Korean Movies & K-Dramas Released in May 2024

Drama · Korean

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Drama · Korean

Young-gil's mother, Deok-ja, passes away. Young-gil files a death certificate and heads to clean up Deok-ja's house with his son Jun-soo. There, they discover the metaverse game that Deok-ja used to play and realize that she left a map of all the places she wanted to go in her life. Young-gil and Jun-soo start playing the game to find out where Deok-ja really wanted to go.

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Sungil and Sunhye blow out candles and make wishes on their fifth anniversary.

Drama · Korean

Yeon is an ordinary woman in her mid-30s who is ambiguous everywhere—a story about things coming up to her.

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Hye-young meets her dead father in her dream. In the midst of her tears, Hye-young is woken up by her cousin Eunji.

Mystery · Korean

A man and a dog walk to the tip of the mountain every evening. There is a light that shines at sunset. They are looking for it, but the sun has set, and the forest is deep.

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For the purpose of collection, preservation, and recording, numerous faces that existed in different times and places densely gather in a single space. Among them are photos of Koreans taken during the Japanese occupation era for physical measurements and Buddha statues with severed heads for reasons unknown.

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In the game of Mahjong, the president of a board game club wants to beat up a new member. Boink!

Drama · Korean

Shortly before the start of music class, where the teacher forces the students to sing as a punishment, Hansel, a high school student, realizes that she has forgotten to bring her recorder. For Hansel, the idea of singing in front of her classmates is worse than death, so she rushes home to get her recorder.

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Hyeon-yeong, mother to ten-year-old Jiho, finds herself in a perplexing situation when Seongmin, her son’s friend, vanishes without a trace. Since his disappearance, Seongmin’s mother, Suwon, has begun showing up at their home unannounced.

Romance · Korean

Two women fall in love with the charms of a black guy. It hurts a lot at first, but as time goes on, they fall into ecstatic excitement.

Drama · Korean

Drama · Korean

Yeong-ju lost a friend because of the 'Seoul Halloween crowd crush' in 2022. Unable to recover from the trauma, she took a leave of absence from college and volunteered to give career counselling to middle school students while undergoing psychiatric treatment. As time passed and both her treatment and volunteer work came to an end, the traumatic autumn came around again.

Drama · Korean

The very first woman had no navel because she was born from the soil.

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A man emerges from the ribs of Lee Bom, who lives from house to house with her many lovers. The Rib destroys wherever Lee Bom is, and she runs away from him. But the more she tries to avoid him, the more she feels empty inside, and her sex drive and appetite grow stronger.

Drama · Korean

A woman is walking on Jeongdong-gil. A man appeared in front of her.

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Sujin, the class president, accidentally hurts deaf classmate Juyeon. Sujin visits Juyeon at home with her friends to apologize, but Juyeon refuses to accept her apology and Sujin’s friends turn out to be of no help, either.

Drama · Korean

Director So-hyoung is assisting with a documentary shoot at a mine about to cease operations.

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A girl finds an injured pigeon in the corner of the graduation ceremony, and as she picks it up, a camera captures the secret of an old friend.

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As a man finds out his lover is pregnant, a random boy comes to their house, asking them to fix his television. While the man silently fixes the boy’s television, the woman calls the police. Late at night, the boy’s mother comes to the lovers’ house. The lovers talk about each other, and the boy and the mother talk about the television they left behind.

Drama · Korean

A secluded house in the countryside, Seori feels cold even in the middle of summer. Late at night, when the water in her house is cut off, she goes to a neighbor's house with her young son to borrow water.

Documentary · Korean

A set of 500*500 pixel boxes analyzes a group of image data produced on a train—a train running between Korea and Kazakhstan. Mostly, the detection process appears to be random. However, despite the incoherency, the boxes can generate an output, a story that can make sense.

Drama · Korean

Ji-seok is a director. He has been struggling because of the money needed to produce films. Song PD, Ji-seok's colleague, introduces him to an actress, Hong Mi-ran. Hong, now with terminal disease, agrees to pay for all the production costs under the condition that she must be the lead. The lifetime project of the troubled souls—would this make it through to the end?

Drama · Korean

Sooin, a piano teacher, decides to attend a debut concert at her professor's request after a long absence. As she prepares for the concert, she reflects on her memories and feelings.

Documentary · Korean

On the road of horses that erased horses, I remember the time of the horses. Use the horse's ears and mouth to feel it. Blurry but wide vision, distant and near passing conversations.

Documentary · Korean

There is an old cinema in Wonju, and some people want to preserve the historic cinema. But the mayor wants to demolish a 60-year-old cinema. How will this story end? No matter how it ends up, Wonju Academy Cinema is a film about people who love old and historic single-screen cinema.

Drama · Korean

Wooju brings a corpse to his lover Jisu's place. Meanwhile, Giwan has a nightmare that he's floating in space. He searches for articles about rocket launches every day.

Romance · Korean

While a couple is enjoying morning sex, the husband urgently gets a call to go to work, and the wife masturbates alone out of disappointment at not being able to finish relieving herself. At that moment, another sex partner comes to her house. When the husband suddenly returns home, the two are having sex, and the sex partner hurriedly hides in her room.

Thriller · Mystery · Korean

A realtor who loves sneaking into people's homes finds the dead body of a scamming social media influencer – can he find out who did it?

Romance · Drama · Korean

Back in his hometown, Hotae reunites with Donghee—now quiet, distant, and hiding more than just stress from school.

Documentary · Korean

KIM Dong-ho is the founder of the Busan International Film Festival and one of the key figures in the rise of Korean cinema. Starting his career as a civil servant, he dedicated his whole life to the sheer passion for films. With his deep commitment and instinctive creativity, he will keep “walking in the movies.”

Drama · Korean

After finishing his long career as a government official in Hanyang, His Excellency returns home with his gisaeng lover. His mistress, who washed her identity as his foster daughter, can't adjust to the boring country life and becomes lonely. On the other hand, His Excellency keeps paying attention to his female servant, a familiar face in his hometown full of memories, and becomes increasingly neglectful of his mistress. The mistress, who is saddened by His Excellency's actions, receives comfort for her body and mind from his male servant. One day, an imperial scholar comes to visit and takes control of his mistress, but when His Excellency does not take any action, she becomes greatly disappointed. However, the male servant, who watched the scene, seeks revenge for her from the imperial scholar but is caught by His Excellency and beats him. At the end, his mistress decides to run away with the male servant in the middle of the night.

Drama · Korean

As her grandmother comes home from the nursing home, Kaya begins to resent her grandmother for being cruel to her mother.

Drama · Korean

Dong-ju (32 years old) has been preparing for the civil service exam for over 8 years, but he fails each time. Even in the year he thought was his last, Dong-ju is at a loss as he doesn't know what to do next. Dong-ju feels that even the worries and attention of the people around her are like pressure on her and leaves Seoul as if she were running away. Dong-ju looks back on his life as he reunites with his past ties and meets again by chance.

Drama · Korean

A grieving father who lost his daughter in the Sewol ferry incident looks back on his long journey to piece together his lost memory and pick up the pieces of his life in this commemorative film marking the 10th anniversary of the tragedy.

Romance · Korean

College girls fall in love with the charm of a black man! Oppa, it's so good! Let me eat it one more time!

Crime · Thriller · Korean

Young-il is a plotter who manipulates murder-for-hire cases to look like accidents. Nobody knows those accidents are in fact perfectly plotted, planned murders. After finishing a flawlessly plotted case with no trace of evidence left behind, Young-il receives a new request. His new target is a prominent political figure who is always under the spotlight. Even with the higher risk of getting exposed, Young-il decides to take the case with his team members, Jackie, Wol-cheon, and Jeom-man. When the plot is ready after immaculate preparation and numerous rehearsals, the team finally makes its move, but some unexpected trouble threatens Young-il’s perfect plan.

Drama · Korean

Set in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the world- Gi-cheol's family is overjoyed when he gets a job as a customs officer at a checkpoint near the border. He was by-the-books man who never took bribes from the smugglers and was loyal to their great leader, determined to weed out any traitors who were against the regime. But one day, when one of the smugglers sets him up for bribery, Gi-cheol and his family have no choice but to escape the country and cross the border… whilst the very comrades he trusted turn their gun barrels at him.