Korean movies are culturally and fundamentally different than Hollywood mainstream. You will find them quite heavy on the drama aspect, with all new concepts and plots to explore.
If you are new to Korean dramas or movie culture, it becomes quite essential that you enter with the right movies to get started.
Watching too far from the usual or less impressive aspects of Korean movies can spoil your introduction as a movie watcher.
So here we are with a great selection of Korean movies that you can stream on Peacock, assuming you have a subscription.
Train to Busan (2016)
IMDb Rating:7.6
rotten tomatoes:94%
Cast: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-Seok
Save boss Seok-fascinate is a wary fanatical specialist and isolated from the dad of his daughter Su-an, who needs them to partake in her birthday with her mother in Busan.
Seok-beguile sees a video of Su-a trying to sing “Salaam ʻOe” at her singing show, giving in to tension before huge crowds because of his non-appearance. Rout with liability, he decides to give Su-a’s birthday wish.
The next day, they board the KTX 101 at Seoul Station on the way to Busan.
As the train pulls out, a vicious young woman runs onto the train unnoticeably. She changes into a zombie and attacks a prepared subject matter expert, who, in like manner, turns. The sickness spreads rapidly all through the train.
The get-together leaves to another vehicle and locks the entrances. Web reports and considers spreading the news that a scourge is spreading southward over the country.
After the train stops at Daejeon Station, the getting-through explorers find the city overpowered by zombies and briskly retreat to the train, isolating it into different train vehicles in the accompanying problem.
The Wailing (2016)
IMDb Rating: 7.4
rotten tomatoes: 99%
Cast: Jun Kunimura, Hwang Jung-min, Kwak Do-won
After a Japanese man shows up at Gokseong, a little town in the mountains of South Korea, secretive contamination breaks out and makes the locals become disturbed and viciously kill their families.
One night at the police headquarters, Gracious Seong-bok and Jong-goo examine the Japanese more unusually when a stripped lady shows up outside.
Showing up at a crime location the following day, they find the lady, who has become tainted and killed her loved ones.
Later in the day, Jong-goo meets a secretive young lady called Moo-myeong (“no name” in Korean), who lets him know that the Japanese man is the offender and that he is an evil soul.
Jong-goo steps away to call Gracious Seong-bok, yet when he returns, Moo-myeong has evaporated. A devilish figure with sparkling red eyes ambushes him, and he stirs in his bed.
A nearby tracker tells Jong-goo and Gracious Seong-bok that he saw the outsider, with shining red eyes, eating from a deer’s remains in the woodland. As he encounters upsetting dreams about the evil figure, Jong-goo scrutinizes the outsider.
He enrolls with the assistance of Goodness Seong-bok and his nephew, a Japanese-talking minister named Yang I-sam (“two-three” in Korean).
Following the tracker’s bearings, they explore the more bizarre home in the backwoods, finding a hallowed place containing many photos of killed townspeople and a portion of their effects.
The Man from Nowhere (2010)
IMDb Rating:7.7
rotten tomatoes:100:%
Cast: Won Bin, Kim Sae-Ron, Kim Tae-hoon
Cha Tae-Sik is a peaceful man running a second-hand store. His main companion is a young lady, So-mi, who lives in a similar area. So-mi’s mom, Hyo-Jeong, is a go artist and opium junkie.
Educated by her sweetheart, Hyo-Jeong takes an enormous pack of opium being sold at the bar where she works and conceals it in a camera sack, which she pawns to Tae-sik for safety’s sake.
Hyo-Jeong’s activity draws into the consideration wrongdoing of ruler Goodness Myung-Gyu, who errands with his subordinates, siblings Man-Seok and Jong-Seok, to recover the opium.
Jong-Seok finds Hyo-Jeong, torments her before So-mi, and powers her to uncover where the medications are. His flunkies, Du-chi and Bear, go to Tae-Sik’s place to threaten him, yet he effectively overwhelms them.
Myung-Gyu getaway, while Tae-Sik is captured and finds Hyo-Jeong’s body, with her organs gathered, toward the rear of the vehicle he used to make the conveyance.
Acknowledging Tae-sik has a weakness for So-mi, Jong-Seok hijacks her and powers him to convey opium to Gracious Myung-gyu.
Man-Seok illuminates the police, prompting them to amass Myung-guy’s property. Tae-Sik escapes from the police headquarters, disturbing them with his showcase of battle abilities.
Upon additional examination, the cops find he was a previous clandestine employee for the South Korean Armed Force Knowledge, with various tributes, yet resigned after he was injured and a contract killer killed his pregnant spouse.
The Swordsman (2020)
IMDb Rating:6.8
rotten tomatoes: 85%
Cast: Jang Hyuk, Hyeon-soo Kim, Joe Taslim
Tae-Yul, the best fighter in Joseon who serves Ruler Gwanghaegun as his guardian, won’t join the disobedience of the Lord’s high-ranking representatives, who accept him as excessively feeble to lead the country against unfamiliar trespassers.
One of the resistance’s chiefs, Min Seung-ho, moves him to a duel, during which Tae-Yul’s sword breaks and shards of metal puncture his eyes.
The Ruler stops the duel, proclaiming that he will renounce the lofty position and deliver Tae-Yul from his administration.
Years after the fact, a more seasoned Tae-Yul now lives with his teen girl, Tae-alright. The two live and function as catchers, yet Tae-alright is progressively disappointed with her dad’s refusal to give her life experience beyond their home access to the mountains.
Tae -Yul answers that the world is more perilous than she comprehends and that he needs to safeguard her.
Tae-Yul’s wounds have deteriorated, and a neighborhood priest cautions Tae-alright that except if his eyes are treated with extraordinary spices, he will go blind in a couple of days.
The priest sends them to the broker Hwa Seon. However, Seon uncovers that the spices are both excessively costly and simply accessible to those with political associations.
The Witch: Part 1 [The Subversion] (2018)
IMDb Rating: 7.1
rotten tomatoes: 89%
Cast: Kim Da-Mi, Min-soo Jo, Choi Woo-sik
A little kid escapes from a baffling research center after a vicious occurrence that leaves some dead. Two individuals that run the lab, Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, thought of her as dead.
The young lady implodes on a homestead, where the proprietor, Mr. and Mrs. Goo, finds her. His better half medical attendants the young lady back to well-being and takes on her.
After 10 years, the young lady, Ja-Yoon, is carrying on with a typical existence with next to no memory of her past.
Her family is battling monetarily, her mom is giving early indications of dementia, and Ja-Yoon is experiencing intermittent episodes of headaches.
With an end goal of bringing in cash, she chooses to try out for a public singing challenge that guarantees an enormous prize.
She intrigues the adjudicators with her extraordinary ability – the supernatural capacity to make the amplifier suspend. This makes Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi understand that Ja-Yoon is the young lady that got away and send men to recover her.
The Villainess (2017)
IMDb Rating:6.6
rotten tomatoes:69%
Cast: Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-Kyun, Sung Jun
In the initial scene, Sook-hee, an exceptionally gifted professional killer, enters a foyer and kills various individuals before being encircled by police and grinning a troubling grin.
She is tranquilized and taken to South Korea’s insight organization, where they give her a plastic medical procedure. To give her another beginning, they likewise counterfeit her passing and relegate her to another name: Chae Yeon-soo.
They tell her she is pregnant and offer her an arrangement: if She acknowledges and keeps in mind that in preparing, she brings forth a girl, Eun-Hye.
In a flashback, we see 20-year-old Sook-hee as an exceptionally gifted professional killer attempting to kill Jang-Chun, a man with yellow teeth.
War of the Arrows (2011)
IMDb Rating:7.1
rotten tomatoes:100%
Cast: Park Hae-il, Seung-ryong Ryu, Mu-Yeol Kim
The film starts with two youngsters, Nam-Yi and his more youthful sister Ja-in, being pursued by Lord Injo’s watchmen and saved by their dad Choi Pyeong-rung, an official of Ruler Gwanghae and a gifted toxophilite.
He sends his youngsters to find a safe space with his dearest companion Kim Mu-seon. As they escape, Ja-in implores her sibling to return to their dad; however, Choi Pyeong-rung is killed before Nam-Yi. Nam-Yi, however, is chomped by the gatekeeper canines, kills them, and getaways with Ja-in.
After 13 years, Nam-Yi has turned into a talented bowman and tracker with his colleagues Posse du, Prattle yong, and Web optimization hooligan, Mu-son’s child.
He gains from Website design enhancement thug that he and Ja-in plan to get hitched, with the endorsement of Mu-son, who is likewise Jae-in’s adoptive parent.
During the wedding, Nam-Yi is up in the mountains hunting deer when he hears the thunder of attacking Manchu powers.
At the point when Nam-Yi successfully returns to the town, he finds his non-permanent dad butchered and his sister removed.
The film continues from there turning into an interesting story.
Pieta (2012)
IMDb Rating:7.1
rotten tomatoes:73%
Cast: Min-soo Jo, Lee Jung-Jin, Ki-Hong Woo
Kang-do has a singular existence as an inhumane and merciless obligation gatherer for his clients, predatory lenders who request a 10x profit from a one-month credit.
To recuperate the gigantic interest, the borrowers sign a protection application for handicaps, and Kang-do harms them to record the cases.
On one such occurrence, Kang-do visits Hun-Cheol, who works in a flimsy production line with his significant other Myeong-ja.
The little credit he required a month prior has gathered momentum into a much bigger figure, and Kang-do shows up to disable him and record the case.
In a frantic attempt, Myeong-Ja attempts to allure Kang-do by stripping, beseeching him to allow them one more week to get the cash for the premium.
Kung Food (2018)
IMDb Rating:6.4
rotten tomatoes:65%
Cast: Zhengjian Guo, Yu Meng, Puzhao Yangguang
In this movie, Super Bao who is voiced by Koula Kyriaki Glyptou is excused from combative techniques preparing, ill-equipped yet given the “staff of predetermination” on his excursion to turning into a legend.
After he joins a group of globe-trotters, they should safeguard the Universe of Food when a band of privateers plots to take the five flavor stones and control taste for eternity.
This animation stew is a blowout for the eyes and ears, yet it overloads crowds. Super Bao is a steamed bun who needs to be a legend. His companions are jam rolls and noodles; his adversaries are sushi and calamari.
The story hammers home the five essential components of taste (sweet, sharp, pungent, severe, and zesty), as the underhanded Ruler Octopus (Barry Samson) needs to control flavor so he can taste better.
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