Korean Movies & K-Dramas Released in August 2026

Animation · Family · Adventure · Korean

Romi has been living happily ever since Heartsping became her best friend. But she and her mother, Belita, keep clashing over what Romi wants to do versus what she's told she must do... Then one day, an event that shakes the entire sea sweeps her mother away without a trace. Romi loses her mother without ever getting to say sorry — without one last hug. Standing before the sea for the very first time, she finds the courage to act, together with her best friend Heartsping, the sea boy Kite, and three Teeniepings... Together, they must face a dazzling underwater city and colossal creatures of the deep. And at last, Romi comes face to face with a secret her mother had never once told her.

Drama · Korean

Min-woo, a young man who works at a local office in a rural village, lives with his father and grandmother and often hangs out with his close friend Seong-hoon. The weather is not exactly what the farmers want, and Min-woo continues to lead a quiet life.

Documentary · Korean

Music · Korean

One day, a mysterious message arrives for ATEEZ, who had been spending a peaceful time in their hideout. At that moment, everything began to change. ATINY has vanished. As if under a spell, ATEEZ wanders through a dreamlike wasteland, into a collapsing world engulfed in flames, and into the Dark City veiled in dense fog. Pursued by an unknown force, ATEEZ begins to fight back to find ATINY.

Action · Comedy · Korean

Six years after the Hawaii airplane hijacking, Mi-yeong finds herself struggling with her rebellious teenage daughter, Nari, and her unemployed husband, Seok-hwan. When Hyun-min, a flight attendant she met during the hijacking, invites her family to his wedding aboard a luxury cruise ship, Mi-yeong eagerly proposes a family holiday. Met with indifference from her husband and daughter, she decides to embark alone, joining Hyun-min's family and Ji-hoon, a charming magician. However, on the eve of the wedding, the celebration turns deadly when armed assailants seize the ship. After Seok-hwan and Nari are kidnapped and brought aboard, Mi-yeong discovers that she is the target of a much larger plot.

Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Korean

First, never leave the house. Second, take your medicine and sleep once it gets dark. Third, never touch the locked doors. Having spent his entire life trapped inside under his father's strict rules, Jae-jun begins to question everything. Myung-sook, who cares alone for her father suffering from dementia, encounters an unidentified woman in the mountains on the anniversary of her daughter's death. And on the day of a move-in cleaning, Jung-hye finds herself alone with the cleaners when her husband suddenly stops answering her calls…

Drama · Korean

An elderly woman, Eunja, who lives in the countryside, teams up with Palbok, a burglar, to embark on a spree of robbing empty houses.

Drama · Korean

The film takes place in the summer of 2019, but in a world still under a dictatorship rule. Daegu Police Counterintelligence detectives In-hyeok and Sang-jun are monitoring Lee Su-gyeong, wife of Choi Myeong-hun, who is wanted for violating security laws. In-hyeok feels compassion for the pregnant Su-gyeong living in hardship. The film is both a road movie about In-hyeok, Su-gyeong, and Sang-jun, and a story about people forced to hide in the mountains from corrupt power.

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Music · Korean

"PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN" in Los Angeles took place on August 13, 2026, as part of CORTIS' first-ever North American headline tour.

Mystery · Horror · Korean

Seung-hyeon, a construction team leader with PTSD, is ordered to inspect Dohak Station, where a fatal accident halted work years ago. Inside the eerie, abandoned tunnels, he and Joo-young encounter two mysterious workers and become lost while trying to escape. Meanwhile, a CEO and a shaman perform a ritual to resume construction, but enraged spirits retaliate, plunging everyone into chaos.

Drama · Korean

Hyo-won, who dreams of becoming an actress, arrives at Seoul city after running away from country home with Eun-seo, who dropped out of high school. They are excited with their own hopes for the future. Hyo-won starts taking acting lessons from leading actor Su-yeon to become a member of the theater company. Eun-seo starts to work at a shabby restaurant when Hyo-won's lesson fee is urgent. Su-yeon teaches Hyo-won. Acting... It's about fully understanding and expressing other people's pain. But Hyo-won doesn't understand Eun-seo's pain. The same goes for Eun-seo. Life is full of questions for them

Drama · Fantasy · Korean

Gun-woo, drowning in a failing business, meets Yo-sup, a mysterious boy who lives in dreams, and glimpses a future that lets him win big on a sports bet. While searching for Yo-sup again, he crosses paths with Min-a, a guarded high school girl. Struggling to understand one another, the three are drawn into a strange journey shaped by dreams and fate.

Documentary · Korean

Should the trees in the city always disappear whenever reconstruction takes place? The project, which began with memories and records, leads to meeting various people from different fields to explore practical ways to preserve trees. The film follows the whereabouts of the trees that once lived on a green island in a ruin of concrete until they eventually vanished.

Music · Korean

'吉BOARD SHOW' was held both offline and online through live streaming at Jamsil Indoor Stadium on August 21-22-23, 2026.

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A filmmaker embarks on a personal and playful journey through archives, jungles, and imagined memories to trace the life of her great-aunt María, one of the first women explorers to the Amazon, weaving together history and myth in a meditation on the desire for adventure and the roles we play in the stories we inherit.

Music · Korean

NCT DREAM will celebrate their 10th debut anniversary with a fan meeting!

Drama · Mystery · Crime · Korean

Eight years ago, the youngest daughter, Gyeong-ju, disappeared during a school field trip to Gyeongju and never came home alive. On what would have been her birthday, her mother Ok-sil and her three daughters—Jang-ju, Young-ju, and Dong-ju—put on matching family T-shirts and set off for Gyeongju, the place where Gyeong-ju vanished, in what appears to be a family trip to honor her memory. But beneath the cheerful façade lies a deadly secret. In the trunk of their van is a bound and unconscious man zipped inside a plastic bag.

Music · Korean

A silent film was created from a scenario inspired by a single poem, and a studio album later emerged from the imagery of the film. The groundbreaking production traces the world of three characters—White Kiha, Black Kiha, and Pillow Monster while delivering a story of loss, transformation, and the circle of life.

Animation · Music · Fantasy · Korean

After surviving the tragic car accident that claimed her parents when she was a child, Mita awakened to a strange gift — the ability to see and hear spirits. Now seventeen, she works part-time in a small musical instrument shop, where one fateful evening she stumbles upon an unusual band: a group of musician ghosts. What begins as a haunting encounter soon blossoms into an unlikely friendship, as Mita joins them in playing music that bridges the worlds of the living and the dead. Their performances, captured on video, explode across social media, drawing global attention for their unearthly brilliance. The sudden fame earns them a chance to compete to become one of the top six acts in a major K-Pop concert, but with opportunity comes peril — shadows close in, and Mita and her ghost friends must fight to protect her gift before it is stolen and twisted for darker purposes.

Documentary · Music · Korean

Sci-Fi · Romance · Korean

It all starts on a subway with an unexpected meeting between Hyeon-sik and Ji-yeon. Ji-yeon claims their world is a fabrication—a literal stage set. She speaks of "errors,"strange glitches where time seems to loop and people freeze in their tracks like broken dolls. Amidst this programmed reality, only the "Trumans" possess true agency. As Ji-yeon continues her lonely crusade to find others like her, she leaves Hyeon-sik with a haunting question: "Are you one of the Trumans?"