Shows Like Mindhunter — K-Dramas With the Same Cerebral Crime Psychology

The Korean Mindhunter. Literally. This is the true story of Korea's first criminal profiler building a profiling unit in the 1990s — the same origin story as the FBI's BSU. The interview scenes with incarcerated killers are just as chilling as anything in Mindhunter, and the show captures the same sense of pioneers making up the methodology as they go.

A detective with psychic memory-reading ability works with a criminal profiler to understand and catch a serial killer. Memorist shares Mindhunter's belief that understanding the killer's mind is the only way to catch them — and its willingness to show how disturbing that process is for the investigators.

Based on a real unsolved Korean serial killer case, this drama follows investigators trying to piece together the psychology of a killer who evaded capture for years. The Frog has Mindhunter's commitment to procedural reality and the frustration of building a case when your only evidence is behavioral patterns.

A thriller that gets inside the psychology of both victim and perpetrator — exploring how abuse creates the conditions for violence. Lies Hidden in My Garden shares Mindhunter's interest in the family systems and personal histories that produce killers, not just the crimes themselves.

A cold case detective tracks a killer who treats murder as artistic performance, getting progressively closer to understanding — and being understood by — the perpetrator. The Art of Sarah has Mindhunter's unnerving dynamic between investigator and killer, where understanding requires a dangerous kind of empathy.

A serial killer who uses a dating app to find victims, and a woman who seems to understand him in ways that put her in danger. Somebody explores the same territory Mindhunter does — the attraction of the void, what it means to truly understand violence, and how that understanding can become complicity.

A woman who reinvents her identity through a series of lies, and the investigation into how she became who she is. Anna has Mindhunter's interest in constructed identity and the gap between the story a person tells and the truth underneath — just from a radically different angle.