K-dramas have become increasingly popular across the globe especially in South Asia, due to their unique storytelling.
Netflix has recognized the growing popularity of K-dramas and has invested in acquiring and producing them for their platform. From murder mysteries, spy thrillers, and dark comedies to crime dramas, the giant streamer has it all.
Let’s have a detailed look at these 5 fascinating Korean crime dramas on Netflix that will keep you hooked until the end:
1) Money Heist: Korea
“Money Heist: Korea” is more crossover than the original Money Heist spinoff. The series stays true to the original plot, in which a mysterious criminal mastermind recruits a band of thieves to help him pull off a daring heist at Spain’s national mint.
It tells the story of a genius strategist and his talented crew composed of top-class thieves who attempt to pull off an unprecedented heist in the Korean Peninsula. The story portrays unexpected twists and turns as the crew stages a hostage while facing inexplicable challenges.
2) My Name
“My Name” is an action thriller with the revenge trope as a main theme so the story doesn’t have much depth and it’s somehow predictable but overall, the drama is entertaining. It has many good action scenes and the choreographed fights are very well executed.
After witnessing her father’s murder, Yoon Ji-woo becomes hell-bent on seeking revenge. She trains in hand-to-hand combat under Choi Mu-jin, a powerful crime boss and close friend of her father, and eventually becomes a mole on the police force.
Now a rookie cop with the narcotics unit, Ji-woo hunts down her father’s killer while helping Mu-jin evade the police.
3) Vincenzo
Vincenzo is just amazingly fun! It’s a black comedy, about a a member of the Mafia who got adopted from Korea as a kid by a Capo.
Vincenzo Cassano, a Korean-Italian mob lawyer and consigliere of the Cassano crime family, returns to his homeland to search for a place to stash the mob’s assets and find further money-laundering business opportunities.
4) Inspector Koo
If you’re looking for something a bit less gruesome and intense, then look no further than Inspector Koo, South Korea’s version of Killing Eve.
In this quirky comedy drama, Koo Kyung-yi, a former police officer who becomes a reclusive, booze-loving gamer after her husband’s death.
She takes on a job as an insurance investigator, using her sharp intuition and sleuthing skills to investigate false insurance claims — but a string of mysterious deaths leads her to suspect that a serial killer may be disguising perfectly executed murders as accidents.
5) The Good Detective
‘The Good Detective’ is very well directed, very well scripted and very well-acted.
Set in Incheon, South Korea, the drama tells stories of those who try to hide ugly truths and those who uncover the truths. Kang Do-chang (Son Hyun-joo) has worked as a detective for the past 18 years. He was born and raised in Incheon.
