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Letterboxd's Top 100 Korean Films

Korea's turn (South Korea at least).

No documentaries and no shorts (< 40 mins). Cutoff of minimum watches is 1000.

See other lists for the other countries:
Top 250 British Films (as rated by British users)
Top 250 French Films (as rated by French users)
Top 250 Spanish Speaking Films (as rated by Spanish users)
Top 250 Spanish Speaking Films (as rated by Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Spain combined)
Top 250 Japanese Films
Top 100 Italian Films (as rated by Italian users)
Top 100 Scandinavian Films (as rated by Scandinavian users)
And of course, the master list that started this, with links to other users' versions for other countries:
Highest Rated Films From Each Country

Director Appearances:
Hong Sang-soo - 16 films
Park Chan-wook - 7 films
Bong Joon-ho - 6 films
Lee Chang-dong - 5 films
Kim Jee-woon - 5 films
Lee Joon-ik - 4 films

  • Parasite

    1

  • Memories of Murder

    2

  • The Handmaiden

    3

  • Oldboy

    4

  • Poetry

    5

  • Joint Security Area

    6

  • A Taxi Driver

    7

  • Hope

    8

  • The Eighth Sense

    9

  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

    10

  • Mother

    11

  • Past Lives

    12

  • Silenced

    13

  • Sunny

    14

  • No Other Choice

    15

  • 3-Iron

    16

  • Secret Sunshine

    17

  • Oasis

    18

  • House of Hummingbird

    19

  • Soulmate

    20

  • Castaway on the Moon

    21

  • Lady Vengeance

    22

  • Little Forest

    23

  • Miracle in Cell No. 7

    24

  • Swing Kids

    25

  • Burning

    26

  • I Saw the Devil

    27

  • 20th Century Girl

    28

  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

    29

  • The Chaser

    30

  • Microhabitat

    31

  • Peppermint Candy

    32

  • The World of Us

    33

  • Decision to Leave

    34

  • Train to Busan

    35

  • The Wailing

    36

  • Bleak Night

    37

  • Love in the Big City

    38

  • Moonlit Winter

    39

  • Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

    40

  • Semantic Error: The Movie

    41

  • A Bittersweet Life

    42

  • 1987: When the Day Comes

    43

  • A Moment to Remember

    44

  • On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate

    45

  • Christmas in August

    46

  • Breathless

    47

  • Lost in Starlight

    48

  • Right Now, Wrong Then

    49

  • The Man from Nowhere

    50

  • The Book of Fish

    51

  • Kim Ji-young: Born 1982

    52

  • The Day He Arrives

    53

  • Han Gong-ju

    54

  • Hear Me: Our Summer

    55

  • New World

    56

  • The Way Home

    57

  • Night and Day

    58

  • Tazza: The High Rollers

    59

  • Be With You

    60

  • Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

    61

  • One Fine Spring Day

    62

  • The Novelist's Film

    63

  • Mandala

    64

  • Aimless Bullet

    65

  • A Midsummer's Fantasia

    66

  • Café Noir

    67

  • Midnight Runners

    68

  • Ode to My Father

    69

  • Il Mare

    70

  • Broker

    71

  • Thirst

    72

  • The Attorney

    73

  • I Can Speak

    74

  • By the Stream

    75

  • Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet

    76

  • The Spy Gone North

    77

  • On the Beach at Night Alone

    78

  • Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie

    79

  • My Beautiful Days

    80

  • Take Care of My Cat

    81

  • Forgotten

    82

  • The Host

    83

  • Save the Green Planet!

    84

  • My Dear Enemy

    85

  • A Day Off

    86

  • The Housemaid

    87

  • The Classic

    88

  • Sopyonje

    89

  • Tune in for Love

    90

  • A Brand New Life

    91

  • Oki's Movie

    92

  • Miracle: Letters to the President

    93

  • The King and the Clown

    94

  • Failan

    95

  • Yourself and Yours

    96

  • My Sassy Girl

    97

  • Moving On

    98

  • 12.12: The Day

    99

  • Next Sohee

    100