22 Films & TV Shows Set In South Korea During The 2010s
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Waiting for Rain
🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000s The 2010sA letter that started by chance, Endless Rain — Young-ho doesn't have any dreams for his life. He has been studying for three years to enter a university. He decides to send a letter to his childhood friend So-yeon. But her younger sister So-hee receives the letter instead of her sick sister. So-hee writes back to Young-ho, pretending to be So-yeon. Meanwhile, So-hee takes care of her sick sister and also runs a secondhand bookstore with her mother.
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Parasite
🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sAct like you own the place. — 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.
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Ashfall
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sOnly one chance to save the nation. — A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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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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Genesis 2.0
🇷🇺 Russia The Arctic Circle 🇨🇳 China 🇰🇷 South Korea Massachusetts The 2010sA well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.
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Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇯🇵 Japan The 2010sA team of nice Jewish baseball players takes on the world.
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Geostorm
New York District of Columbia Georgia Florida Ontario England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇳 India 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 🇦🇫 Afghanistan Shanghai 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇹🇼 Taiwan Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales Africa - General 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010s The 2020sSome things were never meant to be controlled. — After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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Colossal
New York 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sThere's a monster in all of us — A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.
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Okja
New York 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000s The 2010sA young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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Train to Busan
🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sLife-or-death survival begins. — Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
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My Annoying Brother
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sSometimes brothers are no better than strangers. — A jailed swindler leaps at the chance to earn parole in return for taking care of his estranged brother, an athlete who recently lost his sight.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
New York England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇿🇦 South Africa The 2010sA New Age Has Come. — When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
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The Interview
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) Virginia 🇨🇳 China 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sThe Film Hackers Tried To Get Banned — Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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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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Nobody's Daughter Haewon
🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sHaewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That day, they run into her classmates at a restaurant and their relationship gets revealed. Haewon gets more agitated and Seongjun makes an extreme suggestion to run away together… Haewon dreams often. Her dreams will be compared to her waking life, but none can be denied as being a part of her life.
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Friend: The Great Legacy
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1960s The 2010sThe unfinished story of a fateful day — A sequel to Kwak Kyeong-taek's "Friend" in 2001, "Friends 2" is about three men who are gangsters based in the background of the year 1963 and 2010.
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Cloud Atlas
California Hawaii Scotland England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1970s The 1930s The 2010s The 1840sEverything is Connected — A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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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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A Werewolf Boy
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1960s The 2010sYour hands are very warm. — An unexpected phone call brings an elderly woman to her childhood country cottage, and memories of an orphan boy she knew 47 years ago come flooding back to her.
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Sector 7
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980s The 2010sIn Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned to Eclipse as captain. Though his job is to oversee the withdrawal of the ship, he suggests conducting some drilling one last time.
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Salt
New York District of Columbia 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sWho is Salt? — As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"
