After the success of "Squid Games", "Hellhound" and six other Korean dramas, Netflix will increase its investment in Korean content in 2022, releasing 25 Korean film and television shows, including movies and web dramas, as well as variety reality shows, making South Korea the country with the largest investment by Netflix.
Netflix said it invested more than $5 billion in Korean content in 2021, producing and distributing a total of 15 Original Korean titles. The viewership of Korean programs on its platform has increased sixfold from 2019. "Squid Games" became a global hit and was Netflix's highest-rated show ever. In addition to the squid game, the dark fantasy series Hellhound ranked first in the 34 countries and regions on Netflix. The sci-fi suspense film "Silent Sea" also topped the weekly top ten list of non-English dramas. This is bound to affect Netflix's strategic layout for streaming media, so as to increase investment and continue to explore other Korean content.
Complete list of Korean movies and web series produced and distributed by Netflix (excluding variety reality shows):
——Web Drama List——
Zombie Campus
Directors: Lee Jae-gyu, Kim Nam-so
Starring: Yoon Chan-young / Park Ji-ho / Cho Yee-hyun / Park Solomon / Yoo In-so / Woo Ji-hyun
Introduction: What should be an ordinary campus has reported a horrific incident! The closest classmates, one by one turned into bloodthirsty zombies... Where do we go from here? Adapted from Zhu Donggen's popular webcomic Extreme Panic, Zombie Campus tells the story of students trapped in school during a zombie virus outbreak who later join forces to fight for survival.
Juvenile Justice
Director: Hong Zhongzhen
Starring: Kim Hye-so / Kim Moo-yeol / Lee Sung-min / Lee Jeong-eun
Synopsis: A judge notorious for his dislike of juvenile delinquency was transferred to the Juvenile Court. After understanding the troubles children face in society, we began to re-examine juvenile delinquency and committed ourselves to making these people better.
"Twenty-five, twenty-one"
Director: Zheng Zhixian
Starring: Kim Tae-ri / Nam Joo-hyuk / Kim Ji-yeon / Choi Hyun Wook / Lee Joo Myung
Introduction: Telling the story of 1998-2021, the two protagonists of 22 and 18 years old met in 1998, and in 1999, the two began to hurt each other, and in 2000, the two began to rely on each other, and it was not until 2001 that the two began a relationship. Nam Joo-hyuk will play UBS sports journalist Bai Yizhen, who became a radio reporter at the age of 23, disguised as a cosmetics salesman during an undercover interview, and later became a sports journalist during the Asian Games. In the Asian Games, he meets gold medalist Luo Xidu (Kim Tae-ri). The heroine, Luo Xidu, is a member of the national team of the high school fencing department.
Predicting Love and the Weather
Director: Cha Young-hoon
Starring: Park Min-young / Song Kang / Yoon Bo / Yura
Description: A romantic romantic comedy about the daily joys and sorrows of the staff of the Korea Meteorological Agency.
"Thirty-Nine"
Director: Kim Sang-ho
Starring: Sun Yizhen / JeonMei Dao / Kim Ji Hyun
Introduction: "Thirty-Nine" is a grounded life love drama that deeply explores the friendship, love and life of three friends who are about to turn forty.
"Tomorrow"
Director: Kim Tae-yoon
Starring: Kim Hee-sun / Kim Ro-woon
Synopsis: Adapted from the manga of the same name, the drama tells the story of Choi Joon-woong, a job preparation student who fell into a coma due to a chance accident, and he works as a crisis management team under the Soul Management Headquarters of the exclusive company in the underworld to help those who are in crisis.
《Blind Date in the Society》
Director: Park Sun-ho
Starring: Ahn Hyo-seop / Kim Se-jong / Kim Min-kyu / Xue In-ah / Bae Yoo-hee / Choi Byung-chan / Kim Kwang-kyu / Lee And-wah
Introduction: Ordinary girl Shen Yufei is a little transparent, although she works in a famous enterprise, she is a real poor person. In order to pay off the loan owed by the family to open a shop, at the instigation of the rich second generation girlfriend, a woman dressed as a sexy and promiscuous woman messed up the blind date arranged by the family for the girlfriend. But not only did he not scare away the blind date, but he provoked the president of his own company, and now he was forced to marry by this glowing man?
Annala Sumanara
Director: Kim Sung-yoon
Starring: Ji Chang-wook / Huang Yin-ye / Choi Sung-eun
Introduction: The drama is adapted from the manga of the same name by Ha Il-kwon, directed by Kim Sung-yun of "Itaewon Class", mainly about Yin Er, who lost her previous dream of a magician in a difficult life, and gradually realized the works of her previous dreams after meeting a magician.
Remarriage and Desire
Director: Kim Jong-min
Starring: Kim Hee-sun / Lee Hyun-wook / Jung Woo-jin / Park Hoon / Cha Ji-yeon
Synopsis: "Remarriage and Desire" is a satire on Korean society, set against the backdrop of Rex, an exclusive marriage agency that caters to the economic elite, and ambitious people who want to advance their social status by marrying or remarrying into the elite.
"Model Family"
Director: Kim Jin-woo
Starring: Jung Woo / Park Hee Soon / Yoon Jin-seok / Park Ji-yeon
Introduction: The story tells a desperate man whose career is failed and his family is full of contradictions, who inadvertently picks up a bag of cash, not knowing that it is money lost by a drug dealer group. Faced with drug trafficking gangs, family members realize the value of their families and unite to deal with foreign enemies.
《Glitch》
Director: Lu De
Starring: Jeon Rubin / Lee Dong-fai / Ren Zhenya
Introduction: Hong Zhixiao's boyfriend disappeared with an unknown light. Since then, Hong Zhixiao has tracked down the whereabouts of her boyfriend. With the help of members of the UFO Club, she approaches a mysterious secret.
Suriname
Director: Yin Zhongbin
Starring: Ha Jeong-woo / Hwang Jeong-min / Park Hae-so / Cho Woo-jin / Yoo Yeon-seok
Synopsis: The story of a civilian entrepreneur who risks his life to cooperate with the covert operation to capture a Drug Lord in South America. Hwang Jung-min plays a drug lord in the film, Ha Jeong-woo plays the role of assisting the intelligence agencies in apprehending drug traffickers, and Cho Woo-jin, Yoo Yeon-seok, Park Hae-so, and Cho Cho-hyun play members of drug trafficking organizations and key members of intelligence agencies, respectively.
《The Fabulous》
Director: Kim Jong-hyun
Starring: Choi So-bin / Choi Min-ho
Introduction: This drama tells a surrealist romance story about the career, passion, love and friendship of four young men and women in the fashion industry. In the play, Cai Xiubin played the role of Cousin Zhien who worked in a famous fashion agency for 5 years, and actively worked hard to live. Choi Min-ho plays the role of a tall and handsome man in the play, Chi Youmin, who is not good at expressing feelings and does not work hard to do anything, but has not experienced a setback.
Love Wars
Director: Kim Jong-kwon
Starring: Kim Yu-bin / Kim Ji-hoon / Ko Won-hee
Introduction: This drama tells the story of a healing romantic comedy that sickly likes men, hates herself, and a man who is morbidly suspicious of women, and the two hate each other like enemies and fall in love.
"The House of Banknotes" (Korean version)
Director: Kim Hong-sun
Starring: Yoo Ji-tae / Kim Yoon-jin / Park Hae-so / Jeon Jong-seo / Lee Won-jong / Kim Ji-hoon / Jang Yoon-joo / Lee Hyun Woo / Kim Young-ho / Kim Young-hoon / Lee Joo-woo
Synopsis: The Netflix Spanish thriller series "House of Paper Money" will be remade into a Korean drama.
《Somebody》
Director: Zheng Jiyu
Starring: Kim Young-kwang / Kang Hae-rim / Kim Young-ji / Kim So-yeon
Introduction: The drama is a TV series about application software, a suspenseful tracking story that revolves around an APP. This app can communicate with people all over the world, and subscription payment can know more information about a person.
Courier Driver
Director: Cao Yixi
Starring: Kim Woo-bin / Lee Seok / Kang You-seok
Introduction: This drama is adapted from the comic of the same name, with the background of a dark future of utopias with a serious air pollution future and only relying on express delivery to survive, and a series of stories are unfolded with the small "courier driver" in reality as the "special" protagonist in the play.
——Film List——
《Lifting of ban men and women》
Director: Park Hyun-jin
Starring: Xu Zhuxian / Lee Hao-young
Description: The film is adapted from the popular manga of the same name, telling the story of a romantic comedy that occurs between "Zhi Hou", who is perfect on the surface but has a different sexual orientation, and "ZhiYou", an employee of the same department who knows his secret.
Night Fork
Director: Luo Xian
Starring: Seo Kyung-joo / Park Hae-so / Park Jin-young / Song Re-advent
Synopsis: The film tells the story of a state minister operating in Shenyang, China, who is also the captain of an overseas special task force team (Xue Gengqiu) and a prosecutor who has been demoted to the State Council (Park Hae-so), looking for missing high-level people in North Korea, and is an action film between spies from South Korea, North Korea, Japan and other countries.
Carter
Director: Zheng Bingji
Starring: Zhou Yuan
Introduction: Directed by Jeong Byeong-gi, the director of "Evil Girl" and "I Am a Murderer", "Carter" tells the story of the virus-ridden Korean Peninsula as a background, telling the suffocating pursuit of "Carter", a key person who has thrown himself into a suspicious operation without losing all his memory, and is an action blockbuster.
Seoul Battle
Director: Wen Xiansheng
Starring: Yoo Ya-jin / Ko Gung-woo / Lee Kyu-hyun / Park Joo-hyun / Yong Sung-woo / Kim Sung-kyun / Jung Heung-in / Moon So-ri
Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the story tells the story of the riders of Sanggye-dong who stole VIP secret funds.
The Girl of the 20th Century
Director: Fang Yuli
Starring: Kim Yoo-jeong / Bion Yoo-seok / Park Tae-woo / Roo Young-su
Introduction: "Twentieth Century Girl" is set in 1999, a 17-year-old girl "Paula" (Played by Kim Yu-jeong), whose friendship is more important than love, has experienced a painful but unforgettable first love, and a love story that has reappeared in the 21st century, which is a love movie that travels back and forth between high school students and now.
"Zhenyi"
Director: Yan Shanghao
Starring: Kang Se-yeon / Kim Hyun-joo
Introduction: The film mainly tells the story of researchers working at the Robotics Research Institute, and is a science fiction masterpiece with robots and artificial humans. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, director of Busan Trip and Hell's Messenger.