Completed Romance Korean movies

The Handmaiden

My Sassy Girl

Gyeon-woo is an engineering student who can never seem to get a romantic break. On his way to meet a possible date, he pulls a drunk young woman back from the edge of a train platform. On the train she gets sick, passes out and calls him "honey," leaving him stuck taking care of her.

Thirst

Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest, volunteers for an experiment to find a vaccine for a deadly virus. The trial goes wrong, and although he seems to recover, he is left a vampire who craves human blood. At the same time, he finds himself drawn to Tae-ju, who is married to his childhood friend Kang-woo.

Decision to Leave

Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.

20th Century Girl

A Moment to Remember

Su-jin, a 27-year-old fashion designer and the daughter of a construction company CEO, is heartbroken after being rejected by a married colleague. A brief mix-up with a tall stranger at a convenience store leads to a chance reunion, and she is drawn to Chul-soo, a man from a very different background.

Castaway on the Moon

Kim Seong-geun, buried in debt and feeling hopeless, jumps from a bridge into the Han River and washes up on Bamseom, a small island in the middle of Seoul. Unable to swim back, he starts to enjoy a simple life free of his worries, while Kim Jung-yeon, a young woman who never leaves her room, spots his message written in the sand.

Time

Seh-hee and Ji-woo have been a couple for two years, and Seh-hee is consumed by jealousy and the fear that he is growing tired of her. Convinced he wants someone new, she vanishes without a word and undergoes cosmetic surgery, planning to win him back with a new face and a different name.

Architecture 101

In present-day Seoul, architect Lee Seung-min is caught off guard when Yang Seo-yeon, a woman he knew in college years ago, asks him to build her a new house where her old family home stands on Jeju Island. As they work together, he is pulled back into memories of the early 1990s, when they first met in an architecture class.

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

Young-goon, a young woman who works assembling radios, believes she is a cyborg. After she tries to "recharge" herself with a power cord, she is sent to a mental hospital full of colorful patients, where she refuses food and talks only to machines. There she meets Il-soon, a man who begins to fall for her.

Il Mare

When Eun-joo moves out of a seaside house called Il Mare, she leaves a Christmas card in its mailbox for the next tenant. Sung-hyun, an architecture student and the house's very first resident, finds the card dated two years in the future. Writing back and forth, the two realize the mailbox links them across time.

Right Now, Wrong Then

Ham Cheon-soo, an art-house filmmaker, comes to Suwon a day early for a screening of his work. Wandering the city with time to kill, he meets Yoon Hee-jung, a former model who now paints, and the two spend the day together over coffee, sushi and soju.

The Beauty Inside

On his eighteenth birthday, Woo-jin wakes up in a stranger's body, and from then on he becomes someone new every morning: old or young, man or woman, sometimes a foreigner. Now a furniture designer who works from home to protect his secret, he falls for Yi-soo, a woman at a furniture store, and tries to find a way to ask her out.

Always

A former boxer has shut himself off from the world and lives a guarded, lonely life. He meets a cheerful telemarketer who keeps her bright spirit even though her eyesight is slowly fading, and a tender romance begins to grow between them.

Love Me Not

Julian has lived off money from wealthy female clients, but a rushed business expansion leaves him with crushing debts and one month to pay or die. His only way out is to pose as the long-lost brother of Min, a cold, blind heiress, and get his hands on her fortune.

The Bow

An old man lives on a run-down fishing boat anchored off the Korean coast, renting it out to tourists who come to fish. With him is a quiet teenage girl he brought aboard when she was six and plans to marry when she turns 17. Their isolated life is unsettled when a young student arrives with a fishing party.

Windstruck

Yeo Kyung-jin is an ambitious young Seoul police officer. While chasing a purse snatcher, she arrests the wrong man: Go Myung-woo, a physics teacher at a girls' school who was really trying to stop the thief himself. When she is later assigned to escort him through a rough district, the two end up handcuffed together in the middle of a gang clash.

100 Days with Mr. Arrogant

Just before her 100-day anniversary, high school student Ha-yeong is dumped by her boyfriend. Venting her anger, she kicks a can that hits college student Hyung-jun and makes him scratch his luxury car. Unable to pay, she is forced to sign an agreement to work off the damage as his servant for 100 days.

My Little Bride

Bo-eun is an ordinary 15-year-old high schooler who frets about grades and has a crush on Jung-woo, the star of her school's baseball team. Then her grandfather insists she marry Sang-min, honoring a promise he made with Sang-min's grandfather during the Korean War. Despite both young people objecting, the wedding goes ahead, and Bo-eun tries to keep her marriage hidden.

Oasis

Fresh out of prison after serving time for a fatal hit-and-run, Hong Jong-du returns to Seoul and finds his family moved away without telling him. Awkward and out of step with everyone, he takes a delivery job and seeks out the victim's family, where he meets Gong-ju, a woman with cerebral palsy who has been left on her own.

Be With You

Before she died, Soo-ah promised her husband Woo-jin that she would come back on a rainy day. A year later, during the summer monsoon, she reappears looking just as she did, but with no memory of him or their life together. As Woo-jin tells her their story, she begins to learn about the love she has forgotten.

Love and Leashes

At a public relations firm, new hire Jung Ji-hoo and manager Jung Ji-woo have nearly identical names, so a package meant for him ends up on her desk. Inside she finds a collar and leash, and his secret wish to be a submissive comes out. Soon he asks her to take the dominant role.

My Girlfriend Is an Agent

Ahn Soo-ji is a veteran domestic secret agent and martial arts expert, while Lee Jae-joon is a rookie international agent better at analysis than fieldwork. They are dating, but neither knows the other's secret job. When a Russian crime group gets hold of a dangerous bio-chemical weapon from Korea, the two end up on the same mission without realizing it.

My Name Is Loh Kiwan

Loh Kiwan, a North Korean defector, escapes to China with his mother, but harsh authorities tear them apart. Forced to run again, he ends up alone in Brussels during a bitter winter, homeless and struggling to survive. There he meets Marie, an ex-athlete from Belgium who is going through hard times of her own, and the two slowly form a bond.

Untold Scandal

Christmas in August

Jung-won is a photo shop owner in his thirties who lives with his father, his sister and her family after a broken engagement. One day Da-rim, a young parking enforcement officer, comes in needing photos of parking violators printed in a hurry. Something clicks between them, and she starts stopping by more often.

Love Untangled

Park Se-ri is a cheerful high school student who worries about her naturally curly hair and has a crush on popular classmate Kim Hyun. When a new salon offering hair straightening she can't afford opens in town, she befriends Han Yoon-seok, a transfer student she saved from drowning, whose mother turns out to own the salon.

200 Pounds Beauty

Hanna Kang is an overweight young woman who secretly provides the voice for Ammy, a famous pop star who only lip-syncs. Hanna has a crush on Sang-jun, a director whose father owns Ammy's record label, but after a cruel humiliation she persuades a plastic surgeon to completely transform her appearance.

April Snow

Lighting technician In-su rushes from Seoul to Samcheok after his wife Su-jin is badly hurt in a car accident. At the hospital he meets Seo-young, whose husband Kyung-ho was in the same car, and while both spouses lie in comas, the two strangers discover their partners were having an affair.

Chunhyang

Told through pansori singing, this film retells a classic Korean folktale set in 18th-century Korea. Mongryong, a governor's son, falls in love with and secretly marries Chunhyang, the daughter of a courtesan, but when his father is posted to Seoul he must leave her behind, promising to return once he passes the state exam.

Daisy

Hye-young is a young painter who earns her living sketching portraits. Park Yi, a professional hitman, falls for her the moment he sees her painting in the mountains, and after he quietly builds her a bridge and returns her lost art bag, she begins receiving daisies every afternoon from an unseen admirer.

Even If This Love Disappears From the World Tonight

High school student Han Seo-yoon has a form of amnesia from a car accident that wipes her memory each day, so she relies on notes to understand her own life. When Kim Jae-won is pressured into a fake love confession to stop the bullying of a classmate, she surprises him by saying yes, and he must face the consequences of his lie.

Hwang Jin Yi

In 16th-century Joseon, where class decides a person's fate, Hwang Jin-yi is raised as an aristocrat until she learns she was born illegitimate. Stripped of her noble status, she leaves her old life behind to become a gisaeng, while Nomi, a longtime family servant, quietly loves her.

My Tutor Friend

Choi Su-wan, a 21-year-old university student whose family sells fried chicken, takes a well-paid job tutoring Kim Ji-hoon, a rich troublemaker her own age who is repeating his last year of high school. If his grades don't improve, his father will send him back to America, but Ji-hoon cares far more about fighting than studying.

A Man and a Woman

Sang-min and Ki-hong are strangers who meet on a cold winter day in Helsinki, Finland, after dropping their children off at a kids' camp. When a snowstorm strands them at an inn for the night, they share an intimate connection, then go their separate ways without ever learning each other's names.

A Millionaire's First Love

Kang Jae-kyung is an arrogant rich kid who drives flashy cars and rides his motorcycle through the school halls. To inherit his grandfather's fortune when he turns 18, he must first transfer to a school in rural Gangwon Province and graduate, with his penthouse and credit cards cut off until he does.

Almost Love

Ji-hwan is a taekwondo student and part-time stuntman who dreams of becoming the Korean Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and hopeful actress whose shyness keeps costing her auditions. The two have been friends since childhood, but things get complicated when each of them starts dating someone else.

An Affair

Ditto

In 1979, university student Yoon So-eun loves amateur radio and has feelings for Dong-hee, a classmate just back from the army. One night her radio picks up Ji-in, a student at the very same school, but after a failed meeting and a strange argument about the weather, they realize he is speaking to her from the year 2000.

Finding Mr. Destiny

Love in the Big City

Jae-hee is a free-spirited young woman, and Heung-soo is a man keeping something deeply hidden about himself. The two become close friends and share an apartment in Seoul, facing the highs and lows of young adult life side by side. The film is adapted from part of a novel.

More than Blue

Pavane

Three lonely people cross paths at a department store. Mi-jung, a stockroom worker, keeps to herself to avoid others' eyes; Yo-han, who works in the parking garage, is outgoing and loves rock music; and Kyung-rok has traded his dreams for a safe but empty life. Kyung-rok is drawn to Mi-jung right away.

Salut d'Amour

Sung-chil is a grumpy man of seventy who lives alone, works part-time at a local supermarket and refuses to sign off on the town's redevelopment plan. Things change when he meets Geum-nim, the lively elderly woman who runs the flower shop next door, and the whole neighborhood steps in to help the awkward Sung-chil win her over.

Someone Special

Story of Wine

A wine bar called Story of Wine is celebrating its first anniversary, and Min-sung has put together a special wine list for the night. Each bottle is matched with its own story that reflects its character, touching on love, loss and friendship.

All About My Wife

Crush and Blush

Yang Mi-sook is an awkward, unpopular high school Russian teacher who blushes bright red at the worst moments. For ten years she has quietly loved Seo Jong-cheol, her former teacher and now a married colleague, but he has eyes for pretty new teacher Lee Yoo-ri. Determined to stop their budding romance, Mi-sook teams up with Jong-cheol's daughter Jong-hee.