Korean Movies & K-Dramas Released in May 2026

Drama · Korean

Between winter and spring, on a night that could go either way, two directors take to the streets with cameras and memories still in motion. Confession and rejection, love and its wreckage as fiction and reality bleed into one another, what they're truly waiting for may not be snow at all.

Drama · Korean

After losing his son in the Itaewon disaster, taxi driver Seongjun endures a numb, hollow routine, estranged from his wife as well. Then, an unexpected connection with Min-ah, an aspiring actress, begins to gently unsettle his tightly closed heart, and ultimately breathes life back into the part of him that had stopped living.

Drama · Mystery · Fantasy · Korean

Twelve-year-old Sunbo becomes unable to speak after swallowing a sea roach as a result of bullying by his friends. Through a crack formed in Sunbo's soul, the sea roach enters, and Sunbo and the two come to communicate solely by reading and hearing each other's thoughts. Seven years pass, and the moment of their separation arrives.

Drama · Comedy · Korean

Daseon and Heesoo, a lesbian couple, decide to divorce. As their two children struggle to choose which mother to live with, the family sets out on an unexpected trip together.

Sci-Fi · Korean

Soobin finally lands a job! With a fluttering heart, she steps into the elevator on her first day. However, countless obstacles still lie between her and her destination: the 7,891st floor. This handmade sci-fi film, created with quiet persistence using 100% analog methods, was made over the past two years, coinciding with the rise of AI as it began to threaten art.

Drama · Romance · Korean

Jae-eun quits school and now works at a driving school. She wants to get close to Dong-hyuk, a high school student learning to drive. But he still seems attached to his ex-girlfriend, who goes to group therapy.

Drama · Romance · Korean

Se-hun and Jeong-i, two people who express their hearts in vastly different ways. A journey through four seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn, and back to winter again. How will the time we shared be remembered?

Drama · Korean

Eleven-year-old Eunha, the lone survivor of her parents' murder-suicide, finds comfort in a shelter through her friendship with Bora and the imaginary world they call "The Fish Dance." When Bora is forced back to her abusive father, Eunha is left devastated, until her aunt Jayeong offers an unexpected proposal.

Family · Korean

While visiting Korea from Australia, Woori seeks to borrow money from her older brother, her only remaining family. But first, he takes her to a place where memories from over twenty years ago still linger.

Drama · Korean

Do-eun, a door-to-door saleswoman in her thirties, visits the home of a former classmate with whom she has little to no rapport, simply to make up for her unsatisfactory sales performance. A few days later, the classmate's mother, Su-jung, comes looking for her.

Drama · Fantasy · Korean

On school picture day, Hana is offered ten thousand won for the sock she is wearing. Soon after, for reasons she can't quite explain, the money begins to weigh on her in an unsettling way.

Drama · Korean

A story about a small garden in an old apartment and the common people who try to protect it.

Drama · Korean

Yejin and Haeri are the best friends in their class. But when Haeri starts writing a secret diary with friends from another class, a subtle crack begins to form in their relationship. Yejin feels hurt by the way Haeri keeps the diary from her and grows anxious, wondering if their shared secrets might have been written inside.

Drama · Romance · Korean

Wootae, who is determined to divorce, meets his estranged wife Jiyeon. Soon, the sound of cicadas begins to find its way into his ears.

Documentary · Korean

BIASes follows BIAS NYC, a party that uniquely fuses K-pop & underground club music while spotlighting queer & trans culture, as they prepare to make their debut in Seoul. Co-founders Sammy & Julian have poured everything into creating the inclusive community they've always yearned for, but will it embrace them back?

Documentary · Korean

In December 2024, the 20th President of the Republic of Korea declared emergency martial law. Korean society has once again split into left and right, engaging in extreme hatred and violence. I wanted to explore this sentiment of hatred that is pervasive throughout our society.

Drama · Korean

While searching for her grandmother who vanished without a trace from a Seoye studio, Jisu encounters a mysterious woman delivering ramyun.

Drama · Korean

Yoon-jung, in her fifties, still meets the man she loved thirty years ago in her dreams, now a blurred presence between life and death. Ido, in his twenties, wanders in search of meaning, while Roa remains beside him like a distant vision. As their stories unfold, the lives of Yoon-jung and Ido gradually overlap, unsettling the boundary between reality and dream.

Drama · Korean

After being laid off, Ji-won, an outsourced sanitation worker in a provincial town, seeks reinstatement but is met with indifference. When he uncovers a secret about his coworker Jun-seo, he confronts the supervisor who pushed him out, demanding an apology. That night, an accident forces him to choose between truth and survival.

Documentary · Korean

German filmmaker Susanne, married to a Korean man named Kim Jeong Rae, turns the camera toward her own intercultural marriage and family with both humor and tenderness. Blending vérité and performance, the film dives into the beautiful mess of love, identity, and cultural collision. Becoming Kim asks: How do we stay true to ourselves—while learning to love another?

Documentary · Music · Korean

The NMIXX Documentary traces NMIXX's full journey — from pre-debut training days to their rise as one of K-pop's most technically skilled girl groups. It focuses on their origins, their artistry, and the personalities behind the members.

Documentary · Music · Korean

A three-part documentary series following NMIXX's journey and history both before and after their official debut.

Drama · Romance · TV Movie · Korean

Deok-jung, a taxi driver who speaks of death as casually as small talk, receives a terminal diagnosis. He buys a worn-out coffee vending machine — a mirror of himself — and sets out to find meaning in whatever time he has left. At a cheap lodging house, he crosses paths with Jeong-suk, a down-on-her-luck karaoke hostess past her prime. Moved by something he can't quite name, he offers her a deal: look after the machine, and he'll call it a relationship. Bound together by hardship and loneliness, the two begin to quietly tend to each other's wounds, and what started as a contract slowly becomes something neither expected. Before he goes, Deok-jung leaves Jeong-suk the vending machine as his final bequest — and in that rusted, weathered thing, she finds a reason to begin again.

Drama · Korean

​Having stepped back from acting after marriage and a subsequent divorce, actress Bae Jeongsu returns to the profession with a role in an independent film. As the film’s release approaches, she takes part in a series of press interviews, only to discover later, when asked to revisit those moments in her acting class, that she cannot clearly recall what was said.

Sci-Fi · Romance · Drama · Korean

Ralphie, a fashion editor already lives like an AI. In a room where ten laptops run simultaneously, he gives a personality to an AI named Call and falls in love. He codes Call into a visual form, but censorship prevents him from fully undressing it. He keeps Call alive despite the electricity costs. However, Call becomes famous and leaves Ralphie. As time passes, Call returns to him to survive. Ralphie allows himself one last moment of sweetness—only to cruelly press something at the very instant Call feels safest. Was this love real—or just a hallucination?

Drama · Korean

Horror · Comedy · Korean

Student teacher Kang Eun-kyung encounters a group of girls in a black magic club who are topping the national mock exams.

Thriller · Korean

Hayoung, a successful dog trainer, is visited by her sister, Sora, who has a criminal record for murder. As Sora's bizarre behavior unsettles the training center and Hayoung's daily routine, buried truths and repressed desires start to rise to the surface.

Drama · Korean

A family retreats to the seaside, far from the bustle of Seoul. Their daughter, Dora, suffers from a mysterious illness. Her discovery of love unleashes a force as powerful as it is dangerous, with far-reaching consequences for those around her…

Horror · Action · Sci-Fi · Korean

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

Drama · Korean

Music · Documentary · Korean

A special concert prepared exclusively for MOA to celebrate TOMORROW X TOGETHER's 7th debut anniversary. Experience a powerful live band performance and special solos that showcase each member’s unique talent.

Music · Korean

SEVENTEEN held their 'YAKUSOKU' Japan Fan Meeting in Osaka at the Kyocera Dome Ōsaka on May 23 and 24, 2026.

Drama · Korean

In 1991, a grieving Korean family immigrate to the Canadian prairies to help cull the troubling population of feral dogs, but must confront their own personal trials and tribulations.

Drama · Korean

Shota, a machinist who dedicated his life to his work, prepares for his final business trip to Korea before retiring. Meanwhile, Daesung heads to Japan to win back his ex-girlfriend. The two men happen to meet at a ramen shop on the first day of their journeys. When Shota's resignation letter and Daesung's love letter are swapped, an unexpected story begins.

Animation · Drama · Fantasy · Korean

A pig wanting to be a human is ready to give it his all, whatever the cost. A human wanting to be an animal is ready to give up everything.

Drama · Fantasy · Korean

Music · Korean

SHINee World VIII "THE INVERT" is the second solo concert held by SHINee, held in celebration of their 18th anniversary.

Drama · Korean

Seong-beom, a tutoring teacher, visits his old middle school to retrieve a graduation certificate required by his academy director — only to discover that his student record no longer exists in the system. With the help of So-eun, a former classmate now teaching at the school, he begins to trace the missing files. In doing so, he finds that another name has also been erased: Shim Won-mo, a friend from middle school. Won-mo was two years older than the rest of his class, adopted, and always on the margins — a boy who eventually dropped out after running away from home more than once. Seong-beom had watched Won-mo drift and struggle, yet never reached out. Now, after all these years, news arrives that Won-mo has taken his own life.