2010
Lee Jeong-beom
Action Thriller Drama
A quiet pawnshop owner with a mysterious past takes on a drug cartel to protect the one girl who befriended him.…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2022
12 eps
Netflix
Action Crime Thriller
An audacious heist of the newly formed Unified Korea Mint: a masked crew of desperate people, each with nothing left to lose, takes hundreds of hostages and dem…
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2023
8 eps
Netflix
Horror Action Drama
Season 2 of the survival horror epic. In the aftermath of the Green Home apartment's collapse, survivors scatter across a world that is fully monstrous — and Ch…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.
2017
Kim Yong-hwa
Fantasy Action Drama
A recently deceased firefighter is guided by three guardians through seven trials in the afterlife, revisiting his life choices.…
Like Train to Busan, it leans hard into self sacrifice. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2019
12 eps
Netflix
Horror Thriller Historical
A Joseon prince investigates a mysterious plague that turns the dead into zombies while facing political enemies.…
Like Train to Busan, it leans hard into zombie apocalypse. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.