Most Popular Movies & TV Shows from the South Korea

This is a list of the most popular movies & tv shows from the South Korea. On this top list of South Korea movies are films such as, Female Hostel 3, Music Bank, A Breeze of Love, 12.12: The Day, Road to Kingdom, It's Dangerous Beyond The Blankets, Sleepless Sex 2, Line Romance, Stray Kids, among many other enticing movies about South Korea.What would you say are among the best South Korea movies of all time. And how many of these popular films have you seen before.

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Female Hostel 3

Lonely boarding house women! Any man who goes in there can't come out in one piece! Boarding house owner Hyeon-jeong and tenants Seon-mi and Joo-hee have a rule; boyfriends are allowed to visit, but they can't sleep together! One day, Joo-hee brings in her boyfriend, Jeong-sik, and they secretly spend a hot night together. The next morning, Jeong-sik tries to leave quietly, but gets caught by Hyeon-jeong. She tells him that he broke the rules and he needs to be punished, so she comes on to him.

Music Bank

The best tunes in Korea! The most sensational music show on TV satisfies all your senses! Fantastic performances and awe-inspiring harmony by the nation's top musicians! Follow the latest trend in the Korean music scene through the K-chart, a summary of the week's hottest songs.

A Breeze of Love

Do Hyun, the captain of the basketball team, is preparing for the championship. Hye In, the team manager, brings Dong Wook, Do Hyun's first love, to fill in for an injured teammate. Dong Wook and Do Hyun used to go to the same high school. They spent time together and eventually kissed, but Dong Wook had to transfer schools. They meet again on campus and have to play together in a game. They make a bet that if Dong Wook wins, he can officially join the basketball club. After winning, Dong Wook suggests they live together. Do Hyun is unsure, but Dong Wook can only sleep well when they are together. Will they be able to fix their relationship?

12.12: The Day

After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d’état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee Tae-shin, an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against Chun Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their decision and Defense Minister is gone. In the midst of chaos, the spring of Seoul that everyone longed for heads to unexpected direction.

Road to Kingdom

7 K-pop boy groups will compete and groove in the stage with their exciting performances, and only one group will survive to compete in the Kingdom.

It's Dangerous Beyond The Blankets

Some people like to stay at home doing nothing, and they are called a “homebody.” However, five homebody celebrities join this show to stay together and spend a holiday together. Actor Lee Sang Woo, Kang Daniel of Wanna One, Yong Jun Hyung of Highlight, Xiumin of Exo, and singer Park Jae Jung move into the same house. Will they be able to get along together?

Sleepless Sex 2

Jeong Mi-rae has had an outstanding ability in writing since she was young. She's realistic and she gets a lot of job offers. However, this is only when she was young and now that she's been at it for 10 years, she doesn't get as much work as she used to. Now, she gets offers for adult comics or erotic movie scenarios. She starts working on them so that she can make a living but as realistic as she is, she needs to experience eroticism herself to write anything about it. She tries out different positions on her own and even on younger men who are easy to seduce. However, the production company doesn't like what she wrote and Mi-rae's ego is hurt. So, she plans doing something that will surprise them.

Line Romance

Min Ho, a music producer who is struggling to write a new song because of the lack of inspiration. He is told by his manger that he has to find love so he would have emotions to write a new melody. He then meets a Chinese tourist named Ling Ling. Min Ho is inspired by Ling Ling but due to their language barrier he decides to adds her as a friend onthe mobile messenger app LINE to communicate with one another.

Stray Kids

Will all of these nine charming boys be able to make it? Find out if the JYP’s most independent trainees can prove themselves to be K-pop idol material and successfully debut as a K-pop idol boy group!

Hero Inside

Heroes can pop out of their comic books when summoned in this comedic action-adventure.

Mozart l'opéra Rock 3D

The show starts when Colloredo is named successor to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. The new king is an austere authoritarian man which is insensitive to the music of Mozart and allergic to the enthusiasm and the impertinence of the character. For Mozart, Salzburg's life quickly becomes untenable. He was 20 when he decided to leave his hometown with his mother in search of a better future in a European capital. The journey of the composer will be made of failures and cruel disappointments. But at the end, Mozart will experience glory, love, rivalry before its ultimate fall and misery. He left his best work, the Requiem, unfinished.

Miss Korea

This drama takes place in year 1997 and is about a failing cosmetics company that tries to turn a former high school beauty queen into Miss Korea. Oh Ji Young is the former high school beauty queen who has grown up to be nothing more an an elevator girl. Meanwhile, Kim Hyung Joon is an employee of the cosmetics company and will lead the efforts to turn Oh Ji Young into Miss Korea to save his company.

Master Key

Master Key is an interactive variety show where celebrities compete with one another and play various games in order to achieve victory each week. The players have to find those who have the two Master Keys, reasoning through an intense psychological warfare. The viewers become "Watchers" and participate in the game as well. By the number of votes, each star receives special abilities. Who will be chosen by the Watchers and become the final winner?

Hospital Playlist Goes Camping

The variety show features the cast of Hospital Playlist going on a two-days-and-one-night camping trip together.

Idol Room

Find out all about your favorite K-pop idol groups! Hosted by the “idol experts”, Jeong Hyeong-don and Defconn!

The First Time

Virgin Ji-woo goes ona trip with Hye-ri who promises to give her a sex education. Ji-woo's mission is to sleep with a man she meets on vacation.

Legend Hero Samgugjeon

Legend Hero Samgugjeon is a Korean tokusatsu television series. Produced by MoonWatcher and Synergy Media. The Series is broadcasted in EBS1. Legend Hero Samgugjeon is heavily based off of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Many elements of the original story are carried over to the show. Many characters share names and attributes with characters of the original story. Several events in the show are also based on events in the classic story.

Youthful Older Sister

A young man grows up with his older cousin who is like an older sister to him. When he grows up, he goes to visit her at her home where her friend is also visiting. The three of them under roof make for some interesting circumstances.

Hello Counselor

A talk show with an emphasis on regular people, regardless of age or gender, that aims to help take down communication barriers by sharing stories about life.

Never Belongs to Me

An abused boy, Gun-tae, goes under Dr. Hell’s knife because his girlfriend demands revenge. He has a machine gun inserted into his groin in exchange for his penis. He fires at the moment of orgasm, attacking his enemies. However, he soon learns that he cannot go back to who he used to be.

Observation Man

Newly married couple Eun-mi and Seong-soo look ordinary, but they both have their own secrets. Eun-mi enjoys calling her boyfriend to her home while her husband is away on work and Sung-soo enjoys watching his wife have sex with other men through the CCTV in his house. Not being able to get over the excitement he feels by doing that, he tells his wife everything and suggests she has sex with another man again...

Upside Down

304 people drowned as the car ferry sank. Four fathers recall their memories of their children; high school students who were on their field trip. Professors, lawyers, journalists, an activist, a diver, and a politician explain why the system ultimately allowed the tragedy to occur. What is stopping the next tragedy? The world has turned upside down.

Crush

A spine-tingling account of what happened when a Halloween night of celebration turned into a nightmare. More than 100,000 young revelers, who were packed into the narrow bar-lined alleyways of Seoul's trendy Itaewon neighborhood, became trapped in a mass panic. The toll was astonishing: 159 people, including two American students studying abroad, had suffocated and died that night. Nearly all those who perished were in their twenties.

Star in My Heart

Star In My Heart was a 1997 Korean drama series run on MBC. One of the earlier Korean dramas to air outside of Korea, as part of what became known as the Korean Wave, it was very popular and helped its cast become widely recognized.

Sexy Voice

Ria comes to Seoul from the countryside with dreams of becoming a voice actor but fails in every test. One day she goes for an audition but for actors who read erotic stories. Ria thinks of it as practice before becoming a real voice actor. Seong-tae was having difficulties running the website and when Ria changes all that, he starts to have feelings for her. Joon-beom helps Ria from danger one day and they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Ria's father comes to Seoul from home... Seong-tae makes a mistake and the website is closed while Chae-yeong betrays him... Their relationship just gets more and more complicated...

Da Capo

Tae-il, who is writing a song about the sea but can't complete it, goes to a country village to meet Jiwon, who had been in a band with him in the past. He meets her working at a music academy there and a rock band of middle school students she teaches. Spending time with the students who are clumsy but full of passion for music and Jiwon who still has sincere affection towards music, he recalls the happiest past time with music.

Bon Appetit

Depicts a romance between office worker Do Hun and Yoon Soo, a man next door who cooks well.

The Invited Man

Min-ho wants passionate sex and his wife Eun-kyeong says sex is just a verification of love. Min-ho wants unique sex again tonight but Eun-kyeong only wants the usual sex in bed. One day, Eun-kyeong gets sex toys at work. She doesn't like them at first but she can't get over the great feeling from the massage shop and starts touching herself. Min-ho sees this and he gets horny. In the end, they have sex that they will never forget.

Meeting Conditions of a Virgin

Ji-won is an erotic writer, but she has not had sex yet, so she cannot write realistically. Eun-sik and Seong-gook compete for their first sex under the pretext that Ji-won is a virgin for her work, and Seong-gook's plan goes up in smoke when his wife Hyeon-hee returns home. On the other hand, Hyeon-hee is curious about Eun-sik and approaches him because his previous job is adult learning and mastering. In this situation, will Ji-won be able to finish her first sex safely and write a huge masterpiece?

My Sassy Girl

Ryokiteki na Kanojo is a Japanese television drama based on the South Korean movie My Sassy Girl. It narrates the story between Saburo Masaki, a marine biologist, and Riko Takami, an aspiring writer with a short temper. While the two are at odds with each other at first, they eventually become attracted to each other and develop a relationship. It received an average of 8.18% viewer rating throughout the series.

The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project

Idols who failed to impress the audience after their debut are given another chance to be back on stage in The Unit. Korean top producers will give them a chance to shine in a brand new unit with new members, concepts and content.

Hail to Hell

Na-mi and Sun-woo, the outcasts in school, plan to commit suicide instead of going to the school trip. On the moment of success, they find out that the girl, Chae-lin, who made their lives miserable is living a new happy life in Seoul. So, they decide to make revenge before ending their lives. However, when they finally spot Chae-lin, they see a good-hearted girl in front of them which makes their plans go awry.

Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live

Naru Ayase is an 8th grader who can see the colors of music when she listens to it. For Naru, who is extremely good at decorating, becoming the owner of a shop like Dear Crown was her dream. One day, she finds out that the manager of a newly-opened shop is recruiting middle school girls who can do Prism Dance, and immediately applies. Naru begins to Prism Dance at the audition, and an aura she's never experienced spreads out in front of her. At that moment, a mysterious girl named Rinne asks her if she can see rainbow music.

The Backpacker Chef

Extreme cooking in extreme places! Open the backpacks and it's our kitchen! The location and the guests are strictly confidential?! The only thing you can trust in the chaos is the backpacks. What's the special business trip dish that starts with four different bags? Starting with the irreplaceable "K-food industry's big hand" Baek Jong-won. Oh Dae-hwan, who transformed from Chungmuro scene stealer to 'National Cook Stealer'. Ahn Bo-hyun, the "Visual Main Store" that occupies not only the screen but also the kitchen. "A spoon of fun powder, please~" "Human MSG" DinDin, too!

He Who Can't Marry

Cho Jae Hee is a man in his 40s who is very stubborn and hasn't gotten married yet. His personality is so unbearable that women don't find him attractable nor a good candidate for marriage. However, Jae Hee, is perfect in everything that he does. His life will be surrounded by three different women. Jang Moon Jung is a doctor that he meets one day, Jung Yoo Jin is his neighbor whom he meets due to a disturbance, and Yoon Ki Ran is his colleague at work.

Heroes

Heroes was a South Korean variety show; a part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup, along with Running Man. It is classified as a "popularity search variety", where the female celebrities compete to find out which of them is more popular among citizens. It was first aired on July 18, 2010 and ended on May 1, 2011 with a total of 40 episodes aired. They must complete certain missions every episode and whoever wins usually get a prize, such as the other team must make dinner for them, they get a hot shower and beds, etc.

NCT World 2.0

MNET’s “NCT WORLD 2.0” is the first reality show starring all 23 members, including new additions SHOTARO and SUNGCHAN. The show will be based on the concept of a multiverse, featuring multiple dimensions. The members give off fresh and healthy charms through sports and experience activities in multiple times and spaces, such as the sky, sea, and land, while engaging in a chase that is pursued and chased with an unusual concept.

Puck

Due to his ex-wife’s debt, Joon-Man (Lee Kwang-Soo) had no choice but to work for a gang boss. Even though he has a warm personality, he works as a loan shark. To get debt from an ice hockey coach, Joon-Man joins the ice hockey team.

Ashwatthama

On holiday from boarding school, young Ishvaku is fascinated by the bedtime story his mother relates to him—that of the warrior Ashwatthama, from the Mahabharata, whose blind vengeance provokes a curse from Lord Krishna, forcing him to wander the earth in eternal suffering. But the story is interrupted by a bandit raid in which Ishvaku’s mother is killed, and Ishvaku is packed off to his ancestral village in the Chambal Valley ravines of Central India. There he discovers a family in crisis, whose rituals, traditions and orthodox feudal values are becoming redundant. Meanwhile, Ishvaku’s own life take a strange turn, as a visiting sacred bull predicts that both wisdom and tragedy will soon come to him. In anticipation of such tragedy, Ishvaku attempts to escape into the magical realm of Ashwatthama

Frozen Love

After being frozen for 33 years, Man Soo finds himself awake in a cold body but he has enormous love in his heart. He meets Ha Da, who has turned into a cold-hearted human being after living in the city. Now that Man Soo is awake from his slumber, he embarks on a search for his long-lost love through time while Ha Da, whom he encountered, is discovering warmth in her heart.Will either of them find love? This TV show aims to weave a beautiful story of romance to uplift viewers who are dealing with a depressed economy and dim job prospects in a harsh society of today. (Source: MBC)

The Great Merchant

This drama is based on a real life figure Kim Man-deuk who was living in Jeju Island. She goes through a lot of changes in her life; at first she becomes a Gisaeng but turned herself into a merchant, and then becomes one of the biggest philanthropists in Joseon Dynasty. Man-deuk gets adopted by Granny at a young age. With great efforts, she becomes a Gisaeng who has outstanding talents in various areas. However, she gives up everything and runs away with her lover Jeong Hong-soo. She gets caught and sends to the transitory wards for epidemics for one year. When she came out from the wards, she starts to take care of the Gisaengs who are suffering from illness. Man-deuk goes into a business and restores the business ethics in Jeju. Meanwhile, Moon-sun, who used to be a friend of Man-deuk, feels a sense of inferiority and competes with Man-deuk’s business.

Gourmet

Kim Rae-Won stars as the warm hearted chef-in-training Lee Sung-Chan, while actress Nam Sang-Mi plays a silly country girl, Kim Jin-soo, who trails Lee with high hopes of becoming a food columnist. Veteran actor Choi Bul-Am appears as Master Oh Sook-soo, Lee's stepfather and the only person who truly believes in Lee's potential. Sung-Chan is a happy and bright young man who loves to cook. Leaving the heavy responsibility of becoming the head chef of Oh's famous restaurant to his stepbrother, he explores the world of cooking and discovers that he's actually good at it. When Oh announces that he will not choose his own son to become the owner and head chef, cold-hearted jealousy and competition arise.

A Birth

"Birth" deals in depth with the patience and courage of Kim Taegon, a young man who had to create his own hope, his willingness to throw his body, and his love for God and man that he showed throughout his life.

On the Way to the Airport

Can women and men stay just as friends? Both Choi Sua and Seo Dou are married, but not to each other. The relationship between the two is interesting. They are definitely not a couple. They are not friends, either. Yet, they are involved in each other's life.

Twinkling Watermelon

A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.

The Good Bad Mother

A tragic accident leaves an ambitious prosecutor with the mind of a child – forcing him and his mother to embark on a journey to heal their relationship.

Alone in Love

Alone in Love is a 2006 South Korea television series, starring Gam Wu-seong, Son Ye-jin, Gong Hyung-jin and Lee Ha-na. It aired on SBS from April 3 to May 23, 2006 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. The ratings it received were not very high, but the series won acclaim for its subtle and realistic portrayal of love, marriage and divorce. The story follows Eun-ho and Dong-jin, two ordinary people - not particularly attractive or successful - as they come to terms with their relationship. Although already divorced for three years, they are unable to leave each other alone, persistently meeting, bickering, and offering support, comfort, even matchmaking for the other. The two seem destined to be together, but they are unwilling to face their past and confront the tragedy they have spent years trying to forget. It was based on the Japanese novel Love Generation by Hisashi Nozawa, which was published in 1996 and won the 4th Shimase Literary Prize for Romance in 1997. The Korean adaptation was written by Park Yeon-seon. This was the first TV series directed by film director Han Ji-seung.

No Tomorrow

Based on a true story involving a reporter who starts investigating to uncover an unfortunate case that occurred on a remote island.

Bad Papa

Yoo Ji-Cheol used to be a top boxer, but he lost everything in a moment. All of his money and fame vanished and his life was ruined. He decides to gain control of his life through mixed martial arts.

Undercover

“Undercover” depicts the story of Han Jung Hyun, who has been hiding his identity for a long time, and Choi Yeon Soo, a human rights lawyer who becomes the first head of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to fight for justice.

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