Is Korean society actually this violent?

Not really. There are plenty of bad Korean films. This one is great, now consider all of the bad American movies. When you pick the very best few films in the US it's minimal. Very few in any culture are "good". We just see the good ones as they do similar.

I havnt seen alot of the straight drama movies, but most the movies i catch are on next flick. I find japanese to be the goriest and deal with honor and redemption. Chinese tend to have a shade of goofy humor and martial arts(not just steven chow). Korean films(my fav) seem to be the most raw. Stories of vengeance and redemption seem to be the most popular.

But no, they arent violent like depicted(north korea, maybe.) they dont just do action/thrillers. I just dont think the dramas are seen much here because of the culture difference. Same with humor. Honor, vengeance and redemption stories are relatable. So thats just what we see mostly. Thats what i think anyways.

It seems like you only watched the "gory" films. :D There are a lot of movies in Korea that depict a totally different society. I suggest you check them out. You can compare these kinds of korean movies to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the west. Heck that one is even based on a true story!

As a Korean, I can deny the fact that Korean society is this violent.
It's just a movie.
I did read some news about tourism decline due to the fact that our movies that become rather famous abroad are violent (Bloody Aria, Bittersweet life, Oldboy, Thirst, Save the Green Planet, Chaser, Yellow Sea, Bedevilled, I Saw the Devil to name just a few), back in 2011.
But that was just minor stuff.

The country that's more suited for that kind of question with Japan, since their genre films are way more hardcore and weird and psychotic.
But no, that's also just in the movies.




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I am an American living in South Korea (I've lived here 15 months now). I live in Seoul - a very large city - and I'm a young single woman. I've NEVER felt unsafe in all my time here, walking around, at 3a.m. in the "grungiest" parts of the city.

I'm not saying violence/violent crimes doesn't occur here. It does. But no where NEAR (in my experience and also from what I've researched on the country itself) the amount that it does in North America.

Nah Korea is actually one of the safest countries in the world along with Japan. You can walk around at 2am and no one will give a *beep* cuz it's perfectly safe. It's just that they do a really good work with their thriller genre movies.

Oh yes, in the same way Woody Allen is a funny genius and not at all a pedophile, the Koreans as a whole are violent bloodthirsty cannibals. The vitamins and minerals in human flesh power the brain so perfectly an entire society can produce some of the wolds best televisions and appliances. But, strangely enough the lack of said vitamins and minerals renders human beings inable to distinguish between fiction and reality. For example, thinking that a entire country goes around eating people and thinking woody Allen is funny. It's a movie, dumass.