Asian Dramas Like Breaking Bad

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 demands the impossible …

If you loved Breaking Bad's relentless game of predator and prey where the tables keep turning, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A detective becomes addicted to drugs after being injected during an investigation, uncovering a drug cartel tied to his past.

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Dong-ha is a failing chemistry professor drowning in debt — until he stumbles onto a dead drug courier's stash and makes a desperate decision to take the cash. That single moment p…

Like Breaking Bad, it leans hard into moral decay. The emotional territory — desperation — is the same. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A new CEO from the parent holding company arrives at a major hospital with a mandate to make it profitable — directly clashing with idealistic emergency room doctors who believe me…

Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

When the Prime Minister of South Korea assassinates the President in a desperate bid to save the country from a corrupt system, he discovers that the system fights back harder than…

If you loved Breaking Bad's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, The Whirlwind delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A veteran detective is framed for murder and must uncover the truth while working with a young detective who distrusts him.

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

By day, Kim Ji-yong is a top police academy cadet. By night, he tracks down criminals who escaped justice through legal loopholes — and kills them. When a tenacious journalist begi…

If you loved Breaking Bad's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Vigilante delivers exactly that. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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…

Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A team of elite financial crimes investigators, assembled from the wreckage of careers destroyed by the cases they couldn't solve, are given unofficial license to pursue the untouc…

If you loved Breaking Bad's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, The Hunters delivers exactly that. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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…

Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.