Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Dong-gu is an ordinary husband who does nothing but chores. His wife Mal-ja asks Dong-gu to prepare food, cut fruits, make a fuss, saying she can't do anything and she's tried. Dong-gu is getting a job at a pension to make up for his children's school expenses. Dong-gu never dreamed that the pension was the perfect place to get him up and running. He is turning into different colors day by day. In the end, his wife Mal-ja couldn't stand it and asks for a divorce.

A forty-five-year-old history teacher, Jin-tae, has hallucinations about one of his students.

Jiwoo has supernatural powers that let her become invisible once a day when holding her breath. One day, she is taken to the police for stealing from a convenience store and meets Minsung who can teleport once a day, Hajin who can fly, and Kim Gongik, the mind-reader. But they all say they couldn’t use their powers that day. Did they bump into each other by chance? Why couldn’t they use their powers that particular day?

Han Wu-song, an antique collector, gets killed while appraising a bronze horse rider statue which trader Wang Dae-in has stolen from a tomb. Dae-in dies on the scene and Wu-song leaves the killer's name on the cave wall before he dies. Dae-in's son Wang Gak thinks Wu-Song killed his father and fights with his son Jung-pa. Trader Kwan and her daughter Mi-ryung stop the fight. Jung-pa and Mi-ryung's love is disturbed by Ju-yang. Gak and Jung-pa chase him to find Wu-song's body with Ju-yang's name on the wall but Mi-ryung appeals them not to kill...

Seong-min went to Japan to study ceramics even though his father war skilled a making Korean-style ceramic art and statues. He learns that his father was accidently killed while firing his kiln and Seong-min decides to return to Korea and learn the traditional ways.

In Iran’s remote nomadic landscape, a family navigates their traditional existence in a modern world. When their sheep vanish overnight, tensions rise between the three sons and their parents.

One winter, Yu Jun-sang and Lee Jun-hwa, the two members of a band “J and Joy 20” get on a flight to Japan with an impulse to film a music video. They set off to Japan, without any actors or themes prepared and armed only with an ambitious plan to make a song for spring. As Japanese musical actor Nakagawa Akinori and two Korean actors Kim So-jin and Jung Soon-won gather together, a joyful production of the music video unfolds on a snowfield with Mount Fuji in the background.

Our hero Kim is a police inspector who must arrest the baddest of the bad. Nobody believes he can do it. What they don't know is that he is a 10th level master of karate and kung fu. His challenges only make him stronger. Weapons and hand to hand gory combat dominate this action drenched spectacular!! Killing on the epic level!!

The lives of Misong, an indebted prostitute living in a red-light district, and Geunhee, her parasitic pimp, may be the most vile and futile on earth. The harder they try to escape, the deeper they fall into the pit. Every day, survival becomes a war. Every day, Misong grows more and more exhausted, deprived of any hope. She also grows to resent Geunhee, a jobless burden. Geunhee is and always has been a patronizing deadbeat. One day, when Geunhee gathers the spirit to find a work, he encounters a familiar street thug who offers him dangerous opportunity that he cannot refuse. Geunhee now stands at a fork in the road where he must decide. A tragic love story between a girl and a man living in the gutter... It’s an outsider's (Ddaraji) life that cares for no one and no one cares about...

Whenever she sees a messy kitchen, she calls her childhood friend Min-soo. Min-soo, complains in words but still brings side dishes to Seo-yeon. They're friends, but sex partners. Seo-yeon's relationship with Min-soo from their young age is natural. Min-soo is worried about Seo-yeon. He is jealous of the relationship between his younger friend Yeong-cheol and Seo-yeon.

Dr. Bong is a dentist and a carefree ladies' man whose son decides to play matchmaker and get his father to date their next-door neighbor. But their first meeting gets off to a bad start with a traffic accident, and Bong's son must work overtime to make the couple work out.

Do-hwa was born with both blessing and curse of the peach tree in the village. She masters the value of 'Yin and Yang' at the age of three and amazes neighbors with special senses as she grows up. She is told by Dang-gol, the village's shaman to have super power regarding sex and soon brings disaster to the village by having contact with virgin men. She struggles and survives her fate through turbulent corners of life beyond her control.

At the end of the Joseon Dynasty, shortly after the Eulsa Treaty has been forced to be concluded by Ito Hirobumi and the pro-Japanese courtiers, Japan pressures King Gojong to step down from the throne. Meanwhile, An Jung-geun, who is cultivating men of ability at Samheung school, is deeply impressed by a speech made by An Chang-ho, and heads for Russia to volunteer the army fighting for independence of the country. As both a lieutenant general of the Korean militia and a commander of the Korean expeditionary force in Manchuria, he carries on the independence movement in defiance of Japanese coercion.

Jung Min and Hee Young, an affectionate couple. On the other hand, Hee-young’s friend Yuri is struggling with her boyfriend Jin-ho, who only plays games every day. In the end, Yuri is bored and asks her friend Hee-young to come to play. However, Hee-young shows interest in Jin-ho, and Yuri goes out with Jung-min and spends a quiet time…

This is the story of a mother who is in love with her daughter's lover.

Mi-ka and So-hee who visited Macau to shoot for a bikini model selection competition will accompany their manager. Their guide who's a friend who saw the manager, dazzles Mi-ka and So-hee with the word 'additional points' in the selection competition will participate in the game with the word 'additional points'.

An escaped convict and a woman, who both contracted HIV from the same man, fall in love.

One day, Yi-rang fakes a fall in a race because she was afraid of losing. After the race, she decides to never run again. Soon, Yi-rang becomes friends with Soo-min, a new student from Seoul, and starts to ask herself about her future.

Sewoon shopping complex, the first to distribute porno tapes in Cheonghye-cheon! The people's erotic stories started there.

Actor Choi Jong-won is late to a movie shoot. He bemoans the state of the national economy when he sees a young man riding a fancy sports car.

Admiral Lee Sun-shin designs and builds the 'Turtle Ships' in preparation of the Japanese invasion during the Injin War. He is promoted after his victories, but due to his expanding influence and increased popularity in military circles, the king comes to fear him and has him imprisoned. A year later, the Japanese navy attempts another invasion and the king is required to enter the prison and beg the admiral's assistance.

Yoo-jeong got married due to difficulties in family circumstances even though she’s unwilling. Her hhusband Hyeon-sik who did his best is disappointed that Yoo-jeong did not open his heart, and cheated on him. Then one day, Hyeon-sik brought his mistress into the house.

An old man enters a Public Safety Center with an old blanket. He looks for his family. Then his story is unfolded. The period of Japanese colonial rule. Genocide is committed by Japanese soldiers. Protecting the youngest son, the mother covers the boy with a magic blanket and tells him a fairytale so that he does not realize the sad reality they are in.

Hye-jeong, a lonely young girl who has drifted away from her family and avoids personal relationships, works in a factory, lives in a shared apartment, and leads an insipid and meaningless existence until one night she discovers that she has become a ghost.

When the Mongolian Salitai raids the Shaolin Temple, the head Buddhist priest of the temple, Won-kak, meets by chance the mute So-sun and the Mongolian Il-gong. They shave their heads and enter the temple. Buddhist priest Won-kak gets the Buddhist soldiers together and tells them to protect to the end the national treasure, the golden Buddhist statue that is at Shaolin temple. The mute So-sun works as the lowest servant at the temple and learns how to fight. One day, evil men come and steal the gold statue. So-sun sees this and tells Buddhist priest Sio but the ringleader of men is none other than the Mongolian informant Il-gong. So-sun ends up on the run due to scheming of Il-gong. After training with the Pungdo-hyub fighting technique, Il-gong turns the Shaolin Temple into the bandits' headquarters. So-sun searches out the 'Hwa-gong Secret Fighting Technique' scriptures and trains under it to defeat the Pungdo-hyub fighting technique.

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.

Soo-jeong is camping on Jukdo Beach, while Jeong-yong has left there for a long time and returned. Soo-jeong and Jeong-yong inevitably meet surfing on the beach. Besides, Jukdo Beach, which emerged as a surfing hot place, gets sick and tired of the heat as time goes by and the girl surfer Bi-joo is finally destined to leave there.

Infighting breaks out between factions of the Communist Party over whether to back the U.N. Trusteeship under which the Korean Peninsula is to be divided between U.S. and Soviet control. One faction hires a hit man to kill the leader of the opposing faction. The hit man is known as the best in his field, yet is also known for having a heart.

As the grand finale of the world tour, "SUGA | Agust D TOUR 'D-DAY' THE FINAL" marked the culmination of 25 concerts held in 10 cities, which captivated a total audience of 290,000 throughout its run. Experience the pulsating energy and excitement of "'D-DAY' THE FINAL" on screen, everything from the exquisite sounds traversing the boundary between "21st Century Pop Icon" BTS member SUGA and solo artist Agust D, electrifying performance, explosive energy, to special duet stages featuring fellow BTS members RM, Jimin, and Jung Kook.

The film is based on the 1925 short story of the same title by Na Do-hyang and revolves around the story of a deaf farm hand who is in love with a landlord's daughter-in-law.

The 'boy' fights with his mother from morning and leaves home. On the bus to the mountain, he meets 'younger sister' and her 'older sister', who go hiking after a long time. However, the 'boy' was kicked out of the bus after being found to have paid less bus fare.

In an abusive relationship, the husband brings home a young man who is studying for a public exam. One night, the young man accidentally witnesses something he shouldn't.

One holiday, the eldest daughter-in-law who picked up the keys to the van, escapes with her daughters-in-law one by one without her husband knowing.

When old Mr. Park dies, his first son Chan-Wu, a film director, and his troublesome daughter Mi-Seon hurriedly come back to their rural hometown, and third son Chan-Se comes back to Korea from America. As the quiet country village gets busy preparing funeral, the house in mourning becomes a meeting place where villagers gather to ask how they are getting along and meet old friends. The children mourn their father's death and above all Mi-Seon, who caused her parents a lot of grief, can't stop crying. Chan-Wu, the chief mourner, has a revelation about his career, and Chan-Se prepares to sing hymns for the Confucian funeral service. Old Man Park's sister sells insurance products and gradually the funeral service becomes for the living rather then the dead.

College girls fall in love with the charm of a black man! Oppa, it's so good! Let me eat it one more time!

EXIT: Woo-hyun lives a small-time criminal life earning his life as a pick-pocket. He often pays attention to an arrow-shaped-tattoo of his girlfriend which is on the genital area. He calls it ‘the emergency exit.’ THE BODY: Jung-su and Young-sun are a young couple. One new year’s eve, a movie director visits the couple’s house. Only the strong wind of the sea and slow time cross the living room and three people sense something…alive. WALTZING ON THUNDER: Mi-jung just happens to meet a group of people who have survived from being struck by lightning. While becoming aware of her old wound, she takes part in a trip for lightning strikes ‘again’.

I'm sure everyone has this experience. You had a happy dream but you don't remember it at all. Or you had a nightmare and it felt so real as if it was a reality. Or the reality was just so harsh that you just kept on sleeping. This story has been created for those people. (Source: KBS World TV)

With their father in a coma, nurse Seon-young urges her brother Il-hoe, who cannot afford his son's tuition and risks seeing him miss college, to stage a fake funeral. They forge a death certificate and deceive the hospital, but as pressure builds, their plan begins to unravel in unexpected ways.

A goofy-sincere romcom with an indie edge, GÜLE-GÜLE follows two beautiful people, seemingly strangers, who can’t escape their incredibly annoying partners during a Korean group tour of historic Turkey. Jeong-wha is all but babysitting her perpetually drunk (ex?) husband, and Dae-sik has to humor his supervisor’s juvenile power games. Travel is supposed to be a respite from everyday life, but these two find themselves stuck with the parts of home they most want to escape.

Woo-yeol's friend, Do-jin, secretly enjoys a relationship with Woo-yeol's stepmother, Chae-dam. Do-jin enters the house while the superiority and inferiority are gone and has sex with her stepmother. Do-jin's wife, Nara, learns from Chae-dam how to excite a man...

The story of a singer who debuted as a teenager and became middle-aged after a splendid time.

Lee Ba-duk, once called a Ba-duk prodigy, quit playing go. At the local Omok competition, where she played for the prize money, Lee meets with Omok genius Kim An-gyeong and goes to the national tournament. Finally, Lee confronts an inevitable battle with Kim with a terrible secret.

This documentary celebrates the life of former President Kim Dae-joong, who fought for democracy in South Korea and peace in the Korean Peninsula. It marks the 10th anniversary of his passing and covers his challenging journey, from his childhood on an island to his imprisonment, exile, near-death experiences, and ultimately becoming the president.

After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those responsible.

Two half brothers love a private tutor hired by their parents. She is more fond of the younger brother who's jovial and honest than the older brother who's unmanly and timid. But she cannot choose any of them because she's afraid that she would cause more trouble between the brothers who already hate each other. She tries first to make the brothers come to terms with each other.

SUGA of the world-renowned group, BTS, works on a new album. He embarks on a journey to find his story to tell through music, while interacting with artists from various cities around the world.

Pororo and his friends were having fun when a little red dragon named Arthur appears above them. Arthur, who claims to be the king of dragons, commands Pororo and his friends to search for his Dragon Heart. Just then, the jewel Arthur has brought emits a magical force that turns Crong into a giant dragon, while a mysterious light from the sky abducts Pororo and his friends to the Dragon Castle. It turns out that Ged the Wizard has taken over Arthur’s throne, in an attempt to capture Crong for the Dragon Heart. Would Crong and his friends be able to return home safely?

A girl from a troubled family befriends two younger girls and begins to feel a sense of normalcy as they go adventuring at the seaside.

A debt-ridden woman is being pursued by a loan shark and seeks the help of a retired killer, who now lives peacefully as a barber.

Chinatown is a place where crime and betrayal are rampant. Violent crime detective Ko Jeong-hyeok (Seo Joon-yeong) can't rest a day. He tries to rid the streets of criminals but he's to busy cleaning up his own mess because of his habit of using physical violence first.

Confession of an Actress is about an actor who was once a famous star. He had a daughter with an actress who he loved when he was young. His daughter became a grownup and he sacrificed himself secretly to make his daughter a star.

One day, Woo-hyeon's girlfriend Mi-yeong, who abandoned him, suddenly visits him. She only sees her anger towards Mi-young, but she cannot turn away from Mi-yeong, who looks difficult, and takes her into her house. However, she soon takes her heart and throws her away, but it gets harder for her. Then, Bora comes to Woo-hyun and comforts her. Confessing her heart...

Jun-yeong and Sook-hyang, who have been married for 5 years, are a couple who seem to be unhappy. Because of Sook-hyang's insensitivity, their marriage weakens. One day, Sook-hyang met her first love, Yeong-min and his wife, Mi-seon. Sook-hyang receives a shocking invitation to have sex together...

With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she meets a young man. Attracted to him, Chan-sil realises old anxieties are about to emerge: her already gone-youth, messed-up love life, and broken career.

An Army private fails to expose abuses he suffered from his senior. When every member of his platoon gets passes, the senior starts searching for the culprit who tried to report him.