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After a drunken night on the town, an ordinary Seoul businessman, OH Dae-su, wakes up in the morning to discover he has been locked up without explanation in a mysterious prison. After fifteen years, Dae-su suddenly and inexplicably finds himself freed. A voice on a cellphone taunts him into discovering who kept him imprisoned. Dae-su plunges into a world of competing vengeance, his own drive for revenge matched by the equally implacable and Byzantine...
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Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service, and she jumps at the chance for a normal life. But soon enough, secrets from her past destroy everything she's worked for, and now nobody can stand in her way as she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.
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Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service, and she jumps at the chance for a normal life. But soon enough, secrets from her past destroy everything she's worked for, and now nobody can stand in her way as she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.
7) Kundo
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Korean
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A band of extreme martial arts fighters known as Kundo steal from corrupt officials and give to the poor. Dolmuchi becomes a member of Kundo and ultimately fights the men who killed his family.
8) The piper
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Korean
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"After the Korean War, a flute-playing wanderer and his son arrive to a peaceful and remote village where he makes a deal to the chief to eradicate the uncontrollable rat infestation. Using his mystical flute, he wipes the rats away only to be paid with greed, corruption, and betrayal while losing the ones he loves. Vowing revenge, he soon changes his tune and uses his magical flute to settle a score that will clean the land of filth once and for...
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Fierce gang boss Jang Dong-su is violently attacked after a fender bender on a rainy night. After fighting back, he barely escapes; however, his reputation as a feared leader is damaged beyond repair. The only way to restore his image is to find his attacker and exact revenge. Jang teams up with Detective Jung Tae-seok to find the assailant but soon discovers the attacker is a serial killer. Detective Jung is forced to use gang boss Jang's resources...
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When Kang Bok Soo was a high school student, he was falsely accused of committing acts of violence and ended up expelled from school. Those who brought the accusations against him were his first love, Son Soo Jung (Jo Bo Ah), and a fellow student Oh Se Ho. Kang Bok Soo has now become an adult, but in his life, nothing seems to go right for him. To get revenge on Son Soo Jung and Oh Se Ho, he decides to return to the same high school.
11) The divine move
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Korean
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Professional GO (a.k.a. baduk) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his seven-year sentence, he gets in touch with his brother's former associate Tricks, hermit and blind master player The Lord, and skillful junkyard owner Mok-su; together, they begin formulating a plan to...
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"Detective Jung-soo constantly comes face to face with victims of brutal, senseless murders which makes him outraged. During one investigation, he meets Ki-hyun, a victim that survived a brutal attack. Eventually, she and Jung-soo are wed. One day, Jung-soo's partner, So-young, arrives at the crime scene, where she finds Jung-soo crying out in sorrow. Jung-soo holds his wife and daughter in his arms after finding them both viciously murdered. As the...
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Jeong Bora, a representative Korean writer who broke into the final selection of the Booker International Award with this book and traversed the boundaries of genres, connected ten wonderful stories with "revenge" and "curse". In this lonely world, the way the ten protagonists relate to others is frustration, despair, anger, desire, betrayal, killing or being killed... With astonishing imagination, the author develops a story that replaces revenge...
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