Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Story contains the confessions of couples who are not able to express their feelings due to their closeness.

What do we do at an MT? Min-hee and Min-soo used to date. Dong-hyeon and Ah-yeong drink with them the night before they go for the MT. Min-soo puts Min-hee to bed in a motel and Ah-yeong who had the hots for Min-soo, seduces him. They promise to keep it a secret but Min-hee finds out what they have been doing. However, Ah-yeong is a provocative one and decides to seduce Min-soo at the pension where all four of them are together...

The hot real estate business diary with three women is revealed! Hyeong-joon, a man who is still unemployed at almost middle age, is urged to work at a real estate company owned by his mother's friend, which himself looks down on in this field. In his first period of work, he immediately changes his opinion after seeing his boss's sexy wife, a company colleague who often teases him, and an innocent and adorable new employee. Now the exploration of the empty house with these hot girls begins!

Yeong-joon who loves a mysterious woman named Seo-ra succeeds to change the past by visiting a woman with mysterious powers. However, she is now married to a loan shark named Cheol-jae in the changed past. Cheol-jae lives in captivity under Seo-ra and plans a new love and life, while Yeong-jun agonizes over Seo-ra's happiness. The fate of these men and woman who have changed their pasts, unfolds.

This is the story of a sex therapist who helps people overcome sexual issues and misconduct. One day a patient arrives who presents an unusual set of behaviors and an equally unusual situation arises.

Female students from the Chungjoo Yeseong Girl's High School develop a new kind rice wine and patent it. This drama is about high school students helping their beloved father continue their family business.

A Seoul businessman comes to Jeju Island and meets a lonely tour guide.

A teenager with the ability to enter other people's dreams. When he witnesses a dark spirit taking people's lives in their dreams, he quickly realizes that it's related to the mysterious deaths that are happening in the real world.

A jaded psychiatrist sees a client who is having hallucinations. He uses hypnotism to seek answers into her dark past, but soon gets wrapped up in her delusions and starts to fall for her charms...

A film about a group of rowdy teenagers who get a taste of their own medicine.

Hee-jung hopes to leave Daegu and transfer to a university in Seoul. She works at a ticket office for paddle boats to save up for her tuition. One day while she dozes off, someone attempts suicide.

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a grave secret to herself, she manages life one day at a time with a sense of mindfulness. Meanwhile a certain director, some years younger than her, has asked her to join his project, and after a polite refusal, they have agreed to meet for the first time today. Downtown Seoul is filled with narrow alleys that harbor tiny old bars, and that's where they meet. As they are getting drunk, there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

The male protagonist is about to be promoted and invites the chairman to come to the house as a guest. However, the chairman is accidentally injured. In order not to make the chairman angry, the male protagonist has to beg his wife to go to the chairman's house to take care of the chairman. The chairman is a womanizer, this A kind-hearted friend's wife is like a sheep in a tiger's mouth, becoming a plaything for the chairman of the board...

YeonKyeong, a 33-year-old woman decides to give up on her music after failing multiple auditions. She has been pursuing her dream of becoming a singer from the day she performed in a radio competition but she can’t go on anymore. One day, YeonKyeong receives a letter and a guitar from Hyunsoo, her high school friend she used to make music with. Perplexed by his letter, she embarks on a journey to Wolmi Island to say goodbye to her old dream.

Soon-young lives with her mentally handicapped father and younger sister Soon-ja. When an American man and his daughter Barbie arrive for an adoption, the family must decide who is to let go, Soon-young or Soon-ja.

A tense standoff between a wealthy young widow with a collection of world-famous art, a swindler with an eye on her collection, and a strange woman who blackmails him into including her in the con.

Hyung Soo, who is negotiating for a sexual service charge of Joo Young, fell into Joo Young’s trick and ended up entering the auction house for Organ Human Trafficking. Blink of a moment, Hyung Soo’s body parts are on sale and a lot of people shout out prices for his body parts. As Hyung Soo’s kidney sold to Geuk Ryul, earthquake occurs and the building started to collapse. Any crimes can be buried at the fallen building; people becomes monsters for the money.

The story begins when a wife who has been living with her disabled husband steals money from his bank account as she is blinded by greed and desire.

The collapse of a department store disturbs a local community, causing strife for some, and bringing some people closer than ever before.

A comic book store in Garibong-dong is run by a beautiful woman better known as Madam. This store stays open late into the night, thus attracting varied types of people such as gangsters and hustlers.

Ye-ri is exotic and glamorous. The sight of her relieving her loneliness through masturbation makes men's sexual desires soar. Men who have tasted her end up pouring everything out without leaving a single drop.

As Tae-in moved away suddenly, Do-ha embarked on a long-distance relationship that certainly wasn't planned. Although they talk to each other daily and constantly through KakaoTalk and video chat, they all never enough in fully expressing his love for her. So he secretly plans to propose to her. But for some reason, Tae-in contacts him less and less often. Do-ha feels his trust and confidence in their love breaking down slowly...

A life documentary of a woman who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl, oppressed for following superstitions as an adult, how she grows to be a great shaman who embraces the pain of all people, and how she comes to be honored as a national treasure of Korea with her outstanding artistic talents throughout Korea's tumultuous history.

Based on the great river story, The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.

Unlike the massage shop next door that is crowded with customers, Ara's massage shop is quiet without customers. One day, Bomi, the ace of the shop next door, comes to Ara's shop, and she learns the trade secret of her next door shop through Ara. That trade secret...

A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.

Han Byung-tae, who teaches at a private after-school academy in Seoul, receives word that his old teacher has passed away and sets off to the rural village where he attended elementary school. In the train, he reminisces about the tough fights he used to get into back in the day.

Love of married woman and young man

Soyoung, a woman in 20s struggling between making a living and getting a real job, begins tutoring a high school senior Minjeong. One day, Minjeong asks Soyoung if they could reschedule a session.

Officers Cho Kyung-yoon and Park Eun-joo are on the hunt a killer following duo of ghastly murders. The victims carry a common military past, and the secret of their past must be unraveled to find the killer.

When cartoonist Hyun-joon falls in love with Da-hong, one of his fans, it sets up the archetypal battle between their two families, who are from rival regions. Hyun-joon comes from the politically liberal Honam region while Da-hong comes from the conservative Yeongnam region. When the two declare their intention to marry, they are confronted with a seemingly endless number of barriers that threaten their happiness.

Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.

Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man and Mai-Ratima, a 22-year-old Thai girl who accepts a mail order marriage in order to realize her Korean Dream. Into their relationship comes Young-jin, a hostess, slowly turning it into a love triangle.

Judge Park Ki-poong lost his wife on the day his son Su-seok was born. As a result of this tragedy, Ki-poong ignores his son and Su-seok resents his father. The bad blood between the judge father and the lawyer son come to a volatile but humorous climax in the courtroom when they are on opposing ends of a divorce case.

A vigilante known as "Dr. Q" gruesomely executes criminals who escape justice, uploading videos of his killings online. Young cop Bong and his seasoned partner Na investigate while clashing with S.T.F. counterparts Lt. Pyo and tech expert Kang.

After marriage, Sun-ah and Joo-hee seem to have become bored with their husbands. They meet and talked about their worries. Because their husbands coldness, they can't even remember when was the last time they had sex. Joo-hee says she can't take it anymore so she tried to find someone through a dating app but Sun-ah stopped her. After contemplating, they both wore sexy lingeries and tried to seduce their husbands, but it didn't work. Finally, as a last resort, they change husbands for a night and make love...

Ma Gang-se (Kang Pil-seon) is branded at work as the pervert professor and in the end, he gets fired. He thinks there's no more reasons to live and leaves on a trip by himself before he commits suicide. On his trip, he meets a mysterious woman named Sara. He spends every night with her and satisfies his erotic fantasies, However, Kang-se starts to suspect her existence as she appears and disappears all the time. Finally, the shocking truth about her is unveiled...

The events that precede and follow, for each of those present in turn, when a young woman is asked for verification of her identity one time too many, in this case when presenting a check at a convenience store. Despite the repetition of the central scene the personal stories and consequences are interestingly varied and unpredictable. The problem for the central character is that her country allows her no usable identity following her change of sex. This was true for the lead actress, South Korea's most famed woman of transsexual history, Ha Ri-su, but that is about as far as the plot bears any resemblance to her actual life. Since the film was released the actress became, by a landmark court case, the first in her country to to be allowed proper recognition and papers. There are of course many other countries which still impose the same difficulties on similar young women.

Intrigue and murder on a small poultry farm outside of Seoul when a young maid starts working on the farm and is seduced by the local farm hand.

Na-na, the only daughter of a chaebol is heartbroken because of her husband's affair. Even if she already caught his husband cheating, someone interrupts so she couldn't enter the scene. That person is no other than Jin,yeong, the husband of the woman with the same situation as hers. The two try to heal each others' wounds and became fond of each other. Nana falls in love with Jin-yeong who has a smaller tool than her husband, but is more considerate...

A bright sexy comedy about a wholesome town and four mysterious couples and their sneaky lives. It is the new work of director Lee Hae-yeong, who secured a spot as a new director with the work "Like a Virgin".

In the not-so distant future, researchers at a deep-sea laboratory have finally invented a time machine. Head researcher Woo-seok is promised funding from a mega-corporation if he completes a test flight. He and Young-eun carry out the mission and travel to 11 A.M. the next day, only to find the base on the verge of collapse. All the researchers are gone and someone is out to kill them.

Min-jae is a highschool teacher during the day, but at dusk, he goes out on the streets and join with youth who are alienated from school and home. Due to an incident, Min-jae is put to the test again to protect his students ─ Ji-geun and classmates.

Bedridden after a tragic accident, a professor is cared for by his mother-in-law, who uncovers disturbing secrets about his marriage and past, jeopardizing his recovery.

A dwarf and his poor, but loving, family who are forced out of their house by a real estate agent.

Sixteen year-old girl Jeong-ae receives a letter from her mother, who left home long ago. Jeong-ae is living with her father in the redevelopment area of Seoul. He was diagnosed with an end-stage cancer and is waiting for his death while giving up treatment. Jeongae is on her way to find her long lost mother, thinking that it is her only hope left.

Two men, brothers, and two women, mother and daughter, learn of life and love at an inn.

Dr. KIM Sang-chul who is a world renowned genius medical scientist is killed by himself and his head is cut and missing in his funeral. While a dispatch rider, Hong-je, delivers Dr. KIM’s head, he is kidnapped by Baek-jung and his elder sister, Hong-joo goes head to head with him to save Hong-je!! As far as she chases him, the forces into the background of Dr. KIM’s head are revealed and Hong-joo is in danger. Can a reckless but loyal female journalist save her bro and take the scoop what she wants so eagerly?

Campus couple Sang-yeol (Kim Myeong-joong) and Mi-na (Lim So-mi) are a married couple who maintain their living as a magazine reporter and pretty famous writer. Sang-yeol, who is always at home writing, has been in an affair with his neighbor and collegemate Da-yeong (Hwang Jeong-ah) for quite a while. Then one day, Mina runs into Da-yeong and exchanges phone numbers. Mina starts to suspect the frequent phone calls to her husband from an unknown number. She finds out Da-yeong is the one he's been cheating on her with but she isn't upset. Da-yeong's husband Hyeon-woo (Lee Hyeon-gook) had once dated. One day MIna meets Hyeon-woo coincidentally through work and seduces him. He falls for her and the complicated relationship begins...

While a couple is enjoying morning sex, the husband urgently gets a call to go to work, and the wife masturbates alone out of disappointment at not being able to finish relieving herself. At that moment, another sex partner comes to her house. When the husband suddenly returns home, the two are having sex, and the sex partner hurriedly hides in her room.

Inspired by Shakespeare's classic of the same name. Beautiful and rich, Yeon-su (Park Jung-a) lives a life of freedom and indulgence, having any man she wants. That is, until she meets and falls for her polar opposite in Jung-do, an awkward and polite young gentleman. Meeting her future in-laws is a baptism by fire as she learns to become a proper lady. Little does she know that the family is actually the head of a notorious mob, setting up a blood feud.

The young warrior Son Ogong (Son Goku) goes on a outrageous quest to acquire seven magical orbs, along the way beating up evil persons who want to steal the orbs for their own ends.

Little Seung-jae stays up all night and writes letters to So-hee, pretending to be her father in Mars. Leaving Seung-jae's innocent heart behind, So-hee leaves for a big city. Both grown up to be adults, Seung-jae is a postman who writes letters to So-hee's grandma - the letters that never came from So-hee. So-hee's heart hardens after hardships in life and she comes back to her hometown and Seung-jae's heart swells up again at seeing her again...

At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he unashamedly refuses. To get her money back, she joins his next scam.

Yoon-jeong's bar, which is not in business, is recommended by the boss of a karaoke room next door to find a pretty employee, Bora. Bora begins to sell her body to his guests as special snacks, and as the number of guests increases, Yoon-do goes out with special snacks. For a customer who wants both special snacks, Yunjeong and Bora appear together...

An impossibly cute and thoroughly touching omnibus of 4 short fillms about how humans can elevate their own relationships through bonding with animals - featuring some of the cutest puppies and kittens ever on the silver screen!

Room 503's secret that is more pleasant if you come alone. Kyung-sook inherits a motel from her mother. In that motel with a strange atmosphere, when it's Friday and the clock strikes two in the afternoon, a middle-aged man, Soo-min, and a 'plumber', seem to compete looking for room 503.