Terminal Illness Korean Dramas & Movies
The Wig
Before being released home after cancer treatment, Soo-hyun is given a gift box from her sister Ji-hyun (who was made mute after a disturbing roadway accident). Inside the box is...
Goodbye Summer
Hyun Jae is only 19-years-old, but he has a terminal illness and he does not have much time left to live. He leaves the hospital and goes back to high...
Another Family
Taxi Driver Sang Gu is an ordinary father. He is so proud of his daughter Yoon Mi who works at a factory for a large corporation, but somehow also feels...
The Last Ride
Go Hwan notices that his parents and his friends are acting strangely around him. His friends Namjoon and Gap Duk have started treating him ever so nicely and his moody...
The Preparation
A warm view of a mother who is diagnosed with terminal cancer prepares herself to leave her family and her son who is intellectually disabled....
The Last Blossom
Her mother-in-law has Alzheimer’s disease, her husband is indifferent to her and their children has become wayward. For her family, the woman has devoted her life as a daughter-in-law, wife,...
Summer Snow
“Summer Snow” is an omnibus film featuring three stories, about the one and only moment for different couples to test their chances by confessing their true love to their Ignoranceed,...
Ruler of Your Own World
Go Bok Su has had a difficult childhood and served time in prison for stealing. Jeon Kyung, a moody tomboy and a daughter of a rich family, plays the keyboard...
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
No. 203, a long-term prisoner, is now old. All he wants is to get out of prison as soon as possible. However, No. 203 feels something is not right. He...
Countdown
Tae Gun Ho is the best collection agent in his firm, admired by his colleagues and dreaded by those he visits. He’s known for gathering his debts by any means...
The Little Prince
Tak Jae Hun portrays an alcoholic who is traumatised by the loss of his wife and son, and he is ridden with guilt since he wasn’t much of a father...
Amor Fati
A healing drama about the reset of the lives of people who stand up again in a moment of despair. A single woman fighting cancer and a penniless single father...
Scent of Love
In Ha smells the “scent of the chrysanthemums” after seeing Hui Jae arguing in the defense of a pregnant woman on the subway. The two meet again in a student...
The Garden of Heaven
Choi is a successful doctor who remains afflicted by the pain he feels over his parents’ deaths when he was a child. Kim is a friendly girl who shares Choi’s...
Goodbye Mom
Ae Ja was once a promising student. Not only did she do well in school, she also loved to write poetry on rainy days and possessed excellent fighting sterminates. Her...
Happiness
When stricken with a terminal disease, Young Su leaves his careless high life in the city, live-in girlfriend and dwindling business. He retreats to a sanatorium in the countryside in...
Autumn Sonata
Soo Ryun is a 29-year-old single woman. Her boyfriend is Joon and she wants to marry him, but she learns she that she does not have much time left to...
The Devil’s Game
Struggling artist Min Hee Do is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No Sik, who is dying from a...
Amor
Tae Woo, a zookeeper, is having a tough time because his lover, Hee Yeon is in the hospital with her inevitable death date. Tae Woo feels her approaching death and...
Oh! My God 2
Lim Jung- Hwan is the successor to Korea’s largest taxi business, and is enjoying the extravagant nightlife and luxury shopping that comes with his future fortune. Yet, Jung Hwan’s ostentatious...
Dance with My Father
Jin Woo, who went to the Middle East, is missing. Hyeong Jun, a friend of his, marries Jin Woo’s wife, Yoon Hee, and together with her young daughter, Hye Ran,...
I Want To Live Just Until 20 Years Old
This is a film about an 18-year-old girl suffering from bone marrow cancer. Cho Hee, plagued by cancer, lives a quiet life in suburban Seoul. She begins sending postcards to...
Eomung
This is the story of Sook Ja, a female diver in the beautiful Jeju Islands who has lived a tough life, and her childish son Yool. Young man Yool dreams...
Last Blues, Last Dance
‘Last Blues, Last Dance’ is a human drama which features stories of psychiatrists, terminal cancer patients and their families working in the hospice ward. (Source: MyDramaList)...