Korean Movies & K-Dramas Released in August 2025

Documentary · Korean

THORNAPPLE 'Fire Watching' 10th Anniversary Documentary

Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Korean

Aspiring YouTuber Gi-ho stages a fake seance for viral content, but Ja-young joins, seeking her missing sister Seo-woo. In an underground cistern, Seo-woo volunteers as the "possessed," but when she collapses, terror unfolds. Trapped with sinister forces, the students face a deadly fate, leading to a shocking twist.

Drama · Korean

Yeongsun wants to attend her boyfriend Haksu’s 49th-day memorial service rather than her granddaughter’s wedding.

Drama · Romance · Korean

Cyrano, a brilliant poet and swordsman, is secretly in love with his old friend Roxanne. However, his abnormally large nose gets in the way of telling her his feelings for her. De Guiche is a young officer from a noble family, and he is also in love with Roxanne, a young woman with a feisty and cheerful personality. De Guiche makes advances at her at every chance he gets, but he is constantly turned down. Roxanne falls in love with Christian, a soldier who recently joined Cyrano's regiment, and she ask Cyrano to watch over him. Instead of Christian, Cyrano writes beautiful love letters to Roxanne, and Roxanne who believes that the letters were written by Christian becomes certain of her love for him. A war breaks out, and De Guiche dispatches Christian and Cyrano to the frontline as a way of getting his revenge for being turned down by Roxanne. Cyrano promises distressed Roxanne that he’ll make sure Christian is safe…

Mystery · Thriller · Drama · Korean

Thirteen-year-old Su-yeon is left alone after the death of her grandmother, her only guardian. Facing the threat of being placed in foster care, she sets out to secure a new home by ingratiating herself with her best friend's family—and even online influencers.

Horror · Mystery · Korean

Documentary · Korean

"Was it the President who ordered the rivers to be six meters deep?" In 2008, under President Lee Myung-bak's administration, South Korea's Four Major Rivers Restoration Project turned the country's beautiful rivers into scenes of devastation. What were once pristine first-grade waters became lifeless rivers, choked with toxic green algae emitting foul odors. Crops irrigated with this contaminated water are now served on the table of Korean people. The government disguised a grand canal project as river restoration, and the media turned a blind eye — together enabling one of the greatest environmental destructions in Korean history. The consequences of this deception will be borne by future generations. To ensure that future generations can once again run freely along the rivers, we must act—now. We must make Korea's rivers flow again.

Documentary · Korean

Animation · Korean

An ant has spent its whole life inside the nest, but now it decides to venture out in search of paradise. Yet the world beyond is like a harsh winter storm—can it endure to the end and find the world it has always dreamed of?

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Ray is an experimental film that stages an emotional farce centered around intoxicated figures, juxtaposing the structure of desire with X-ray imagery that exposes and refracts the body.

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With a continued interest in bodies that remain hidden due to invisible disabilities and stigmatized names, Between Word and Body explores how to position portraits and voices that are recorded for documentation yet rendered unusable. The film critically engages with the mechanics of projection—the spatial reproduction of digital technologies that capture the body, such as video and voice recording—and resists the act of “right seeing.”

Romance · Comedy · Mystery · Korean

A pastry chef apprentice lives unaware she becomes a wild she-devil nightly. Her family hires their neighbor to watch her night version, as he falls for her day self while seeking to break her curse.

Documentary · Music · Korean

DAY6, a band that stays evergreen, yet makes every day feel new. This summer, the four young men write what can only be described as their Time of Our Life. Celebrating their 10th anniversary, DAY6 embarks on a spontaneous road trip across America, fresh off a triumphant world tour. "Again, let's have fun!" For 6 days, they follow nothing but the sound of music and the pull of wonder - no plans, just the road unfolding ahead. Unfamiliar sights, unexpected connections, and moments of chaos each becomes a lucky stroke, a cherished Time of Our Life. 6DAYS of DAY6 indulging in a radiant moment of youth. A cinematic road trip painted with dreamlike landscapes—and at the heart of it all, there was music.

Documentary · History · War · Korean

Comedy · Korean

Documentary · Korean

In the 1970s, more than 2,000 fishing boats anchored off Heuksando every day and tens of thousands of people flocked to the spectacle. Formed along the migration routes of yellow croaker, brown croaker and Spanish mackerel, the market was a vast floating community where not only fish but liquor, groceries, fishing gear and fuel changed hands. Yet with changing technology, depleted resources, an aging fishing population and the climate crisis, the pasi vanished from both the map and memory. This film records its last traces at Heuksando, the very heart of the pasi.

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Married couple in their 5th year of marriage, about to get divorced, and their conflict over the 'cat rights' of a cat that is like a child to them.

Music · Drama · Korean

Two years after leaving the band Orange Taxi Club, vocalist Giseok is unexpectedly called back to the backstage by bassist Myeongo just before an upcoming performance. As the show approaches, Giseok is forced to confront his long-standing conflict with guitarist Yuwon, while an altercation with another band throws the performance into further jeopardy.

Comedy · Mystery · Korean

Two ghost-seeking Youtubers happen to meet the bizarre man who lives in the forest by himself.

Comedy · Fantasy · Drama · Korean

An ordinary office worker, Kyung-soo, lives like a complete invisible man at his company — until one day, a single piece of chicken changes everything! After accidentally stepping into a mysterious restaurant, Kyung-soo tastes a legendary chicken recipe, and from that moment, his dull routine begins to spiral in unexpected ways. Suddenly, his once-indifferent coworkers start noticing him, the office goddess Yu-jin shows interest, and even his arrogant boss Seung-ho, who used to look down on him, begins watching him suspiciously…?!

Romance · Korean

A broken-up couple is reunited one night in a bar. Afterwards, their time begins to circulate in a strange way.

Drama · Korean

Mystery · Thriller · Korean

Do-woon, orphaned and raised by a priest, is ordained as a priest. In the confessional, he hears that his mother was murdered and an evil group reveals itself.

Comedy · Drama · Korean

Cheerful and mischievous, Moon Haet-nim is a freelance voice actor. She voices the main character, Happy Mong, in the lively children's animation Detective Happy Mong—a role that perfectly fits her personality. One day, while accompanying her friend Young-hee, who is struggling with depression, to a psychiatric clinic, Haet-nim takes a test out of boredom... The result? Depression?! This can't be real! In denial, Haet-nim embarks on a journey, just like her animated character, to uncover the cause of her depression!

Drama · Romance · Korean

Sugun, an aspiring poet, and Heeji, an unknown actress, are middle-aged lovers who are both still “aspirants.” They say that in this world, those who hold out to the end are the ones who achieve their dreams… but how long can we continue to live as aspirants?

Comedy · Drama · Korean

Over three episodes, three respectable middle-aged men find themselves behaving badly. A teacher hides his pornographic magazine from a female student. A jogger steals milk and blames it on a newspaper delivery boy. A drunk man desperately searches for a public toilet late at night.

Drama · Romance · Korean

Merely Known as Something Else tells the story of a man who disappeared one day and the three women entangled with him for different reasons, presented with meticulous emotion and a unique format.

Horror · Korean

‘Soo-ah’ spends hellish days everyday due to dating violence of her live-in boyfriend, ‘Hyun-woo’. ‘Anuat’, a man full of mystery, stays by the side of her. Soo-ah goes on a trip to an island with her only friends ‘Yoon-mi’ and Hyun-woo to celebrate her 25th birthday. On the night of the full moon, Anuat follows the footsteps of Soo-ah and encounters evil spirits surrounding her.

Romance · Drama · Comedy · Korean

A lovestruck teen plans to win the school heartthrob by going from curly to straight hair — until a new transfer student changes everything.

Documentary · Music · Korean

Documentary · Music · Korean

Believing her son is talented at playing the cello, Haesook has devoted herself to his training since he was in middle school. Donghan is accepted into a respected music college, but he drops out before completing even a semester due to biased behavior from professors. Haesook becomes hopeful about her son's independence. However the founder prioritizes the ensemble's marketability over the musicians' artistic growth, deeply distressing Haesook. Donghan receives an offer to work as a teaching assistant in an orchestra Haesook had previously known, and they dream of a new future.

Documentary · TV Movie · Korean

Author Han Kang mourns everything that fades and perishes in the world, including her sister, who died just two hours after birth. Her mourning transcends writing; she composes music, sings, and even holds rituals for the dead at times. This documentary spotlights Han Kang as a unique artist who communicates with the world through diverse forms like art, music, and documentary. "Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives" sensuously captures her literary world through dance and theater.

Documentary · Korean

Park Do-soon, the founder of Suneung(South Korea's College Scholastic Ability Test), had failed in his own university entrance exam. His creation—Suneung—would face similar trials. Although designed to put an end to test-oriented education, his new admissions system would be reshaped by external pressures and societal backlash against his intention. Amid the growing controversy, Suneung and the broader admissions reform faced the threat of being scrapped altogether. Ultimately, compromises were made, such as including science and social studies in the test.