North Korean Male Lead Korean Dramas & Movies

Swing Kids (2018)

Swing Kids

Rank #116

Swing Kids is a 2018 South Korean musical drama film set in the backdrop of the Korean War. The movie is directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol and stars Do Kyung-soo, Park...

Secretly Greatly (2013)

Secretly Greatly

Rank #872

A group of spies called the 5446 Corps were trained by North Korean elite special forces since their youth, ostensibly towards the lofty goal of unifying Korea. They are ambitiously...

Okay! Madam (2020)

Okay! Madam

Rank #1004

Mi Young runs a shop at a traditional market, where she makes and sells twisted bread sticks. Her husband Seok Hwan works as a computer repairman. One day, Seok Hwan...

Confidential Assignment

Confidential Assignment 1

Rank #1278

North Korean detective Im Chul Ryung is sent to South Korea to catch Cha Ki Sung, the boss of a North Korean refugee crime organization. There, Chul Ryung cooperates with...

6/45

Rank #1323

“6/45” tells the comic story of South Korean and North Korean soldiers meeting up secretly when the wind blows a first prize lottery ticket past Korea’s military demarcation line and...

Confidential Assignment 2: International

Rank #1447

Follows Rim Chul Ryung heading back to South Korea in pursuit of a brutal and secret criminal organization. He teams up again with Kang Jin Tae, who volunteers to work with the North Korean in...

The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home

Rank #1581

Set during the Korean War and 3 days before a truce takes place. Nam Bok is a South Korean soldier who was a simple farmer before his conscription into the...

The Suspect (2013)

The Suspect

Rank #1627

Dong Chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and...

The Spy Gone North (2018)

The Spy Gone North

Rank #1958

In 1993 Korea, the only country where the Cold War continues, tensions surrounding the development of nuclear weapons escalate. Park Seok Young, an army major in the South Korea military...

In Our Prime (2022)

In Our Prime

Rank #1973

Ji Woo, an outcast in a prestigious private high school, does not fit in due to different social backgrounds than his well-to-do classmates. One day, he meets Hak Sung, the...

Steel Rain (2017)

Steel Rain 1

Rank #2092

Set in the near future, a military coup takes place in North Korea. The leader of North Korea and Eom Chul Woo escape to South Korea. The two countries now...

IRIS (2009)

IRIS

Rank #2243

Kim Hyun Joon and Jin Sa Woo are best friends who were brought into a top secret organization known as NSS by analyst Choi Seung Hee and Park Sang Hyun....

Commitment (2013)

Commitment

Rank #2489

A young man’s father, who is a North Korean spy, is falsely accused. The young man then becomes a spy to save his younger sister. He also enters high school...

The Net (2016)

The Net

Rank #3893

A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring many brutal investigations, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea. But...

V.I.P. (2017)

V.I.P.

Rank #4047

Inspector Chae Yi Do is appointed to investigate a brutal serial tragic end case and immediately identifies a rich North Korean defector named Kim Gwang Il as the prime suspect....

Steel Rain 2: Summit (2020)

Steel Rain 2: Summit

Rank #4185

A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are unauthorized takingped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit...

Carter

Rank #8486

Agent Carter wakes up one day in a motel room without any recollection of his identity and follows orders to join an explosive mission. (Source: Netflix)...

TV Movie: Ballerino

TV Movie: Ballerino

Rank #40206

The true beauty of dance transcends all. Pyeong Ho is a young North Korean refugee in South Korea. He meets and befriends Lee Sun Woo, the talented principal dancer for...

Disarming Romance

Rank #49788

Tells the story of Kang Yoo Hyuk, a North Korean defector who transferred to Hyesung High School. (Source: gossipchimp.com)...

Serve the People (2022)

Serve the People

Rank #49930

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...

Spy Papa (2011)

Spy Papa

Rank #99999

A spy father and a daughter who goes after spies? Spy dad. Lee Man Ho (39), who runs a laundrette in North Korea, is an anti-North spy or commie who...