🏷 Discover The Best South Korea Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Exploring the World of Korean Cinema and Television

Get ready to dive into the captivating world of Korean movies and TV shows, where drama, action, and romance come together in a unique blend of culture and storytelling. From the K-drama phenomenon to the critically acclaimed films of Park Chan-wook, South Korea has become a hub for innovative and engaging content that has captured the hearts of audiences worldwide.

Cast

Lee Hye-ri

Ryu Jun-yeol

Park Bo-gum

Go Kyung-pyo

Reply 1988 (2015) TV Show

8.7 217 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: Take a nostalgic trip back to the late 1980s through the lives of five families and their five teenage kids living in a small neighbourhood in Seoul.

Style: charming

Plot: love triangle, nostalgia, friendship, romcom, romance, coming of age, school, bromance, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: seoul, south korea

Cast

Yeo Jin-goo

Shin Jung-keun

Bae Hae-seon

Hotel Del Luna (2019) TV Show

8.5 627 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: When he's invited to manage a hotel for dead souls, an elite hotelier gets to know the establishment's ancient owner and her strange world.

Plot: hotel, romance, hotel manager, ghost, fantasy world, immortal

Place: seoul, south korea

Cast

Ryu Seung-ryong

Han Hyo-joo

Zo In-sung

Cha Tae-hyun

Moving (2023) TV Show

8.5 292 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 21

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

Plot: high school, superhero, superhuman, school, super power, agent, healing power, flying man, ...

Place: seoul, south korea

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Lee Sun-kyun

Cho Yeo-jeong

Choi Woo-shik

Parasite (2019)

8.5 20.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Plot: dark comedy, con artist, social commentary, working class, infiltration, psychological thriller, class differences, family, ...

Place: south korea, seoul, south korea

The Worst of Evil (2023) TV Show

8.4 86 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Set in the 1980s, a husband and wife, both detectives, infiltrate a massive criminal organization responsible for the illegal drug trade between Korea, China, and Japan.

Plot: detective, drug dealer, drug smuggling, investigation, organized crime, drug trade, drug lord, seoul, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Park Chae-rim

Kim So-yeon

Kim Jung-eun

Jang Dong-gun

All About Eve (2000) TV Show

8.4 116 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Story: This drama is about two girls, Jin Sun Mi and Heo Young Mi. Sun Mi had a nice childhood and grew up with lots of love from her father. Young Mi's mother left her when she was young and her father was a drunk who recently died. She had a hard childhood but never gave up and made it into college.

Plot: romance, tv reporter, business competition, television journalist, south korean, dorama

Cast

Sul Kyung-gu

Uhm Ji-won

Lee Re

Kim Sang-ho

Hope (2013)

8.4 885 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Duration: 122 min.

Story: After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

Plot: child abuse, hope, based on true story, sexual assault

Place: south korea

Cast

Park Seo-jun

Kim Da-mi

Kwon Na-ra

You Chea-myung

Itaewon Class (2020) TV Show

8.4 405 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Story: In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.

Plot: restaurant, rags to riches, based on comic, revenge, romance, itaewon, based on webcomic or webtoon, seoul, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Lee Ji-ah

Kim So-yeon

Eugene

Park Ho-san

The Penthouse (2020) TV Show

8.3 255 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 48

Story: A woman puts everything on the line to achieve her goal of being able to move into a luxury penthouse in the Gangnam District. In the process, she gradually finds herself turning into a monster.

Plot: jealousy, married couple, greed, bullying, revenge, rivalry, betrayal, family relationships, ...

Stranger (2017) TV Show

8.3 212 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case.

Plot: corruption, detective, falsely accused, investigation, politics, police, antisocial personality disorder, lawyer, ...

Cast

Choi Min-sik

Yoo Ji-tae

Kang Hye-jung

Kim Byeong-ok

Oldboy (2003)

8.2 10.0K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Plot: daughter, martial arts, rage and hate, hostility, transformation, imprisonment, dark comedy, hypnosis, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Ju Ji-hoon

Ryu Seung-ryong

Bae Doona

Kim Sang-ho

Kingdom (2019) TV Show

8.2 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty which has been defeated by corruption and famine, a mysterious rumor of the king’s death spreads, as does a strange plague that renders the infected immune to death and hungry for flesh. The crown prince, fallen victim to a conspiracy, sets out on a journey to unveil the evil scheme and save his people.

Plot: prince, kingdom, royal family, based on comic, outbreak, zombie, palace intrigue, historical drama, ...

Time: 16th century

Cast

Gong Yoo

Yoon Eun-hye

Lee Sun-kyun

Chae Jung-an

Coffee Prince (2007) TV Show

8.2 281 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 17

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Han Kyul gives his family's café a new spin, hiring only good-looking men to work there -- plus an androgynous-looking girl he mistakes for a man.

Plot: coffee shop, friendship, romance, food, cross dressing, bromance, family, tomboy, ...

Cast

Gong Yoo

Jung Yu-mi

Kim Hyeon-soo

Jung In-seo

Silenced (2011)

8.2 783 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

Plot: child abuse, rape, based on novel or book, deaf, based on true story, teacher student relationship, disability, sex crime

Place: south korea

Cast

Anna Cathcart

Choi Min-yeong

Gia Kim

Sang Heon Lee

XO, Kitty (2023) TV Show

8.1 685 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realise that relationships are a lot more complicated when it's your heart on the line.

Style: charming

Plot: based on novel or book, high school, romcom, romance, spin off, high school student, first love, lgbt, ...

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Kim Sang-kyung

Kim Roi-ha

Song Jae-ho

Memories of Murder (2003)

8.1 4.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

Plot: assassin, police brutality, rape, corruption, police, detective, investigation, victim, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: south korea

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Thomas Kretschmann

Yoo Hai-jin

Ryu Jun-yeol

A Taxi Driver (2017)

8.0 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: South Korea

Duration: 138 min.

Story: May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

Plot: taxi, taxi driver, protest, based on true story, democracy, historical event, gwangju uprising, gwangju, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: south korea

Cast

Arden Cho

May Hong

Ji-young Yoo

Ahn Hyo-seop

KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

8.0 3.0K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.

Plot: double life, loyalty, supernatural, musical, female friendship, female protagonist, demon, self-doubt, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Jang Dong-gun

Won Bin

Lee Eun-ju

Gong Hyung-jin

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

8.0 773 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: R

Story: When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

Plot: brotherhood, korean war (1950-53), archaeologist, air raid, pyre, brother brother relationship, korean army, inter-korean relations

Place: south korea

Cast

Park Seo-jun

Kim Ji-won

Ahn Jae-hong

Song Ha-yoon

Fight for My Way (2017) TV Show

8.0 154 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: A former taekwondo champion and an information desk worker aspire to chase their dreams in a world that isn't kind to those with mediocre credentials.

Plot: workplace, romance, mixed martial arts (mma), dedicated, busan, south korea, labor of love, packing a punch, ...

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