The 25 Best Korean Movies on Netflix to Watch Right Now

25. Psychokinesis (2018)

• Run Time: 1 hr. 41 min.
• Genre: Action Adventure
• Director: Yeon Sang-ho​​​​​​​
• Cast: Ryu Seung-ryong, Shim Eun-kyung, Park Jung-min, Kim Min-jae, Jung Yu-mi

One of Korea’s first superhero films is Psychokinesis, written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho, who also helmed the 2016 smash hit zombie movie Train to Busan. Shin Seok-heon, a down-on-his-luck security guard who isn’t exactly the kind of person you’d think would become a hero, is played by Ryu Seung-ryong in the movie.

Seok-heon, played by Shim Eun-kyung, is Seok-heon’sestrangeddaughter Shin Roo-mi. After a strange meteor grants him the ability to telekinesis, Seok-heon tries to change his life by aiding Shin Roo-mi in protecting her business from a mob-controlled construction company that wants to evict her.

24. The Bros (2017)

• Run Time: 1 hr. 42 min.
• Genre: Comedy
• Director: Chang You-jeong
• Cast: Ma Dong-seok, Lee Dong-hwi, Lee Hanee

The Bros is a hilarious misadventure about two very different, estranged brothers who are compelled to work together as they go through all of the customs associated with a Korean funeral after their father passes away.

The movie is directed by Chang You-jeong and stars Ma Dong-seok as Lee Seok-bong and Lee Dong-hwi as Lee Joo-bong, the two brothers in question. Marvel fans will recognize Ma Dong-seok from his role as Gilgamesh in Eternals.

23. Time to Hunt (2020)

• Run Time: 2 hr. 14 min.
• Genre: Crime Drama
• Director: Yoon Sung-hyun
• Cast: Lee Je-hoon, Ahn Jae-hong, Choi Woo-shik, Park Jung-min

Time to Hunt is a thriller that is another Netflix Original that takes place in a dystopian near future where poverty is even more pervasive and destructive. A group of friends decide to pull off one last heist together to get the money they need in order to leave the city and start a better life.

Their target is a well-known gambling establishment. The owners of the casino decide to retaliate by hiring a ruthless assassin to hunt down the four friends and recover the security hard drives after they successfully pull off the heist and steal a sizable sum of money.

22. Veteran (2015)

• Run Time: 2 hr. 3 min.
• Genre: Action Crime
• Director: Ryoo Seung-wan
• Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Yoo Ah-in

The premise of Veteran is a well-known one: despite overwhelming odds, tough police detective Seo Do-cheol (Hwang Jung-min), who runs his own crime syndicate and attempted to murder Hwang’s friend, is determined to bring arrogant millionaire Jo Tae-oh (Yoo Ah-in) to justice.

Veteran doesn’t feel derivative, though; instead, it combines its own distinctive characters with a potent blend of suspense and action.

21. 20th Century Girl (2022)

• Run Time: 1 hr. 59 min.
• Genre: Romance Drama
• Director: Woo-ri Bang
• Cast: Kim Yoo-jeong, Woo-Seok Byeon, Park Jung-woo

A charming and beautifully shot movie, 20th Century Girl is written and directed by Woo-ri Bang. The 1999 setting of 20th Century Girl follows a sweet and kind adolescent named Na Bo-Ra (Kim Yoo-jeong) who has a fantastical imagination. Na Bo-Ra is taken aback by an unexpected romance after her best friend asks her to keep an eye on a popular boy in her class.

20. Seoul Searching

• Writer: Benson Lee
• Director: Benson Lee
• Cast: In-Pyo Cha, Justin Chon, Jessika Van
• IMDb Rating: 7.0/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 75%

Depicted by Netflix as “exceptional, thoughtless, and ardent,” this 2015 film is about Korean teenagers raised in various countries who travel to Seoul to learn about their social inheritance at a day camp set up by the public power.

The movie is set in 1986 and researches the teens’ changes, as well as their grappling with issues like race and character. It relies upon the certifiable story of what boss Benson Lee experienced as a high schooler when he participated in a tantamount government-upheld program.

19. Beyond Evil

• Writer: Kim Su-Jin
• Director: Shim Na-Yeon
• Cast: Shin Ha-kyun, Yeo Jin-gu, Choi Dae-hoon
• IMDb Rating: 8.2/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A

“Beyond Evil” is one of those beguiling showstoppers that sticks long after its end. Undauntedly plotted, enamoring, and all-around inclination outlining. It begins, as most stories do, in the sluggish town of Manyang where accursed first grew 20 years sooner.

Ladies disappeared, with nothing tracked down beside their fingertips. Right when a notable, well-known young lady joins the evaporated, her family, Lee Dong Sik (Shin Ha Kyun), is blamed for killing her.

For 20 years, the present, Lee Dong Sik has been for quite a while defended the murder. A cop in Manyang, he crosses the vulnerability hatred of neighboring people there who truly haven’t forgotten the past.

18. 26 Years

• Writer: Hae-Young Lee, Kang Pool
• Director: Geun-hyun Cho
• Cast: Jin Goo, Hye-jin Han, Soo-bin Bae
• IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A

Set around the Gwangju butcher of 1980, when an open fire was referenced on typical individuals who had hurt and killed a tremendous number of individuals, ’26 Years’ relates the loathings of the episode amidst people being alluded to, 26 years after the occasion occurred.

It was President Chun Doo-hwan, who was committed to the butcher. Five men, who were the greatest disillusionments and mishaps from the butcher, pack up together to chop down the individual who was committed to crashing and destroying a colossal number of lives.

17. The Drug King

• Writer: Min-ho Woo
• Director: Min-ho Woo
• Cast: Kang-ho Song, Jo Jung-Suk, Bae Doona
• IMDb Rating: 6.2/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83%

This movie depends upon a credible story portraying the presence of a medication big boss called Lee Doo-sam. Lee began as a modest individual from a criminal alliance and participated in the sneaking of important stones and other such things going before attempting his hands in the solution exchange.

Consistently, the benefit that he made using the medication exchange is unparalleled and pushed him while rush toward becoming one of the most famous merchants in all of Korea.

The movie fills in as an illuminating record of the medication exchange that happened during the 1970s in South Korea, where a stock line succeeded in Busan and Japan.

Tune Kang-ho, apparently the best whiz of Korea, has made a name across the world with shows in films like ‘Recollections Of Murder’, ‘Parasite’ and ‘A Taxi Driver’, plays the essential person with unrivaled inclination.

16. Okja

• Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Jon Ronson
• Director: Bong Joon Ho
• Cast: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyun Ahn
• IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86%

A South Korean-American co-creation, ‘Okja’ is a film by the acclaimed supervisor Bong Joon-Ho and can be his fundamental youthful grown-up very much arranged film to date.

The record of ‘Okja’ relies upon the record of a pig that has been characteristically intended to be colossal and to convey pork of the best quality.

Many such pigs were scattered by a relationship starting with one side of the planet then onto the next to farmers, and the one which turned out to be wonderful of the gathering is the eponymous pig, Okja.

Now when the alliance takes out Okja, her owner, a young woman called Mija, decides to follow them and rescue Okja from being butchered.

This takes Mija from her little town to Seoul and starts there in the United States. An astoundingly beguiling watch, ‘Okja’ is something excellent as demonstrated by what we have come to collaborate Bong Joon-Ho with.

15. Forgotten

• Writer: Hang-jun Jang
• Director: Hang-jun Jang
• Cast: Kang Ha-neul, Yeon Je Hyung, Mu-Yeol Kim
• IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A

Make popcorn and plan to get comfortable with this secret exciting ride from 2017. The story follows Jin-Seok, who sees his kinfolk Yoo-Seok’s snatching.

Following 19 days, Yoo-Seok gets back one night without any memory of what occurred, which persuades the family to think he controlled those shocking recollections. Before long, Jin-Seok fathoms that the two his kin and family are acting phenomenally abnormal and attempts to look for help, in any case, winds up getting found out by his “kinfolk.”

14. Night In Paradise

• Writer: Park Hoon-Jung
• Director: Park Hoon-Jung
• Cast: Tae-goo Eom, Jeon Yeo-bin, Seung-Won Cha
• IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74%

‘Night in Paradise’ is a hauntingly sublime film that turns around Tae-goo, a mobster who tracks down the astonishing opportunity to change places with his foe force. Regardless, he declines the course of action inciting the killings of his sister and niece.

Angered and looking for the counter, Tae-goo peers out at the top of the foe gathering and kills him going before fleeing to Jeju Island. From the beginning, all trust has every one of the reserves of being lost in like way with a huge objective on his back, Tae-goo is grievous to pass on.

Regardless, when he meets Jae-Yeon, an essentially debilitated lady who has abandoned life, he finds another motivation to live for. Showing the developing relationship between the two and following the enemy pack on their outing for the counter, the film offers an offbeat blend of development and acting.

13. Steel Rain

• Writer: Ha-Yong Jung, WooSuk Yang
• Director: WooSuk Yang
• Cast: Jung Woo-sung, Kwak Do-won, Kim Kap-su
• IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78%

‘Steel Rain’ starts with Eom Chul-entrance, an official of the North Korean Special Forces, who have abandoned South Korea nearby another basic yet ignorant man.

Eom then coexists with Cheol-overwhelm, the Chief of Foreign Security, and together they ought to choose to forestall the fast advance toward the Korean conflict which could consolidate the utilization of atomic weapons.

‘Steel Rain’ is an engaging issue, with portrayals of anguish, activity, adrenaline rush, and tension that has been gone all on through the film. Watch it before it is carried somewhere near Netflix. Wink!

12. Tune in for Love

• Writer: Ji-woo Jung
• Director: Ji-woo Jung
• Cast: Kim Go-eun, Jung Hae-In, Park Hae-joon
• IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71%

‘Tune In For Love’ is a sweet, genuine ardent story between a sort, unbendable lady and a hesitant man with a dull past. They initially meet as teenagers when the kid, crisp out of juvie, notices one more calling at the adolescent’s family’s heated great shop. The pair moves toward a subsequent alliance yet is disastrously restricted, until destiny goes along with them once more, years in a little while.

Eventually, in their late twenties, the two start dating at any rate issues emerge when he isn’t remarkably moving nearer about his past and she essentially ought to comprehend him better.

11. Kingdom Ashin of the North

• Writer: Eun-hee Kim
• Director: Seong-hun Kim
• Cast: Jun Ji-hyun, Si-ah Kim, Byeong-eun Park
• IMDb Rating: 7.0/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76%

Near the finishing of Kingdom season 2, Lee Chang and Seo Bi had seen where the recovery plant had arisen. They encountered Gianna Jun when the season wrapped up.

At this point, in Kingdom: Ashin of the North, we will see the recorded scenery of Gianna Jun who acknowledges the piece of Ashin. Ashin lives in the Yalu River area on the Chinese Border. She is the person who sold the seeds of the reclamation plan to travelers and additionally showed them how to utilize it across Joseon.

It was induced that China was connected with chopping Joseon down and they utilized Ashin to progress forward ahead. How could Ashin help Joseon’s enemy and what is her story? This is all over what the side endeavor would uncover.

10. Pandora

• Writer: Jeong-woo ParkJong-woo Park
• Director: Jeong-woo ParkJong-woo Park
• Cast: Daekyum Ahn, Do-bin Baek, Seung-Hoon Choi
• IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 70%

Pyung-Sub is stressed over the state of the nearby thermal/Nuclear energy station; however, nobody appears to zero in on him.

Notwithstanding, when a shake strikes, it genuinely harms the nuclear power plant and starts to spread alert. At this point, fiery Jae-Hyeok and his accomplices should obstruct another atomic catastrophe.

‘Pandora’ isn’t just an encouraging film yet moreover a lively one, in light of the substance. With inconceivable remarkable portrayals and fair cinematography, supervisor Jong-captivate Park can convey a horrendous story with a vibe of this current reality.

9. Space Sweepers

• Writer: Sung-hee Jo
• Director: Sung-hee Jo
• Cast: Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-kyu
• IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69%

Set in the year 2092, the film follows four space pioneers as they travel all over in their focal objective to track down astonishing space garbage.

Their karma startlingly changes while resulting in recuperating a crashed space transport, they look inside to see what appears as a little 7-year-old young girl. In any case, they in a short time grasp that the young person is a humanoid robot and a staggeringly basic one at that.

Moreover, with the UTS Space Guards showing an interest in the robot, the space voyagers choose to recognize the entrance and request an outcome, therefore, in any case, the exchange doesn’t work out exactly as expected, and the four mates wind up uncovering unsafely inclined pieces of information that try to change themselves for good!

8. Sweet and Sour

• Writer: Lee Gye-Wook, Kurumi Inui
• Director: Kae-Byeok Lee
• Cast: Jacky Jung, Krystal Jung, Jang Ki-Yong
• IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 33%

‘Sweet and Sour’ is an amazing veritable show film that tries to pull at one’s heartstrings. By and large, whirling around Jang-hyuk, the movie depicts how he ends up being frightfully charmed by Da-Eun, a clinical watchman at the emergency place where he was treated for Hepatitis B.

Soon their relationship blooms and the couple begin living independently. Notwithstanding, with Jang-hyuk finding some work in a substitute city, the extended drive starts presenting issues for their relationship.

Moreover, Jang-hyuk begins making warm motions for one of his accomplices, inciting more difficulty. The remainder of the film then records Da-Eun and Jang-hyuk’s exposure as they attempt to figure out the issues just for an enormous bend eventually.

7. Love And Leashes

• Writer: Hyeon-jin Park
• Director: Hyeon-jin Park
• Cast: Seohyun, Joon-Young Lee, Jennifer Sun Bell
• IMDb Rating: 6.4/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80%

Jung Ji-Woo works for a giant affiliation. She ponders her colleague Jung Ji-hoo, however, she hasn’t passed on to him how she feels. Sometimes, Jung Ji-Woo gets a gathering.

The pack was typical for her partner Jung Ji-hoo; however, the vehicle was upset because of their relative names. Exactly when Jung Ji-Woo opens the gathering, she sees a canine chain for the circumstance. Around then, at that point, Jung Ji-hoo runs over and tells her that it is his pack. The canine rope is made plans for S&M use and has a spot with Jung Ji-Hoo.

He enlightens Jung Ji-Woo concerning his S&M fixation and his advantage in tolerating a satisfying aspect. Jung Ji-Woo doesn’t rebuke Jung Ji-hoo, which contacts Jung Ji-Hoo. He asks whether she would change into his ruler. Jung Ji-Woo perceives, and they vow to have a brief multi-month relationship with Jung Ji-Woo changing into his rule.

6. Silenced

• Writer: Hwang Dong-hyuk, Ji-young Gong
• Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk
• Cast: Gong Yoo, Yu-mi Jung, Hyeon-soo Kim
• IMDb Rating: 8.0/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%

Thinking about the affirmed record of what occurred at a school for the gathering weakened in South Korea. In 2000, a head and a North Korean agent had started to attack and misuse two or three hearing debilitated understudies at their school for nearly 4 progressive years. In any case we no doubt shouldn’t remember it, the open door has shown up to challenge this terrible cold-blooded truth.

Kang In-ho is the named workmanship educator at Benevolence Academy, a school for hearing-debilitated young people in the made-up city of Mujin, North Jeolla Province.

He has a weak past – his soul mate completed every one of them a year sooner, and his got-out youngster is under the possibility of his mom. He is restless to show his new understudies, yet the kids are held and distant, trying to take the necessary steps not to run into him however much as could reasonably be expected.

In-ho doesn’t surrender, notwithstanding, attempting to show his ideal children to think about it. Right when the kids, at last, open up, In-ho faces the stunning reality of life in the school and what the understudies have been driving forward secretly: the youngsters are dynamic truly, and genuinely abused by their educators.

5. High Society

• Writer: Hyuk Byun
• Director: Hyuk Byun
• Cast: Park Hae-il, Soo Ae, Kim Gyu-Sun
• IMDb Rating: 5.5/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 82%

This film retells the story of a married, typical couple. The amigo, Jang Tae-Ju, is a respected instructor, while his perfect partner, Oh Su-Yeon, is a respected boss of a regarded craftsmanship show.

The story follows the pair as they want to achieve their more exclusive class goals: Jang Tae-Ju’s requirements to have a political occupation and Oh Su-yeo’s necessities to change into the most noteworthy mark of her show.

4. The Call

• Writer: Chung-Hyun Lee, Sergio Casci
• Director: Chung-Hyun Lee
• Cast: Park Shin-Hye, Jeon Jong-Seo, Sung-ryung Kim
• IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 100%

This spine chiller from an overall perspective responds to the subject of what would’ve occurred if, rather than Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock utilizing the spellbound time-traveling letter bind The Lake House to fire up a gigantic distance feeling, a continuous executioner had utilized it rather torment their next misfortune.

Jeon Jong-web design improvement and Park Shin-Hye, only, play those two focal characters, who can connect 10 years secluded through a cordless telephone in the house where they each spent their particular childhoods.

At any rate, their drops start consistent, with each giving enough unique data to work on their lives, things rapidly proceed, with the executioner exploiting their involved acquaintance with submit murders without drawing in police thought and, at long last, killing her tremendous distance telephone buddy.

3. Along With the Gods – The Last 49 Days

• Writer: Yong-hwa Kim, Ho-min Ju
• Director: Yong-hwa Kim
• Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Ju Ji-Hoon, Hyang-gi Kim
• IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77%

The three couriers of death Gang-edge, Haewonmak, and Lee Deok-Choon will coordinate their 49th soul Kim Soo-hong to the secret world primers. In the meantime, God of the House will recover the couriers of death’s memories from 1,000 years earlier.

2. Along With the Gods – The Two worlds

• Writer: Yong-hwa Kim, Ho-min Ju
• Director: Yong-hwa Kim
• Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Tae-Hyun Cha, Ju Ji-Hoon
• IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 67%

Fireman Kim Ja-hong tumbles from a consuming plan while saving a small kid. He gets up to see three guards clutching to guide him into time never-ending.

There he observes that every spirit should finish through seven assessments over 49 days during which judges close whether the individual can be permitted to reestablish. Ja-hong is viewed as a paragon since he passed on gently and if the three watchmen can win his case, it will add to their revivals.

As the preliminary advances, the reviewers draw out the way that Ja-hong is a real issue for certain, offenses, including misleading others, permitting an accomplice to bomb wretchedly, and attempting to kill his mom. The three guardians fight that he acted liberally in all events. Meanwhile, an angry soul is destroying Heaven. The watchman Gang-edge goes sensible to track down the legitimization behind this.

There he explores the collapse of Ja-hong’s kinfolk Soo-hong not long after the devotion to organization and the enduring through Ja-hong’s serene mother goes through, which is all risking Ja-hong’s opportunities for recovery.

1. Alive

• Writer: Il Cho, Matt Naylor
• Director: Il Cho
• Cast: Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-Hye, Jeon Bae-soo
• IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%

Individuals who are exhausted from being cooped up in their homes during the months-long quarantine will connect with this zombie attack film that is suggestive of ‘Train To Busan’.

‘#Alive’ is a vivifying productivity show including a solitary gamer caught in his home with no food, no weapons, relatively few assets, and an enormous number of hungry zombies joining his course of action, nearly kicking down his front area.

He is exactingly cut off and gets no possibility of driving forward close by expecting he gets inventive. The best thing about Korean zombie films is that their zombies are not the languid, crazy animals of ‘The Walking Dead’, yet incredibly expedient and awful and disturbing.

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