43 Films & TV Shows Set In South Korea During The 21st Century
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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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Squid Game: Season 1
🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sHundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
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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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Steel Rain 2: Summit
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sA War Begins With The Summit For Peace — A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
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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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Juror 8
🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000sThe first jury trial in Korea but the problem was no. 8. — Seoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently conclusive evidence.
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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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Illang: The Wolf Brigade
🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sIn 2029, the elite police squad Illang combats a terrorist group opposing reunification of the two Koreas. But another enemy may be lurking nearby.
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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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Take Point
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sStateless. Honorless. War for Money. — On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.
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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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Ayla: The Daughter of War
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 2000sIn 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight. Frantic, scared and on the verge of death, this little girl captures the heart of Süleyman, who risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his Army base and out of harms way. Not knowing her name and unable to communicate with her, Süleyman names her Ayla, in reminiscence of the moon on the fateful night during which they met. The two form an instantaneous and inseparable bond, and Ayla, almost effortlessly, brings an uncanny joy to the Turkish brigade in the grip of war. As the war comes to a close however, Süleyman's brigade is told that they will be returning home. Süleyman cannot bear abandoning Ayla, and does everything within his power to take her with him. After repeated failure, he is forced to give Ayla to an orphanage, but doesn't give up on the hope of one day reuniting with her. Will the two ever get back together?
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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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The Bourne Legacy
New York Illinois District of Columbia Alaska Virginia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇹🇭 Thailand The 2000sThere Was Never Just One — New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
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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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