South Korea Movies

Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving...

Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen against her will. As her seven years of struggle to...

When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years...

Sergeant Jung and his crew capture South Korean soldiers Han Gyu and Yeong Bok. Without knowing their identity, the crew continues the journey with...

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect...

A documentary on the South Korean ferry disaster that claimed the lives of more than 300 passengers in April, 2014.

Hyun-jin, a ten-year-old novice monk, lives in a mountain temple. One day music drifts over from the Catholic church across the forest, and he...

My father led a coup in 1961. Two years later, I became the president's daughter.

Why did Moon Jae-in, a human rights lawyer who hated politics, become president? During five years at the Blue House, why didn’t he use his...

Between friends whose relationship is rather vague. On their graduation day. Instead of confessing his feelings, Yeon-ho attempts to apologize, but...

A cafe is growing, tucked in to the mountainside air raid shelter of the DMZ borderlands. A light light flickers, illuminating the past, present, and...

South Korea's is facing a population crisis, with Seoul at the centre of it. The country’s capital remains the beneficiary of both internal and...

The documentary Two Doors traces the Yongsan Tragedy of 2009, which took the lives of five evictees and one police SWAT unit member. Left with no...

Korean secret agent Bai Min is sent on a mission to Hong Kong. The coveted military information is nowhere to be found and two of the Korean spies...

In just sixty years, South Korea went from being one of the poorest countries on the Asian continent to having the 12th largest economy in the entire...

FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary...

A short film about young adults and their complicated relationship to Hongdae — a busy clubbing area filled to the brim with Seoul's youth.