The 9 best Korean movies to watch right now

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Broker

Two guys take kids from the church's baby box, where families can leave children to be adopted or reared in an orphanage, and broker the adoption black market.

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Oldboy

Park Chan-wook's vengeance film is legendary. After 15 years in captivity, Oh Dae-Su is liberated and given five days to discover his abductors in this dark and violent picture.

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Memories of Murder

Bong Joon Ho's second film, Memories of Murder, was his first with Song Kang-ho, who would appear in Parasite, his Oscar-winning picture. 

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Decision to Leave

This romantic thriller from Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden) follows an insomniac investigator who falls for a widow accused of murdering her husband.

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Parasite (2019)

This Best Picture winner follows the Kims, an impoverished family with enormous hopes striving to escape their basement apartment and rise in society.

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Mother

Another A+ film from Boon Joon-ho, this gripping thriller chronicles a mother's efforts to exonerate her learning impaired son from killing a little girl.

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I Saw the Devil

Bus driver/psychopathic serial murderer kills a secret agent's pregnant fiancée in this action thriller. After her body is found, the agent becomes obsessed with finding her killer.

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Burning

is childhood friend who asks him to after her cat while she travels, and the mystery man she meets. Be prepared for surprises.

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The Wailing

The Wailing follows Jong-goo, a policeman in the secluded Korean town of Gokseong, who risks his life to investigate a mystery ailment that turns victims furious and deadly.