Um Tae-goo

Hope (2026)

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as igno ...

KARMA (2023)

Bong-sik dies after committing a heinous crime. Yet, even before the god of the underworld, he remains unrepentant and earns a hundred years of the severest punishment. Now, a hundred years later, Bong-sik receives a new karma, according to the rules of th ...

Cobweb (2023)

In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand ...

Concrete Utopia (2023)

The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gu ...

Faith (2023)

A short film about an armed man in a secret location. ...

The Witch: Part 2. The Other One (2022)

A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl overthrows the gang with her unexpected powers, and laboratory staff set out to find her. ...

Night in Paradise (2020)

An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men an ...

My Punch-Drunk Boxer (2019)

Byung-gu, a once-famous former professional boxer, makes ends meet doing odd jobs at the gym. While eager to start boxing again, he gets diagnosed with "punch drunk syndrome," a condition caused by cerebral concussions. One day, a new member of the gym arr ...

The Great Battle (2018)

Kingdom of Goguryeo, ancient Korea, 645. The ruthless Emperor Taizong of Tang invades the country and leads his armies towards the capital, achieving one victory after another, but on his way is the stronghold of Ansi, protected by General Yang Man-chu, wh ...

Adulthood (2018)

At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he unashamedly refuses. To get her money back, she joins his next scam. ...

A Taxi Driver (2017)

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he's a German journalist wit ...

Trivial Matters (2017)

The prospective director ,Do-hwan, is suffering from a past love affair. He goes to a freelance meeting and finds a strange and charming Eun-ha. With her help, he gets to know the problems of past love and also finds a solution about his scenario. Eun-ha a ...

Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016)

Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals. ...

The Age of Shadows (2016)

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. ...

Veteran (2015)

When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law. ...

The Unfair (2015)

Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end the demonstration. Death happen that lead to the bigger problem. ...

Coin Locker Girl (2015)

Il-young tries to get away from her adoptive mother because she does not want to get involved in her mother's criminal activities. ...

Barracks (2015)

In an old military bus are Myeong-hoon, his girlfriend Yeong-eun, and survival game friends; they are headed to a private camp to experience army life. Myeong-hoon knows there to be a large population of people to be taking part in this but he shocked to f ...

The Time of Good Light (2015)

2009 Intermediate Narrative Workshop, Film Dept. ...

Obsessed (2014)

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin. ...

18 Years (2014)

A short drama about Seok-joo who doesn't want to live like his brother. ...

INGtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls (2013)

An online feud evolves into something more real when two keyboard warriors take their battle offline in a mixed martial arts matchup. ...

Commitment (2013)

The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. ...

Secretly, Greatly (2013)

Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are shocked when they are ordered to kill one another or face death at the hands of an elite hit team. ...

Incomplete Life: Prequel (2013)

Grae, who failed to be a professional Baduk player, Young-i, who always has been lonely because of changing schools frequently, Oh Deputy department head who has been spending his life in a hurry, Dong-shik, who always has been coy about the love affairs, ...

Azooma (2013)

A mother goes to extreme measures against her daughter's attacker after after feeling that the local law enforcement have failed her. ...

Horror Stories (2012)

A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to night ...

Forest (2012)

A little action puts my friend in danger. I want to believe that my actions are not intended. ...

Keep Quiet (2012)

At the library, Sung-mo picks up the ringing phone of a person on the opposite side of his desk in an unguarded moment, while the person is out. A woman asks Sung-mo to run away with the phone. ...

Spellbound (2011)

A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems. ...

S.I.U. (2011)

Sung-Bum is a hot-tempered detective who relies on his intuition to crack cases. He rarely comes across a case that he cannot solve. The body of a police officer is then discovered in a burned out car near an abandoned building. Drugs are also found near t ...

Choked (2011)

In a recession-battered Seoul, a young man in the dodgy relocation business must deal with loan sharks and aggrieved parties owed large sums by his vanished entrepreneur mother. Director Kim Joong-hyun gradually turns up the heat and watches his characters ...

Heart Vibrator (2011)

When I'm with you, my heart vibrates. ...

Nice Shorts! 2011 (2011)

Home Sweet Home (2010)

Homeless Man-sik has a home. He arrived at home after begging all day. He shaved his head and took a shower at home. Getting in the bed, he heard sudden sound of woman's heels. ...

Texas Hit (2010)

Jae-Hun (Son Hyun-Joo) is separated from his wife and two daughters. He struggles to make ends meet, while working as a grocery deliveryman. Seung-Hyeon (Yu Geon) works with Jae-Hun delivering groceries. Although he is only in his 20's, he also struggles t ...

Midnight FM (2010)

Popular TV anchorwoman & late night DJ Ko Sun-young set to host her final radio program. During the show, she receives a startling text message instructing her to follow specific directions or endanger the lives of her family. ...

Oki's Movie (2010)

Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much older professor. ...

Anyang, Paradise City (2010)

Set in Anyang, South Korea, crew members for an upcoming documentary research the devastating fire that took occurred in a factory prior to the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. 22 female workers, who were locked in their dormitory, were killed in the fire. Alo ...

I Saw the Devil (2010)

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that ...

The Servant (2010)

A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life. ...

Secret (2009)

A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while independently investigating his wife, terrible secrets slowly begin to surface. ...

I Am Happy (2009)

A man suffers from mental illness after having lived with a mother suffering from dementia and a brother addicted to gambling. Now institutionalized, he falls in love with a nurse at the psychiatric hospital. ...

No Charge Airline Ticket (2009)

Donghwan is unemployed. One day, he applies for a quiz for a no charge airline ticket on the Internet. The next day, he receives a phone call asking him to come to an office in Jongno-gu, Seoul because he has won the quiz, where he will receive the free ro ...

Insadong Scandal (2009)

A fabled painting from royal palace was discovered after 400 years. Once properly restored, it could fetch at least $40 million in the international auction market. Bae is the owner of the gallery which possesses the painting. She scouts top-tier restorati ...

Epitaph (2007)

A traumatized girl sees visions of her dead mother in one of three tales set in a 1942 South Korean hospital. ...

Like a season (2007)

This is a short film I made for my graduation work in 2007. - Excellence Award at the Korea University Film Festival. ...