The 40 most popular korean romance movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


The Handmaiden
2016 · 2h 25m · KR
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.


Obsessed
2014 · 2h 12m · KR
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.


Shock! Eating
2020 · 1h 14m
Sojin and Hyeyoung are about to take the scholarship exam this semester. So-jin and Hye-young, who hate to lose, check each other.


Decision to Leave
2022 · 2h 19m · KR
From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.


Scarlet Innocence
2014 · 1h 51m · KR
A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.


Mom's Friend 2020
2020 · 1h 1m · KR
Tae-hee, can't live without her dead husband, and is living alone without being remarried. Her neighborhood friends, Yeong-ju and Cheol-min still feels sorry for her. However, Yeong-ju's son, Min-ho, secretly takes pictures of Tae-hee, admiring her. One day, Tae-hee and Yeong-ju goes to the grocery when she heads back home, after forgetting her cellphone in Yeong-ju's house. Just in time, Min-ho comes out of the shower and hugs Tae-hee...


20th Century Girl
2022 · 1h 59m · KR
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.


Buddy's Mom
2015 · 1h 41m · KR
20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother.


The Servant
2010 · 2h 4m · KR
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.


Love Lesson
2013 · 1h 20m · KR
Korea's most popular song writer Hee-soo runs into a nineteen-year-old boy in the elevator. Hee-soo is inspired by a new song watching him shake at her figure. She starts to tell him about women under the excuse that she's teaching him music. They fall for each other but things get complicated when her life teacher, Joon-ho who taught her about life and music comes back.


The Story of Ong-nyeo
2014 · 1h 34m · KR
Ong-nye had a world of men wrapped around her finger, until, one day, a horrific injury leaves her handicapped, and she retreats to the mountains. But one man may break her loneliness.


Love Untangled
2025 · 1h 59m · KR
A lovestruck teen plans to win the school heartthrob by going from curly to straight hair — until a new transfer student changes everything.


Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
2025 · 1h 46m · KR
A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of yesterday. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, can their love grow with every new beginning?


Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
2019 · 1h 32m · KR
Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy.


Pavane
2026 · 1h 53m · KR
Three lonely strangers meet at their department store jobs and find solace in each other's company while they explore connection and the nature of love.


Aunt
2021 · 1h 36m
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母女汽车中心
2021 · 1h 27m
Yeon Ja, a working mother, runs a car center after divorce and is raising her daughter all by herself. Her daughter, Ah Jung, started helping her when she became an adult, however, the customers don't trust weak-looking women to touch machines and the business at the car center is slow. Thanks to Ah Jung's punk boyfriend, Sung Hoon, they came up with an idea to turn the car center into a sexy car center.


Love and Leashes
2022 · 1h 58m · KR
Love never hurt so good for two co-workers who enter a contractual relationship as partners in consensual play, pleasure and pain.


The Temptation of the Mature 50s Mother-in-law
2023 · 1h 14m · KR
A young couple, Wan-jin and So-hee, are living with Wan-jin's single father, Seok-bong. Seok-bong was preying on his daughter-in-law, who was doing the housework and preparing meals for him while her husband was away at work. He pretended to have dementia and attacked her. So-hee, who was suffering from her shame, suggested to Wan-jin to hire his father a caregiver, saying that his father seemed to be suffering from dementia, and so Bok-ja, a sexy and voluptuous caregiver who was about Seok-bong's age, came in. Seok-bong is captivated by Bok-ja's passionate charm and soon begins to share his love with her, and in this way, she takes the place of Wan-jin's new mother.


An Affair: My Friend's Mom
2017 · 1h 12m · KR
A young mother takes interest in her friend's son. Her interest in him makes her forget herself and drives her to pursue him.


You Are the Apple of My Eye
2025 · 1h 42m · KR
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Sun-ah. The only member of the group who claims not to is Jin-woo, but he ends up loving her as well.


Sex Plate 17
2017 · 2h 1m
A woman who can make all of one man’s fantasies come true moves in next door .


Sex Is Zero
2002 · 1h 36m · KR
Eun-sik tries to pass the state exam while studying in college after his military service. One day, he meets a beautiful woman Eun-hyo, and his life changes.


Untold Scandal
2003 · 2h 4m · KR
In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.


Young Mother
2013 · 1h 23m · KR
Nineteen-year-old, Jin-goo enjoys an erotic moment to himself while thinking about his pretty English tutor. Then one day, he is caught in the middle of an embarrassing moment and becomes awkward with her. However, this becomes an opportunity and she starts teaching him sex. Their replationship becomes an uncontrollable romance. However, she quits the tutoring and the relationship to get married. Time goes on and Jin-goo is a grown up. He's used to thoughtless sex. However, his partner of benefit gets pregnant so he meets his future-mother-in-law to talk about marriage. However, she's so beautiful and sexy. He moves in with the in-laws but soon breaks out of the marrige due to his wife's fling. The mother-in-law doesn't know how to make it up to him for what her daughter has done. Jin-goo suggests something dangerous...


Young Mother 4
2016 · 1h 23m · KR
Woo-jin, who is a repeater of college entrance exam, and Taek-sik's friend, Kang-hee come and visit Woo-jin's hometown on a small island. Woo-jin's mom, Hyeon-sook operates a small sashimi restaurant and a bed and breakfast to make a living on the island. Although Hyeon-sook has sex with Bong-seong, she rejects his proposals. One day, Woo-jin is terribly shocked to accidentally see his mom Hyeon-sook and Bong-seong having sex.


Youngest Sister Class
2020 · 1h 13m · KR
Lim Da-yeong, the older sister, intercepted the lover of her younger sister, Lim Da-jeong, who is Yoon Tae-jin. As if this were not enough, Da-yeong imprisoned her younger sister in a mental hospital and lived a happy married life with Tae-jin. Then one day, the Da-jeong escapes from the mental hospital and conspires with helper Jo Yong-hwan, who is her ward friend, to exact cruel revenge on her older sister and her former lover. Both Da-yeong and Tae-jin endure Da-jeong's bloody kidnapping, domesticated slave life and harsh punishments. They look for opportunities to escape with a scary plot in their hearts. What will be the ending for these crazy sisters?


Adultery Alumni Association 2
2019 · 1h 13m · KR
Hye Jin, Hee Kyung, and Han Hee who are among the high school alumni. They met at the alumni meeting and heard that the male alumni who did not have a chance to study during their school days were greatly successful as an investment company. And after seeing the settlement a few days later, I am happy to share my memories, but in fact, their purpose (?) Is separate. They are difficult to afford, and they want to get help from Zhengzhou. Since then, Zhengzhou has been enjoying the love of female alumni.


My Secret Partner
2011 · 2h 5m · KR
A single father struggling to make his comeback as a screenwriter falls in love with one of his students. Meanwhile his son, studying to become a chef, falls in love with his teacher. Love is great for creativity, but it comes with a price.


To Her
2017 · 1h 30m · KR
Gwang-ho is bored except for the time he's taking off his girlfriend's underwear. He visits his Seoul home at the news that his grandfather is dying. Amidst the awkwardness, he remembers something. Ji-yoon is his cousin who has grown up to be a young lady. Gwang-ho is attracted to the fully grown woman and the same is said for Ji-yoon.


Secret Love: My Friend's Mom
2018 · 1h 11m
A student finds his friend's mom very sexy. While studying for tests, she tempts him away from his studies and a hot affair ensues.


The Intimate
2005 · 1h 38m · KR
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.


Young Mother 3
2015 · 1h 35m · KR
Twenty year-old Ki-chan lives alone with his father. One day Yoon-seo (Kim Jeong-ah), his stepmother comes to live with them. She tries to be friendly with Ki-chan but he appraoches her as a woman and starts showing her that. Yoon-seo strongly rejects him but he knows that she wants him too. Their relationship turns into something dangerous. Then one day, Min-jeong, who has had a crush on Ki-chan for a long time, finds out what is going on between the two. The young stepmother fools her husband and falls in love with his son and the son falls in love with his father's woman. They make a deal with Min-jeong to make sure she doesn't say anything.


My Sassy Girl
2001 · 2h 17m · KR
A young man’s world is turned upside down when a female force of nature takes his life by storm in this outrageous and uplifting ode to true love.


New Town Mothers
2024 · 1h 5m · KR
Four gorgeously dressed women living in different newly wealthy cities entered a pension and gathered at one appointment, showing off their missy looks.


Nineteen
2015 · 1h 21m · KR
6 young girls and boys reveal their most thrilling moment; college student Ji-hoon plays drinking bout with his female friends. Dong-geon's first experience at emergency stairs. Young-jae bets on undressing while playing Jenga with his sister's friend. Young-tak visits his girlfriend's house while her parents are out. Jung-woo decides to go to Motel with his old female friend. Jin-seok goes to theater with his tutor, but it's not to watch a movie.


Taboo - New Sister
2016 · 1h 18m · KR
A movie about sexual love in which a woman gets remarried thinking of a new life but she schemes with her boyfriend to rip off her new family.


Lost in Starlight
2025 · 1h 36m · KR
When an astronaut leaves Earth for Mars, the vast infinite space divides star-crossed lovers in this animated romance that crosses the cosmos.


Portrait of a Beauty
2008 · 1h 48m · KR
Yun-jeong, a skilled painter, disguises herself as a man in court to continue her family's legacy. Circumstances become difficult when her relationship with Kang-mu draws jealousy from the others.


Delicious Tutor
2020 · 1h 10m · KR
Bong-soo receives a love tutor from Hope to escape from Moto-solo. Just a friend, Jeongyeon, starts to look like a woman. Bongsu confesses his anxiety to hope.
South Korean cinema spent the 2000s building a reputation for genre films that refuse to stay in their lane — thrillers that turn into family dramas, revenge stories with slapstick. Parasite's Best Picture win in 2020 confirmed what festival audiences had known for two decades.
Romance is the genre most shaped by its era's ideas about intimacy, which makes watching across decades a genuine education. It spans the screwball comedies, the sweeping melodramas, and the modern indie two-hander.