Based On True Story Korean Dramas & Movies

Dark Figure of Crime (2018)

Dark Figure of Crime

Rank #3272

Hyung Min is a respected detective. He is aware of Tae Oh who is in prison for tragic end. One day, Hyung Min receives a phone call from Tae Oh...

The Man Standing Next (2020)

The Man Standing Next

Rank #3479

In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA,...

Doctor Detective (2019)

Doctor Detective

Rank #3633

Do Jung Eun works as an industrial health doctor. She partners with Doctor Heo Min Ki to uncover the truth related to industrial accidents, diseases and other incidents that take...

Don't Cry

Don’t Cry, Mommy

Rank #3698

Recently divorced, Yoo Rim now lives with her only daughter, Eun Ah. Upon arriving at her new school, Eun Ah is frequently picked on, though she has feelings for classmate...

Silmido

Silmido

Rank #3731

Based on a true story of 1968 Korean Republic Army plan to criminalate North Korean president Kim Il Sung. 31 criminals and death row inmates are recruited into secret training...

Kingmaker: The Fox of the Election (2021)

Kingmaker

Rank #3750

Seo Chang Dae, an ambitious political strategist, is impressed by the political platform of Kim Woon Beom and decides to join his campaign for president. In order to put up...

Real Life Love Story: Season 4 (2018)

Real Life Love Story: Season 4

Rank #3778

It’s about different love stories that are based on the letters that the production has received in real life....

Seoul Searching (2016)

Seoul Searching

Rank #3857

During the 1980s, the Korean government created a special summer camp for “gyopo” or foreign-born teenagers where they could spend their summer in Seoul to learn about their motherland. While...

Voice of a Murderer

Voice of a Murderer

Rank #3883

One day, the only son of a famous news anchor, Han Kyung Bae, disappears without a trace. Soon, the unauthorized takingper calls the nine-year-old boy’s mother, Oh Ji Sun, demanding...

The Sound of a Flower

The Sound of a Flower

Rank #4815

In 1867, Shin Jae Hyo leads the Dongrijungsa which teaches pansori (traditional Korean musical storytelling). A young girl, Chae Sun, who wants to perform pansori, appears in front of him....

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

Rank #4919

In 1979, 42 patients at Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital terminateed themselves and the hospital director went missing. Rumors and strange stories about the now abandoned Gonjiam Mental Hospital abound. An internet...

The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower

Rank #5122

A current issue program producer Min Chul is desperate to get a scoop. One day he gets a source that ‘The Woman Medical’, the biggest sterility clinic in Korea, buys...

C'est Si Bon (2015)

C’est Si Bon

Rank #5366

Oh Geun Tae is a country boy with a booming baritone who is discovered by aspiring singer-songwriter Lee Jang Hui and thrust into the bustling world of Seoul’s iconic folk...

Sea Fog (2014)

Sea Fog

Rank #5647

A fishing boat goes out to sea to catch fish but it fails. In order to keep their fishing jobs and to make money, the captain decides to smuggle in...

The Case of Itaewon Homicide (2009)

The Case of Itaewon Homicide

Rank #5714

A college student, Jo Jong Pil is found stabbed to death in the restroom of a fast food restaurant in Itaewon, South Korea. Two Korean-Americans, Robert J. Pearson and Alex,...

26 Years (2012)

26 Years

Rank #5999

A top-secret project led by athletes, gangsters, police officers, heads of companies, and heads of bodyguard departments to convict ‘that person’ who is the main culprit of the massacre that...

Set Me Free

Set Me Free

Rank #6270

Yeong Jae lives at the group home Isaac’s House. He is set to turn 17-years-old and he has to leave the group, but he does not want to go back...

Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)

Ayla: The Daughter of War

Rank #6401

Süleyman was dispatched to the Korean War in 1950 and he finds a 5 year-old girl all alone in the dark. She lost her parents and couldn’t speak due to...

Bachelor's Vegetable Store (2011)

Bachelor’s Vegetable Store

Rank #7692

“Bachelor Vegetable Store” centers on the love lives and successes of six single young men. Han Tae Yang is a talented young man with big dreams for his tiny vegetable...

Miss Ripley

Miss Ripley

Rank #8335

Two very different men fall in love with Jang Mi Ri, a woman whose life is a complicated web of lies, propelled by her greedy desires that stem from an...

Boston 1947 (2022)

Boston 1947

Rank #33953

A rousing tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II. (Source: HanCinema)...

The Match (2023)

The Match

Rank #34182

The true story of two legendary players of Go (‘baduk’), Cho Hun Hyun, and his protege and future rival, Lee Chang Ho. (Source: Kobiz)...

Story of the Day When You Bite Your Tail Season 2 (2021)

Story of the Day When You Bite Your Tail Season 2

Rank #34844

Jang Trio is back with a fantastic chemistry! A program in which three ‘story tellers’ learn what they felt while studying on their own, to their ‘story friends’ (closest acquaintances),...

Hero

Hero

Rank #35840

An Jung Geun is a fighter for the Korean independence movement. Seol Hee used to be a court lady for Queen Myeongseong, but, after Queen Myseongseong was criminalated by the...