Um Tae-goo

2009 Intermediate Narrative Workshop, Film Dept.

This is a short film I made for my graduation work in 2007. - Excellence Award at the Korea University Film Festival.

A short film about an armed man in a secret location.

The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the...

Homeless Man-sik has a home. He arrived at home after begging all day. He shaved his head and took a shower at home. Getting in the bed, he heard...

Bong-sik dies after committing a heinous crime. Yet, even before the god of the underworld, he remains unrepentant and earns a hundred years of the...

In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with...

A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl...

A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under...

Donghwan is unemployed. One day, he applies for a quiz for a no charge airline ticket on the Internet. The next day, he receives a phone call asking...

In an old military bus are Myeong-hoon, his girlfriend Yeong-eun, and survival game friends; they are headed to a private camp to experience army...

In a recession-battered Seoul, a young man in the dodgy relocation business must deal with loan sharks and aggrieved parties owed large sums by his...

When I'm with you, my heart vibrates.

When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected...

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,...

An online feud evolves into something more real when two keyboard warriors take their battle offline in a mixed martial arts matchup.

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...

Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are...

A child abandoned in a subway coin locker is sold to a ruthless and calculating loan shark and gangster boss dubbed Mother, who runs an...

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in...

Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.

Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end...

A short drama about Seok-joo who doesn't want to live like his brother.

Set in Anyang, South Korea, crew members for an upcoming documentary research the devastating fire that took occurred in a factory prior to the 1988...

At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he...

Kingdom of Goguryeo, ancient Korea, 645. The ruthless Emperor Taizong of Tang invades the country and leads his armies towards the capital, achieving...

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises...

The prospective director ,Do-hwan, is suffering from a past love affair. He goes to a freelance meeting and finds a strange and charming Eun-ha. With...

A little action puts my friend in danger. I want to believe that my actions are not intended.

Byung-gu, a once-famous former professional boxer, makes ends meet doing odd jobs at the gym. While eager to start boxing again, he gets diagnosed...

An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that...

At the library Sung-mo picks up the ringing phone of a person on the opposite side of his desk in an unguarded moment while the person is out. A...

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.

A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally...

Grae, who failed to be a professional Baduk player, Young-i, who always has been lonely because of changing schools frequently, Oh Deputy department...

Sung-Bum is a hot-tempered detective who relies on his intuition to crack cases. He rarely comes across a case that he cannot solve. The body of a...

Popular TV anchorwoman & late night DJ Ko Sun-young set to host her final radio program. During the show, she receives a startling text message...

A mother goes to extreme measures against her daughter's attacker after after feeling that the local law enforcement have failed her.

A fabled painting from royal palace was discovered after 400 years. Once properly restored, it could fetch at least $40 million in the international...

The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father's botched espionage mission,...

Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much...

A traumatized girl sees visions of her dead mother in one of three tales set in a 1942 South Korean hospital.

A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while...

A man suffers from mental illness after having lived with a mother suffering from dementia and a brother addicted to gambling. Now institutionalized,...

Jae-Hun (Son Hyun-Joo) is separated from his wife and two daughters. He struggles to make ends meet, while working as a grocery deliveryman....