329 Films & TV Shows Set In South Korea
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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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Operation Chromite
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea Tokyo Prefecture The 1950sThe Odds Were 5000 to 1 … One was all They Needed. — A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.
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My War
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sHistorical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US where they experienced life and death and established profound revolutionary feelings.
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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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Assassination
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1940s The 1930s The 1910sThe country falls. The operation begins. — In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.
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Gangnam Blues
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970sA "gangster noir" set in the 1970s, when Gangnam, Seoul goes under development. Political powers and darker organizations collide as they seek to grab control of the influential and exclusive area.
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Black Stone
🇰🇷 South KoreaWhile his parents are toiling away in a food processing plant in Seoul, Shon Sun is drafted in the army. X is raped in the army, kills his commander and deserts. Back in Seoul he finds out his parents have disappeared. Intent on finding them, he embarks on a journey through the contaminated jungle his father was born in. There, X meets his grandmother and father and experiences magical moments right before his death
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sSet in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but their family undergoes a crisis when Sam-gwan's eldest son doesn't resemble him and rumors spread about the boy's paternity.
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Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island
🇰🇷 South Korea The 18th CenturyA detective investigates a forgery ring in historical Korea. In the 19th year of Jeonjo’s reign, Kim Min, Joseon’s top detective, who used to be a King’s secret messenger, has been banished to a remote island for some unclear reasons. The only visitors are his old partner, Seo-pil and a young girl, who comes every day to ask him to find her younger sibling. In the meantime, Kim Min happens to hear a rumor that bogus silver bars have been being distributed, which awakens his dormant traits as a detective. Hisako, a beautiful, mysterious woman with her identity unknown, continuously interferes the investigation conducted by this excellent pair of detectives.
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The Silenced
🇰🇷 South Korea The 20th CenturyThe lost girls, suspicious school, and abnormal changes... — A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanitorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She suspects the school for what's happening and tries to discover what secret is hidden.
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The Piper
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sShortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
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The Accidental Detective
🇰🇷 South KoreaDae-man is a crime enthusiast who runs a power blog about the country’s biggest cold cases. He aspired to be a homicide detective but after years of failed attempts, he now runs a comic store. He walks on eggshells around his wife for failing to provide for the family. But he cannot help himself making daily trips to the police station. One day, his best friend and detective, Jun-su, is charged with the murder. Dae-man sets out to investigate to prove his friend’s innocence. Only the washed up Detective Noh offers to help his colleague in trouble. A cold case specialist blogger’s theory coupled with field experience of a seasoned detective and the two launch a joint investigation into their friend’s alleged murder.
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The Long Way Home
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sCOMPLETE THE MISSION TO END THE WAR! — Nam-bok, a middle-aged South Korean farmer is conscripted and assigned a mission to deliver a classified military document that may decide the fate of the war. After losing it while under attack from the enemy, he then faces a teenage North Korean soldier named Yeong-gwang who happens to acquire the secret document on his way to the North.
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The Sound of a Flower
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1860sThen Came The Song And Landed On Her — During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.
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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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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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Hot Young Bloods
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980sTotally Energized — A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980s.
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No Tears for the Dead
California 🇰🇷 South KoreaHis first mistake is his last chance for redemption — A hitman accidentally kills a little girl. Filled with regret, he wants to quit. But then to tie up loose ends, he is forced to go on another job, to kill the girl's mother.
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A Girl at My Door
🇰🇷 South KoreaSent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.
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The Con Artists
🇰🇷 South KoreaJi-hyuk is an expert safe-cracker who lives the highlife stealing antiques and jewelry with his team. CHO, a powerful and cruel gang boss threatens them to steal $150 million with him. Ji-hyuk plans to get revenge on CHO, but ends up falling into his trap. However, CHO later realizes it was all part of Ji-hyuk’s scheme. When Ji-hyuk, who was thought dead, reappears, hidden secret relations between the technicians also surface.
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My Love, Don't Cross That River
🇰🇷 South KoreaThere live a couple known as ‘100-year-old lovebirds’. As fairy tale's characters, the husband is strong like a woodman, and the wife is full of charms like a princess. They dearly love each other wearing Korean traditional clothes all the time, and still fall asleep hand in hand. However, the death, quietly and like a thief, sit between them. This film starts from this moment, and follows the last moments of 76 years of their marriage.
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World War Z
Nova Scotia 🇮🇱 Israel New Jersey New York Pennsylvania 🇰🇷 South Korea Wales Atlantic OceanRemember Philly! — Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
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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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Jiseul
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1940s1948, One Island, One Giant Grave — The populace of a South Korean island rebels against police brutality. The protesters are labeled as communists, and the army is dispatched.
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