On September 12, 2026, Lee Chang-dong (이창동) won the Jury Grand Prize at the Venice International Film Festival for Possible Love (가능한 사랑, Ganeunghan Sarang ), the first time a Korean film has taken that prize. The film is also South Korea's ent…
The 31st Busan International Film Festival (부산국제영화제, BIFF) opened on October 6, 2026 and runs through October 15. Korean coverage of this year's edition rests on two claims: the festival is now an "A-list" event, and its top prize now …
Daehongsu (대홍수), released globally by Netflix on December 19, 2025 under the English title The Great Flood , became the most-watched Korean film in Netflix's history within weeks of its release. It also picked up some of the harshest domestic r…
"Never Say Die: The Red," releasing September 30, 2026, is an action-thriller based on the popular Naver Webtoon "Revival Man," following a job seeker whose only qualification is baseless confidence — until he discovers he revive…
"Possible Love" is director Lee Chang-dong's first feature since 2018's "Burning," premiering in Korean theaters September 23, 2026, as a Netflix original ahead of its streaming release, and stars Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-…
"Assassins" is a mystery thriller directed by Heo Jin-ho, releasing September 23, 2026, that uses the August 15, 1974 shooting at Seoul's National Theater — an attack that killed First Lady Yuk Young-soo and injured others during a nat…
"TAZZA: The Song of Beelzebub," releasing September 23, 2026, is the fourth installment in the long-running "Tazza" gambling film franchise, following two childhood friends turned business partners whose online casino empire coll…
The Korean remake of "The Intern," releasing September 16, 2026, reworks Nancy Meyers' 2015 Hollywood comedy-drama into a domestic office story, casting Choi Min-sik as a 37-year veteran of the workforce who joins a fast-growing fashio…
"Bi-gwang" is a family drama-thriller directed by Lee Ji-won, releasing in Korean theaters September 2, 2026, starring Ryu Seung-ryong and Ha Ji-won as a once-celebrated couple whose lives are upended, first by the sudden appearance of a d…
My Sassy Girl (엽기적인 그녀), the 2001 Korean romantic comedy that became one of the earliest and biggest drivers of the Hallyu wave across Asia, was also the first Korean film to ever sell its Hollywood remake rights — and yet when that remake finally a…
The Chaser (추격자), Na Hong-jin's 2008 directorial debut about a disgraced ex-cop turned pimp who races to save one of his missing prostitutes from a serial killer, became such a sensation in Korea that Warner Bros. bought its Hollywood remake rig…
A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련), Kim Jee-woon's 2003 psychological horror film based on a classic Korean folktale, became the highest-grossing Korean horror film of its era and one of the rare Korean releases to get a wide U.S. theatrical run — a…
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