Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

He wonders about her. What lies deep inside her?

Even though Migeum and Jeong-ah have been friends for many years, they always engage in the battle of nerves. The two head to Seoul together to meet their daughters but face an unexpected event during their journey.

Mi-jin and Mi-soo, move out and came to Seoul to find a job. Mi-jin who used to have a boyfriend, happened to know a building owner in Seoul, and the meeting with the landlord begins. However, Mi-soo liked Mi-jin's ex-boyfriend, Ji-hwan, and she thinks it's her chance to seduce Ji-hwan to go out with her. The sisters and ex-boyfriend's secret live-in affair starts.

A gangster in Busan is caught having an affair with his boss' mistress and the two run off with their organization's money.

Dong-hoon moves to a new house. On the day of moving, he comes to the landlord to pick up the keys he didn't receive. He is happy to be seeing the beautiful Ji-hyeon. Ji-hyeon noticed Dong-hoon's interest. Dong-hoon had a housewarming celebration with his friend Min-soo. Ji-hyeon started to take a hold on the drunk Min-soo and then passed out in no time. The next day, Dong-hoon happily welcomes Ji-hyeon, who came to him without knowing what happened.

An unlikely pair of cops take part in a massive crackdown against the local mob.

A female internet novel author falls under a spell once a month that transforms her into a man! Her boyfriend has tried everything, but it's no use, and the only way is to ejaculate! She becomes more and more exhausted due to her rapid hormonal changes, and her boyfriend, who had been helping her, also begins to get tired of her. At the end, she decides to try her last resort.

One day on the street, Mi-yeong greets Deuk-chan then he made a fuss, wondering if he likes Mi-yeong. Whenever he is having sex with Hee-jin, thoughts of Mi-yeong comes to him... Then one day, his friend Cheol-soo sets up a blind date. A few days later, the blind date happens and the woman who came is none other than Deuk-chan's dream, Mi-yeong. As soon as they meet, they go to the motel... Mi-yeong who is usually blunt looks so different in bed. Deuk-chan loved that Mi-yeong who finds eating harder than having sex. There's a subtle air between the two...

Bomi is 12 years old. She wants her own room so badly. Her sister, Eonju, whom she shares the room with keeps sneaking a look at her diary. She studied really hard to get first place as her mom promised to get her own room if she did but her mom keeps denying the promise. So Bomi decides to marry her sister off! She finds out that the manager of a construction company like her sister and does her best to help him. The manager ends up winning her heart and proposes to Eonju. But she refuses his proposal. Bomi gets curious and tries to find out why she doesn't want to get married.

Jeong-min has a constant relationship with Mi-na, a man and woman on conditional terms, but he gets tired of her as she is gradually changing. He meets a new woman named Joo-hee under a new condition. Meanwhile, Mi-na spends a good time with her other boyfriend, Seong-mo. Then one day, Jeong-min hears the news that his friend Seong-mo has moved, so he goes to his housewarming party with Joo-hee and is surprised that Mi-na was also there.

To Joo-young, Korea’s first Olympic gold medalist in women’s curling and the skip (captain) of the team, the Olympic medal was everything. She quits curling with a sense of responsibility and guilt after her teammate’s suicide. Living as a high school curling teacher, she accidentally meets Hyuk-soo, the coach related to her teammate’s suicide. After the encounter, Joo-young can’t stand Hyuk-soo anymore as he even threatens her students. She decides to disclose who he really is and starts a new plan with a helper…

Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to take his place. Seon tempts Seok-gu to go to Mountain Seorak to assassinate him. But she falls in love with him in the journey and confesses everything to him. In fact, they have been shadowed by the spies Lee sent and bloody fight breaks out. Seok-gu in the end defeats all the villains.

A reporter investigates a case in which a Korean woman, who has been living in Europe since she was 3 years old, is accused of murdering her adopted father. This is complicated by the fact that she is suffering from traumatic memory loss.

Ha-eun, an ordinary housewife who has endured her husband's violence for 13 years, challenges her husband, who is a mixed martial arts champion, to a duel in the ring.

Ye-ra, who is known as a good masseuse in her neighborhood, lodges at the house of her older sister, Se-eun. Her sister's husband, Hyeok-goo, who was one of her regular customers, targets Ye-ra, but she puts up an impregnable defense. Meanwhile, due to the financial problems of her older sister, Ye-ra recommended Se-eun for a part-time job as a masseuse. Eventually, Se-eun attracts customers with her extraordinary hand skills and soon challenges her to run a new massage business.

Tae-hwa receives a lung transplant from his father, who had committed a hit-and-run the night before the surgery. Riddled with guilt, Tae-hwa sets out to find the victim’s daughter Mi-ji. When he finally meets her, he offers her money to make amends for his father's crime. But Mi-ji demands something else instead: That he would help find her missing mother.

A crime action thriller about the process of chasing and being chased by a murder suspect and a homicide detective.

A college freshman majoring in drama finds herself falling in love with a chain-smoking guest lecturer at her school despite their substantial age difference.

Young-Hu and Young-Wuk are half brothers and felt uncertain intimacy even though their personalities are totally different. At the first moment he saw Min-Jeong, Young-Wuk's girl friend, Young-Hu fell in love. He avoided her intentionally but the day his biological mother remarried, he happened to spend a night with her in a complicated feeling. After that Young-Hu got the blues due to sense of guilty and Young-Wuk was despair as Min-Jeong confessed him she loves Young-Hu. As he found Min-Jeong's pregnancy, Young-Hu hated shady new life and made fun of Min-Jeong and himself. Thus enraged Young-Wuk madly drove his car to the running train with Min-Jeong.

Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.

Two men, Tommy and Si-woo, fall in love with the same woman and eventually find out that she is a two-timer, so they join forces and succeed in getting revenge on her through sex, and the two become close friends. As time passes, they also let their sister-in-law become their sex partner; that is why they call them puppies, or rather, love dogs.

Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are living together in Taipei and raising a son. Mei Ji immediately leaves Seoul and flies to Taipei with a friend at the woman's request, discovering that the situation is much more complex and tragic than she initially thought.

Filmed in the summer of 2022, this concert will let fans relive the rapper's SUMMER SWAG concert in South Korea where fans jumped, danced, and sang along to his well-known melodies and beats while being showered with water sprays.

Chun-hee is left alone in the world after the sudden death of her husband. Faced with her own illness, she puts her life in order, but she intends to keep the appointment she made with her husband for an assisted suicide.

Pororo and his friends go to a snow fairy village. There, they meet the snow fairy Arty who dreams of becoming a sculptor. They all have a good time together, until a lava monster attacks the village and takes the snow fairies away. Can Pororo and his friends rescue the snow fairies ?

Writer Lee Yun-ho was the son of a traditional music drama family and met Hanako who had visited Cheongju to learn gayageum. Hanako passed away, leaving her 12 year-old daughter Yumae. Lee Yun-ho lived with her and his old father. Sora, a friend of Hanako, had loved Yun-ho for a long time and took care of his family. However, Yun-ho still had Hanako in his heart and consoled his lonesome heart by loving his daughter Yumae.

Two friends accidentally drift from North Korea into South Korea after falling asleep during a fishing trip. Broke and unable to get home, they enter a singing contest whose grand prize is a trip to North Korea!

Eun-Chul (Park Ji-Bin) and Eun-Ha (Lee Seul-Gi) lives in a small village. They are the only family they have. One day, stubborn Eun-Ha begins to beg Eun-Chul to go and see a whale. Eun-Ha follows Eun-Chul all day long and keeps talking about the whale. To quiet her, Eun-Chul makes a false promise. Eun-Ha has a disease which is eroding her vision. Adults tell them that Eun-Ha should be sent to a good facility, but Eun-Chul can't separate from his sister. Eun-Chul decides to show a whale to Eun-Ha before she loses her vision completely. They begin travel from Namwon to Jangsaeng where they can see a whale. They travel their by bicycle. Along the way to Jangsaeng, Eun-Chul and Eun-Ha meet Duk-Soo (Lee Moon-Sik). Eun-Chul and Eun-Ha have a warm feelings towards him like the father they never had ...

Gu-byeong is unexpectedly treated to a meal by Jo-song on his unplanned journey. After meal, Jo-song starts to call him ´son´ and Gu-beoung doesn´t understand why he keeps doing that.

An unmarried woodcutter plants a tree in a wealthy home. The lady of the house makes him uncomfortable, so when he hears about a fairy, he goes to see her in the mountains. He finds the fairy bathing in the water without her wings. He steals them and takes her home. But it causes a complicated web of love and deceit.

Seung-Tae and Hee-Won are lovers who enjoy sex life naturally and actively. Hee-won's junior, Kyeong-suk, comes to the house where the two live together, and the three go to Sokcho together.

Depicts the rebellion that takes place when villains with different desires enter the Jungae Prison, where female inmates gather.

Min-ha and Sang-beom are a gay couple in high school. They go on a journey to the shore for their 100th day anniversary. Min-ha does not care what other people think and exhibits his affection towards Sang-beom in public. On the other hand, Sang-beom feels uneasy about this. That night, Sang-beom tells Minha a secret.

An old couple who has a son and six daughters launch a journey to visit them around the nation as the seven children live throughout the country. During the nation-wide travel, they witness the modernization of Korea and feel satisfied with the children contributing to the national modernization directly or indirectly.

The three women friends struggle to protect a village from the turmoil caused by the sudden appearance of zombies. In the peaceful Heyri Art Village in Paju, three friends: Jin-seon, Hyeon-ah and Ga-yeon, meet at the opening of the Heyri Art Center and, with a beginner Youtuber and a coffee factory CEO, face the zombie crisis.

Best friends ‘Hodu’ and ‘Yeji’ are job seekers whose dreams and hopes have been ruined. One day, ‘Hodu’ luckily gets a decent cheap fully loaded rent house. ‘Yeji’, who has been kicked out of her parents’ house, also stays there with him. They gradually feel a strange energy in the house that seemed perfect. They encounter ominous ghost and freaked out. With no place to go and no money, they try to defeat the ghost to protect their house…

Jimin has killed a girl in a car accident when she was driving with her fiance Woojin. From that night, she experiences terrifying hallucination seeing the dead girl. Unable to bear it, she finally goes to the police to report the truth, only to find that she didn’t actually have a car accident.

A well-known womanizer is set to marry the daughter of wealthy business man. However, on the day of the wedding, he goes missing. The police are called and begin an investigation, only to see some surprising witnesses come forward.

Min-soo, a hearing-impaired boy, is gay and he likes his classmate, Ji-seok. One day, Min-soo impulsively has sex with a man who works in a public bath, an experience that lends him a new-found confidence, but at a heavy price.

Photographer Hyeri receives a wedding invitation from her old friend/ex lover. Hyeri is not sure whether she will go or not. Curator Juhyun is very comfortable about her sexuality and confident. Hyeri, who is not honest to herself, falls for Juhyun slowly.

BJ Yagwang and PD Park broadcast a live stream themed around horror on AfreecaTV. They look for more provocative and fearful material for their program. One day, they receive a video which contains a female high school student disappearing. In the video, right before she disappears, the female school student was calling a ghost and playing hide-and-(go-)seek alone. While broadcasting live on AfreecaTV, BJ Yagwang goes to the abandoned building where the female school student went missing.

An omnibus film of the romances and breakups of five couples: Soo-jin works in a cafe in Seoul. One day, she receives a call at work from a Polish man in Rotterdam, who tells her the story of his missing fiance. Eun-hee shows up one night and blames her ex-boyfriend Hyun-oh for ruining her life. Although she has a new relationship, she is still upset that Hyun-oh breaks up with her. Se-yeon seduces Young-soo, who is rumoured to be dating a man. Young-soo's long-time lover Woon-chul is heartbroken when he makes a confession and decides to end their relationship. Indie bandmates Hye-young and Joo-young discuss about love while taking a walk in Namsan park.

Keun-Ok, a barmaid, has been brought up in an orphanage after losing her parents in her early childhood. One day, Cho Yong-Jin, the teacher in charge of the bar owner's son, visits the bar to see his pupil. Seeing him Keun-Ok feels love for him and begins to seek his attention. He doesn't dislike her but keeps away from her for several reasons. In the long run, he quits the school and makes every effort to change her life for better one. In the meantime, he finds her working in a hotel as a cleaner. Yong-Jun hugs her tight and decides to marry her.

A woman hires a male cook, being afraid that her lewd husband may have an affair with a female cook. Hyeong-gu, who thinks about how to collect money for his brother's research, starts working in her house. While he serves as a cook there, a lot of funny episodes happen. Finally, his brother finishes his research successfully and he gets out of the house to work for his brother's company as a managing director. He also gets married to a cook maid of the neighbor next door. It turns out that the maid is the daughter of the land lord, not a hired servant.

The strongest punk detective in the police station who investigates with his mouth more than theory, 'Dong-min', is appointed to the investigation department just when he was about to become successful in his career. He is sad to be appointed, however, he will be having a joint investigation with a straightforward FM detective 'Mong-heo', in charge of a case that involves a missing model. As the investigation progresses, 'Dong-min's instincts awaken and realizes that it was not just a case of a missing person. It couldn't get any better! A comical, slapstick combo investigation begins!

Suffering from the loss of their eldest son, Yeon-jung's family starts to fall apart when they lie to each other about their personal motives in life. After betrayal and disappointments are exposed, they rediscover their love for one another while trying to fulfill a promise they made to their deceased son.

"Emotional memories that had formed the ambiguous boundaries between reality and fantasy began to divide exactly in two, and at the same time there was no emotion left on either side of reality and fantasy." Chang Gyeong is the name of a palace in central Seoul - a palace that was turned into a zoo by the occupying Japanese.

In 1992, Min-young, a member of the university protest music group Wildflower Sound, joins forces with the ideological study circle Flag to support workers at Samhyung Industries, who are striking after going six months without pay. On the day of the strike, riot police launch a violent crackdown. Workers and student musicians alike are beaten and dragged away. In response, fellow students form a resistance line to rescue them. The standoff escalates into a massive clash between citizens and police—broadcast live on national news. Compelled by something greater, Min-young steps onto the stage and cries out: "We are not rioters!" A roar of unified voices rises and echoes across the nation. “Arise, you who live—The day is coming!”

Sung-chan and Soo-jin used to date. Soo-jin was expecting quality time together until he comes home drunk. A few years later, they break up and Soo-jin appears in front of Sung-chan who is about to marry Yoo-ri. Sung-chan and Soo-jin still like each other and they both desire each other. Will Sung-chan be happily married?

Under the Han River lives Crocodile, a rugged member of the lumpenproletariat who exists from schemes and stealing. His position as a scavenger of society undermines South Korea’s boasts of its newfound economic position as an Asian Tiger. One day, Crocodile finds a girl floating in his river.

Baek-ho lives in his brother's house and he's a jobless man with his mind in the gutter. He steals his in-law's panties for his own pleasure. One day he is caught.

Aimless after failing in several public tenders, a young man ends up meeting the best chef in the region and falls in love with the world of cuisine that he shows him.

Young-ju's wedding is cancelled when it is revealed that her mother was a prostitute for American soldiers. Young-ju, pregnant by her fiance, gives birth to a child, but her ex demands that she give up custody to him as she has no future.