Article: Top 10 Thriller K-Dramas To Get Your Blood Pumping

1. Flower Of Evil

Baek Hee Sung (Lee Joon Gi), a blacksmith, is married to Cha Ji Won (Moon Chae Won), a cop. While a doting father and husband, Hee Sung has some dangerous secrets that his family doesn't know. As Cha Ji Won starts investigating a serial killer popping up after years, she realizes that the criminal might be closer than she thinks, maybe even in her own home.

 

2. Happiness

Yoon Sae Bom (Han Hyo Joo), a special agent, proposes a marriage of convenience to her longtime friend Jung Yi Hyun (Park Hyung Sik), a detective, to get an apartment. Due to a mysterious disease spreading in the country, their building gets quarantined, which brings out the best and the worst in the apartment’s residents. With an ironic title, this K-drama is not for the faint of heart.

 

3. Mouse

Lee Seung Gi, as Jung Ba Reum, is an innocent rookie cop that gets involved with Ko Moo Chi (Lee Hee Joon), a seasoned detective determined to catch the serial killer that has shaken the nation. With crazy twists and turns in every episode, Mouse will make you ask yourself, "What just happened!?" multiple times.

 

4. Beyond Evil

The small town of Manyang is shook up by the return of a serial killer who had troubled the town twenty years ago. Lee Dong Sik (Shin Ha Kyun), a demoted cop, and Han Joo Won (Yeo Jin Goo), an elite detective who just moved to town, don't trust each other but team up to dig into the town's past to save its future.

 

5. Strangers From Hell

Yoon Jong Woo (Im Si Won) moves from the countryside to Seoul and starts living in a cheap hostel with some unsettling residents. As Jong Woo witnesses some suspicious happenings around the hostel and its occupants, he starts questioning his sanity and fears for his life. Strangers from Hell is a grotesque and unpredictable psychological horror not for the weak-hearted.

 

6. 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.

 

7. Save Me

After going bankrupt, Sang Mi's (Seo Ye Ji) family moves to the quiet town of Goosunwon. Unbeknownst to them, the town is under the control of Baek Jung Ki, a Spiritual Father of a cult-like community. As Sang Mi's family falls deeper into the grips of the cult, she turns to Han Sang Hwan and his friends to save her before it’s too late.

 

8. Vagabond 

After a mysterious plane crash that takes away his nephew, Cha Dal Gun (Lee Seung Gi) vows to uncover the truth behind the accident. Joining him is Go Hae Ri (Bae Suzy), a NIS agent. Together, they reveal the corruption and dirty secrets of people in power to get justice for the tragedy.

 

9. One Ordinary Day

Hyun Soo (Kim Soo Hyun) is a college student who gets charged with the rape and murder of a young woman.  Awaiting trial, Shin Joong Han (Cha Sung Won), a failing lawyer, agrees to defend him in court. As the case gains media attention and the nation demands Hyun Soo's prosecution, truths about that one ordinary day get revealed that will make the viewers question if Hyun Soo is really as innocent as he seems.

 

10. All Of Us Are Dead

On a seemingly ordinary day, students of Hyosan high school get trapped inside the school building due to a zombie outbreak. As they try to survive, lest they become infected, these students also realize the societal threats that have marred the nation and the education system.