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A painter quits his job and looks to an old acquaintance for work and a place to stay.

A Korean salesman seeks a successful career by using a bar hostess to spy on his rivals. However, soon he confronts the bar hostess's revenge, as well as his rivals' popular products.

Situated in the small poverty stricken town of Woomukbaemi, South Korea, this film centers on a clothes factory manager and the triangular relationship between himself, his insatiably jealous and violent wife, and one of his employees.

R returns from studying in France and reunites with J, whom he used to live with in Paris. For some reason, however, J refuses to have sex with R. Angered by her refusal, R travels to his hometown of Daegu.

Seon-jae, a teenage boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother who abandoned him as a baby. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the young son of a hard drinking astronomer. Each of them tell the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother.

A failed writer given to plagiarism gets a buzz at the door from a bright young working girl with a highly original approach to life and sex and his life and work is totally thrown off balance.

During the 1980 Gwangju massacre, a young girl witnesses her mother's death as soldiers kill protesters opposing the military regime. The film sparked public demand for truth, leading the government to open classified files on the tragedy.

A compilation of episodes from the lives of the 'bad teens' and the homeless of Seoul.

To Chinese restaurant delivery boy 'Ju', the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room. One day, 'Ju' who was engrossed in an electronic game as usual, is advised to log-on to a game called RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. The match selling girl of Andersen's fairytale is revived through the game, and 'Ju' is drawn into the little girl's virtual reality. As reality and cyberspace interchange, 'Ju', like in the famous fairytale, is given the mission to save the little girl from danger and lead her to a peaceful death. However, the two are not only confronted by a gigantic force called the System, that attempts to stop them, but other obstacles that place their lives in danger...

In the winter of 1980s coal mining town, Ki-young runs away from the police due to his student protest and hides into the town. Then, Ki-young meets an unhappy waitress Young-sook who falls for him, and two people decide to leave together.

A fifth-grade classroom takes on a political structure which reflects Korea's history of coups and dictatorial regimes.

A Korean orphan is adopted by a Swedish couple and moves to Europe. She is renamed 'Susan'. Her new mother is very abusive and Susan unsuccessfully attempts suicide. The first chance she gets, she moves out of her home and into the highschool dorm. Unfortunately, life does not get any easier there.

A reporter investigates a case in which a Korean woman, who has been living in Europe since she was 3 years old, is accused of murdering her adopted father. This is complicated by the fact that she is suffering from traumatic memory loss.

An innocent, though anything but naive, woman is in the wrong place at the wrong time. While waiting for her more adventurous friend outside a seedy dance bar, she is approached by two men who ''naturally'' assume that any woman hanging around such a joint is looking for action. Even with their certain alcohol and testosterone overloads, they could not possibly interpret her rejections as merely playing hard to get. But hey, they only gave her what was coming to her, right? I mean, what was she doing hanging around a place like that at that time of night, anyways? This episode proceeds through the mens' idea of foreplay. But, although the woman's experience must certainly have been traumatic, she manages to avoid penetration by maiming her prospective rapists in an almost comical way. You can imagine her disbelief when, after her friends and family discourage her from pressing charges, she is informed that her attacker has the impudence to charge her with assault. Her strength throughout the rest of the movie is admirable, as she remains rational among her incredibly irrational (yet typical) contemporaries.

Two department store window display decorators find themselves to be perfectly matched professionally but, as they gradually fall in love, it becomes increasingly more difficult for them to work well together.

In a suburban apartment on the hottest day of the century, the women are fanning and chatting in one spot and the men are drinking and scratching in another. Soon violence erupts as a husband chases his abused wife into the open. Everyone has seen this before and the men ignore the battering, but today in the heat the women rise up in anger against the wife-beater, who dies on the way to the hospital. As the police arrive, 10 women flee to the roof. All of Korea watches on TV as they hold their position for four days and nights, until the situation is resolved in the most unlikely way.

Based on the great river story, (Taebaegsanmaek) The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.

South Korea, 1979. Han Kiju is an alcoholic novelist who has never recovered from his year long tour as a volunteer soldier in Vietnam. When he's asked to write a book about the Korean soldiers who fought in Vietnam he's battered by flashbacks that remind him of the brutality and lies that destroyed his innocence. The serialized novel brings him back in contact with a former soldier who served under him, PFC Pyon Chinsu, the one-time company clown driven mad by the violence of the war and who now looks to Han for some sort of emotional rescue.

Moon Chae-Ku and his friend Kim Chul try to bring the body of Moon's father back to his native Kwisong Island for burial. Their ferry is intercepted by resentful islanders who will not let the boat dock, because of the father's political activities in the 1950's, informing on Communist sympathizers.

Very few films, even today, deal with the Kwangju Masacre of 1988 where the military, acting under presidential orders, opened fire on the student demonstrations who were protesting at the coup of the rightfully elected president by General Chung. Thousands were killed and hundreds were arrested (including the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, President Kim Dae-jung). This is a fictitious account of the events which serve as a sub-plot to a love story, but it was close enough so that it was not shown in most theaters until Chung's hand-picked successor was out of power in 1993.

Lieutenant Cho, a cop on the edge, is mourning his mother's recent death while under investigation for graft; on top of that he is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly-impenetrable mystery.

During the Vietnam War, a South Korean base receives a radio transmission from a missing squad, presumed dead, and sends a platoon to rescue the lost squad from the R-Point.

The movie is based upon the true story of Kim Seon-myung, a communist who steadfastly refuses to recant his beliefs and becomes the world's longest-serving political prisoner of conscience in South Korea. He undergoes torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of his captors, yet says true freedom is being able to maintain your integrity and conscience.