Movies: Kim Ja-young

Grandma's memorial day is difficult for Jung-hee because of the grandfather's sister. She scolds about the memorial service of grandma who committed suicide without finding her runaway husband. Somehow Jung-hee feels guilty about his disappearing. Sh...

On one of the dog days of summer, Jae-ha works at Samgye-tang (chicken soup) restaurant as a day laborer instead of her mother, who died of a stroke. There, through her mother’s co-workers, Jae-ha gets to know new aspects of her mother that she did n...

Il Woo thinks that 'owning his own house' and 'living a stable and happy life' are equivalent and therefore becomes a 'fake nature-lover' in an isolated countryside village called Bongtaeri in order to save a pharmaceutical company and earn 200% of h...

Hae-jin, 29, struggles to adapt to life in Seoul and returns to her hometown of Jeju. There, she reunites with her mother, Ok-ran, and her grandmother, Kang-ja, who has spent her life as a haenyeo. Hae-jin decides to become a haenyeo, but Ok-ran stro...

A middle-aged lady, Myung-ja becomes one of the candidates for an amateur swimming competition. Myung-ja doesn’t want to let a teenage girl, Ji-gyu get the chance....

Young-shin is locked up in a fat camp against her own will. After kissing her roommate, the boring days at the camp turns into a small turmoil....

The film portrays the anguish of an abandoned person and yet focuses on the process in which she grows more conscious of her true self. As she handles the foul giblets of slaughtered pigs, Sarah gets to realize that her real name is Jeong-ja. Every t...

Still feeling guilty about her granddaughter′s death, Yebun spends her days in pain. Meanwhile, Okim, Yubun’s old friend in the village, passes away from an illness. Yebun briefly takes care of Jiyeoon, Okim’s granddaughter and her own deceased grand...

On a winter morning on the way to work, Kiyoung finds Gilho sleeping on the wooden bench in front of his house. Gilho is a teenager who has run away from home because he can no longer face the domestic violence he suffers there. Kiyoung lets Gilho st...

Yuri heads to the victim's house for a traffic accident settlement. Victim Kihyun has something he wants to say to Yuri, but she remains silent. Just before signing the documents, Kihyun shocks everyone by committing suicide....

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Jungnam, who is hospitalized, meets Yeonsu, who likes the same TV drama as she does. The two are pushed out of the patient room, due to an argument over TV show channels. They develop a friendship as they watch their favorite TV drama together in the...

After the reserve force training, Jun-Hong is craving for jokbal from his ex-girlfriend's restaurant. First time in five years, he visits Mi-ran's jokbal restaurant and meets the uncomfortable ones....

Jeong-yeon decides to celebrate her 60th birthday by visiting her daughter who’s been married and living in Japan. At her arrival, Jeong-yeon is greeted not by her daughter but instead by her young granddaughter, Uekusa An....

Eunsoo, who lost her mother, starts searching for her solely based on her memories....

Rapidly advancing self-driving technology could put couriers out of work. In order to save her son's job, Mi-sook takes action....

In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence....

Bok-soon, a Jeju Island native, lives alone in her old house, as all her grown-up children are now settled on the mainland. She is excited to know that her children, who have not come home for a while, are coming back for her birthday. She prepares f...