Asian Dramas Like Hijack

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 …

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

Elite park rangers on Jirisan Mountain investigate a string of mysterious deaths while uncovering a dark secret buried deep within its trails, spanning two different timelines.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

Based on true events: a Korean businessman living in Suriname gets arrested when cocaine is found in his shipment. The National Intelligence Service offers him a deal — go undercov…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

Baek Kang-hyuk returns to the trauma bay — and his iconoclastic, physically fearless approach to emergency medicine continues to transform the way his hospital responds to the impo…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same gripping and intense energy throughout.

A black ops unit operating outside official Korean government sanction is the only thing standing between a rogue network of intelligence operatives and a bioweapon that could trig…

Like Hijack, it leans hard into real time thriller. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

A third-rate lawyer is falsely accused of being a genius conman and must survive prison while finding the real criminal.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A stuntman investigates a plane crash that kills his nephew and uncovers a massive government conspiracy.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

Set in 1920s Manchuria during Japanese colonial rule, a group of Korean independence fighters and outlaws converge on a lawless frontier. When their paths collide amid brutal gunfi…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

Detective Park Joon-mo goes deep undercover into the most dangerous drug syndicate operating across Korea, China, and Japan — a criminal empire bridging three countries. To gain th…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.