Top 10 Best Korean Movies of All Time

1. 명량 (The Admiral: Roaring Currents)

2. 극한직업 (Extreme Job)

3. 신과함께-죄와벌 (Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds)

4. 국제시장 (Ode to My Father)

Director: JK Youn
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Yunjin Kim, Dal-su Oh
Genres: Drama | War
Release Date: 17 December 2014 (South Korea)
Global Box Office: $99,085,291
Runtime: 126 min
Storyline:
The story is set in the Korean War in 1950. The young boy Duk-soo with his family flees to Busan to seek help from the relative. But after he lost track of his father and sister, he has to take up the responsibility of supporting the whole family.

For the higher reward, he has alone gone to work in the deadly coal mine of Germany and war-torn Vietnam. During his whole life, he has been sacrificing himself to his family.

5. 베테랑 (Veteran)

Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Ah-in Yoo, Hae-jin Yoo
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Release Date: 5 August 2015 (South Korea)
Global Box Office: $94,393,020
Runtime: 123 min
Storyline:
This film is the epitome of Korean society. Jo Tae-Oh is a young man who has grown spoiled in a rich family. He keeps committing all kinds of crime but always gets away without being punished. But this time, he is noticed by a group of experienced detectives. Will he get caught finally?

6. 도둑들 (The Thieves)

Director: Dong-hoon Choi (as Choi Dong Hoon)
Stars: Yoon-seok Kim, Jung-jae Lee, Hye-su Kim
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Release Date: 15 January 2013 (China)
Global Box Office: $83,523,242
Runtime: 135 min
Storyline:
The $20 million diamond known as 'Tear of the Sun' appears in Macau. Macau Park, a thief who has been very familiar with gambling house, is plotting to stole this diamond. Therefore, he gathers his partners he has betrayed before and also some proficient thieves from China.

While working together to steal this fabled diamond, they all have their own agenda to keep the diamond for themselves. But who will succeed in the end?

7. 7번방의 선물 (Miracle in Cell No.7)

Director: Hwan-kyung Lee
Stars: Seung-ryong Ryu, So Won Kal, Dal-su Oh
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Release Date: 23 January 2013 (South Korea)
Global Box Office: $80,298,551
Runtime: 127 min
Storyline:
Yong-goo is a mentally retarded man who lives a simple but happy life with his lovely daughter. But his life takes an unexpected turn when he gets involved in a case of child-murdering.

Yong-goo has to be parted from his daughter and sentenced to prison, where the criminals in room number 7 are moved by his pure heart and decide to help Yong-goo wash away grievances and reunite with his daughter. Will they succeed?

8. 암살 (Assassination)

Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Stars: Ji-hyun Jun, Jung-jae Lee, Jung-woo Ha
Genres: Action | Drama
Release Date: 7 August 2015 (USA)
Global Box Office: $96,119,086
Runtime: 140 min
Storyline:
The story is set in Korea under the rule of Japan in 1930. Ahn Ok-yun, an excellent sniper who is serving her time in prison, gets a chance out of there. The condition is that she must kill the highest commander of the Japanese army by assassination.

However, this secret plan is leaked to the Japanese by a traitor, who sent a killer to finish Ahn Ok-yun. Now, to accomplish her mission, she must face the Japanese army and the killer.

9. 광해, 왕이 된 남자 (Masquerade)

10. 신과함께-인과 연 (Along with the Gods: the Last 49 Days)

Director: Yong-hwa Kim
Stars: Jung-woo Ha, Ji-Hoon Ju, Hyang-gi Kim
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy
Release Date: 1 August 2018 (South Korea)
Global Box Office: $1,200,246
Runtime: 142 min
Storyline:
To unravel the secret of the death of Kim Sau-hung, a soldier in the army of the Republic of Korea, his afterlife guardians apply for a trial. But the condition is that the guardians must bring Xu ChunSan, an old man who should have been dead to the nether world.

When the guardians set off to look for Xu ChunSan, it turns out that the reason that Cu ChunSan has not dead is due to the protection of penates, who bears the previous life memory of the guardians.