Korean Movies On Netflix That Deserve Your Attention!

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:

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

A North Korean agent defects to the South in an attempt to prevent a nuclear war. 

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.

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. 

A masterpiece by director Bong Joon Ho, who won Academy awards for his film Parasite, The Host follows the main character who attempts to rescue his daughter who has been kidnapped by a monster.

Yeon Sang-ho, the director of “Train to Busan,” takes everyone through a simple superhero tale in Psychokinesis. Shin Roo-mi (Shim Eun-kyung) runs the best fried chicken joint in Seoul, but her livelihood is threatened when a gangster-backed construction company threatens to demolish her building to make way for a new shopping mall.

Roo-mi attempts to fight her corner, but after her mother is tragically killed in a confrontation with the bad guys, she finds herself forced to call on her estranged father, Seok-heon (Ryu Seung-ryong).

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.