Top South Korea Movies & TV Shows

Pachinko (2022) TV Show

7.9 264 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

Style: melancholy, nostalgic, intimate, intense

Plot: gambling, based on novel or book, immigrant, family history, osaka, japan, east asian lead, immigrant family, ...

Cast

Jung Jae-young

Jung Ryeo-won

Yang Mi-kyung

Lee Sang-hun

Castaway on the Moon (2009)

7.9 734 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: South Korea

Duration: 119 min.

Story: Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River – only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics catch the attention of a young woman whose apartment overlooks the river. Her discovery changes both their lives.

Plot: isolation, suicide attempt, loneliness, castaway, isolated island, seoul, south korea, han river

Cast

Kim Da-mi

Son Suk-ku

Kim Sung-kyun

Hyun Bong-sik

Nine Puzzles (2025) TV Show

7.9 79 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 11

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Ten years after discovering her murdered uncle, Ena and Detective Hansaem must cooperate to stop a series of similar murders - each linked by strange puzzle pieces.

Plot: picture puzzle, serial killer, memory loss, police detective, reenactment, mysterious, cold case, police profiling, ...

Cast

Lee Byung-hun

Choi Min-sik

Jeon Kuk-hwan

Cheon Ho-jin

I Saw the Devil (2010)

7.8 3.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

Plot: psychopath, revenge, serial killer, mercilessness, brutality, blunt, hard, grim, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Gong Yoo

Kim Su-an

Jung Yu-mi

Don Lee

Train to Busan (2016)

7.8 8.5K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: halloween, zombie, train, survival horror, pandemic, aggressive, somber, busan, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Kim Yun-seok

Ha Jung-woo

Seo Young-hee

Kim You-jung

The Chaser (2008)

7.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

Style: tense

Plot: prostitute, kidnapping, psychopath, pimp, investigation, gore, rope, based on true story, ...

Cast

Kim Myung-min

Jang Dong-gun

Park Hee-soon

Lee Jong-suk

V.I.P. (2017)

7.7 230 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 128 min.

Story: A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), spy, fugitive, neo-noir, busan, south korea, inter-korean relations, national intelligence service (nis)

Past Lives (2023)

7.7 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America, South Korea

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Plot: new york city, immigrant, friendship, nostalgia, woman between two men, interracial marriage, fate, playwright, ...

Cast

Shin Hae-sun

Lee Jun-young

Park Jung-woo

Park Hyuk-kwon

Brave Citizen (2023)

7.6 151 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Duration: 112 min.

Story: An expelled boxing champion, who now is a high-school teacher, witnesses intolerable violence and throws her first punch to build justice against it, while putting on a mask.

Plot: secret identity, female fighter, female teacher, anti-bullying, female superhero, based on webcomic or webtoon, south korean

Cast

Don Lee

Yoon Kye-sang

Jo Jae-yun

Choi Gwi-hwa

The Outlaws (2017)

7.6 547 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 121 min.

Story: In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.

Plot: police, detective, gang, illegal alien, korean chinese, seoul, south korea

Time: 2000s

Cast

Kim Nam-gil

Kim Joo-hyun

Kim Myung-min

Lee Kyung-young

Pandora (2016)

7.5 510 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.

Plot: small town, corruption, panic, earthquake, nuclear power plant, tragedy, disaster, explosion, ...

Place: south korea

To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)

7.5 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.

Plot: based on novel or book, sequel, asian american, seoul, south korea

Place: south korea

Cast

Zo In-sung

Park Jeong-min

Park Hae-joon

Shin Sae-kyeong

Humint (2026)

7.4 159 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 120 min.

Story: A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.

Plot: double agent, double cross, undercover operation, inter-korean relations, national intelligence service (nis), political conspiracy, spy vs spy, deadly alliance, ...

Place: south korea, north korea

Cast

Yoo Ah-in

Steven Yeun

Jeon Jong-seo

Kim Soo-kyung

Burning (2018)

7.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: South Korea, Japan

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

Style: melancholy, philosophical

Plot: fire, jealousy, dreams, countryside, love triangle, cat, sex shop, sadness, ...

Cast

Ha Jung-woo

Kim Yun-seok

Cho Seong-ha

Lee Cheol-min

The Yellow Sea (2010)

7.4 589 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: R

Story: A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

Style: shocking

Plot: immigrant, police, taxi driver, gang war, beaten to death, murder, knife fight, mahjong, ...

Cast

An Seo-hyun

Tilda Swinton

Paul Dano

Steven Yeun

Okja (2017)

7.3 4.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

Plot: new york city, monster, slaughterhouse, east asian lead, twins, environmentalist, aftercreditsstinger, animal liberation, ...

Cast

Tang Wei

Park Hae-il

Lee Jung-hyun

Go Kyung-pyo

Decision to Leave (2022)

7.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: NR

Story: From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

Plot: sea, secret love, police, widow, detective, mountain, investigation, language barrier, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Don Lee

Son Suk-ku

Choi Gwi-hwa

Park Ji-hwan

The Roundup (2022)

7.3 442 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: South Korea

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.

Style: intense

Plot: police, gangster, detective, sequel, murder investigation, international crime, vindictive, seoul, ...

Time: 2000s

Place: vietnam

Cast

Lee Soon-jae

Lee Kwang-soo

Seo Shin-ae

Julien Kang

High Kick Through The Roof (2009) TV Show

7.3 12 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 126

Audience: NR

Story: Two sisters, twenty-two and nine in age, lived all their lives with their father, deep in the country where even electricity is an unaffordable luxury. One day, after a bizarre turn of events, they end up in Seoul. The two sisters encounter a severe case of cultural shock as soon as they hit the city. Building forests, computers, department stores, subways, cell phone To 9-year old Shin-ae, who had never seen these before, Seoul is like a fantasy that can sometimes be difficult to fathom.Meanwhile, a peculiar family lives at a corner of a residential area in Seongbuk-dong.Sun-jae is the president of a small food company.At 72, Sun-jae falls head over heels in love just as his life is slowly winding down. His granddaughter Hae-ri shrieks every morning in the bathroom over her constipation. All the other members of this family have some sort of defect. The most invisible son-in-law in Seongbuk-dong, the EQ-deficient doctor, the perverted female teacher Come to think of it, every man living in this day and age harbors some kind of unique defect.This is why they shout confidently, "Only those of you who are perfect may throw stones at us!" is a sitcom portraying the uplifting comedic story of two sisters who begin to work at Sun-jae's house as maids and their episodes with members of this family. At the same time, it is a drama of these two girls blossoming into young women as they fall in love.

Plot: unrequited love, school, bromance, seoul, south korea

Cast

Ha Jung-woo

Bae Doona

Oh Dal-su

Shin Jung-keun

Tunnel (2016)

7.3 654 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

Plot: survival, disaster, reporter, trapped, rescue team, news reporter, trapped underground

Place: south korea

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