Need to know where to start? Here’s your primer on the best Korean movies of all time. Delve into the history of Korean film, and you’ll find gut-punching melodramas, wry comedies, horror that’s both atmospheric and visceral, and operatic action flicks to rival Hong Kong. And it’s not all ultraviolence and sociopolitical commentary – though those themes do crop up a lot. In fact, it’s been producing genre-blurring, boundary-testing films for decades. But Korea didn’t just suddenly start cranking out high-quality movies in the last decade.
If that wasn’t made clear by Parasite ’s historic Best Picture win at the 2019 Oscars, then the unprecedented success of Netflix’s Squid Game solidified the country’s standing at the vanguard of the entertainment industry.
At this point, South Korea is well-known among even casual filmgoers as one of the world’s most exciting movie industries.
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