Kil Hae-yeon
Also Known As: 길해연, Gil Hae-yeon, Kil Hae Yeon, Kil Hyeyeon, 吉海妍, Gil Hae Yeon
Biography: Kil Hae-yeon (Korean: 길해연) is a South Korean actress. She is best known to North American audiences for her performance in the film In Her Place, for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 and won the Wildflower Film Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Wildflower Film Awards in 2016.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Birthday: April 11, 1964
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Gender: Female
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Breathless
Overview: Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can stand up to him, feisty school-girl Yoon-hee they become unlikely friends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-04-16
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Unlocked
Overview: A woman's life is turned upside-down when a dangerous man gets a hold of her lost cell phone and uses it to track her every move.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-02-17
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Dolphin
Overview: The most important thing for Na-young, who has lived her entire life in a small seaside village, is taking care of her family and friends. However, her mother tries to sell their precious house full of memories, and her younger brother insists on moving to Seoul. While Na-young struggles to accept the changes, she comes across bowling and begins to spend more and more time at the bowling alley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-03-13
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Cart
Overview: In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Too Bright Outside for Love
Overview: Yang-Hee (Choi Gang-Hee) is a stage drama director. She gets tired from tough situations around her. One day, she meets Pil-Yong (Go Joon). They haven't seen each other in 19 years, when they attended the same university. Soon, Yang-Hee's life changes.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Vanishing
Overview: When a series of gruesome murders hit Seoul, the Korean investigation police has no choice but to ask help from world-renowned French doctor Alice Launey who developed a revolutionary technique for recognizing bodies. With more corpses on the way and a mysterious organ trafficking ring uncovered, things are about to get more dangerous in the land of the morning calm…
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-03-30
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Cart
Overview: In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Granny's Got Talent
Overview: A national cussing battle audition is the nation's hype. People from all over the country audition in becoming the "Cussing King." However, redundant cussing auditioners cause viewership to drop dramatically. The producer decides to revive the show by introducing a regular looking grandmother...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-03-05
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Unforgivable
Overview: In the middle of the night, a horrendous murder takes place in a public washroom. Major Crimes detective Dong-geun finds a crumpled up note inside the victim’s mouth. The note contains a date from 11 years ago, and as he digs deeper into the note, he finds out that the victim was a bully in the military, and Dong-geun gets a chance to reflect on his own unsavory past that he has forgotten until now.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-13
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The Dream Songs
Overview: On the afternoon of the day before her school trip, Se-mi wakes up from her strange dream and heads to her Ha-eun. It was because she felt like she had to convey the feelings she had been holding back for a long time today. However, unlike her overflowing heart, the two keep falling apart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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Mapado 2: Back to the Island
Overview: Detective Chung-su takes a secret mission from a dying president of a big company. The businessman wants to see his first love before he dies.The only information the detective has is that her name is Kkotnim and she now lives on an island called Tongbaek, off one of the country's southern ports. He rides on a private boat to the island with an anonymous passenger, dreaming of the big bucks he will get when he completes his mission.But the boat is wrecked in a fierce storm, and Chung-su and the passenger find themselves lying on the shore of a strange island. In the struggle to escape from the island, Chung-su meets up with five grandmothers who will not let him or the other men escape. During his captivity, he investigates if one of the grandmothers is indeed the love interest. Will he find out and escape from the island alive?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Fake Family
Overview: To support her family and pay off her mother’s debt, Eun-Soo (Lee Ha-Na) works at a dentist clinic during the day and part-time work at night. She is 36-years-old and still single. She hopes to one day live her life for herself and not her family. The time to achieve her dream comes and she finishes paying off the loan. Something happens though.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Somebody
Overview: Swimming instructor, Young-eun is a single mom raising her 7-year-old daughter, So-hyun. However, a series of tragic events happens as So-hyun's puppy falls from the apartment and dies, and So-hyun bullies other kids in school. Despite her mom's earnest efforts to address So-hyun's mental disorder, her peculiar behavior persists. Twenty years later, Min, who works in handling unclaimed deaths, meets a new colleague, Hae-young, and they form a close bond. However, as Hae-young warmly integrates herself into Min's life, Min begins to feel uncomfortable and suspicious about her intentions.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-03-12
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Joo Yeon
Overview: Joo Hyeok and Joo Yeon spend an ordinary but happy day with their parents who run a small snack shop. One day, Joo Yeon goes missing with the news that a murder has occurred, and the more Joo Hyeok chases after the disappearing traces, Joo Hyeok faces unknown truths.
Genres: Mystery Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Men of Plastic
Overview: Dae-guk, a nosy man from Apgujeong, and Ji-woo, a cold but skillful plastic surgeon, open a plastic surgery business in Gangnam. Dae-guk is an unemployed man who likes to pry into other people’s businesses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-11-30
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INGtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls
Overview: An online feud evolves into something more real when two keyboard warriors take their battle offline in a mixed martial arts matchup.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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In Her Place
Overview: A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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Missing
Overview: A working single mother comes home one day to find that her daughter and the nanny have disappeared -- and this is just the beginning of her nightmare.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-11-30
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The First Lap
Overview: Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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If You Were Me 6
Overview: In this omnibus film series produced by the National Human Rights Commission, Park Jungbum explores relating to the handicapped, Lee Sangcheol and Shin Aga turn their camera on the elderly and Min Youngkeun looks at conscientious objection to military service. In Dear Duhan, Duhan suffers from brain lesions. His friend has always felt bad for Duhan but nonetheless steals an iPad from him one day. Director Park explores the conflict and friendship between a so-called normal and a handicapped person. In Bong-gu on Delivery Shin and Lee tell the tale of an old man who helps a child find his way home, only to be accused of kidnapping. And Min talks about a Jehovah’s Witness who has just been drafted and must say goodbye to his mother in Ice River, a melodrama about a man who chooses to go to prison for his conscientious and religious objections to bearing arms. Having divorced her husband in order not to send her son to prison, his mother cannot accept her son’s choice.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-24
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Memoir of a Murderer
Overview: A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her mysterious boyfriend who may be a serial killer too.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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The Mimic
Overview: The mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods, but soon begins to wonder if she is even human.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-08-17
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Insane
Overview: A woman gets kidnapped in the middle of the day and is tortured in a psychiatric hospital. A Journalist gets on the trace of the case and tries to find out the truth.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-04-07
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Choked
Overview: 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 boil in this intelligent and nuanced feature debut.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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Late Blossom
Overview: Follows the lives of two couples who live in the same neighborhood. Kim Man-Suk delivers milk on a motorbike at dawn. He curses a lot, but actually has a warm heart. One day when he goes up a slope, he meets Ms. Song - a lonely woman who works hards by collecting and selling scrap paper. Man-Suk feels something special toward Ms. Song. Jang Kun-Bong works in a parking lot. Jang Kun-Bong has a wife who suffers from Alzheimer's. He works from dawn until late at night. After work he comes home and takes care of his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-17
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Mapado
Overview: A gangster and a corrupt police officer travel to the tiny remote island of Mapado to hunt down a young woman who has run off with a winning lottery ticket. Upon arriving, they discover that no one lives there except for five old women who have not once seen a man for 20 years. Both men soon experience a nightmare of hard labor and harassment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-03-10
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Mate
Overview: Jun-ho who avoids relationship commitments he runs into Eun-ji, who he had met through a dating application. Jun-ho suggests that they date without any responsibilities, and they begin an undefined relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-01-17
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Happy Together
Overview: An amazing tangle of relationships unfolds between several women, their entertainment, their dates, and their children.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-03-27
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Inseparable Bros
Overview: Se-ha who is a physically handicapped and Dong-gu who is a mentally handicapped are not their own brothers. But while living 20 years together, the two became indispensable to each other. One day, the mother of Dong-gu suddenly visits him and acts as his guardian.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-01
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The Intimate
Overview: Her lover has never taken a dangerous risk in his life. She has been for seven years and is going to get married next month. One day she meets a handsome stranger, who asked her to spend one day with him. It might be a mistake to accept his proposal, but over the next day she will experience a level of excitement and intimacy, she has never experienced before, and this could change her life all of sudden.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-12-08
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House of Hummingbird
Overview: 14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-08-28
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Night Working
Overview: Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on the weekend, while Lin finds out that Yeon-hee is leaving Korea for Australia soon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-07-06
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Midnight
Overview: A serial killer ruthlessly hunts down a deaf woman through the streets of South Korea after she witnesses his brutal crime.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-06-30
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Baby and Me
Overview: A rebellious high school student sees his life take a strange turn when he goes to the grocery store and someone leaves a baby in his shopping cart, along with a note claiming he's the father.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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Re-encounter
Overview: 18 year-old Hye-hwa and Han-soo were lovers but as soon as Hye-hwa got pregnant Han-soo disappeared completely. Five years later, Han-soo suddenly appears in front of Hye-hwa and the two of them find out their baby is still alive. Hye-hwa doesn't believe Han-soo. However, after finding out her child had been adopted, she can’t help but weaken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-17
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If You Were Me
Overview: Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers through the real-life story of a Nepalese woman in Korea. Jeong Jae-Eun, tackles the plight of a paedophile released into the community. Yeo Gyun-Dong, invites disabled actor Kim Moon-Joo to re-enact his most famous protest. Im Soon-Rye, goes for the engrained sexism of Korean men with superb wit and, Park Jin-Pyo, confronts the horror of children forced into oral surgery to improve their English-speaking ability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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The Pot
Overview: Korean horror hit of 2009. Everything is picture-perfect for a family of three recently moved to Seoul from the countryside. But a religious ritual goes terribly wrong with frightening consequences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-08-20
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Landscape of Pain
Overview: It tells a thriller story about a chase that begins with an old priest who pretends to be an old man who died alone in a dilapidated neighborhood and hears the prisoner's confession, and a middle-aged female detective working together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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About Family
Overview: Mu-ok is the self-made owner of the established restaurant 'Pyongmanok' that has been drawing long lines of customers before social media existed. He is deeply troubled by his only son, Moon-seok, whom he hoped would inherit the family legacy, becoming a monk, leaving him with no one to carry on the family name. While Mu-ok is devasted by the thought that his family line would end with him, young kids come to his restaurant claiming Moon-seok as their father! Mu-ok, now given a chance to continue his family’s legacy, enjoys happiness like never before. Meanwhile, Moon-seok revisits his life before becoming a monk—and stumbles upon a shocking revelation…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-12-11
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