Ko Chang-seok
Also Known As: 고창석, Go Chang-seok, Ko Chang-suk, 高昌錫, Go Chang-suk
Biography: Ko Chang-seok (고창석) is a South Korean film actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Busan, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: October 13, 1970
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Male
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Miracle: Letters to the President
Overview: Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-09-15
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Ice Bar
Overview: In 1969, a 10-year old boy's life takes a major turn when he discovers the father he never met is alive. Selling candy bars left and right to save up for a trip to see his dad, the boy embarks on a journey that could change his life forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-24
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Life Is Beautiful
Overview: Suddenly learning she is terminally ill, Se-yeon asks her husband, Jin-bong the absurd task of helping her find her first love, and he unwillingly joins her search. Along their journey, Se-yeon and Jin-bong are reminded of the most glittering, beautiful moments of their lives.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-09-28
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The Case of Itaewon Homicide
Overview: On the night of April 8, 1997, an innocent college student was brutally murdered in a burger shop washroom for no apparent reason. 2 Korean-American teenagers are brought for questioning and are charged with murder and possession of lethal weapon and withholding evidence. Neither is remorseful for their heinous crimes and blames each other for the killing.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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The Host
Overview: A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Antique
Overview: Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-11-13
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Project Wolf Hunting
Overview: While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-09-21
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The Killers
Overview: Four master helmers from Korea reload the hitman flick. Vampire sleaze, assassin slapstick, neo-noir, and an avant-garde mind-bender to die (kill) for!
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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The Last Wolf
Overview: A detective tired of bloody and cruel crimes in Seoul negotiates a transfer to a crime-free town in the country, where he lives a life of peace and bliss. But then his new police station is listed for closure due to the town's complete absence of crime in the last 20 years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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The Spy: Undercover Operation
Overview: Chul-soo is one of Korea’s best intelligence agents: he can accomplish any given mission. One day, a mysterious explosion takes place in Seoul. Chul-soo flies to Thailand on a mission to rescue a person who holds clues to the incident. Meanwhile, Young-hee goes on a business trip to Thailand and gets entangled with Chul-soo’s mission. Will he accomplish his mission and save his wife at the same time?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-05
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Lady Vengeance
Overview: Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Going by the Book
Overview: The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn't go the way he had anticipated.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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Quick
Overview: A biker is forced to deliver a ticking time bomb by a mysterious caller who has put an explosive helmet on his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-07-20
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Tabloid Truth
Overview: Woo-gon, a passionate manager who lost everything due to stock advertisements and a specialist gets together to find out the truth behind the rumors that have shaken up the country. From precious information to distribution, this crime chasing movie surrounds the invisible truth.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-02-20
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The Front Line
Overview: In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-07-20
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The Huntresses
Overview: Set in the Joseon Period, three beautiful musketeers fight against a powerful group who tries to overturn the royal family and gain absolute power. The leader of the Beautiful Three Musketeers is Jin-ok, a smart and righteous woman. Hong-dan is the only married woman among the three women. Ga-bi is the youngest among the musketeers and excels at fighting.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-29
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Rough Cut
Overview: Gang-pae is #2 gangster in his organization who longs to become an actor. Su-ta is a superstar actor who takes on the role of a gangster in an action movie called Rough Cut. When another actor leaves the set due to Su-tas violent ways, the production is on the verge of shutting down. Su-ta asks Gang-pae, whom he met by chance, to play alongside him in the movie in order to save the production.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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Insadong Scandal
Overview: 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 restoration artist Lee to work on the painting. With Lee's expert stroke, the controversy surrounding the painting is slowly unveiled. As the painting's true form is restored, art experts in Korea hold a collective breath. Little do they know that they're only a part of a bigger scheme.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-04-30
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City Of Fathers
Overview: Kang-soo is a third-rate street thug in Busan; he's an alcoholic and gambling addict who's always on the run from loan sharks. But when his rebellious teenage son Jong-chul is diagnosed with kidney cancer, he tries to be a real parent for the first time and seeks out Jong-chul's biological father, Tae-suk, a pimp. Tae-suk, however, refuses to help.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-15
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No Mercy for the Rude
Overview: A mute hit-man vows to kill only the rude, and save up enough money for tongue surgery.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-24
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Secretly, Greatly
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-06-05
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A Barefoot Dream
Overview: After a series of pipe dream ventures go belly up, retired pro soccer player Kim Won-kang happens to visit East Timor, where he finds children playing the game barefoot on rocky pitches. Sensing a new business opportunity on finding the country doesn't have a single sporting goods store, he embarks on a scheme to get rich quick by purveying athletic shoes to the unshod youngsters. Sadly, no one there can afford to pay $60 for a pair of shoes, even on a generous installment plan, and before he knows it, he is reduced to coaching a team of ragged 10-year-olds and prospects are looking grim. Written by Palm Springs Internation Film Festival
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-06-24
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Running Wild
Overview: A grissled cop with tendencies towards excessive force teams up with an ambitious and righteous prosecutor to track down a dangerous crime boss whom they both want desperately to catch. But their quarry resorts to devious methods to stall their investigation and eventually turn them against each other. Now the stage is set for a dangerous triangle.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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Hello Ghost
Overview: A man's failed suicide attempt enables him to see ghosts, who later keep following him everywhere. It is now up to him to fulfill their wishes to make them go away.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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The Showdown
Overview: In the 11th year of Kwang Hae-gun, Jo-seon soldiers go to war with China after an invasion. In the middle of Manchu, three people who have barely survived are being cornered by the Chinese forces, and begin a bloody battle not with their enemies but with their friends.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-24
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The Con Artists
Overview: A wily safecracker is forced to help a mob boss pull off a $150 million heist, but smells a double-cross in the works.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-12-24
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Over My Dead Body
Overview: The perpetually rational and precise researcher Hyeon-cheol and the rash and reckless Dong-hwa have nothing in common with the exception of a goal to steal a corpse to serve their own twisted agendas. They set off on their bizarre mission and the plan goes smoothly until they’re faced with the unexpected appearance of Jin-oh and a mysterious group of men also on the hunt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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The Grand Heist
Overview: Ice suddenly becomes a more valuable commodity during the Joseon Dynasty and a gang of eleven professionals are assigned to protect the market situation from irresponsible people.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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Mr. XXX-Kisser
Overview: Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. Dong-sik decides to become the best insurance seller in his newly transferred insurance sales team, but sales is a major challenge for the completely tactless and obstinate Dong-sik. Then one day, Dong-sik has a chance encounter with Hyugosoo, the legendary ‘master of tongue’ of insurance sales industry. Hyugosoo bends his rules and accepts Dong-sik as his pupil, and Dong-sik begins to learn Hyugosoo’s secrets of flattery after a great struggle. Will his teachings indeed reinvent Dong-sik into ‘Mr. Ass-Kisser’?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-06-21
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Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River
Overview: In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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Mr. Go
Overview: A 15-year-old circus ringmaster Wei-wei is left all alone with gorilla Ling-ling after grandfather passes away. Thanks to her grandfather's love for baseball, Ling-ling was trained to play baseball and has developed remarkable hitting skills.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-07-17
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Slow Video
Overview: Jang-bu was an ordinary boy except his special talent; To see every moving thing like a slow motion video. As friends teased him by calling ‘monster eyes’, he decided to stick at home and not to go out. Television has been his only friend. Time passes by, and now grown-up Jang-bu works at the CCTV control center which is the best job for him. When he sees people’s life through camera, he feels he’s sharing their ordinary life that he’s never had. This new job opens his heart to the world and Jang-bu starts to make some friends out of the control center. With his dear friends he receives sense of himself and finally decides to propose a girl that he loved for long from CCTV…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Mr. Idol
Overview: It's hard being a Korean popstar! For every Gangnam Style, there are a hundred flameouts. K-Pop sensation Jay Park stars in this musical romp about a sassy music executive on her quest to resurrect a disgraced boy band against all odds.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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In Between
Overview: When you think you are stuck in a dead-end loop, hope comes knocking at your door. A man sentenced to prison for killing his father and a woman whose days are numbered according to her doctors. They come across another desperate pair ? a man an inch away from death and a teashop girl who has nothing but her debts to depend upon. Their paths cross in the most devastating moments of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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The Go to Restaurant
Overview: Ye-boon, the owner of a home-cooled style Korean restaurant in a friendly neighborhood, disappears. Her daughter comes to her hometown for the first time in a long time to find her mother’s whereabouts. As she begins to search for her mother, joining with the neighbors in town, the secrets kept by her mother start to reveal.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
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Second Half
Overview: This indie charmer take us on an aimless seaside vacation with struggling film producer, In-sung, where he meets an energetic young girl he suspects to be his daughter from an one-night-stand 20 years ago. Just when he is to tell her his hunch, In-sung is met with a shocking confession from Mina.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-10-28
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Miss Conspirator
Overview: A woman with a severe anxiety disorder stumbles into a 44 million dollars drug deal gone wrong. Suddenly the mafia, as well as the police, wants to get hold of her.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-06-20
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A Taxi Driver
Overview: 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 with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-08-02
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Almost Che
Overview: This hateful world only allows handsome guys to date! 'Below average guy' and Chinese restaurant delivery guy Kang Dae-oh was born single and solo until now. He has a crush on college girl Ye-rin whom he fell in love with at first sight but is blocked by her spec and hasn't been able to tell her his feelings yet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-10-25
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1987: When the Day Comes
Overview: In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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Be with You
Overview: Along with his young son, Ji-ho, Woo-jin misses his wife Soo-a, who died after promising to return a year later with the rainy season. Miraculously, they reunite with Soo-a when the rainy season comes around, but she has no memory of her husband and son whom she dearly loved.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-03-14
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Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong
Overview: During the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, while people are in despair, Jae-ho tries to raise morale by winning cycle championship. Bok-dong, who started cycling with Jae-ho just to make a forture, becomes a symbol of hope for Koreans by defeating Japanese cyclists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-02-27
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Jesters: The Game Changers
Overview: A gang of clowns is hired by an unpopular king to serve as propagandists who fabricate positive rumors and stage miracles to improve his personal image.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-08-21
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Dark Figure of Crime
Overview: A serial killer is caught for his seventh murder. A cop tries to solve the first six cases with the killer's help, but starts to suspect that he has ulterior motives. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Innocence
Overview: A lawyer tries to prove her mother's innocence and uncover the secrets of a small village with the help of the local mayor. Her mother was accused of murder after the rice wine was poisoned at her husband's funeral, but she is suffering from memory loss and cannot defend herself.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-06-10
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I Want to Know Your Parents
Overview: An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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Sinkhole
Overview: A working class family move into a new condo purchased after 11 years of hard work. They throw a housewarming party to show his co-workers when overnight a heavy downpour creates an extremely deep sinkhole that engulfs the entire building.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-08-11
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Little Black Dress
Overview: Little Black Dress depicts the friendships, jealousies, hopes and failures of four 24-year-old girls. The girls first met as first year students in college. They seem to be enjoying their 20's, but inside they all have worries.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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Countdown
Overview: A former medalist who is now a troublemaker physical educations teacher and a natural born rebel take a satisfying whack at life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-02-22
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Dream
Overview: With hard work and dedication on lock, a group of homeless men trains to compete in a global tournament — despite a cranky coach.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-04-26
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The Face Reader
Overview: An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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Secret Reunion
Overview: Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to kill a dissident, but instead he teams up with a South Korean agent in search for revenge.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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The Match
Overview: When a legendary Go master loses his title to a one-time friend and protégé, he sets out to reclaim it in a high-stakes battle of wits and skill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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Superman in Early Summer
Overview: One early summer morning, a girl riding a bus along a country road notices a man wearing a straw hat following her on a bicycle. When all the passengers on the bus fall asleep, the girl experiences a vision of the man appearing as a flying Superman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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