Six Korean movies to watch on Netflix

After the explosion of The Squid Game (Squid Game), Korean fictions live a moment of glory. What opened the Oscar for the film Parasite was the basis for audiences around the world to want to see more Korean content. Netflix has a wide range of films covering various genres in a showcase of South Korea's artistic diversity. Here we bring you a range of options for different audiences.

Tiempo de caza

Directed by Yoon Sung-hyun, it premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. It is an ideal psychological thriller for those looking for action and suspense stories. The dystopian reality that it poses leads us to a scenario of violence, strikes and economic crisis that has liquefied the won, and the dollar became the local currency. This is how Jun-seok (Lee Je-hoon) comes into action, who after being released from prison, where he served his sentence for a robbery with other men, decides to make a plan to flee to Taiwan. The villain of the film is actor Park Hae-soo, whom we met in The Squid Game, where he played Cho Sang-woo, the Seoul University graduate who reaches the final.

En silencio

Released in 2011, this title recently came to Netflix. The subject of this film is shocking and very crude, and although it is based on a successful novel by Gong Ji-young, it refers to a real case: the abuses suffered by students at a school for the deaf in Inhwa Gwangju between 2000 and 2003. The minors suffered sexual violence from teachers and administrative staff of the institution, with the backing of the police who were bribed to cover up the facts.

Amarrados al amor

This is a classic romantic comedy. Directed by Park Hyun-jin, Tied to Love r recreates the daily life of a girl who works in an office and who spends time exploring her sexual fantasies, which she hides from the rest. The film stars two K-pop stars: Seohyun, from the group Girls' Generation, and Lee Jun-young, from U-KISS. Eroticism and romance come together in this perfect realization for rom-com fans.

Night in paradise

This crime drama created by Park Hoon-jung focuses on the counterpoint between two characters: the criminal Park Tae-gu (Eom Tae-goo), who works for mobsters in Seoul, and the niece of an arms smuggler, Jae-yeon (Jeon Yeo-been), a girl suffering from a terminal illness. Both agree in a hotel, where they share a stay and will talk about their losses and their fears. With many thoughtful moments that translate into scenes without dialogue, Night in Paradise is for lovers of good cinema.

Dulce y amargo

Relationships have a little bit of everything and this is what this romantic film talks about the link between a newly received engineer, Lee Jang-hyuk (Jang Ki-Yong), who ends up hospitalized in Incheon hospital for hepatitis B, and nurse Da-eun (Chae Soo-bin). The love story doesn't take long to appear, but everything will get complicated when Hyuk is sent to Seoul for a job. The relationship between the two begins to suffer, and the appearance of a third party in discord, Han Bo-yeong (Krystal Jung), only complicates it. The story is based on Initiation Love, a Japanese novel by Kurumi Inui.

Barrenderos espaciales

Costing more than US $20 million, this film could not be released in movie theaters due to the pandemic and landed directly on Netflix. It is set temporarily in 2092, when the Earth is nothing more than an uninhabitable desert in which one cannot breathe. Survivors live on satellites far from the planet. The film tells what life is like for those who were able to take refuge and what happened to those who didn't have the chance. For lovers of science fiction in its purest form.

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