2020
16 eps
JTBC
Crime Thriller Drama
An honest but struggling detective partners with an experienced but morally flexible colleague to solve a difficult case.
Like Shadow Detective, it leans hard into buddy cop. At its core, it's about systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and suspenseful energy throughout.
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.
Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.
2022
10 eps
Netflix
Crime Thriller Drama
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 systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and suspenseful energy throughout.
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 systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and suspenseful energy throughout.
2024
14 eps
JTBC
Thriller Action Crime
A police detective becomes addicted to drugs after being unknowingly exposed, and investigates a drug cartel from the inside while battling his own dependency.
Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and dark energy throughout.
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…
Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and suspenseful energy throughout.
2023
12 eps
Disney+
Crime Thriller Action
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 systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and suspenseful energy throughout.
2022
8 eps
Disney+
Action Crime Thriller
Yeon Si-eun is the top student at a school dominated by violent bullies — and he has zero fighting ability. What he does have is cold, calculated intelligence and a complete willin…
Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and dark energy throughout.
2025
10 eps
Netflix
Action Crime Thriller
Two men — a veteran cop who fights like he has nothing to lose and a former military expert with a code he can't break — are thrown together when a wave of illegal firearms floods …
Like Shadow Detective, it leans hard into buddy cop. At its core, it's about systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and dark energy throughout.
2022
8 eps
Disney+
Crime Thriller Drama
A Korean gambling magnate who built an illegal casino empire in the Philippines from nothing faces a deadly reckoning as his empire and the corrupt web supporting it begins to coll…
Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same gritty and dark energy throughout.