If you are a fan of thrilling plot twists, intense suspense, and gripping storytelling, these shows are perfect. Get ready to be on the edge of your seat as we dive into the world of the top 10 Korean suspense series on HiTV.
1. My Happy Ending
My Happy Ending is a South Korean suspense drama starring Jang Na-ra, Lee Ki-taek, Son Ho-jun, So Yi-hyun, Kim Hong-pa, Park Ho-san, and SONG YEONG AH. It has one season. It was released in 2023. It has 12 episodes. It is a story about a woman who had a failing art career and is now divorced. Soon after reuniting with Yoo Jin, Jae Won's perfect life crumbles as she learns the people closest to her have been hiding terrible truths.
2. The Bequeathed
The Bequeathed is a South Korean thriller drama starring Kim Hyun-joo, Park Hee-soon, Ryu Kyung-soo, Park Byung-Eun, Park Sung-hoon, and Hyeon Bong-sik. It has one season. It was released in 2024. It has six episodes. It is a story about the death of an unknown uncle. After his death, a woman inherits a burial ground and finds herself in the center of a string of murders and dark secrets.
3. Night Has Come
Night Has Come is a South Korean thriller drama starring Lee Jae-in, Kim Woo-seok, Choi Ye-bin, Jeong So-ri, Ahn Ji-ho, and Cha Woo-min. It has one season. It was released in 2023. It has 12 episodes. it is a story about a mystery high-teen death game in which a mafia game takes place for students in Class 2 and 3 who left the retreat and the intense psychological warfare of cheating and deception and the breath-taking tension.
4. Hi Bye, Mama!
Hi Bye, Mama! It is a South Korean drama starring Kim Tae-hee, Lee Kyu-hyung, and Go Bo-gyeo. It has one season. It was released in 2020. It has 16 episodes. It is a story about Cha Yu-Ri. She has been a ghost since she died five years ago. She left behind her husband and their child. To become a human again, she carried out a reincarnation project for 49 days.
5. Train To Busan
Train To Busan is a South Korean action horror film starring Gong Yoo, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-Shik, Sohee, and Jung Yu-mi. It was released in 2016. This is the story of an investment manager and his daughter. In honor of his wife's birthday, they are traveling to Busan by train. But something unexpected occurs there. They are trapped in South Korea amid a zombie outbreak, which turns the trip into a nightmare.
6. Save Me
Save Me is a South Korean drama starring Ok Taec-yeon, Seo Yea-ji, Jo Sung-ha, and Woo Do-hwan. It has one season. It was released in 2017. It has 16 episodes. It is a story about a father. His happy life turned upside down when his daughter mysteriously disappeared one day. He doesn’t know the reason and who is behind all of this. But as he goes on the mission of finding her daughter he unravels many other mysteries.
7. Hell Is Other People
Hell Is Other People, also known as Strangers from Hell, is a South Korean drama starring Kim Ji-eun, Lee Dong-wook, Im Si-wan, and Lee Hyun-wook. It has one season. The film was released in 2019. Based on Kim Yong-ki's Naver WEBTOON series of the same name. It is a story about an aspiring crime fiction writer. In his twenties, he moved to Seoul with the expectation of driving a more effective presence. Because of less pay, he is forced to move to a small studio apartment which has an ominous cheap dormitory.
8. Silenced
Silenced is a South Korean thriller drama starring Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi. It has one season. It was released in 2011. In the early 2000s, young Deaf students were repeatedly sexually assaulted by faculty members at Gwangju Inhwa School for the Deaf. These assaults took place at the school. It is based on the novel The Crucible by Gong Ji-young. It is a story that follows a school where young hearing-impaired students study. For some time they are sexually assaulted by faculty members of the school.
9. Memories Of Murder
Memories of Murder is a South Korean crime thriller film starring Kang Ho Song, Hae il Park, Kim Roi-ha, and Kim Sang-kyung. It was released in 2003. While South Korea is still under the military's reign, two local, unreliable detectives are joined by an experienced one from Seoul to investigate a series of mysterious murder cases.
10. Oldboy
Oldboy is a South Korean thriller action drama starring Kang Hye-jung, Jin-Seo-Yoon, Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, and Yoo Yeon-seok. It has one season. It was released in 2003. It is a loose adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name. It is a tale about a hostage. He has been released from jail a million times because of his friends. But this time when he got bailed, someone drugged him unconscious and locked him up in jail and he is there for 15 years without any human contact.
