Best South Korean action series

Squid Game (2021)

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

Moving (2023)

Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

All of Us Are Dead (2022)

A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.

Sweet Home (2020)

As humans turn into savage monsters and the world plunges into terror, a handful of survivors fight for their lives — and to hold on to their humanity.

Bad and Crazy (2021)

A superhero drama about Soo-yeol who has lived his whole life as a materialistic police detective, but changes into a champion for justice and fights against police corruption when a hidden persona called "K" awakens inside him.

Rainbow Bubblegem (2023)

Rainbow Bubblegem recounts the magical adventures of seven mermaid princesses who must go to school on land to search for enchanted jewels to save their undersea realm from an evil witch.

Eon Kid (2007)

Bloodhounds (2023)

Two young boxers band together with a benevolent moneylender to take down a ruthless loan shark who preys on the financially desperate.

Power Rangers Dino Force Brave (2017)

Power Rangers Dino Force Brave is a South Korean-Japanese superhero series that serves as the sequel to Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger’s Korean dub, Power Rangers Dino Force.The show was later dubbed into Japanese and aired in Japan as Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Brave.

Parasyte: The Grey (2024)

When unidentified parasites violently take over human hosts and gain power, humanity must rise to combat the growing threat.

Weak Hero (2022)

With the aid of unexpected friends, a gifted but introverted student confronts bullies and violent foes — unaware of how dangerous his world will become.

Descendants of the Sun (2016)

After a chance meeting in a hospital, an ardent soldier falls for a gifted surgeon. Opposing philosophies tear them apart, but fate has other plans.

Cashero (0)

The ability to draw power from cash turns a salaryman into a hero. With quirky allies facing waves of villains, can he defeat evil on a tight budget?

Healer (2014)

A star reporter, a second-rate journalist and a man by the code name "Healer" are brought together by a long-buried incident that hides dark truths.

Legend Hero Samgugjeon (2016)

Legend Hero Samgugjeon is a Korean tokusatsu television series. Produced by MoonWatcher and Synergy Media. The Series is broadcasted in EBS1.Legend Hero Samgugjeon is heavily based off of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Many elements of the original story are carried over to the show. Many characters share names and attributes with characters of the original story. Several events in the show are also based on events in the classic story.

Alchemy of Souls (2022)

A powerful sorceress in a blind woman's body encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help to change his destiny.

The Uncanny Counter (2020)

A group of supernatural demon hunters known as "Counters," each with unique abilities, disguise themselves as employees of a noodle restaurant, while tracking down evil spirits that terrorize the mortal world.

Hero Inside (2023)

Heroes can pop out of their comic books when summoned in this comedic action-adventure.

Black Knight (2023)

In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average delivery men.

Emperor of the Sea (2004)

Emperor of the Sea is a South Korean television drama series directed by Kang Il-soo and Kang Byung-taek and starring Choi Soo-jong, Chae Shi-ra, Song Il-gook and Soo Ae. It aired on KBS2 from November 24, 2004 to May 25, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:50 for 51 episodes. The historical drama is based on Choi In-ho's novel of the same title, which depicts the life of Jang Bogo, who rises from a lowly slave to a powerful maritime figure who dominated the East Asia seas and international trade during the Unified Silla Dynasty.The drama was received extremely well, holding the number one spot in the ratings for majority of the weeks it aired. It was also exported to eight countries earning approximately US$1.8 million in profits.The filming set in Wando County, South Jeolla Province also became a tourist attraction.

Duty After School (2023)

When mysterious alien spheres start invading the world, high school students are called upon to join the world’s first war against extraterrestrial forces.

Sisyphus (2021)

An unfathomable incident introduces a genius engineer to dangerous secrets of the world — and to a woman from the future who's come looking for him.

Vagabond (2019)

Stuntman Cha Dal-geon gets involved in a tragic airplane crash and ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process. Go Hae-ri, the oldest daughter of a deceased marine, decides to work for the National Intelligence Service as a secret ops agent in order to support her mom and younger siblings, although all she wanted to do is to become a civil servant.

Vincenzo (2021)

At the age of eight, Park Joo Hyeong left for Italy after being adopted. Now an adult, he is known as Vincenzo Cassano and employed by a Mafia family as a consigliere. Due to warring Mafia factions, he flies to South Korea where he gets involved with lawyer Hong Cha Young. She is the type of attorney who will do anything to win a case. Now back in his motherland, he gives an unrivalled conglomerate a taste of his own medicine—with a side of his own version of justice.

Voice (2017)

It's 3 minutes for hearers, but a life for the callers. A crime thriller chasing even the slightest sounds to rescue people's lives calling for urgent help.

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (2017)

Born with supernatural strength, Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.

Yong Pal (2015)

Operating under the alias Yong-pal, a surgeon gets enmeshed in a dark conspiracy involving a chaebol heiress forcibly put in a medically induced coma.

Inspector Koo (2021)

A reclusive ex-cop reenters the game as an insurance investigator, searching for clues in crime scenes perfectly staged by a serial killer in her midst.

Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area (2022)

Disguised under the shadows of a mask, a crew of desperados band together under the leadership of a criminal mastermind known only as “The Professor” to pull off the biggest heist Korea has ever seen.

Kill It (2019)

The story of a veterinarian killer who saves animals and a detective who saves people.