Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

A mutilated and grotesque woman’s body chases after a man. The combination of the photomontage and text represents women’s labor, expressed through uniforms and clothes, and women who were sexually objectified, conveying feminist discourses and disciplines. The chased man never understands the existence or content of the images and texts. The blunt presentation of women’s unheard voices and objectified bodies, and the excessively-visualized images, demand immediate introspection.

Early 2000s, Ji Hwan who transferred from Daegu to Chilgok falls for Eun Ah who moved from the same town. One day, Eun Ah tells him to go to Daegu for fun.

A North Korean female spy, Jeong-sook, is apprehended and hospitalized after a traffic accident during her mission. As she receives compassionate care, she re-evaluates her beliefs and humanity. Amid this transformative experience, she develops feelings for fellow patient, footballer Lee-chan.

1. "Confession Letter" Ji Mo, a novelist with cerebral palsy, has a crush on Nok-joo, a volunteer who helps him practice handwriting. Ji Mo tries to deliver a handwritten letter to Nok-ju from her heart. 2. "Varanasi Romance" The excitement of traveling and finding romance in a new environment. Jun Ho and Hwa Yeong met in a strange land in India, attracted to each other like magnets, leaving their real problems behind. 3. "When the Wind Blows" Han Byeol, a deaf helper, will learn sign language on the condition that she teaches lip reading to a deaf student, Eun Ha. As they learn each other's language, they get closer and closer, and they are reminded of childhood memories. 4. "Interview" In an interview with a best-selling author, magazine reporter "She" reunites with her former lover "He". The two of them interviewed and exchanged memories of each other.

A prisoner of 7 years who was innocently jailed by political prosecutors looks into the case himself, and seeks the punishment of those political prosecutors who shut him away illegally by suing them. However, no one takes him seriously or even investigate the case, let alone charge them as guilty. The prisoner takes matters into his own hands... A true story about the need of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit! Anything can be done if you know the law! The citizens of Korea are not dogs or pigs! The sovereignty of the people that has been taken away by political prosecutors must be won back! A law-themed and educational true story the citizens of the Republic of Korea must see.

YeJoo and EunMin spent two years as a couple so far. One day, YeJoo wants to finish the relationship that she had with EunMin. EunMin gets angry and asks if there's another girl. Yejoo says she got a boyfriend.

Oh-seong is a son of an illegal Mogolian immigrant, and a member of a wrestling team in Nam-cheon high school. He wishes to compete in the National Sports Festival but it is impossible for a stateless person. Oh-seong’s mother, Nyamka, is living with a man named Yeong-cheol who had promised to marry her long ago, but it seems Yeong-cheol won’t keep his words. An unexpected opportunity comes to disheartened Oh-seong, but he gets involved in a serious incident.

In the second part of the dilogy about the brave fighter for justice, Hong Gil-dong, it is shown how he cracks down on a gang of criminals led by the Black Hood.

At 4:30 AM, Mom is preparing for a huge meal all by herself. In charge of the eatery at the construction site of the Incheon Airport Terminal 2, Mom easily makes a meal for hundreds of construction workers, but her labor is not easy to watch for her filmmaker son.

Inspection of the plot Ministry of Public Security Inspector Gangmun-gil is enjoying a picnic with his family on holidays. He wakes up in a nearby neighborhood where he picks up rusty shells from nearby Kangdongsan and witnesses a devastating explosion. The family members of the Kang test who have not escaped from Seoul are caught by the Communist army. Even at the end of all torture, his wife, Shinhee, does not cover the area where the river exam is hidden. However, the spy Choi Choi, who was sentenced to death, does everything he can to find out the location of the river exam. The Kang test finds the importance of security with the people of all walks of life who have imagined the last moment when his family is put to death.

Between winter and spring, on a night that could go either way, two directors take to the streets with cameras and memories still in motion. Confession and rejection, love and its wreckage as fiction and reality bleed into one another, what they're truly waiting for may not be snow at all.

Kim Chun-sam, who has known life as a beggar, resolves to lead and uplift others like him. Through sheer determination and struggle, he rises to become the "king of beggars." He forms the "Self-Reliance Pioneering Group," promoting land reclamation, organizing community marriages, guiding thieves and outcasts toward hope, and dreaming of a society where begging no longer exists.

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Da-hee and Min-soo, who seem to be a good couple, eat together and take a walk. They are always seen holding hands and taking a walk, so people envies them on the street. In fact, Da-hee had a husband. A mysterious man who comes after her husband goes to work... Da-hee's love story, who walks a dizzying tight rope between two men, is just unfolding.

Suran married to love without a fight, and her husband 'Sungsik' had a dual character. Suran falls in love with his charm and starts to meet secretly and starts to love. Suran's love is getting bigger and bigger, and as much love as her love is starting to come out. One day, Chung-gi tells Suran to kill her husband and get married. As a result, Suran is captured by another desire.

It’s a black comedy movie whose story is a day's journey of a movie director who got an offer to make a movie with a best-selling book called Dinner with Jesus.

When the demonic Seonggun steals the power of the physical realm and tries to usurp the loser's position, the heavenly emperor seals the 'power stone', the power of the physical realm, to two female babies and hides them in the human realm to prevent the plot of the demon army. Years later, Ma-gun seduces Tang Mi-myeok, a woman from the Tang Dynasty, and informs her that there is a 'boshen statue' in the human world, who has been searching for a thousand years, and even finds her soul. However, this is a ploy by the demon army to find the two princesses and obtain the 'Skill Stone', and the ' Conservation Prize' is in danger... Will Sang' be able to awaken the divine power and protect the ability stone and the two princesses?

A woman asks her mother to leave for the sake of her and her brother’s happy life. But her brother does not open his mind to her. Although she gets closer to her co-workers at her new workplace, she has no choice but to become a disrupter of them. Without hope, her brother commits suicide in front of her. Her family members and colleagues have left her. Left alone, she dreams of life again.

A romantic comedy that tells the story of a fashion designer from Pyongyang who comes to a small village to show her latest designs. Since the fashion designer is young and attractive, the village patriarch comes up with a plan to set her up with a duck farmer who has ambitions of moving to the city.

The story deals with the life of Kim Gu, who dedicated his life for the good of his country and people.

Miniforce is a secrete commando force protecting little animals from Nein and Pascal. One day, Pascal calls up Alien Jody to disrupt the animals using his brainwashing power. The Miniforce appears, but they don’t seem to stand a chance against the powerful strength of Jody, who can simply copy the opponent’s power and weapons. Even worse, a Flower Mechamon appears and spreads pollen that makes everyone cry.

By taking opportunity of being a model for a painter named Song Wu-Yeol at a park, the barmaid named Jang-Mi (Rose) loves him. To install equipment in her bar, she sends Yeong-Ah (Jang-Mi gives her tuition fee like elder sister) to the place where Song works. When she is informed that Song and Young-Ah become close, she returns Young-Ah to her house. She is also informed through Young-Ah that Song has his fiancee, so that she blames him and spends disappointed time. She brings up Song's daughter named Hyeon-Suk. She suffers from the disease caused by mixed feeling of love and disappointment, and intends to register Hyeon-Suk at Song's family register before she dies. At last she completes the registration and then dies. Song regrets her death and weeps with tears.

Set in a run-down bar named "Pink," movie follows the lives of people surrounding the bar including its owner Ok-Ryun.

Father An is locked up in a basement by retreating North Korean soldiers while reconstructing his church ruined during the Korean War (1950-1953). The North Koreans hide in the basement with Father An and tries to escape the church by using him as a shield. Captain Choe Dong-ho of the South Korean Army has been chasing the remnants, but he cannot annihilate them because of the safety of Father An. However, thanks to the clever strategy of Captain Choe, the North Koreans are killed and Father An is safely saved.

A movie set in a school notorious for violence about students continuously fighting with each other to become the number one fighter.

Do-jin, who promised to marry his Taiwanese same-sex lover Jiahao, tries to inform his Korean family.

A chase story unfolds as a renowned broadcast journalist falls into a trap due to a fabricated tip-off.

Soo-ah and Hyeon-jeong have been friends since they were children. Unlike Seon-hee, a hidden master in martial arts, and plain Soo-ah, Hyeon-jeong is pretty and a model student at school. While they want to lead an ordinary student's life, the Yeonsoo mob at school pressures them to join them. Soo-ah, Hyeon-jeong and Seon-hee get Seon-hee’s brother’s help and decide to fight them.

Nancy (Ko Ah-Sung) is a musician, unable to open up to anyone due to a prior romance. Nancy decides to take a trip in England. On the trip, Nancy meets photographer Jude (James Page) who becomes her tour guide. They find many things in common during their 15 day trip...

Living Euljiro traces the neglected losses of those living within a centuries-old district of maze-like alleys at the heart of Seoul. Through intimate encounters and textured observation, it creates a mosaic of perspectives exploring memory, identity, and resistance—revealing the human cost of a relentless urban Masterplan beyond a binary narrative of gentrification.

The film reconstructs the life of Noriko by selecting scenes from Oz Yasujiro’s films featuring actor Hara Setsuko.

A sci-fi fantasy film about aliens living together while punishing the crimes committed by Earthlings.

A young boy becomes mesmerized by his first experiences watching TV. Gradually, his thoughts are consumed by what he sees on the screen. He begins to believe himself a movie star and mimics violent acts from films—ultimately wandering outside in a coat and gun.

Han Hyeon-Suk is the only daughter of a millionaire named Han Ho-Sang. After seeing off her husband at the airport, she returns home. On the way, her car runs out of gasoline so she barely comes back home thanks to the help of a truck driver (Park Kyu-Yeol)

Ju-hie feels deeply frustrated with her life after failing to enter college. She attempts to study to re-take the entrance exam, but after meeting a boyfriend, her studies begin to suffer.

Mina, Kanako, Yunge and Kansuke attend the same company. One day, Mina, who was in discontent, I can hear the pride of my girlfriend Shunji from my junior Kanako. When she can't stand it anymore, she calls Yuji into her home to relieve her lust. She is proud of her relationship with Mina to her boss, Kansuke. Kansuke was also interested in Mina, I'm asking Wuji to make a chance to have sex ...

The story unfolds through the perspective of a young painter in his twenties named Kang. Torn between love and art, he finds himself standing on the fragile line between success and survival, facing the temptations of ghost painting and the shadow of forgery. At the same time, the film interweaves a story from thirty years earlier: a talented painter who, under the crushing weight of poverty, was forced to abandon his pride and create paintings under someone else’s name. Through this parallel narrative, the film contrasts the conscience of the artist with the harsh realities of life.

Love story. Too hard to believe, and too much to bear.

During the Japanese colonial period, Jinho, a Korean student, marries Sakiko, the daughter of Japanese army colonel Fukube. When it is revealed that Jinho is Korean, Fukube assigns Jinho to a unit in North Manchuria. In response, Jinho escapes from his unit and hides in the mountains with Sakiko.

The film concerns a student, Ch'oe Yeongjin, who has become mentally ill after being imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese for his involvement in the March 1, 1919 protest against the Japanese colonial rule.

Threatened by starvation due to a crop failure, an entire family is forced to uproot and leave the land they love to go work in a mining village. When the Korea War breaks out, the family is scattered but they promise to meet again after one year. Unknown to them, not all the members of the family will survive the year.

Facility No. 6, a juvenile protective detention center, stands on the verge of closure. A documentary crew steps inside to record what little remains, and from the moment the cameras turn on, they find themselves before long-buried wounds and truths no one has wanted to face. In the worn faces of teachers who have spent themselves caring for these children, and beneath the indifference of a society that has long since turned its head away from the other side of the wall, the crew quietly bears witness to how children with nowhere left to go have arrived at this place.

In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence.

Jinhyeon, a social worker, learns that Yeongjin, a social service personnel in his charge, has been kicked out of his house and is living on the streets, so he allows him to stay at his house. Meanwhile, Sunrye, an elderly woman who visits the welfare center, complains to Jinhyeon too often.

Seo-rim, drowning in debt, plans to kill a homeless girl, Sum-e, for identity theft. However, Sum-e unexpectedly kills Seo-rim's boyfriend and disappears. Now a suspect and facing blackmail, Seo-rim must confront her past and a shocking truth.

A law student receives a phone call from a mysterious woman asking that they meet. When he arrives at the appointed place, he finds the woman dead and he is the only suspect the police have. The student learns however, that events in his deceased father's past will provide the identity of the killer

One spring day when it rained. While watering the paddy fields, Geumryong gets into a fight with the neighboring young man Kokibong, but accidentally kills him. Geum-ryong is sentenced to three years in prison. Meanwhile, Go Young-ran, who is engaged to Geum-ryong, runs away from home because her parents force her to marry someone else. Geum-ryong, who has been released from prison, finds Yeong-ran, but she has become a bar clerk. However, she sees Young-ran, who is still guarding Jeongjo, and she starts anew with Young-ran.