There’s just something so addictive about watching badass characters fighting with their hands and guns to bring down evil people and serve justice where the law couldn’t. Filled with amazing action sequences and adventures like no other, these K-dramas are perfect to watch on stressful days. Here’s the list of top 10 K-dramas in the action genre.
1. Healer
Known as Healer to his clients, Seo Jung Hoo (Ji Chang Wook) is a freelance night courier who does whatever his clients want, no questions asked. One of his jobs leads him to Chae Young Shin (Park Min Young), a tabloid reporter who is somehow related to his past that he doesn’t recall. He infiltrates her life with a different identity with the motive of gaining knowledge of how they are related. Will Jung Hoo and Young Shin be able to remember their troubled past and move on from it as they fall in love?
2. D.P.
D.P. (Deserter Pursuit) stars Jung Hae In as Jun Ho, a soldier who has been put in charge of arresting military deserters. D.P. tackles some crucial issues in the South Korean military conscription system and the life of young men entering it to fulfill their service. This character-driven drama has dark humor that will make you laugh through the misery.
3. Taxi Driver
Rainbow taxi is run by Jang Sung Chul and provides hope to its suicidal clients by taking revenge for them. The squad tackles new cases every two episodes, protecting and helping people whom the law wouldn’t give justice to. Opposing them is Ha Na, a prosecutor who believes in justice through law.
4. My Name
Yoon Ji Woo (Han So Hee) is a twenty-something detective who witnessed her father's murder as a teenager and is determined to get revenge. Choi Moo Jin (Park Hee Soon), a mafia crime lord, takes her under his wing and teaches her how to fight so that when the day comes, she can kill her father's murderer. Torn between her job as a narcotics detective and her loyalties to Moo Jin, Ji Woo will uncover secrets that shake up her whole world.
5. Descendants Of The Sun
Yoo Shi Jin (Song Joon Ki) is on leave from his job as an officer in the special forces when he meets Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo), a cardiothoracic surgeon. Sparks fly between them, but Shi Jin is called back to his dangerous job. Sometime later, the two meet again in a different country but their problems remain the same as Mo Yeon can’t handle being in a relationship with someone who repeatedly disappears with surety of return.
6. The Uncanny Counter
Under the disguise of running a noodle restaurant, four demon hunters called Counters protect the city from evil while risking their lives. Each of them has different abilities that make them valuable to the team but they are all haunted by their pasts that they need to overcome.
7. The K2
Kim Je Ha (Ji Chang Wook) is the newly appointed bodyguard of a politician’s wife, Choi Yoo Jin (Song Yoon Ah), and his daughter, Go An Na (Lim Yoo Na). As his loyalties are torn between the woman and her stepdaughter, who hate each other, Je Ha is focused on getting revenge for his ex-girlfriend, who was murdered by a rival politician.
8. The Good Detective
Kang Do Chang (Son Hyung Joo) is a veteran detective who finds a piece of crucial evidence that would clear an alleged murderer he has arrested. With two options in front of him: seeking justice or seeking fame and power, he meets Oh Ji Hyuk (Jang Seung Ho), a hotshot detective. The two join forces to catch the real criminal in time, lest an innocent gets thrown behind bars
9. Kill It
Kim Soo Hyun (Jang Ki Yong) has two identities: a veterinarian and an assassin for hire. Do Hyun Jin (Na Na) used to be a ballerina but now is a detective with an excellent record who chases after Hyun Soo concerning a case. One day, Kim Soo Hyun is hired by a mysterious person to kill someone in exchange for information on his forgotten past. As Soo Hyun and Hyun Jin get closer to each other and the truth about their connected history, will they be able to forgive each other’s sins?
10. You’re All Surrounded
Seo Pan Sook (Cha Seung Won) is a temperamental detective leading an incompetent team of rookie police officers who seem to get into trouble more often than solving a case. Each of them is here for selfish reasons and does not have a passion for their job. Through many conflicts, they all grow and learn from each other while making the city of Gangnam safer.
