10 Best K-Dramas for The Irrational Fans

Mikoto Misumi is a forensic pathologist at the Unnatural Death Investigation Laboratory — a fictional body that investigates deaths too strange, too suspicious, or too politically inconvenient for sta…

Nobody Knows

18%

K-Drama 2020 16 eps MBC Thriller Crime Drama

Survivor Becomes Detective Cold Case Reopened Serial Killer

Twenty years ago, Cha Young-jin survived an attack that killed other children and destroyed the investigation. Now a detective, she recognizes the same pattern in a new series of murders — and the con…

Memorist

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K-Drama 2020 16 eps tvN Thriller Mystery Supernatural

Supernatural Detective Buddy Cop Serial Killer Hunt

A detective with a rare supernatural ability to read memories by touch teams up with a cold but brilliant criminal profiler to hunt a serial killer whose methodical crimes seem impossible to predict.

In a rust-belt industrial city in northern China, a retired factory worker follows his intuition that a cold case from 1997 — a murdered girl found in the pipes of the shuttered factory where he worke…

The Art of Sarah

16%

K-Drama 2026 8 eps Netflix Crime Mystery Thriller

Con Artist Cat And Mouse Unreliable Narrator

A Korean-American woman builds an elaborate false identity as a high-society luxury brand executive, targeting the ultra-wealthy elite of Seoul. When her fabricated persona — and then her supposed bod…

Adamas

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K-Drama 2022 16 eps tvN Crime Thriller Mystery

Twin Lead Revenge Thriller Infiltration

Twin brothers — a crime novelist and a prosecutor — separately infiltrate the same powerful chaebol family to find the evidence that will prove their stepfather was framed for murder. As they dig deep…

Detectives Oh Joo-hyun and Kang Do-chang return for a second season, this time investigating a sensational murder case tied to a powerful political figure and a media empire willing to bury evidence. …

Karma

16%

K-Drama 2025 10 eps Netflix Crime Thriller Mystery

Disgraced Detective Vigilante Killer Moral Ambiguity

A disgraced former detective with a traumatic past becomes the unlikely investigator when a string of high-profile murders of powerful corrupt men seems to serve a brutal, poetic justice. As he hunts …

Watcher

16%

K-Drama 2019 16 eps OCN Thriller Crime Mystery

Internal Affairs Corruption Investigation Revenge Drive

Three people with shattered lives — a detective whose wife was murdered, an internal affairs officer whose career was destroyed by corruption, and a crime profiler caught in the middle — join an anti-…

A journalist investigating a cold case involving a prominent politician's family disappears. Her younger sister, a civil servant with no investigative experience, starts pulling on the same threads — …