Ha Jung-woo has spent much of his career playing characters who look completely different on paper. A serial killer, a news anchor trapped inside a television studio, a North Korean agent, a marathon coach, a desperate diplomat, and now a debt-ridden property owner pulled into a kidnapping plot have all become part of his filmography. […]
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Bad Guys: Vile City: A Korean Crime Thriller About Taking Down a Corrupt Power Network
A prosecutor in Seowon is given a difficult assignment: take down Jo Young-gook, the powerful CEO of Hyunseung Company. Woo Je-moon knows that a conventional investigation probably won’t be enough. He puts together a team of people who have their own experience with violence and crime, then goes after Young-gook and the network protecting him. […]
Psychopath Diary: The K-Drama Where a Timid Man Thinks He’s a Serial Killer
What if you found a serial killer’s diary and, after losing your memory, became convinced it was yours? That is the setup for Psychopath Diary, the 2019 thriller starring Yoon Shi-yoon, Jung In-sun, and Park Sung-hoon. Yoon Shi-yoon plays Yook Dong-sik, a timid employee at a securities company who ends up with the diary after […]
Circle: The Korean Sci-Fi Mystery That Connects Two Worlds
Some Korean dramas give you one mystery to solve. Circle: Two Worlds Connected gives you two. The 2017 tvN drama follows two stories separated by 20 years. In 2017, university student Kim Woo-jin becomes involved in a strange series of events surrounding an alien and a mysterious death. In 2037, veteran detective Kim Joon-hyuk investigates […]
Honour: The Korean Mystery Thriller About Three Lawyers and a 20-Year Secret
Three longtime friends. One law firm. And a secret from their past that refuses to stay buried. Honour is a 2026 Korean mystery thriller starring Lee Na-young, Jung Eun-chae, and Lee Chung-ah as three lawyers whose professional lives become tangled with an event they have kept hidden for two decades. The three women work together […]
Boyhood: The Korean Coming-of-Age Comedy Where a Nobody Becomes the School’s Toughest Fighter
What happens when the weakest kid at school suddenly gets mistaken for its most feared fighter? That is the setup for Boyhood, the 2023 Korean coming-of-age comedy starring Im Si-wan, Lee Sun-bin, Lee Si-woo, and Kang Hye-won. Set in Chungcheong Province in the late 1980s, the series follows Jang Byung-tae, a bullied high school student […]