16 Films & TV Shows Set In South Korea During The 1990s
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Pawn
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2000sA loan shark takes a girl hostage as pawn for her parents' debt.
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Samjin Company English Class
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sRather than adjusting to an unreasonable world, one must join forces with others to change the world. — In mid '90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption within their company.
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Tune in for Love
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sIn 1994, on the first day that Yoo Yeul went on air as the new DJ of the popular radio show ‘Music Album,' a college girl Mi-su meets Hyun-woo who happens to drop by the bakery she works at. Like the music streaming from the radio, their frequencies slowly come in sync; even when they're apart, the show brings them together through ebbs and flows of events arising from both pure coincidence and inevitability, until the bitter reality sets in and drives them apart...
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Black Panther
Africa - General California England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1990s The 2010sLong live the king. — King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Default
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sOnly one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-Hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.
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Foxcatcher
Pennsylvania District of Columbia Florida 🇫🇷 France 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980s The 1990sBased on the shocking true story — The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
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Oldboy
🇰🇷 South Korea Louisiana The 2000s The 2010s The 1990sAsk not why you were imprisoned. Ask why you were set free. — An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
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Nameless Gangster
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sPower Cannot Be Taken Alone — A corrupt customs official joins forces with a vicious gangster to form the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.
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Architecture 101
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2010sWhen Seung Min was on his first year at the Academy of Architecture, he met Seo Yeon. She was a musician student, and Seung Min totally fell in love with her. Years have passed, and now he meets Seo Yeon again - she asks him to rebuild her father's old house.
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Voice of a Murderer
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sOne day, the only son of famous news anchor HAN Kyung-bae, disappears without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the mother demanding a $100,000 ransom. The police assign a veteran inspector to the case and assemble a top-notch task force to work under his command. But the kidnapper constantly outwits the police and continues calling the parents with yet more instructions for the money drop.
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Traces of Love
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2000sThe collapse of a department store disturbs a local community, causing strife for some, and bringing some people closer than ever before.
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Repatriation
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2000sIn the spring of 1992 documentary filmmaker Dong-won Kim met Cho Chang-son and Kim Seak-hyoung, two North Koreans arrested by South Korean authorities years before. Convicted of spying for the North, they were incarcerated and spent thirty years as political prisoners. These men, and many others like them, underwent conversion schemes in prison that involved torture: those who renounced their communist beliefs were released from prison early. The others, known as "the unconverted," served their full terms. None could return home to the North, however, until the turn of this century, when tensions between North and South eased significantly. Director Dong-won Kim followed these men for ten years, documenting how they survived -both physically and psychologically, the dehumanizing time spent in prison, and their quest, once released, to finally go home.
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Il Mare
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sLove that resides in one place at two different times. — Eun-joo moves out of her house "Il Mare", leaving behind a Christmas card for the eventual new owner of the house in 1999. In it she asks him/her to forward any mail of hers to her new address in the city. It is 1997 and Sung-hyun, the first owner of "Il Mare" is moving in and finds in his mailbox the Christmas card from Eun-joo. Thinking it was a joke, Sung-hyun leaves her a letter telling her so and reminds her that its 1997 not 1999. Eventually the two realize that they are separated by two years of time but can somehow communicate through the mailbox and begin to form a friendship through their letters.
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Shiri
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sNo clues. No leads. No time. — North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijacks a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries.Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
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Provocateur
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sSometimes the enemy is closer than you think... — In 1994 South Korea, a female North Korean spy integrates herself as a housekeeper for U.S. military officer to steal classified documents, but soon worries about her cover when she falls for the teenage son of the officer.
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Pentathlon
California Georgia 🇩🇪 Germany 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sJust do it... or die! — When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all… the fight for his life.
