Kim Jung-pal
Also Known As: 김정석, 김정팔, Kim Jung-suk, Kim Jeong-suk, Kim Jeong-pal, Kim Jung-seok, Kim Jeong-seok
Biography: Kim Jung-pal (김정팔 aka Kim Jung-suk, born 6 April 1967) is a South Korean actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: April 06, 1967
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Male
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The Book of Fish
Overview: When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-03-31
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Fair Love
Overview: Hyung-man is in his fifties and has regrettably never dated. After having lost all his, Hyung spends his monotonous and frustrating life in his photo studio. One day, Hyung decides to pay his fraudulent friend, Ki-hyuk, a visit, after having heard that he is dying of cancer. Ki-hyuk requests that Hyung look after his daughter, Nam-eun, once in a while after he dies. After Ki-yuk passes away, Hyung decides to visit his friend’s daughter. Noticing that Nam is more distressed over the death of her pet cat than her father, Hyung decides to look after her once in a while. Nam-eun too finds her father’s silly and unmarried friend quite interesting. Using Hyung’s dirty laundry as an excuse, Nam frequently visits Hyung, gradually expressing her feelings for him. Although awkward and surprised at first, Hyung too is curious about his feelings for his friend’s daughter. Soon, Hyung who was once simply Nam’s father’s friend becomes her man and they begin a series of unusual dates.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-01-14
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12.12: The Day
Overview: After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by DefenseSecurity Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee Tae-shin, an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against Chun Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their decision and Defense Minister is gone. In the midst of chaos, the spring of Seoul that everyone longed for heads to unexpected direction.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime War Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Han Gong-ju
Overview: After being involved in a traumatic incident, 17-year-old Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Uncared for by her parents, her previous teacher arranges for her to hide away at his mother's place. It takes time for her past to catch up with her, but when it does the revelation is devastating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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The Avian Kind
Overview: Novelist Jeong-seok is looking for his missing wife. A woman appears in front of him and suggests that she can find his wife. Meanwhile, some people approach him and ask him to find missing people. They find themselves becoming chased at some point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-09-28
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Gilsodom
Overview: A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-04-05
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Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
Overview: Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence Movement.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-02-17
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The Russian Novel
Overview: About an aspiring author who wakes up from a 27-year coma as one of his country's finest authors, credited for a book he didn't write.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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Roman Holiday
Overview: A comedy about a hopeless trio who live to become robbers and hold hostages.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-08-30
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Han River
Overview: Catholic priest, Myeong-jun, climbs up one of the bridges crossing the Han River to commit suicide after learning that a woman who loved him in the past, has killed herself. Then Jang-hyo, a homeless person, tells the man on the bridge that he bet with other homeless people that the suicide attempt will fail. Myeong-jun jumps into the river anyway. But Jang-hyo rescues the suicidal priest and lets him join the homeless community. Chu-ja, a transgender homeless person, is on bad terms with his daughter. When he hesitates about attending his daughter’s wedding, the two men visit the daughter and ask her to forgive her father. Another homeless person, Maria goes to a soup kitchen at a Catholic church, where she sees the beautiful nun Angela. Maria, who was pregnant at the time, gives birth to a baby later and decides to remain at the church to be a sister. Despite their own painful history, each of these four people finds a way to reconcile with the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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The Celebrated Gisaeng
Overview: Ae-rang is a celebrated gisaeng who has the ability to knock out any man in the world with the flick of her hand or skirt and in the blink of an eye. She's got the men eating out of her hands with bedtime techniques that no one else knows about. One day, an impregnable man who won't date anyone is assigned to her village. The magistrate and Ae-rang secretly bet that she will or won't be able to have him begging for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-12-30
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Excavator
Overview: 20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Uprising in Korea in 1980, happens to find a skull in the ground one day. Driving his excavator, he pays visits to his former superiors one by one and realizes they were all both assailants and victims of the times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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Romantic Debtors
Overview: A policeman in debt is constantly called by a woman working to collect his debt. When they meet by accident they attracted to each other, and does not realize they already have a hostile phone-relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-11-04
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Seven Years of Night
Overview: Set against the haunting backdrop of a small lake town, this chilling thriller unravels a meticulous revenge set over a period of 7 years, all beginning with the accidental death of an innocent girl.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-03-28
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Stateless Things
Overview: Stateless Things crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-03-01
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Beautiful Voice
Overview: Poor voice actors have a project that they have to finish dubbing in just one day. However, they are cramped in a tiny glass booth and tired of being treated like dirt by those above them. Unexpectedly, their story turns into one of heroes who adventure to space.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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Black House
Overview: Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-06-21
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Good Night
Overview: Do-jin a high school senior had a 'sleep hold operation' with the demand of the mom. But he come to suffer from the side effect although he runs the successful road through that. Finally, he resort to the extremity ....
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-06-26
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Lady Daddy
Overview: Ji-hyeon is enjoying her life after a female sex-change operation. One day a boy knocks on her door claiming that she is his father. Her attempts to act like an ordinary father conflicts with her life as a woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-01-14
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Dogs in the House
Overview: A story about a man running a shabby neighborhood bathhouse. The man is in danger of losing his precious bathhouse because of the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Then, the loan shark offers odd suggestions to the man to solve this problem.
Genres: Comedy Family Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-01-02
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Brainwave
Overview: Jun Oh, a man suffering from severe headaches. With his headaches come some unexpected special powers. Meanwhile, two narcotics detectives stumble upon a corpse under a bridge. And that's when things start to get strange...
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-01-02
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Runway Cop
Overview: All he has is smell and a D-line body but is devoted in catching the bad guys. Detective Cha (Kang Ji-hwan) takes the cover of a model on a runway to solve a case.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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Always
Overview: A former boxer turned parking lot attendant finds hope in the love of the blind telemarketer who walks into his booth one day.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-10-20
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Poongsan
Overview: Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Troubleshooter
Overview: Kang Tae-sik is a private detective who would do anything for money. One day, he gets framed for a murder by a ruthless boss of the criminal underworld and a mysterious caller watches and controls his every move. He must use a wide array of techno-gadgetry at his disposal to clear himself and exact revenge within 24 hours given to him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-09-12
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The Recipe
Overview: A man on death-row wants to taste "doenjang jjigae" (a spicy Korean bean paste stew) before he dies. Television producer Choi Yu-Jin hears of the inmate and researches his story for an upcoming news report. Choi Yu-Jin then comes across a mysterious woman named Jang Hye-Jin who makes doenjang jjigae that brings tears of joy to those who tastes her recipe. As Choi Yu-Jin delves further, he learns of Jang Hye-Jin's heart breaking relationship with Kim Hyun-Soo.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-10-21
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My Girlfriend Is an Agent
Overview: Ahn Soo-ji and Lee Jae-joon, who are oblivious to each other's real profession as secret agents, are in an ill-fated relationship. Three years later, they accidentally meet targeting the same enemy.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-04-04
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Springtime
Overview: A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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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 Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
Overview: The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans - a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an affair with, and a second woman the novelist is simultaneously involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-05-04
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Salvation
Overview: A prostitute steals a billion won from her pimp and is found dead in the river. While his pimp seeks to recover the money, he enlists the help of a policeman. After suffering a car accident, this policeman stops at a mysterious retreat, which worships an incarnate goddess in the body of a child.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-04-08
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Mafia Game
Overview: Leave or take everything. Han Byung-chul and Kim Suk-hwan have been competing for the casino business. Handong Architecture finally decides on Han Byung-chul. Kim Suk-hwan hears this and threatens them to use Han Byung-chul's weakness to cancel the contract. Han Byung-chul offers a part of his share, but Kim Suk-hwan won't have it. Han Byung-chul is furious and he takes out his gun and suggests a risky game... The endless desire and bloody noir starts now!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-04-05
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Cassiopeia
Overview: Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, In-woo moves in to help Su-jin take care of Gina. The three live together for some time, until one day, Su-jin gets into a car accident and receives an unexpected diagnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-01-06
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He Asked Me If I Knew Zither
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-05-10
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Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On
Overview: When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be able to financially support his family. But he finds himself constantly reminded of the laborers' inferior working conditions. The young 22-year-old Taeil decides to confront the reality and become the flame of hope himself.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-12-01
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Yadang: The Snitch
Overview: Drug-criminals take advantage of commutation by passing over the insider’s information bought from ‘Ya-Dang’. Cops and prosecutors, on the other hand, make performances by using the information. There is a triangle in Korean drug-crime scene: police, prosecutors and the game changer, ‘Ya-Dang’.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-04-16
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