Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women avoid sleeping with their husbands so they won't conceive girls on the year of the horse. However, young and healthy husbands fall into great dilemma.

The only thing Gil-dong's sister wants for her birthday is to be allowed to die peacefully as she wastes away in a hospital bed. But Gil-dong is willing to sacrifice everything to keep her alive.

Do-Joon has it all - a great career, a loving wife and child. One night, he is out drinking when he meets a mysterious woman, Se-Ryeon. The next day, he wakes up to find that he is now a murderer and he receives threats.

The tragic genius poet Lee Sang had dual expressions of despair and longing. It's an expression captured perfectly in the portrait of the likeness of Lee Sang. Painted by his friend Koo Bon-woong, the painting reappears in an art gallery alleyway in the 1970s. Soon, the story unfolds about Koo Bon-woong and Lee Sang, the vagrants who started with him, and the imperial secrets buried in the 1930s.

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.

The adventures of high school girl Ireesha and her friends (talking frog and guitar-fairy Robby) as she visits Elf world to retrieve her friend’s soul.

Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.

Two women's anticipated suicide journey turned into a physical terror... Mi-ran is a call girl who was raised in an orphanage without having been loved once in her life and sold herself several times to men. The more Se-hee struggled with the weight of life, the heavier it got. On her first day of work as a call girl, a terrible accident happens. These two women think they are abandoned by life and start off on a suicide journey.

Hyeon-ho searched the whole country to look for his missing wife. He gives up a year of his life in despair, suffering from pain everyday. One day, as he was looking everywhere for his wife as usual, he meets Yeon-hwa who has a violent husband. Hyeon-ho feels his heart slowly healing, thanks to the beautiful and feminine Yeon-hwa. Hyeon-ho's house becomes their shelter as their grow out their love until his wife Ji-soo suddenly returns. Yeon-hwa can't leave or ignore her so the three of them start living together...

Yujin breaks her glasses and visits an optician. During an eye exam, she sees a house in a field and finds herself inside. There, she meets three shadow selves, reconciles with them, and gains a new perspective. Finally, she leaves the house and gets new glasses.

Merely Known as Something Else tells the story of a man who disappeared one day and the three women entangled with him for different reasons, presented with meticulous emotion and a unique format.

Dotty, who is in a slump, applies for a game showdown with the most popular creator, Killbak. During a battle over their retirement, a mysterious paparacoon appears and gives Dotty an invitation to the Tower of Eternity. However, in the tower of eternity, Dotty's elementary school friend Garam, who suddenly disappeared from childhood, is locked up, and even the viewers who accessed the game together are trapped there. Dotty and friends open the door to the Tower of Eternity to save Garam and the viewers. What awaited them in the Tower of Eternity... ?

Set in Anyang, South Korea, crew members for an upcoming documentary research the devastating fire that took occurred in a factory prior to the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. 22 female workers, who were locked in their dormitory, were killed in the fire. Along the way, the crew members also come across the past of Anyang, including the origin of the city's name ("Anyang" is a Buddhist term for "Paradise"), Buddhist temples, a search for a 500-year-old "grandma tree" and upcoming mayoral election.

Wheelchair basketball is often associated with disability sports. However, wheelchair basketball is a sport for both people with and without disabilities. Inspired by the dedication to wheelchair basketball of national team coach Lee Won-woo, known as the ‘fox of the court’ in the 1990s, and his protégé, coach Han Sa-hyun, this human-action sports story follows a middle-aged basketball star past his prime, an arrogant basketball genius, and men with rounded steel legs due to accidents. Together, they unite through wheelchair basketball to pursue their dreams.

Five members of the mountain bike club, Sangaja. To ride a mountain bike, we head to Chiaksan Mountain, where Min-joon's Uncle villa is located. After arriving at Chiaksan Mountain and enjoying the ride, strange things began to happen to the party…. And something unidentified chasing them! A desperate survival game for Sangaja's party to survive on Chiaksan Mountain begins.

The 17-year-old girl, Woodam, is overjoyed to have her own room for the first time. However, her older brother, Woojoo, brings home the pregnant Gyeongbin, who happens to be Woodam’s classmate. Faced with the threat of losing her room to Gyeongbin and her unborn baby, Woodam begins to devise a grand plan.

Achieving significant milestones in their first year of debut and captivating 140,000 fans across 8 cities on their first world tour, ZEROBASEONE’s journey with ZEROSE takes center stage on the big screen in SCREENX, 4DX, and ULTRA 4DX where available. From iconic songs such as "In Bloom", "Feel the POP", and "GOOD SO BAD" to “Say My Name” and “Here I Am” from the show Boys Planet, behind-the-scenes footage that can only be found in the movie, to intimate interviews brimming with heartfelt feelings for ZEROSE, ZEROBASEONE’s groundbreaking performance is coming to the big screen.

The captain of the Piggy Back Ferry deals with endless family shenanigans, while struggling to keep the boat that means the world to him and his son.

A man becomes involved in some extra-sensory experiences after hitting a woman while driving drunk and bringing her home. She has amnesia and cannot speak, but that doesn't prevent her from communicating with him in other ways...

Lover secretly meet? Hate is toxic to the skin, the girlfriend who tried to turn the mind but always just, rejected. Cagjab of mind, every night on the Internet and stop them to lull the loneliness. One day, on the Internet and stop by the chat window as a woman to seduce, to […] Must be seen, called to mind the former under Laura headed for the motel to meet up with a mysterious allure in Laura and spends the night like a dream. Since the continuing possibility of Laura herself increasingly will not be able to refuse the County. Machine starts to suspect that the behavior of the Prefecture of the camp. Laura and the Chin, dicey relationship begins!

After losing his best friend in a fierce battle against Baekje in the first year of Queen Jindeok's reign, Hwarang Won-hyo questions life and death and becomes a monk. Despite being courted by countless women, from Queen Jindeok to Princess Yoseok, Sammo, and Asaga, Won-hyo resists all temptations. Until one day, when he is moved by Princess Yoseok's desperate prayers, he wanders the streets, feeling guilty for his disloyal behavior.

Sang-beom's father had always missed his family in the North. Sang-beom was tired of his father. Then, one day after his father passes away, Sang-beom goes to the cold noodle place that his father used to go to.

Min-jae leaves behind his beloved Eun-ji in order to make money. Five years later, they meet again but now he's a playboy and she is a mistress of a military officer. Their love rekindles.

An up and coming businessman is forced to resign after accidentally kissing the boss' daughter. This leads to a challenge where he must manage to slap the boss in the face on seven different occasions.

Top student Ji Hye wants to go on a study abroad program for English. She gets her opportunity but can't make her passport because she's registered under her father whom she has lost contact with. She's always complained about her family but her complaints mount with this issue and she has to learn to listen to her family and sympathize that they're experiencing the same things in different ways.

Based on a serial novel by Cho Hae-il, "Winter Woman" deals with the sexual awakening of Yi-hwa, the daughter of a prosperous Christian preacher who has been raised to be morally and sexually conservative. The book and film earned the condemnation of conservative critics, however the author's leftist subtext went unchallenged overshadowed by the sexual themes. The film was the best selling Korean film of the 1970s and made a star of its female lead, Chang Mi-hee.

A North Korean officer sends the POW's, nurse officers under guard. On the way, they meet the Communist Chinese army. When they try to rape the captives, the North Korean officer kills all of them. After that he surrenders voluntarily to South Korea with his men and the nurse officers.

Mira is always harassed by the branch manager for her lack of performance. I try my best, but I always end up floundering. One day, she gets to know a rich couple through an acquaintance's introduction and goes to visit their home, but Mira happens to be left alone with her husband, Minsu. He is very surprised by Min-so's blatant gaze and bumps into it with his body.

In 2025, South and North Korea unified. It was triggered by a sudden explosion in Midnight near the North of DMZ by a forest fire in December, 2024. The South Korean army unwittingly ended up helping to put out the fire. Such cooperation caused their unification. And 10 years later, A koreanAmerican Documentary Director Steven, working for USA tv-station NXN visits to korea. He is searching for information about the mysterical Green-light appeared in that forest fire in 2024. After some dangerous twists and turns, He found a huge secret of the DMZ fire and green light.

Father KIM and Hyung-woo, a sixth-grader, travel together to the quiet village of Boriwool. Kim is going there to start his priesthood as pastor of Boriwool Church, Hyung-woo to see his dad Woon-ahm, who left his family six years ago to become a Buddhist monk. Hyung-woo feels awkward with his dad and becomes bored with living in the country. Father Kim also finds some of his flock quite antagonistic to him. Meanwhile, the village kids coached by Woon-ahm play the church orphans in a soccer match. After the orphans are beaten soundly, Father Kim begins coaching them...

Eun-Hyuk's gang can't do anything but get into fights. Their anger is right now pointed at Korean-Chinese Kil-Nam's gang. A turf war begins between the two groups. Eun-Hyuk then meets Chinese girl Ching-Ching (Jung Joo-Yeon), who came to Korea to become a singer. Eun-Hyuk feels begins to have feelings for her and he also begins to have doubts with the ongoing turf war with Kil-Nam's gang. Meanwhile, an incident occurs with vicious loan shark Yoon-Sik, which inflames the turf war between the two gangs. Ching-Ching is also ordered to have sex to make her debut as a singer.

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

Eun Guk and Eun Soo are siblings living alone after their father passed away. Eun Guk works at the post office. He feels like he is getting older, because of his younger sister's behavior like skipping school to attend an audition. Meanwhile, Eun Soo thinks her life is weary even though she is only 10-years-old. She thinks that because of her older brother, she can't pursue her dreams. Eun Soo then decides to leave for Seoul to achieve her dreams. One day, their mother appears in front of them.

Second-generation migrant worker, Soo is released after receiving probation and community service sentence for his use of violence. Along with his friend Pil-sung, he ends up working as brokers for illegal migrant workers. While fulfilling his community service duty, he meets surfers. Soo falls in love with surfing as the surfers Ddong-ggo and Hae-na teach him how to surf.

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

Includes shorts: Girl on the Run, The Theory & Practice of Teenage Dream, Relay, U and Me and Blue Birds on the Desk.

Na Dae Gi was the leader of a student gang and had power over all high schools in his area. He declares the gang's disbandment, goes into a third-degree College of Education to become a teacher, and finds a job in Kangho High, which has a reputation for being highly populated with troublemakers. The student gangs at Kangho High, who all the other teachers have given up on, start a fight with Dae Gi, who prepares a lesson of his own, and so begins the war between the gangster teacher and the student gang at Kangho High.

The story is about a boxer who retired as a soccer athlete due to a heart problem from an unexpected accident, meets Bok-hee at a factory where he got a job for a living and falls in love.

Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) intervened with the 2012 presidential election, and the court has acquitted NIS. This documentary tracks the long process where a special team of prosecutors formed after the inauguration of PARK Geunhye administration discovering the truth under all kinds of external pressures and obstructions. This documentary also tracks the footsteps of the late LEE Namjong, who reminded us the NIS Intervention incident.

A woman is in domestic service after going up to Seoul. She loves a university student of a rich family and gives birth to a baby. But his parents object to their marriage, so she becomes a butt for laugh. At length, the parents get impressed by her good nature and allow them to marry.

The rivalry between two families prevents budding love from being realized in the younger generation.

Hà Mi is a young musician that has a great passion for composing music. G-Feel - a genius musician of Korea, who is facing with the pressure from his fame. Between two strangers, living in two countries, there's a special bond that is Yoon Hee. The story about that speical relationship between them is revealed when G-Feel decides to travel to Vietnam after an incident.

Jumsoon (52) works two jobs in order to live with her recently discharged son, Yonggoon (24). She works at a restaurant during the day and sells her body on Sowol Road during the night. One night on Sowol Road, Jumsoon saves another sex worker from an assault and learns that she is a transgender woman that wants to have a sex reassignment surgery.

Over the course of a single day in four vignettes, a group of interconnected artists, novelists, and filmmakers have a series of interactions, some planned, some by chance. In a Hong Sangsoo-esque fashion, the protagonists in this conversational film muse over love, life, longing and art.

A story about a young man who doesn't believe in sincerity meets Don Quixote, the president of an underwear company, and his right-hand man, Sancho, and becomes sincere both in underwear and in life.

"Drama Special - Understanding Dance" is a romantic comedy about Byeong Hyeon's love for Soo Ji, whom he meets at dance class. (Source: Han Cinema)

A Korean animated full-feature film about the gods in ancient Greece. It was created to teach young people about ancient Greece and its myths.

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

A husband (Kim Tae-hun) carefully observes his wife (Jang Young-nam) after she expresses anxiety over how much weight she is putting on, he diagnoses her 'problem' as being mostly the effects of maternal devotion and finds a way to share the burden of both her dutiful eating and her new exercise regime.

A boy's experience as a fresh military recruit stationed at the North-South border in the late 1970s.

When putting on a play on a lesbian’s suicide attempt, Yun-jeong, an open lesbian in school who plays a leading role in the theater production accuses Ji-won of writing the play without having a better understanding of homosexuality. As such accusation hurts her feelings, Ji-won intentionally approaches Yun-jeong’s ex-girlfriend, Min-a and revises her play script that gradually begins to resemble the story of a real-life ex-lesbian couple, Yun-jeong and Min-a. At the same time, Ji-won gets carried away by her growing feelings for Min-a.

When the ruthless Yellow Tigers ascend to the top of the criminal underworld and law enforcement fails to put an end to their violent acts, a martial arts expert organizes his own gang to take them down.

Eun-hye is a substitute lecturer. One day she is freaked out by being stalked and calls her cousin in to live with her as her bodyguard. Kang-tae is a test repeater and he's impressed with how hard working Eun-hye is and starts feeling fond of her. One day, he drinks with his friend Tae-bum and gets drunk while talking about his cousin.