Korean producers and scriptwriters seem to have a fascination with storylines that revolve around serial killers. Below is a quick list of the Korean dramas that are the most suspenseful and intriguing.
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- Beyond Evil (2021)
- Jirisan (2021)
- Hometown (2021)
- Mouse (2021)
- Memorist (2020)
- Connect (2022)
- The Killer’s Shopping List (2022)
- Behind Your Touch (2023)
- Decoy 1 and 2 (2023)
- Longing For You (2023)
- My Perfect Stranger (2023)
- The Frog (2024)
- A Killer Paradox (2024)
- Miss Night and Day (2024)
- Psychopath Diary (2019)
- The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
- Suspicious Partner (2017)
- Tunnel (2017)
- Missing You (2016)
- The Neighbors (2012)
– The severed fingertips of a woman are found but her body was never found. Twenty (20) years later, a similar murder occurred. Two police inspectors who were at the scene when the body was found are suspicious of each other.
– Mountain hikers and climbers are reported as missing. Sometimes they find the hikers alive and sometimes they are found dead. When one of the surviving hikers identifies the rookie park ranger as the possible murderer, the other partner becomes suspicious.
– A mass murderer had a daughter. Police suspect her of having something to do with serial killings taking place in his hometown.
– A respected scientist believes he has identified the “psychopath gene”. The government wants to pass a law mandating gene testing of fetuses. If the psychopath gene is detected then the fetus should be aborted. Two serial killers are on the loose. One is the child of a serial killer. The other is a police officer who injured his head, had a brain operation, and is not sure why he has memories or visions of murders.
TRAILER: CJ ENM Global. “Mouse.” YouTube, Video, 5 Dec. 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Nki1_8RBU.
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– A young man has the ability to scan another person’s memories. Should a person be allowed to scan another person’s memories? While the legality is being debated he uses his “gift” to find a serial killer.
– A young man has been biologically engineered but the organ traffickers don’t know this when they kidnap him. They killed him only he didn’t die. Now they want to hunt him down because they can use him to keep harvesting his organs. The young man lost one of his eyes which was transplanted into another person who is a serial killer. He experiences pain when the killer is murdering or planning to murder someone. The police suspect the young man because he always appears at the crime scene. But that’s because he’s trying to catch the killer.
The Killer’s Shopping List (2022)
– Killers go grocery shopping too! Ever thought of analyzing a shopping list to track a killer?
– (* Spoiler Alert!*) The general did it!
– A scammer who was reported dead came back to life. The people involved in his scamming operation start dying one by one. The police detective needs to prove the scammer is alive and well and responsible for the killings.
TRAILER: TV, Viki Global. “Decoy: Part 2.” YouTube, Video, 6 Apr. 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PERyZe7Vj8M.
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– A mother’s son is diagnosed with a serious illness. Her solution is to find other people and take what she needs from them to transplant into her son so that he can live. She is driven by a mother’l love. Since she is the head of the hospital, she can just say the patient din’t survive the operation. How is it right for one mother to kill another mother’s child?
– A man travels back in time to stop a serial killer from killing him!
TRAILER: TV, Viki Global. “My Perfect Stranger.” YouTube, Video, 2 May 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdjGFkGDAG4.
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– A man regrets that he helped cover up a murder when the murderer come back to torment him.
– A young man accidentally kills a killer and get away with the crime. He doesn’t go out hunting down the murderers. Somehow he crosses their paths and ends up killing them. But the police can’t let him get away with that! It’s still murder!
– A woman’s aunt disappeared years ago. A strange thing happened to her because of a cat. By day she turns into her aunt who went missing and by night she changes back into herself. Oddly enough, she uses this supernatural transformation to help a prosecutor solve murders.
– A man get in an accident and loses his memory. He accidentally ends up with the diary of a psychopath and believes he is the killer. Meanwhile, the real killer is following him around to find out how much he knows.
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
– A serial killer picks a gangster as his victim but the gangster survives his attack. Now he’s angry! He makes a deal with a cop to help find the serial killer. If the cop finds him first, the killer will be brought to justice. But if the gangster finds him first … PAY BACK!
– A judicial trainee and a public prosecutor work together on various cases, they confront past traumas, and face off against a dangerous serial killer. The murderer killed the trainee’s ex-boyfriend.
– A detective chases a serial killer into the tunnel, but it was if the man disappeared. Suddenly, the criminal came up from behind and knocked the detective out cold. When the detective regained consciousness and walked out of the tunnel, it was 30 years later, the serial killer had still not been caught.
– A young girl’s father a murdered and the killer received a light sentence because he had committed several crimes but the evidence a insufficient. When she grew up, she tracked him down. But what happened when she found him?
– A serial killer lives in a small apartment building and the neighbors are unaware of his presence. A young girl about middle school age never came home from school. Different tenants suspect him but have no evidence to prove he’s the culprit.
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