Korean films about the apocalypse

List of the best Korean films about the apocalypse and the end of the world according to visitors: Doomsday Book, #Alive, The Wailing, Galveston, Spellbound, Yaksha: Ruthless Operations, Train to Busan, Assassination, The Cursed: Dead Man’s Prey, The Net.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:53

In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, action
CountrySouth Korea

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:50

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:35

After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:54

A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountrySouth Korea

Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, action, drama, cartoon
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:43

    Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:34

    Assassination is set in Korea and Shanghai in the 1930's during the Japanese occupation. The government resistance assigns a secret commando group with killing collaborators.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    A teenage girl who has the ability to bring death by using Hanja (Chinese characters), names, photos, and belongings; and a just social issues reporter, fighting against the massive evil hidden behind an IT conglomerate. The film for the series "The Cursed".

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:12

    A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:21

    Pastor Park is head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders. While looking into a suspicious new religion called ‘Deer Mount,’ he slowly uncovers clues that connect this cult to a series of mysterious cases of missing teenage girls when a body is found inside a damaged tunnel beams. He begins to uncover dark secrets surrounding this cult and its enforcer Na-han.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredocumentary, music
    CountryUSA, South Korea

    Record-shattering Korean girl band BLACKPINK tell their story — and detail the hard fought journey of the dreams and trials behind their meteoric rise.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    After his career takes a turn for the worse, superstar actor Kang Seo Joon is afraid he’s hit rock bottom. But after a chance meeting brings the talented chef Han Ji Woo into his life, Seo Joon is certain his luck is about to change.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Whatever she does, Eunhee feels like an outsider. Then her new Chinese teacher turns out to be so utterly different from everybody else. A compassionate and meticulously told narrative of a seemingly regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged.

    Markimdb: 7

    A bullied teenager who is locked up at a juvenile detention center due to an unexpected accident, meets a mixed martial arts champion to break through his own limits.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:23

    Jae-Hyeok lives with his mother, his sister-in-law and nephew Min-Jae in a small Korean town. He is dating Yeon-Joo, while working at the local nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, Pyung-Sub works at the same nuclear power plant. He is worried about conditions there, but nobody in the government listens to him. An earthquake strikes the small town where Jae-Hyeok lives and causes explosions at the nuclear power plant. The situation quickly spirals out of control, leading the entire nation to panic. To prevent another nuclear disaster, Jae-Hyeok and his co-workers return to the nuclear power plant.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea

    The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover, Jin-tae who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    A bad guy, a cruel guy, a lame guy, a cowardly guy and the meanest woman gets involved in a beautiful university student's murder case.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, family
    CountrySouth Korea

    A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, action, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountrySouth Korea

    Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:20

    A man receives a wedding invitation from his first love who he met in high school.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok’s eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger…

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Joo Joong-won is the arrogant, greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a supermall and a hotel. "Ghost whisperer” Tae Gong-shil, is a misunderstood outcast who can't keep a boyfriend or a job since a near death experience left her seeing needy ghosts. She feels compelled to help them resolve their earthly issues so they can move on to the afterlife... and he feels compelled to think she's crazy. Soon their lives merge into a complicated web of hijinx, misunderstandings, and... yes, love.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:28

    A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.

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    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Seong-cheol is a high school student who grew up neglected. In order to make money in a harsh society that abandoned him, he teamed up with Gi-joon, who is two years younger than him, to use his status as a minor to make money and seek a big blow. A father who left home, a sick brother and a mother whose cares for him. Seong-cheol, who was abandoned in hellish reality, starts a desperate survival in his own way.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:05

    A transgender cop's retirement plans are interrupted by a gang seeking revenge for their arrest.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:55

    The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Faced with real-world opportunities and challenges, a couple endures the highs and lows of trying to make a long-distance relationship survive.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:02

    A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:07

    All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

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    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Taysan, a young homeless man in dust-riddled Seoul, begins a series of illustrations over dusty surfaces. Through his Dust Art, Taysan starts the process of recovery from the pains of his past.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:21

    A story of the Jangsan Tiger, who mimics human voices to lure them close, and a family affected by the creature.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:51

    On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the detective’s hit-and-run, but instead of asking for money, he wants to know about the body’s whereabouts, leading to a do-or-die showdown of the witness and detective.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration00:55

    Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    A man becomes a fugitive from the police after he kills one of the men who raped and murdered his daughter.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:40

    South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing with the assignment of infiltrating a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about the North Korean nuclear program.

    Seo-joon, loses everything to voice phishing and infiltrates a organization in China to meet Kwak Pro, the designer behind this phishing system.

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    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    Choi Jong-goo used to be a popular troubleshooter. He is now a bully who lives in a market where merchants turn their backs on him. Jong-goo lives on alcohol and is very violent. His daughter uses bad language and violence against people around her. There are sexual violence cases involving minors around him and his daughter is also involved in the case. Jong-goo is accused of a crime. They're looking for a criminal who sexually assaulted his daughter. At this time, Soo-jin, a woman who lives in pain appears. The veiled Soo-jin is always an angel who does good things and protects children. And she feels unbearable anger towards those who do evil around her. How will Jong-goo and Soo-jin will solve this series of events?

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:15

    An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration00:51

    When Hye-Jung was young, her life was difficult. She was good at fighting, but also studied well. Overcoming her tough situation, she is now a doctor.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea

    The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:12

    A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:59

    Based on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that 'faithfully but freely' adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly killed her husband, a math genius next door who sets up a perfect alibi for her out of his attraction toward her, and a detective who closely traces her, finding the alibi suspicious.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea

    In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of reign of fear, a former KCIA director, PARK Yong-gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by the all second-in-command’s unfolds.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, South Korea
    Duration02:30

    Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka, who’s secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:37

    Hyeong-min, a prominent police detective, and Tae-oh, a killer who has confessed to multiple murders, maintain a fierce psychological confrontation.




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