Best South Korean musical movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch musical films from South Korea, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Hot for Teacher

    Hot for Teacher 2006

    Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag - until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the students go crazy, and the male teachers too! They should be preparing for the annual school festival, but they're all occupied with other matters.

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  • Poster for Sopyonje

    Sopyonje 1993

    A former pansori performer travels across South Korea in search of the student he studied with.

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  • Poster for Hero

    Hero 2022

    An Jung-geun fights for Korea's independence from the Japanese Empire and sparks a movement. In 1909, he assassinates Itō Hirobumi, the first prime minister of Japan and resident-general of Korea.

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  • Poster for The Fox Family

    The Fox Family 2006

    The Kumiho family circus in town -- and with it, apparently, a mysterious murderer. The members of motherless family aren’t helping their case with their strange remarks about humans and their initial performances, cavalcades of dismemberment and torrents of blood which terrify the local kids. Pretty soon, a dour, downbeat cop is on the tail of the plucky, bumbling Kumihos. Or rather, tails -- “kumiho” is the word for the fox spirits of Korean mythology, and this clan from Nam Mountain near Seoul, temporarily disguised as people thanks to a magic spell, must eat human livers during a brief, once-in-a-millennium lunar eclipse to shed their foxy nature and assume permanent human form. When the sleazy reprobate on the run from mobsters stumbles into their eerie household, he soon finds himself a little too enthusiastically involved in their scheming after human flesh—and involved with the sexy elder-sister fox spirit as well!

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  • Poster for Life Is Beautiful

    Life Is Beautiful 2022

    Suddenly learning she is terminally ill, Se-yeon asks her husband, Jin-bong the absurd task of helping her find her first love, and he unwillingly joins her search. Along their journey, Se-yeon and Jin-bong are reminded of the most glittering, beautiful moments of their lives.

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  • Poster for Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater

    Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater 2006

    One rainy night, Sodan's grandmother disappears, only telling her she's going to see a movie. In an effort to track her down Sodan gets a job as a box office attendant at the local theater. But there's more to this run down cinema than meets the eye.

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  • Poster for The Singer

    The Singer 2020

    In the era of corruption, Hak-gyu sings songs and tells stories on the street with his band. One day, Hak-gyu's wife Gan-nan is kidnapped by gangsters and his daughter Cheong loses her eyesight after the incident. He decides to travel in search of his missing wife and learns that corrupted noblemen are behind the mob.

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  • Poster for The Shaman Sorceress

    The Shaman Sorceress 2021

    There is a tragic history behind the painting titled The Shaman Sorceress, left in the home by a mute girl and her father. With husband and daughter by her side, Mohwa devoted her life to practicing shamanistic rites. She is rejoined by her long-estranged son, who turns out to be a converted Christian. The ensuing religious conflict between the two grows more and more intense until a tragedy strikes.

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  • Poster for Tenderly Crunch

    Tenderly Crunch 2013

    Melon Ball and Choco Ball were meant to be. Then Choco Diget showed up, and now this candy aisle love story is melting.

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