Who doesn’t like the adrenaline rush on their face? When it comes to the thriller and suspense genre, it is not only about the subtle plots but the direction, screenplay, and a lot more. Suspense thriller dramas come wrapped in layers of mysteries which also increase the heartbeats of the viewers. South Korea has one of the best suspense thriller dramas to keep you hooked to it. Here is a list of the top 10 best suspense thriller dramas that you should watch but there are many more than this. You can try watching one or all of them.
1. Tell Me What You Saw (2020)
Tell me what you saw is a thrilling and chilling story of a detective named Hyun-Jae who solves criminal mysteries. His world soon shatters when his fiancé is killed by a serial killer. Unable to bear the loss he isolates himself from the world. One day one more killing happens. This time another detective Cha Soo-Young (Choi Soo-Young), who has a photographic memory teams up with him.
2. Nobody Knows (2020)
This is a story of a young woman who is in deep guilt for 19 years for her best friend’s death. She joins as a detective to trace the serial killer’s stigmata who killed them. This drama will take you on a journey of guilt, sadness, and redemption. Knowing that the killer will emerge again she has to be vigilant before he sets to kill another person closer to her.
3. Extracurricular (2020)
Though the story of this drama is not anything new. The way it is structured and told is refreshing and intriguing. You would wait to know what will happen next. Extracurricular is a story about a high school student who is academically bright, is an example for his peers, is admired by teachers, and so on. But he has his own secrets. He is living a dark life, a life of crime. Soon one of her classmates will get to know his secret. To save himself from her blackmails he will go to any length.
4. Mouse (2021)
This drama is no roses and flowers. Similarly, you will also not find any love angles as it is the tale of a detective and a cop who are on a hunt to catch the serial killer. On their path to catching up with the culprit, they are unbeknownst to the fact of what more heinous is going to come next.
5. Hellbound (2021)
Strange people emerge who judge people whether they should go to hell or not. This drama explores the themes of religion, spirituality, morality, and sins. Taking advantage of these circumstances two organizations come up to help the people. This drama is very unique in its plot and storytelling.
6. Again My Life (2022)
Kim Hee-woo is a lawyer who has struggled a lot to be where he is today. He is one day assigned a task to investigate a highly corrupt politician and soon he is killed. But miraculously he wakes up in another finding himself young. In this life, he has to get justice without dying. In this life, he meets the daughter of the politician who becomes his friend and helps him in his investigation.
7. Hell Is Other people (2019)
This psychological drama is based on a webtoon. It tells the story of a man who is in his 20s and moves to Seoul and starts living in his rented apartment there. He soon starts realizing something is odd with the behavior of the tenants around him. Some strange activities start occurring soon.
8. Through The Darkness (2022)
It’s a drama based on a non-fiction book by Kwon Il-yong, Korea’s first criminal profiler, and Ko Na-mu, a journalist-turned-author. It tells the story of a young Korean criminal behavior analyst Song Ha-young. This man sets up a criminal investigation agency after their city comes under siege for murders.
9. Adamas (2022)
This is a drama about twin brothers who are set on a journey to investigate a 22-year-old case. One of them is a popular author and the other is a famous public prosecutor. They both work to clear the name of their biological father for the charge of murder of their stepfather. The twins had to revisit their past and see through if their biological father was really innocent or not. This is an emotional drama.
10. Flower Of Evil (2020)
This is a drama about a beautiful family who has a child. Everything seems right until one day when the wife who is also a detective begins to notice awkward behavior of her husband. This leads her to a connection of her husband to a murder that happened 15 years ago.
