2022
16 eps
MBC
Crime Legal Thriller
Han Yi-han was once the best thoracic surgeon in Korea — until a powerful pharmaceutical company destroyed his career by framing him for a patient's death. Years later, he returns …
Like Adamas, it leans hard into revenge thriller. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2022
16 eps
KBS2
Crime Thriller Mystery
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 willin…
Like Adamas, it leans hard into conspiracy. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2024
12 eps
ENA
Thriller Mystery Crime
Cha Joo-eun's picture-perfect life shatters when her husband vanishes the night before he was supposed to testify in a high-profile case. As she desperately searches for him, she d…
Like Adamas, it leans hard into conspiracy. The emotional territory — conspiracy — is the same. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2024
14 eps
Disney+
Crime Thriller Drama
A detective becomes addicted to drugs after being injected during an investigation, uncovering a drug cartel tied to his past.
Like Adamas, it leans hard into conspiracy. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2022
16 eps
MBC
Crime Thriller Mystery
Park Chang-ho is a mediocre lawyer with a 10% win rate. When he takes a murder case to save his career, he gets framed as "Big Mouse" — a legendary criminal genius no one has ever …
Like Adamas, it leans hard into conspiracy. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2019
16 eps
OCN
Thriller Crime Mystery
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 mi…
Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2025
16 eps
SBS
Thriller Drama Mystery
An investigative journalist known for exposing corporate corruption discovers that her latest target — a pharmaceutical empire hiding fatal drug trial data — is connected to her ow…
Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2023
11 eps
Netflix
Crime Thriller Political
Oh Kyung-sook is a ruthless PR strategist who has crushed careers and built corporate empires. When a worker's death exposes the chaebol family she serves, she defects — and decide…
Like Adamas, it leans hard into chaebol villain. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2025
10 eps
Netflix
Crime Thriller Mystery
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 j…
Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2022
14 eps
tvN
Thriller Mystery Crime
Jurors in a murder trial start dying one by one, and a detective, a welfare officer, and an ambitious prosecutor must figure out whether a serial killer is targeting the jury — or …
Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.