Korean Movies Opening Today 2024/01/24 in Korea

Korean movies opening today 2024/01/24 in Kore: "Citizen of a Kind", "Ms. Apocalypse", "In the Head" and "Star of Ulsan"

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"Citizen of a Kind" (2021)

Directed by Park Yong-ju

With Ra Mi-ran, Gong Myung, Yeom Hye-ran, Park Byung-eun, Jang Yoon-ju, Lee Mu-saeng,...

Synopsis
After losing her laundry store to a fire incident, a single mom Deok-hee receives a call from a bank offering a generous upfront loan so she takes it right away. But soon after, she finds out that she has become a victim of a voice phishing scheme. At the moment of despair, Jae-min, the phisher who tricked her, rings her phone once again to tip Deok-hee off about the criminal organization that locked him up and coerced him to make voice phishing calls from China. With that call, Deok-hee makes up her mind to investigate this case for herself and take a plane to China with her friends.

"Ms. Apocalypse" (2023)

Directed by Lim Seon-ae-I

With Lee Yoo-young, Lim Sun-woo, Roh Jae-won, Jang Sung-yoon, Lee Ji-hyun-IX,...

Synopsis
An unloved, defective woman gets involved with the wife of her secret crush,

And somehow the two begin to share an unlikely friendship

Yeong-mi (Lee Yoo-young), the accounting manager at a factory, is ridiculed for her dowdy appearance and called "Ms. Apocalypse" by her colleagues. Do-yeong (Roh Jae-won), a delivery driver, is the only one to show her any decency and kindness. As her feelings for him grow, Yeong-mi strives to get him off the hook even when she finds out that Do-yeong has been embezzling company money. It becomes the last day of 1999, and in the midst of people's fear that the world will come to an end, Yeong-mi gets arrested for aiding Do-yeong's crime. And thus, her new millennium starts wretchedly. As she walks out of prison after a few months, she comes across Do-yeong's wife, Yoo-jin (Lim Sun-woo), waiting for her and this unexpected visitor makes an implausible but compelling offer.

"In the Head" (2023)

Directed by Cho Sung-kyu

With Kai-I, Sun Min, Jung Yeon-joo, Baek Ik-nam, Kim Hye-na,...

Synopsis
Yeon-joo, who is judging short films at a film festival, is embarrassed when she sees Seon-min's film based on the same story as her screenplay. She calls Seon-min and tries to find out the whole story, but Seon-min's explanation was that she just wrote what she experienced and Yeon-joo's stance that she cannot believe it only made the situation tense. In order to reveal what happened to Seon-min, the two head to Gyeongju to meet the visually impaired couple who appeared in the movie. There, you will watch the reading play  written by a visually impaired person. As their second destination, they head to Woljeongsa Temple on Odaesan Mountain in Gangneung, which appears in the background of Seon-min's movie. After meeting the monk, both Yeon-joo and Seon-min learn that they have a connection to the monk, but their misunderstanding is not easily resolved. The two break up, and Yeon-joo visits Director Kim, the male protagonist in the movie.

"Star of Ulsan" (2022)

Directed by Jung Ki-hyuk

With Kim Geum-soon, Choi Woo-bin, Jang Min-young-I, Do Jung-hwan, Im Hyeong-tae, Byun Joong-hee,...

Synopsis
Star of Ulsan calmly captures a way of life that is silently collapsing. Yunhwa, who works at a shipyard to manage their livelihood after her husband′s accident, receives a notice of unfair dismissal. To make matters worse, their relatives suddenly come and try to take away the family land. Her son loses a large sum of money with Bitcoin, and her daughter dreams of escaping to Seoul while giving up her studies. Instead of resolving the misfortunes and conflicts surrounding the characters at once or erasing them neatly, the film chooses to stare at the uncomfortable situations as long as possible. In that way, the film, which makes it impossible to turn away from the stains and fatigue of life, reminds us of moments and things that cannot be turned away and should not be turned away. It is trustworthy because the characters do not give up hope nor indulge in self-pity easily. SONG Kyung-won

27th Busan International Film Festival