Movies: Korean army

Missing and death cases take place in succession along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. South Korea forms a unit led by Captain Jo Jin-Ho and First Lieutenant Shin Yoo-Hwa as assistant leader. They are given only 24 hours to find out the truth behind t...

Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea....

An education officer who was dispatched died after a gunshot went off in the dead of night. At the same time, deserters flee to the DMZ in the access control zone, and the 3rd platoon is urgently deployed to the DMZ search operation. There, the crew ...

How far would you go to recover a cigarette lighter? A pulsing mix of hard-hitting action, wry social commentary, and black humor, director Jang Hang Joon's Break Out takes a simple premise and spins it into a spiraling film experience. Penniless and...

Captain Gang has died in a test flight accident. Dae-ik discovers a huge corruption scandal while trying to determine the cause of death. He reports it to journalist Jung-sook, but things changed in unexpected ways....

A man joins the national army as a soldier who does haircuts for other soldiers. However, he feels frustrated for being on miscellaneous duties rather than what he was conscripted for....

Some time after completing his mandatory military service, a man receives a distressed call from one of his subordinates, who's also an old classmate....

An Army private fails to expose abuses he suffered from his senior. When every member of his platoon gets passes, the senior starts searching for the culprit who tried to report him....

Sang-won, Seung-jun and Min-wook are high school best chums. However, after graduation, they are in three different places in life; Sang-won is a college student, Seung-jun studies one more year to enter the college, Min-wook performs his military se...

Sergeant Jeong Cheol-min's squad are in a renovated stock room with no window. The squad members are well known to be a hardworking group until Councellor Hong Yeong-soo comes in and starts causing trouble. Hong Yeong-soo seems to have difficulties a...

A Skinny and a Fatty go to Nonsan army training camp, but they soon find camp life is too hard for them. A nonsensical comedy filled with funny episodes that will make you smile broadly....

A boy's experience as a fresh military recruit stationed at the North-South border in the late 1970s....

"With no money and no backer, the U.S. Military is the only answer. Help me!" A dirt-poor high school graduate KATUSA tries hard...

"You belong to the country for the next two years." The film describes Woo-cheol's struggles with becoming part of a group while trying to maintain his individuality throughout his military service period. A humorous yet cynical portrait of military ...

A documentary about the 8-day sit-in struggle by GANG Cheolmin, a 22 year-old private in the South Korean army who declared his objection to military service on November 21, 2003 in order to stop the South Korean government from sending troops to Ira...

It is a dramatization about Major Kim Man-il's service during the Korean War. The Korean forces dispatch two military units to defend the Baeti Heights led by Kim. Although it is hard to do so, Kim and his senior, Kim Mu-cheol (Choe Bong), and other ...

It intermittently captures a delicate moment of emotional breakdown. Absconding soldiers with an unfair story to tell, and a woman helping them, all come to a point at the end of the film....

Based on a radio drama, this wartime melodrama revolves around a woman caught between two men: her husband, a South Korean lieutenant, and her former lover, a North Korean officer who defects to come find her. The film portrays not only their tragic ...

Recording Nguyen Thi Thanh, the only survivor of Phong Nhi Phong Nhat massacre, where civilians were killed during the Vietnam War. Having lost all of her family at the age of eight and survived by herself, she is an open witness to the massacre of V...

Dae-su, an army private, goes on night watch duty the night before his first leave. A trespasser appears and puts the fate of his leave in peril....