Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Pok-yeon finds out that his father was killed, and the killer was Samsu, a hairdresser who desired his wife. After a fight with Samsu, Pok-young kills him and then decides to turn himself in to the police to be tried according to the law.

A broker tries to get rich by a scam, but the police discover his intentions so he becomes a fugitive who runs aimlessly until he reachs a battlefield. Part of the 2002 'Jeonju Digital Project'.

So-Jin, who is training for the physical fitness test for police recruitment, is being stalked by a man, but she cannot find a strong means of confronting the situation. Meanwhile, Hyeon-Sook, who lives in the same apartment complex of So-jin, cannot get away from her violent husband. They work out in a schoolyard for their own respective reasons.

Chang-su, Byeong-gi and Yeong-bae are pickpockets and work together. Chang-su's role in the team is to lure the chasers out. Chang-su is displeased with the payment he receives because what he does is tougher than what the other two do.

Choo-hyeon, a film crew member, drives to pick up an actress, but ends up picking up a prostitute named Hee-ra by mistake.

Introverted and passive gay boy Candy. He searches for love, but the world around him is cold. Who can save him?

Two women start living with a man who lives alone. The women introduce themselves as sisters looking for their long lost father and they start to seduce the man. Actually, these women are a serial killing duo who only target men who live alone. In the end, the man loses his life. While they are celebrating, a boy calling himself the man's brother, appears in front of them one day. He looks and sounds just like the man but has a completely different personality and he's nothing like the two women has ever seen before.

Joey, extroverted with a capital “P,” is a friend who always opens up new worlds and is anything but ordinary. Having long claimed to see things others cannot, he finally declares that he will leave behind the path of a civil servant to become a shaman.

In the wake of climate change and depletion of natural resources, eco-friendly bio-fuels have become the main energy source. In Busan, Surisol Underwater Lab, which manages biomass fuels, is established. Sohila, a researcher, hears bad news from AI Surisol and goes out to conduct reconnaissance in the waters in question.

Ga-young has been training to be a K-pop star for years at an entertainment company, when one day she is suddenly asked to leave the company.

A film about a husband's struggles to save his wife who was kidnapped by a loan shark.

Rich mother 'Ji-sook' succeeded in recruiting 'Joo-yeon', a coordinator for high-cost entrance exams, who selects and guides only a small number of excellent students through a referral while searching for a competent private tutoring coordinator to send their son 'Se-hyeok', a retraining student, to medical school. 'Namjae', the father of 'Eun-tae', a high school student next door, also heard the rumors and contacted 'Joo-yeon' to be cast. As the parents of Se-hyeok and Eun-tae, who are neighbors, enter into a strange rivalry, Joo-yeon, who is in an embarrassing situation, eventually agrees with the two families to share the days of the week and guide Se-hyuk and Eun-tae. 3rd student Eun-tae has no interest in going to medical school and is only busy thinking about playing with her third-year-old girlfriend, and Se-hyeok starts to go for the beautiful tutor Joo-yeon rather than studying for the entrance exam.

While reporting on the rise of spy cam porn in South Korea, a crime that affects thousands each year, a journalist discovers that she too is being watched in her own home. She decides to speak out, joining a nationwide movement of women seeking protection from this frighteningly ubiquitous crime.

Eunha, who lives in Berlin, is preparing to return to Korea after seven years abroad. As she packs her 23kg suitcase, she decides what to leave behind and what to take with her.

What happened in the male bedroom of the university?

Seol Hee-ju, the eldest daughter-in-law of the chairman of the Pluto Group and wife of Ko Bong-sik, president of Pluto Motors, is found dead with a stab wound to the chest.

The late Kim Dong-il, a Jeju April 3 refugee in Japan, left behind over 2,000 crocheted items and pieces of clothing that preserved her memories, identity, and history. As the film traces the redistribution of her belongings, it illuminates the still-unhealed lives of various Zainichi Koreans who lived through the same era, sharing and connecting their intertwined memories.

A daring portrayal of real workplace dynamics at the Dam Center of Freedom for Women with Disabilities! On her first day at work, the non-disabled new activist Ha-neul is caught in a ping-pong of "body tactfulness" among women with different disabilities. Will she manage to fit in?

There is a woman who is digging her own grave. We follow her timeline backwards. A series of unfortunate events keep happening to her for uncertain reasons, and she reflects upon her life. What kind of life did she want for herself? Was her life on stage real, or was it just a staged act?

A South Korean mother and daughter are in London (UK) for 10-year-old Hyun-ah’s ballet tour. Hyun-ah wants to be free from her mother’s pressure, neither of them understand each other. Tension simmers as events unfold before, during and after a show.

A married couple cling to prayers for answers during a series of hardships: the news of the husband's 4th degree stomach cancer on the day the wife gives birth to a daughter; the sudden death of her mother; and the news of the wife's 4th cancer a week after the end of the husband's chemo treatment.

Jeong-su, who possesses psychometric abilities, uses his powers to pose as a fake shaman, earning money and seducing men. Su-hyun, who secretly harbors unrequited love for Jeong-su, helps him run the fortune-telling business but can no longer endure Jeong-su's reckless lifestyle. In desperation, Su-hyun seeks out a powerful shaman named Gi-hwan to remove Jeong-su's abilities.

One swipe leads to a steamy reunion with a familiar face—but it’s his ex’s twin, and now he’s caught in a messy emotional triangle.

Here’s a horror film in broad daylight and shot in an elevator — a tight space that magnifies the tension. For a time, we know the schoolgirl is trapped.

A girl who is about to apply for college admission hopes to go to a university far from home despite her good grades.

One of the major works by South Korean feminist film collective Kaidu Club, this short is a dynamic, idiosyncratic, and mosaic-like portrait of Korean life, culture, and people who dream of a unified North and South.

The Exchange Diary is a collaborative film project of two artists, Im Heung-soon and Momose Aya, since 2015. Having exchanged video clips recorded with the iPhone, the artists edited and recreated each other´s work in their own interpretation. The film explores private and social issues surrounding the artists with asynchronous images and sound, and blended time and space.

Young-ja initially mocks the shy, introverted Ki-hoon who is infatuated with her. She in turn, is fascinated with Dong-hyeok, a worldly small time criminal. After promising to change his ways, Dong-hyeok betrays Young-ja and sells her into prostitution. Only Ki-hoon cares enough about her to attempt a rescue.

Korean War, 1951 Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life.

Jimin, a deaf child, lives with his mother in a redevelopment area. The child, who does not know the sounds of the world, feels the vibrations of his mother's heartbeat and the movements of everyday life around him, and curiously observes the movements of all things. Jimin, who is watching his brother and sister playing with a kite that was lost, eventually goes out into the city outside of the house, and as he encounters the world, he begins to feel his own sounds.

Unlike “trilogy on torn-down neighborhoods,” (The Sang-kye dong Olympics, Haengdang-dong People, and Another World We Are Making), Standing on the Edge of Death calmly describes how urban poverty was formed, how they live, and why more than 20 of them committed suicide at once in 1990. In this film, the director explains that people who moved from poor countryside formed urban slum, and because they did not have formal education or asset, they worked as day laborers. Residence was one particular problem they faced as they lost their main dwelling area due to redevelopment. They start their day at dawn and work till night. However, these hard-working people do not receive any recognition from the society.

Yong-pal returns from his grandmother's funeral with a video tape of her will to be played for his family. He is also carrying an invaluable, centuries-old, porcelain treasure. His back gets switched with that of a smuggler who immediately makes plans to sell off the artifact to the highest bidder. Yong-pal and his brother, Yong-chil, set out to recover the heirloom.

In some village near Sachonsong in China, whenever crows caw at night, a village girl dies. When Ki Seok-Bok's daughter Yi-Hwa died, too, Seok-Bok's son-in-law Jin-Rang keeps watch on his sister-in-law Yeon-Hwa. The crow ghost avoids fight with Jin-Rang, leaving behind a bamboo pipe. As Jin-Rang's wife dies, the crow ghost gets incarnated in her. The crow ghost wanted to kill Ki Seok-Bok and his family because he killed Joo and her daughter Bu-Yong who got engaged with Jin-Rang at that time, in order to marry Jin-Rang to his daughter. The ghost mother and daughter tell the truth about their death to Jin-Rang and leaves after killing Seok-Bok.

Throughout the history of cinema, we always see the countdown leader and hear the beep sound just before the start of a film. In this 16mm multi-projection performance, we hear sound and emotional residues from narrative cinema such as laughters, clapping, and cheering. The projectors become the protagonists in this performance, facing the audience.

Jeong-hyo, an aspiring writer, comes across a room while looking for an inexpensive place to rent.

A six-year age gap separates two fellow college mates, Gae-bin and Ji-won. Gae-bin, who’s head over heels for Ji-won, can’t seem to hide her feelings for her senior while Ji-won's feelings, on the other hand, seem rather murky. One afternoon, as the two sit on the roof, chatting and eating ice cream to cool off on a hot summer day, Ji-won suddenly reveals to Gae-bin that she has a crush on someone from their college.

A couple of college students take pity on an ex-convict and try to help him locate his lover whom he hasn't seen or heard from in seven years.

Grandma Baek predicted that Mirim would go blind before she turned 26. To prevent this, Mirim’s family adopted a son to take on her misfortune. As a result, Mirim didn’t go blind, but the son, Jinkoo died. Longing for Jinkoo, Mirim tries to reunite with him with the help of a pilgrim who unexpectedly visits her home.

A contagion called "Kiss Kiss" strikes the whole country with terror. When people are infected by "Kiss Kiss," they get the red spots looking like hickeys on their neck and face death 15 days after they are infected. Meanwhile, the fake news saying that gay people are the sources of this disease are released which make gay people shiver with fear.

DIAMOND EDGE was SEVENTEEN's first world tour organized by Pledis Entertainment, Show Note and Live Nation. The tour was held from July 14 to October 6, 2017, in Seoul, Saitama, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Santiago, New York, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Singapore, Taipei and Manila, visiting total 14 cities. They met with over 200,000 fans all over the world.

The affairs of men and women are many and complex in this film.

At the 10th year since King Yeon-San came to the throne, Suwon magistrate Yun Dong-Kyun dies a mysterious death. Lee Won-Seok leaves for Suwon as the next magistrate and his wife Kim remains at the home. Man-Dol, who has been admired her, tells a lie to her that her husband indulges himself in woman and it make her blind with avarice. Unreliable incidents continuously happen and one day, Lee Won-Seok is murdered. Man-Dol is turned out to be the murderer and on the day when a prize gate for exemplary woman is bestowed on Kim, a thunder falls on the gate.

A personal documentary film that follows how the director and a female Japanese documentarian met at a film festival and developed an intense relationship. It expresses honestly and candidly the big theme of 'communication' between man and woman, and between Korea and Japan, through a very personal love affair. A pleasant film that makes us look at the way we communicate, and what understanding another person is about.