Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

A gangster is chosen to become a shaman. How can he balance his totally opposite life, between beating people and helping people. Then, his boss coincidentally hates shaman.

A man sets up the First Love Agency to help people locate their long-lost first love. But then he ends up falling in love with his first client.

Seok-jin has a tremendous amount of energy. Mi-sun introduces her friend Hyun-jung to Seok-jin, who will be the very father. Hyunjung, who had no place to stay, stayed at Seokjin's house at the request of Misun. Hyunjeong is twisting Seokjin. After having sex with Seok-jin, Hyun-jung says that it was too good for Mi-sun. Mi-sun approaches Seok-jin as a substitute for Hyun-woo, who is the best. Seokjin also enjoys sex with his sister's fiance, Misun.

Jang-soo is a judo instructor who is indifferent to everyone but his daughter. One day he realizes he can see Tae-jin, a ghost who used to be a devoted police officer. Tae-jin asks Jang-soo to help solve the case that took his life away from him.

A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.

In Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned to Eclipse as captain. Though his job is to oversee the withdrawal of the ship, he suggests conducting some drilling one last time.

Jong-hwan's friend's daughter Seong-hye moves into his house. She messes up the house and drinks with her friends and even has sex with men in the house. One day, Jong-hwan ends up comforting Seong-hye who broke up with her boyfriend. They spend more time together and become dependent on each other. Afterwards, they fall for each other more than they should...

A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.

Based on true events, renowned mountaineer Um Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.

Private secret of Na-yeon and Min-woo, the teacher who teaches herself from old times! As Min-woo's grades go up a lot, Na-yeon invites him to her house for a special class. Usually, she is a calm teacher, but her personality changes whenever she touches her body. Meanwhile, Na-yeon had another student named Jae-hyeon, who knows the relationship between Na-yeon and Min-woo and is jealous, but only enjoys the current situation. A special private tutoring class for two students and a female student, which is secretly conducted, is just beginning.

Unable to adapt in the United States, Yuri decides to stay at her mother's friend's house, fighting with her son Hyun-Bo as a child and being like an enemy. Hyunbo and Yuri, who met over time, have a crush on each other. One day, Hyunbo witnesses her girlfriend's affair, and it hurts her heart. Yuri who comforts Hyunbo... Yuri and Yuri who become lovers from enemies!

To acquire ancient artifacts for a private collector, a cunning grave robber and his band of ingenious thieves carry out a series of risky heists.

When a school girl disappears, suicide is suspected, and one of her classmates is suspected of having goaded her into it.

A teenage girl tries to continue her normal social and school life, after her grandfather forces her into an arranged marriage with a man in his twenties.

Woman 1 (Black Girl) who is kidnapped to a basement by some men and Woman 2 (White Girl) are told that they'd be able to live if they aroused their kidnappers with some erotic stories. White Girl tells them about her cousin who is aroused by high heels but fails and Black Girl tells them about some female soldiers and male nurses who run away from an infectious virus but fails as well. Eventually, just as they're about to face death, White Girl starts cussing and the situation turns wary...

A 70-year-old woman transforms into her 24-year-old self after she's photographed at a studio, changing her life and those of the people around her forever.

Na-young becomes a prostitute when her heart is broken and then she is sexually violated by Jung-han, a street thug.

Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and tries to protect to them.

Sang-sook is a competent politician who captivates the public with all kinds of nice words. One day, Sang-sook visits her grandmother who lives in the isolated house. But when she returns home, she finds out that she is not able to lie anymore.

Some may dream of, some may be afraid of, some may look forward to, and some may want to avoid THE NIGHT BEFORE MARRIAGE! 4 different couples disclose 4 different stories all about marriage.

A husband named Cha Dae-seong turns into a vegetable after an accident. Yoo Soo-yeon, his wife, takes care of him with all her heart. One day, she meets Baek Goon while hiking on her own. As time passes, Soo-yeon starts leaning towards him... Baek Goon and Soo-yeon have an affair and she even boldly has sex in the room her stationary husband is lying in. The husband cries in his heart as he can't do anything about it. Baek Goon's sex partner, Hee-jin suspects something is going on and follows him to find out everything. Then she starts taking care of Soo-yeon's husband. Dae-seong starts getting better and slowly starts to stir... However, he still pretends to be a vegetable and watches his wife and slowly, he starts getting revenge on his wife and Baek Goon.

Yeong-seok had a crush on his club mate, Hee-yeon. He decides to confess her love after 1262 days but gives up upon witnessing Hee-yeon kissing her senior. With his roommate, Byung-soon's recommendation, Yeong-seok visits a dating coach website called 'Adventure M' and he will meet another applicant, Myo-ryeong. Myo-ryeong who picked up and dropped off the perfect-looking, sexy Yeong-seok, offers a motel tour...

Joo-yeon and Seok-jun are preparing to remarry. Jung-yeon's daughter, Yoon-jung and Seok-jun's son, Jung-woo, are also in love. Yoon Jung and Jung Woo also promised marriage. Jung-woo falls in love with Yoon Jung's mother. I worry about Yoon Jung and Juyeon. Jeongwoo goes to the main role and confesses, even the affair is done. Seok-joon becomes estranged from Min-jung, the daughter of Joon-on. Joo-yeon and Seok-jun become friends with each other's son and daughter. Naturally postpone marriage.

Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms. Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an illness while an ex-student, the kind and pretty Mi-ja cares for her.

A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.

Yonggyu and Taejun, who shoot an experimental documentary about the effects of sex on dieting, once a day with one woman! Twice a day with two women in the second week! And 3 times a day !!! No nationality, no marriage, no past?! The experiment of three weeks' reckless experiment with 6 experimental participants is unfolded. What is the end of this imaginative project?

Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.

Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.

A wealthy oil tycoon decides to steal oil from a pipeline running between Honam and Seoul-Busan motorway. To carry out this heist, he enlists the help of an experienced drilling engineer and his team.

Kyeong Hwan, who is home alone with the daughter-in-law who came from the countryside, falls in love.

A brilliant math teacher formulates the perfect cover-up after his neighbor murders her abusive ex-husband.

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

Mu Myeong is a Joseon dynasty headhunter who meets and falls in love with lady Ja Yeong who will become the future Empress Myseongseong. A few years later, Ja Yeong enters the royal palace to marry King Gojong. Mu Myeong still having feelings for Ja Yeong and in an attempt to get closer to her becomes her personal body guard.

Eun-a, who was living a happy life with her family, loses everything to a psychopath serial killer. After the tragic incident, she gathers four people with different talents who are in need of organ transplants to achieve her revenge.

An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin.

A young woman's happy life with her father takes a downward turn when she begins to suspect that he's a kidnapper.

Sangtae and his teenage daughter Doyeon are constantly arguing and haven't had a genuine conversation in years. When their souls are switched by a magical force for seven days, they must learn to tackle the awkward and unfamiliar situation in each other's shoes.

When I was a high school student, my sister was a sexy friend who kept me from falling asleep with all kinds of delusions every night. Min-soo's thrilling delusion catches fire after she accidentally meets her naked sister at home. After becoming an adult, Minsu and his friend Yong Joon get a job at a sister company. From her sexy friend, Minsu's secret work towards her, who is now reunited as a sexy female warrior, begins...

Student teacher Kang Eun-kyung encounters a group of girls in a black magic club who are topping the national mock exams.

Formerly known as "Two Women" or "Freezing Rain". A man who wants all love, a wife who approaches her husband's other woman, and a woman who wants to keep her love. A classy melodrama of these three people and their risky encounter.

A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.

Ja-young is a flutist. When her father has a child out of wedlock, her mother regards sex as a sin out of anger towards him. Ja-young grows up under her mother's exceedingly oppressive notions.

Four master helmers from Korea reload the hitman flick. Vampire sleaze, assassin slapstick, neo-noir, and an avant-garde mind-bender to die (kill) for!

A CEO of a small tech company, Chang-wook, must win billions worth bid for National EV charger project against Gwang-woo, an ex-business partner who has thrived with lobbying after stealing Chang-wook's original technology. Discovering Gwang-woo's secret connection with the decision-maker Minister Cho, he plans his first-ever golf outing to win over the deal. Finally, the golf round day has come, but everything is not the way he planned. Scandal, betrayal and chase in this 18-hole round.

Hyunsoo, a college student, has a trauma to her ex-girlfriend. One day he buys a female mannequin to paint. However, it wasn't a mannequin that Hyunsoo bought, but a cutting-edge sex robot. Hyun-soo's ex-girlfriend Min-ji feels jealous when she sees him after having a hot night with Lara. When she meets Minji again, Hyun-soo presents Lara the sex robot to her father, Cheonsu, and she experiences a new world from Lara.

Detective Nam-soon goes undercover with her partner Detective Ahn to investigate the counterfeit money. She discovers that one loyal henchman, Sad Eyes, a beautiful swordsman with a pale, blank face, is related to the truth. Nam-soon and Sad Eyes confront each other in a series of duels and become confused between love and obligation to duty.

A disgraced chef tries to restore his name by competing in a culinary contest to win the knife of Korea's last royal chef.

Ji-wook is a virile detective with a reputation, but deep down in his heart, he always considered himself as a woman and finally decides to get a transsexual operation. However, his plan falls apart as vicious gang members start their revenge on him.

A newsman discovers he's been rigged with a bomb after he has an exclusive interview with a terrorist who blew up a bridge.

Seo-jin is a widower still grieving his wife's death. Then he receives the news that his long-lost younger sister, Yoo-jin, who went missing 25 years ago, has turned up. Unlike the rest of his family, who welcome her into their arms, Seo-jin feels that Yoo-jin is a stranger.

In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.

In 1997, when the Asian financial crisis hit Korea, Gukbo, the number one Soju company is on the brink of bankruptcy. In the high-stakes market of M&A, In-beom, a young ambitious associate at global investment firm Solquin, heads back home to take Gukbo as his first target. Hiding his greediness, In-beom approaches Jong-rok, an executive loyal to Gukbo, as an innocent consultant aiming to rehabilitate Gukbo. While In-beom digs deeper into Gukbo, he finds this may lead to an unlikely outcome.

A woman gets kidnapped in the middle of the day and is tortured in a psychiatric hospital. A Journalist gets on the trace of the case and tries to find out the truth.

Mizo is a lost bird born in trash. She's been sexually abused by her foster parents so she sets out to find her birth parents with the blood-stained uniform she was abandoned with. Meanwhile, Woo-sang, the man who abandoned his baby girl in the trash, still lives a trashy life. Mizo approaches him to take revenge in the most painful way possible. The revenge steps over the line and they have no idea what gruesome end they are headed for...

Se-jin, a high school student, becomes pregnant and gets ostracized by her family and school. While wandering the streets, she meets Joo-yeong, an experienced runaway, and tries to get an abortion with Joo-yeong's help.

A couples' trip to Pattaya turns into hell when each others' secrets come out into the open! Soo-jeong and Tae-hyeon decide to go abroad with Sang-jin and Ji-hyeon to celebrate Ji-hyeon's birthday. However, Ji-hyeon can't make it last minute and the three set off. However the local tour guide tricks them into losing everything they've got. Then they meet Lizzie, who Sang-jin falls for right away. They cross the line and Soo-jeong who secretly had a crush on Sang-jin, films them quietly. She then threatens Sang-jin to tell Ji-hyeon with the video of their affair and demands he takes her in. Tae-hyeon finds out about everything and the dreamy vacation turns into hell...

Bo-ram and Hyeon-woo are friends in the neighborhood that I knew since I was young. The two, who were just like children, became adults and began to love each other. Bo-ram prefers a lighter love rather than a more serious one, and Hyun-woo likes only one woman... Hyeon-woo gets help from Bo-ram in many ways to win his favorite Seo-yeon. And as a friend, Bo-ram starts a special class for Hyeon-woo... In the midst of this, Hyeon-woo realizes that his true love is not Seo-yeon but Bo-ram, and he struggles to choose between friendship and love. This is how people in their 20s start their own unpredictable love story.