Movies and TV shows set in south korea – page 2

List of movies set in south korea

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 7.8
 651
Ghost (2012)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The police procedural tackles crimes and clues in the cyber world, weaving a massive, twist-filled mystery of murders, identity switches, corruption and conspiracy.
Style: captivating, tense, detective, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, hacker, police detective, political intrigue, teamwork, cyberspace, twists and turns, corruption, murder, police, paranormal, body swapping ...
Place: south korea
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The King: Eternal Monarch (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: When a gateway opens to a parallel universe in modern-day Korea, a king must step into another world in search of answers to a long-unanswered mystery.
Style: dorama, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: alternate reality, puzzle, female detective, time travel, monarch, supernatural power, in love, fall in love, time warp, uncover truth, investigation, supernatural ...
Place: south korea
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Whatcha Wearin'? (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Yoon-Jung accidentally calls a stranger, instead of her boyfriend, and has phone sex with the unknown man. When Yoon-Jung's relationship with her boyfriend turns sour, Yoon-Jung meets Hyun-Seung, the stranger she had phone sex with.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic ...
Plot: couples, starting over, phone sex, sex, asian, thirtysomething life, happy ending, love, naked woman, fall in love, sexual relations, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia
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 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
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 8.3
 630K
Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
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 6.3
 7K
Time to Hunt (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Wanting to leave their dystopian world behind for a faraway paradise, three outlaws plot a money heist — and draw the attention of a vicious killer.
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: manhunt, heist, dystopian future, group of friends, friendship, friendship between men, armed robbery, male male relationship, violence, teenager, survival, urban setting ...
Time: 2040s, near future
Place: south korea
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 7.4
 81K
The Wailing (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Style: art house, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, investigation, zombie, curse, murder, police, shaman, small town, ghost, daughter, suspicion, possession ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: south korea
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 7.5
 26K
New World (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story: An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang war, mole, gang leader, moral dilemma, criminal gang, mafia, organized crime, undercover cop, police, betrayal, mind game ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia, seoul
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Doctor Stranger (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: As a child, Park Hoon and his dad were kidnapped and taken to North Korea. He grew up there, learning to be a doctor just like his father. When Park Hoon escapes back to South Korea and begins work at a prestigious hospital, he makes it his goal to ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, exciting, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doctor, twists and turns, heroes, danger, dishonesty, unrequited love, hospital, second chance, kidnapping, father son relationship, hidden identity, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea
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 6.6
 3K
V.I.P. (2017)
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.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
Plot: maniac, serial killer, revenge, investigation, injustice, rivalry, murderer, murder, danger, intrigue, politics, runaway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, south korea, busan
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Boys Over Flowers (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A working class girl winds up at an exclusive prep school. Unassuming high school girl Jan Di stands up to -- and eventually falls for -- a spoiled rich kid who belongs to the school's most powerfu clique.
Style: dorama, touching, sentimental, romantic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, opposites attract, cinderella story, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, love triangle, school, high school hunk, rich man poor woman, teen romance, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
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 8.0
 2K
Doctor John (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Cha Yo-Han—an arrogant but genius doctor of anesthesiology—and Kang Shi-Young—a smart, warm resident of anesthesiology—work together to help people with mysterious cases of acute or chronic pain.
Style: witty, realistic, emotional, detective, medical drama
Plot: doctor, medicine, genius, teamwork, coworker relationship, medical, mastermind, social relations, love, follow your dream, doctor patient relationship, medical profession ...
Place: south korea
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 6.1
 4K
Lucid Dream (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid ...
Style: psychological, exciting, enigmatic, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot: lucid dream, time travel, reporter, dream, investigation, child abduction, kidnapping, a vision, characters in danger, father and son, surveillance, puzzle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea
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A Moment to Remember (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
Style: touching, realistic, romantic, sincere, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love affair, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, love story, couple relations, love, love and romance, asian, class differences, memory, father daughter relationship, resentment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia, asia
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Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his ...
Style: dark comedy, exciting, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: dishonesty, stolen money, money problems, poverty, multiple storylines, crime gone awry, relationship problems, wealth, twists and turns, illness, financial problem, murder ...
Place: south korea, asia
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 7.1
 132K
The Host (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school as her ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, giant monster, beast, environment, dark humor, creature feature, creature, family in danger, deadly creature, kaiju, daughter, danger ...
Time: year 2002, year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, korea, asia, seoul
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Sell Your Haunted House (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a real estate agent who performs exorcism on real estates where ghosts appear or people die in and makes them clean items.
Style: unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: real estate, death, supernatural power, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, exorcist, broker, hunting, good versus evil, paranormal investigation, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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 6.6
 2K
Seven Days (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, twisted ...
Plot: lawyer, legal action, kidnapping, corrupt politician, defense attorney, salvation, protection, danger, blackmail, save the day, courtroom, asian prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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 8.5
 9K
Signal (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: 
Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.
Style: captivating, detective, touching, suspenseful, dorama ...
Plot: murder, investigation, police, serial killer, profiler, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, false accusation, race against time, flashback, butterfly effect, criminal ...
Time: 80s
Place: south korea, thailand
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To the Beautiful You (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 64 min.
TV show
Story: To The Beautiful You is a 2012 South Korean television drama series starring f(x)'s Sulli, Shinee's Minho, and Lee Hyun-woo. It aired on SBS from August 15 to October 4, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. It is ...
Style: romantic, dorama, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: gender disguise, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, love and romance, couples, fall in love, couple relations, love, cross dressing, high school, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, south korea
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 7.2
 16K
A Hard Day (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: murder, police, twists and turns, funeral, vengeance, gunfight, life turned upside down, murder mystery, police corruption, blackmail, police inspector, police detective ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
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House of Hummingbird (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Whatever she does, Eunhee feels like an outsider. Then her new Chinese teacher turns out to be so utterly different from everybody else. A compassionate and meticulously told narrative of a seemingly regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, teenager, relationships, middle school, personal growth, high school, teenage girl, family relations, adolescence, family problems ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: seoul, south korea, korea, asia
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Soar Into the Sun (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After he performs a dangerous dare-devil stunt at an air show, South Korean Air Force pilot Tae-hun is kicked out of the elite Black Eagles flying team and transferred to a combat unit where he immediately comes into conflict with ace pilot ...
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: military, fighter jet, aerial combats, rivalry, fall in love, daring rescue, heroic mission, against the rules, friendship, danger, soldier, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, north korea
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The Man Standing Next (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
Plot: assassination of president, politics, assassination, tragedy, betrayal, dictatorship, state terrorism, spy, espionage, intelligence agency, hearing, military dictatorship ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: south korea, seoul, washington d.c., paris france, east asia ...
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Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A corrupted customs officer, Choi Ik-hyeon, faces losing his job. Then, his life turns around as he meets ganster Choi Hyeong-bae who has connection with the Yakuza. They quickly form a partnetship; Hyeong-bae helps Ik-hyeon set up a business with ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: organized crime, gangster, rise and fall, police, mafia, rise to the top, ambition, gang war, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south korea, busan, asia, korea
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Kill Me, Heal Me (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cha Do Hyun is a rich heir to a family company with one major problem. Due to suppressed childhood trauma, he suffers from dissociative identity disorder manifested in 7 unique personalities who are out of his control. In order to overcome this ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, captivating, light, dorama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dissociative identity disorder, psychiatrist, doctor patient relationship, mental illness, split personality, love, childhood memory, friendship, wealthy family, twists and turns, family relations, doctor ...
Place: korea, south korea
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 7.9
 58K
3-Iron (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style: lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: golf, loneliness, motorcycle, relationships, abusive husband, jealousy, love triangle, art, love story, love, existentialism, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, south korea, asia
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The Villagers (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A gym teacher and his female student look for her missing friend. But as they investigate, they find that her disappearance is a part of a larger conspiracy.
Style: contemplative, tense, suspenseful, exciting, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: kidnapping, society, investigation, who done it, uncover truth, vengeance, violence, chase, heroes, evidence
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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 7.1
 43K
The Call (2020)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher ...
Plot: time travel, psychopath, serial killer, borderline personality disorder, time, xmas, couples, husband wife relationship, death, danger, violence, chase ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: south korea
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 6.8
 10K
Tunnel (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense thriller
Plot: survival, disaster, rescue team, trapped, endurance, faith, rescue attempt, rescue, tunnel, husband wife relationship, little girl, suffering ...
Time: year 2016
Place: south korea, korea
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