill daughter, and Gwang-woong gives him one last hunting offer. There’s no more hope or choice. To survive, these people will do anything… but they have to eat someone to do so.

Chang-hwan, who came down from the north, calls his mother and lover Sung-hee's brother and friend Sung-ho (the beneficiary) of Sung-hee, to North Korea, but they refuse to do so. When June 25 broke out, Sung-ho served as the commander of the Korean Army and was isolated in battle. However, with the participation of the UN forces, the charter is improved, and the name that saved Captain Brown from the wounded moves to join the national army. The Sung-ho party, who accidentally defeated the Changhwan Workers who brutally killed the people of his hometown, rescues Sung-hee, who was in crisis. In order to save the wounded black soldier, Sung-hee's mother loses her eyes, and Sung-hee becomes a nursing officer.

Song Ga-in’s solo concert who wrote the trot myth! At that trembling moment, her real story unfolds! Audition program to find the next generation of trot stars, the protagonist of Korea's trot syndrome. [Miss Trot] Song Ga-in's solo concert! The hot moment that Song Ga-in shared with 4,200 fans. That vivid day on the screen!

Tae Joong is an office worker at a construction company, after he gets fired he is having a hard time finding a new job. He is not able to tell his family the truth either, his wife is really stingy and his daughter keeps failing the university entrance exam, so he doesn't want to disappoint them further. A friend of his offers him a really easy job with a high pay check, at first he accepts but has a hard time compromising from his values.

A celestial moaning princess who is famous as a fortune teller. Unusually, divination is practiced with sex. One day, Hyung-seok and Seo-jin can't have a child, so they come to visit Princess Moan. The moaning princess and Yeongtae heal them with unusual spells and divination. Will Hyung-seok and Seo-jin be able to get the results they want?

Parts 5-8 of Nation and Destiny are a thinly fictionalized portrayal of the life of Isang Yun, a Korean-born composer who made his later career in Germany. Because of a visit in North Korea in 1963, he had been kidnapped from West-Berlin by the South Korean secret service in 1967 and released in 1969, returning to West Berlin. He made several more trips to the North during his life, and was a major advocate of peace and reconciliation between the two Koreas.

16mm / 12 min. / Color

Imman Kim wants to reconcile with his parents, who emigrated to Osaka after April 3 Jeju Uprising. Cheolwoong Park has supported his younger sister during his entire life, blaming his father who moved to Tokyo to avoid guilt-by association. Soonam Park has devoted her life to human rights movement for a second-generation Korean-Japanese and her daughter Mayi Park who also lives as a Korean-Japanese. This film tell us about meaning of a nation through their life stories.

A short film about a man in Paris and a woman in Seoul getting closer by phone.

This is witty film about teenage mom. A group of school children sneek a pet carrier into school, but what's inside is a baby, not a pet. The students look after the baby at recess, but the teachers finally find out that a baby is inside the pet carrier and the children fight to keep the baby.

The two children named Maruchi and Arachi are found living in a cave in the mountains. They have been living there ever since their grandfather was killed by the villainous Blue Skull 13. The couple who discover them take the children back to civilization to teach them taekwondo in which they excel. However, the evil Blue Skull 13 is not done with his plots against humanity, and soon Maruchi and Arachi are forced to confront his fiendish plans.

I wanted to document various stories around apartment buildings from the first-generation urbanologist of Seoul and also from the apartment generation who was born and raised in apartments. They have cozy memories, upcoming anxieties and inconvenient experiences in their apartments, and in addition, they have witnessed the street trees growing up all the while. I was sad to hear that the residents do not garden trees because they want to start to rebuild as soon as possible.Therefore, the life circulation of an apartment building in Korea is only 30 to 40 years.

A Korean zombie coming-of-age story. Convenience store clerk/film student Mu-Young, gets a chance to make his first movie, a zombie melodrama. The dream project turns into a nightmare. Everything that can go wrong, does. Barely surviving his disastrous shoot, he comes to realize making a movie is like love, you can't do it alone. A movie for people who love movie making, making love and zombies.

After being discharged from the service, Jae-min scrapes by working part-time jobs. Meanwhile, he left for Ulleung Island in search of his father, who broke up 10 years ago due to his mother's stomach cancer. Chanhee and Yeonwoo, close friends of Jae-min, get involved in the journey….

After the theater closes, strange people come by and say weird things.

Bona, who became a game streamer from a classical prodigy, accidentally gets a chance to sing a commercial song, meets Piljun, a part-timer in the recording studio, and gets an offer to take on the vocals of the band. She becomes a star as Bona quarreled with Pil-jun and unintentionally created a 'swearing song' that became a hot topic on social media.

For Jung Han, dancing is a direction of life and an escape from reality. Jeonghan dances at a gay club at night. Jeonghan's mother, Insuk, is not happy with such a son.

Kkoedol and the Bear play in the stars and end up on a crescent moon sailboat that takes them to a glass castle where rabbits live. While enjoying a festival in the castle, they meet the Golden Iron Man, who emits a mysterious light, and set out to save the Star of Hope, which has been captured by Satan.

Patriot Kim Du-han faces a difficult situation when he is detained on a murder charge at the American army base in Itaewon. Things become worse when the prison chief is bribed by communists to make sure Kim Du-han does not survive.

In this emotionally charged piece, a man trapped in a hell he has created for himself tries to relieve his pain.

Na-eun believes she is a cosmic being. She has been trying to communicate with space at noon in a park. Seok-min is an unemployed young man who has been looking for a job. He goes to the park to take revenge after his close friend was hospitalized because of injuries caused by Na-eun but falls for her when he sees her.

A steel worker is brutally fired. One morning, while brushing his teeth, he discovers with horror that a piece of wood growed from him back, as an outgrowth of his own body. Soon the piece of wood becomes a sign on which is inscribed in large letters: 'UNEMPLOYED' ... With this sign he will now have to live everyday, facing the gaze of the other people, the employers, his wife ... The task will be difficult especially as the sign soon begins to mutate ...

Jin-cheol, a cab driver in Seoul, cannot take any passengers because his last customer left his guitar in the backseat. Annoyed and angry, Jin-cheol heads over to a guitar store.

Spirits of Chun-Sam's mother and wife, who are raped and severely murdered by Rang-Son and his followers, appear to kill 4 knights. Surprised by this, the lord asks Chun-Sam to help Rang-Son to seize the ghosts. Ghosts recognize him and avoid fighting. But his wife's spirit can't tolerate longing for him and appears to him to spend one night in defiance with her mother-in-law's dissuade. Rang-Son understand the situation and tries to catch the ghosts by using Chun-Sam as a bait, but the ghosts kill his followers. As Chun-Sam finds the truth, he kills Rang-Son. When Chun-Sam builds graves for his mother and wife, two ghosts revive from death and appear in front of him

In a fading market, sharp-tongued rice cake shop owner Bok-ja and debt-ridden young man Ho-jae end up starting a business together by chance. The rice cakes they create quickly become a sensation, turning their failing shop into the hottest spot in the market overnight. But success brings unwanted attention. As people chase the secret behind the shop’s rise to must-visit status, Bok-ja and Ho-jae are pulled into a situation far beyond their control...

"Fly High" follows the special friendship between a two-bit gangster, Chang Bum, who meddles in the lives of regular people and is crazy about his daughter, and a high school student, Ye Jin, who only focuses on practicing martial arts and is isolated from the world.

Springing to fame as the “master deliverer of pizza”, Dooho’s salary is raised. Believing the boss’s promise that he will raise the other employees’ salaries as well, Dooho helps his colleagues to deliver in a shorter time.

A mummy is found at a construction site, which is presumed to be made in Jo-Seon Dynasty period. It is transferred to Seoul and to be kept in Lee Dong-Hyeok's, an archeologist due to the state of the museum in the university. On that night, his wife's behavior is so strange. Knowing that his wife is not cured by the modern medical science, Dong-Hyeok gets help from Professor Yu, a psychicist. Yoo finds out the mummy is In Yeon-Ryong, who was killed on a false charge by Seon-Jo 3oo years ago. Dong-Hyeok makes every effort to return his wife to the normal condition.

In 1996, 26 spies from the North infiltrate into South Korea. 25 of them are rooted out, but one last spy escapes. An HID secret agent, called 'Ghost' is put to catch the last one alive. The spy and the Ghost, finally encounter and engage in suffocating gunfights, ironically, with the Ghost using an AK-47 rifle manufactured in a communist country, and the North Korean spy using an M16 made by capitalists. The shouting of the Ghost emptily echoes in the forest, after missing the spy as he disappears 'like a ghost'. And the spy, in his hideout, tries killing himself using the last bullet… 20 years later, the Ghost, having become homeless, wanders about like a real ‘ghost’ in the downtown area in Seoul, still chasing the illusion of the spy from the North...

About the countless faces, memories, love, and people that exist between love and pickle.

The video of Young-hwan, who is about to get married to Min-jo, peeing on the subway under the influence of alcohol makes headlines on the Internet.

NCT 127 3rd Tour: Neo City - The Unity is the third world tour held by NCT 127 in support of their fifth studio album Fact Check (2023). The first show was held on November 17, 2023 at KSPO DOME in Seoul, South Korea.

Ki Jin, an aspiring fashion design student with big dreams, struggles to find his path in South Korea's competitive fashion industry.

The poor class president participates in the Burger Song Challenge to buy burgers for her friends.

February 2028. Seok-goo, an old bachelor running a photo studio, while spending his free time was asked by a young lady for help as if she is being chased by a gangster. She is the daughter of a big time gangster. Her father's rebellious subordinates killed his father for his wealth. If Seok-goo helps her, she will give him a small amount of money everyday. No matter how much he looks at it, Eun-sook's identity is suspicious, and to Seok-goo, unimaginable things starts to happen.

Gwangju is known as a key city of democracy in Korea. Kim Hwan-gyung, a young media artist, begins to live in a typical slum, Gwangcheon-dong. The residents share stories about the lives of the early urban poor, the first Gwangju democracy movement, and concerns about rapid redevelopment. Gwangcheon-dong is scheduled to be demolished and disappear entirely by 2024.

Kim Chang-in, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist,’ and Kim Hyun-jin, who calls himself an ‘extremely centrist person,’ are ordinary young people in South Korea. While Chang-in became interested in politics because he was angry at the sight of bleeding workers at the Ssangyong Motors strike, Hyun-jin was angry at tax money being wasted on populist policies such as minimum wage and work incentives and decided to go into politics.