Based On True Story Korean Dramas & Movies
Hope
Hope is a 2013 South Korean drama film directed by Lee Joon-ik. The movie revolves around a family’s struggles after their young daughter, So-won, is brutally assaultd and left for...
A Taxi Driver
“A Taxi Driver” is a South Korean movie based on a true story that took place in 1980. The story follows the life of a taxi driver named Kim Man-seob,...
Silenced
Silenced is a harrowing South Korean drama film based on a real-life novel by Gong Ji-young. The movie revolves around the story of a group of deaf and mute students...
I Can Speak
Ok Boon, aka the Goblin Granny, is a feisty, elderly woman who combs through the town for any sign of trouble. Over a span of 20 years, she has filed...
Ayla: The Daughter of War
Süleyman was dispatched to the Korean War in 1950 and he finds a 5 year-old girl all alone in the dark. She lost her parents and couldn’t speak due to...
1987: When the Day Comes
The story of the public authorities and the people trying to reveal the truth to conceal the tragic end of Park Jong Cheol, who became the fuse of democratization in...
71: Into the Fire
The story of 71 students who fight hundreds of North Korean soldiers in front of a middle school on August 11, 1950, during the Korean War. Gap Jo was formerly...
Inseparable Bros
Se Ha has a brilliant mind and an impressive way with words, which he uses to fight back against the prejudices of society and Dong Goo, a man with outstanding...
As One
The movie recounts the dramatic tale of the first unified Korean team that competed at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in China, Japan. South Korea’s table tennis star Hyun...
Miracle: Letters to the President
Set in the 1980s, the film tells the story of Bo Kyung, the older sister of a math prodigy and high school student Jun Kyung. They both live in the...
Juror 8
It’s the story of South Korea’s first trial by jury in 2008. It follows the case of a son brutally tragic ending his mother, with all factors seeming to point...
My Way
After emerging as bitter rivals and enemies as young marathon runners, Korean native Kim Jun Shik and Japanese aristocrat Tatsuo Hasegawa, both find themselves in the Japanese army, fighting the...
My First Client
Jung Yup tries to find a job as a lawyer for a law firm in Seoul. It’s not so easy for him, with Jung Yup being from a smaller city....
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
In the year 1597, when the Joseon Dynasty faces imminent ruin by the Japanese, disgraced Admiral Yi Sun Shin is summoned as a last resort to lead the kingdom’s remaining...
Way Back Home
Jung Yeon is a caring wife and mother and a sensitive woman who finds herself plunged into a legal ordeal thousands of miles from home. After years of planning, she...
Northern Limit Line
In June 2002, while South Korea is caught in a sporting frenzy as the national soccer team plays against Turkey for third place in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the...
Memories of Murder
In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, assaultd and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo...
The Throne
In the year 1762, when King Yeong Jo of the Joseon dynasty’s been ruling for 35 years already, Crown prince Sa Do is accused of plotting treason by his biological...
The Battleship Island
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island (‘Hashima Island’) to mine for coal, attempt to escape. (Source: CJ Entertainemnt)...
The Hymn of Death
Kim Woo Jin is a stage drama writer while Korea is under Japanese occupation. He is married, but he falls in love with Yun Shim Deok. Shim Deok is the...
The Last Princess
Princess Deok Hye was the last princess of Korea. Under Japanese colonial rule, she is taken to Japan as a hostage. With the era’s harsh conditions, she struggles to maintain...
New Trial
A 40-year-old taxi driver is found dead at Yakcheon. Hyun Woo, who was a witness, is charged with tragic end despite his cry for innocence and serves 10 years in...
The Attorney
Song Woo Seok got tired of working as a regional judge and decided to work as an attorney, specializing in real estate and taxation. Fast forward to 1981, Woo Seok...
Marathon
Kyung Sook finds out that her son Cho Won is autistic and feels devastated. But she firmly believes that there is something Cho Won can do very well. Kyung Sook...