1970s Korean Dramas & Movies
Girls’ Generation 1979
Lee Jung Hee is the second daughter of a family who owns a lingerie factory. She leads a group of teenage girls, whom they have chaotic adventures together. She meets...
Sandglass
The Sandglass is a story of two men whose friendship is put to the test through the 1970s and 1980s, one of Korea’s politically tumultuous periods. Park Tae Soo, tough...
Frozen Love
After being frozen for 37 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...
The Man Standing Next
In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA,...
A Brand New Life
Inspired by her childhood, French-Korean filmmaker Ounie Lecomte recounts the emotional journey of a little girl abandoned by her father in an orphanage. 1975. It’s early autumn, somewhere in a...
Your Name Is Rose
Based on Korean history from 1979 to 2015 about a woman named Hong Jang Mi (lit. Hong Rose) who wants to be a singer. The movie revolves around Jang Mi...
Once Upon a Time in High School
A model student transfers to the notorious Jungmoon High School known for its severe corporal punishment by teachers and power struggles between school gangs. (Source: Letterboxd)...
Sunny
In 1971 Korea, Soon Yi is an average housewife, whose only hobby is singing. At the time, some 320,000 Korean men are dispatched to fight alongside American troops in the...
The Drug King
Set in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s, Lee Doo Sam works as a drug smuggler. Kim In Goo, a public prosecutor, attempts to take down Lee Doo Sam. (Source:...
Gangnam 1970
In the 1970s during the height of political Dishonest actions, Gangnam, the southern part of Seoul, finds itself being transformed into a developed area. Childhood friends Jong Dae and Yong...
Smugglers
An action crime film set in the 1970s in a small, peaceful village by the sea where two women get unexpectedly caught up in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. (Source: Soompi)...
TV Novel: Beautiful Days
The drama is about 4 siblings living in the 1970s. Their family was poor but they hoped for a better life. Hyang Sook stole her brother’s tuition money because her...
Forever Love
Set in the 70’s, it shows the eternal love of a woman for her deceased husband....
Lights and Shadows
The storyline covers periods from the 1960s to the present day. Various historical incidents like the Vietnam War, the May 16 military coup d’etat, and the targeted end of Korean...
TV Novel: That Sun in the Sky
A girl from the 1970s countryside overcomes all obstacles and becomes Korea’s best actress....
My Dictator
Set in the 1970’s, prior to the first North Korea-South Korea summit in South Korea. Sung Geun is a stage actor who is so passionate about his work. He only...
Go Go 70s
The 1970s of Korea was the dark ages of the military autocratic regime as well as an era of revolutionary upheaval of pop culture lead by energetic youth. After wandering...
TV Novel: Samsaengi
In Seoul in the 1970s, a woman who almost died renamed herself Sam Saeng, becoming a herbal doctor and succeeding in her troubles. (Source: HanCinema)...
Serve the People
A melodrama about the story of Moo Kwang who dreams of becoming a model soldier of the division commander’s house, conflicting between the wall of status and the temptation to...
TV Novel: Love, My Love
A love drama about two men in love with half-twins in the setting of the 60s to the 70s. (Source: HanCinema)...
Camellia
A feature film set in Busan involving Korea, Thailand, and Japan. “Love for Sale” Dir. by Jang Joon Hwan Set in the near future in Busan. A story of lovers...
Epitaph
In 1979, Dr. Park receives an old photo album from his twenties in 1941 when mysterious things befell him and his colleagues at Ansaeng Hospital. In 1942, as a young...
TV Novel: A Sea of Her Own
Set in the 1960s and 1970s, Yoon Soo In is consistently a top-ranked student in school, but due to her family’s struggling financial circumstances, she begins to work at a...
Downfall
Since she flew in a brothel at her age of 17, Young Eun sells her body roaming from here to there until she becomes a shabby middle-aged woman. At first,...