Swap those K-Dramas for some original Korean films!
As much as we would love to do another binge round of Crash Landing on You and Itaewon Class, we recommend taking a break and check out a South Korean film instead. If you loved Parasite or Train to Busan, then you'll surely enjoy our Korean movie recommendations below:
1. The President’s Barber (Comedy, Drama)
The President’s Barber is centered around a barber, his wife, and his son. Despite being indifferent about politics, the barber encounters a handful of historical events as he is hired as the official barber of the president.
2. Okja (Drama)
This drama follows a young Mija who has been raising a genetically modified super pig, Okja, for the past 10 years. She sets out on a rescue mission when a greedy multi-national corporation eventually takes Okja for their own acquisitive intentions.
3. Tune in For Love (Romance)
It all started when an introverted teenager Hyeon-woo just got out of a juvenile detention centre and came across a bakery where he met Mi-su. The two try to find each other as fate keeps pulling them apart.
4. Seoul Searching (Comedy)
Set in the 1980s, a group of teenagers born and raised abroad attend a government-sponsored summer camp in South Korea to learn more about their Korean heritage and culture. Here, they make friends, fall in love, and have a frenzy of spectacular experiences.
5. Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds (Action)
The first two films in the Along with the Gods film series are some of the most viewed South Korean films in history, with two more films in production. The series hinges on the afterlife - the Guardians, how they came to be, the betrayed souls, and the trials that one has to endure before reincarnation.
The films offer viewers a great mix of thriller, fantasy, action and drama to pull you into a cinematic experience like no other.
6. The Drug King (Action)
From being a small-time drug dealer and smuggler in Busan, Lee Doo-sam works his way up the ladder of the drug trade, where he eventually builds an empire. Kim In-goo is the public prosecutor whose only goal is to take The Drug King down.
7. Steel Rain (Action)
A North Korean agent defects to the South in an attempt to prevent a nuclear war.
8. Lucid Dream (Sci-fi, Thriller)
In an attempt to locate the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago, Dae-ho uses the techniques of Lucid Dreaming. With the help of a detective and his psychiatrist friend, the three attempt to recollect the memories of the incident.
9. Forgotten (Mystery, Thriller)
Jin-seok’s brother was kidnapped and could not be located for 19 days. When his brother finally returns dumbfounded, lost, with not a single memory of the kidnapping, Jin-seok searches for the truth behind this mysterious incident.
10. Svaha (Horror, Thriller)
A pastor investigates a new religious cult called ‘Deer Mount’ with mysterious origins and suspicions of a murder case.
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