Tragic Past Korean Dramas & Movies

Signal

Signal

Rank #56

Fifteen years ago, a young girl was unauthorized takingped on the way from school, and Park Hae Yeong, who was an elementary school student at that time, witnessed the crime....

The Devil Judge (2021)

The Devil Judge

Rank #144

Set in a dystopian version of present-day Korea where daily life is chaos and society has collapsed to the point that people openly voice their distrust and hatred for their...

While You Were Sleeping (2017)

While You Were Sleeping

Rank #182

A young woman with bad premonition dreams meets two people who suddenly develop the same ability. Nam Hong Joo lives with her mother, Yoon Moon Sun, a widow who runs...

The Fiery Priest (2019)

The Fiery Priest

Rank #215

Kim Hae Il is a Catholic priest. He makes spiteful remarks, and he can be rude to others. Koo Dae Young is a detective. He talks a lot, and he...

Chicago Typewriter (2017)

Chicago Typewriter

Rank #218

This drama follows the lives of two men and a woman through two eras: one during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea and the other in the 21st century. The...

Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds

Along with the Gods 1: The Two Worlds

Rank #270

After a heroic death, Kim Ja Hong navigates the afterlife with the help of three guardians Kang Rim, Hae Won Maek, and Deok Choon. All deceased must meet the gods...

Children of Nobody (2018)

Children of Nobody

Rank #311

Cha Woo Kyung is a child counselor who works at a children’s center. Her life seems perfect since she is married to a great husband and is pregnant. However, her...

Always

Always

Rank #356

Having closed himself away from the world, former boxer Chul Min starts a new job as a parking lot attendant. One night, a visually impaired young woman, Jung Hwa, walks...

Avengers Social Club (2017)

Avengers Social Club

Rank #365

Features three women from different walks of life coming together for revenge: a middle-aged fish store owner who envisioned a better life for herself, a housewife, and an heiress who...

Mystic Pop-Up Bar (2020)

Mystic Pop-Up Bar

Rank #390

“Mystic Pop-Up Bar” tells the story of a mysterious pojangmacha (outdoor drinking establishment) run by a prickly woman and an innocent part-timer who visit customers in their dreams to help...

The Master's Sun (2013)

The Master’s Sun

Rank #398

Joo Joong Won is the stingy and greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a major department store and hotel. He meets the gloomy Tae Gong Shil, who started...

Forgotten (2017)

Forgotten

Rank #399

After moving into a new house, the eldest son of the family, Yoo Seok, is abducted right in front of his younger brother, Jin Seok. After 19 days, Yoo Seok...

Doctor John (2019)

Doctor John

Rank #436

“Doctor John” is a medical drama about doctors specializing in pain management. In a refreshing take on the genre, “Doctor John” will portray the doctors’ search for the cause of...

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018)

What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim

Rank #441

The series revolves around the narcissistic Lee Young Joon, the vice president of a company run by his family. He is very self-absorbed and thinks highly of himself, so much...

Thirty But Seventeen (2018)

Thirty But Seventeen

Rank #474

Woo Seo Ri, a violin prodigy at 17 who was about to study in Germany, got into a bus accident and fell into a coma waking up 13 years later....

Itaewon Class (2020)

Itaewon Class

Rank #518

Park Saeroyi’s life has been turned upside down after he gets expelled from school for punching a harasser and his father is terminated in an accident. Following his father’s steps,...

Voice 2 (2018)

Voice Season 2

Rank #542

Listen closely, because sterminated voice profiler Kang Kwon Joo is back. Working tirelessly at the Emergency Call Center, she uses her first-rate hearing to save lives and catch culprits. When...

If You Wish Upon Me

Rank #545

Yoon Kyeo Re is a young man who has known nothing but misery ever since he was a child. He was damaging actiond while still a boy and had a...

Shoot My Heart

Shoot My Heart

Rank #554

Set at a psychiatric hospital. Soo Myung has suffered from schizophrenia due to his guilt that he suffers from his mother’s Self-harm. He meets Seung Min at the psychiatric hospital....

Duel (2017)

Duel

Rank #610

Jang Deuk Cheon, a hardened detective cop whose daughter is unauthorized takingped, begins a chase against great odds to solve the mystery of his situation and find his child before...

Mad Dog (2017)

Mad Dog

Rank #676

Choi Kang Woo, who is a former police and leader of Taeyang Insurance’s investigators team, decides to create his own investigation team, after an airplane crash that took the life...

Pinocchio

Pinocchio

Rank #680

The idealistic Choi In Ha has her work cut out for her when she becomes a broadcast reporter, especially when she suffers from a condition known as “Pinocchio syndrome,” which...

City Hunter

City Hunter

Rank #781

Lee Yoon Sung is a talented MIT-graduate who works on the international communications team in the Blue House. He plans revenge on five politicians who caused his father’s death with...

He Is Psychometric (2019)

He Is Psychometric

Rank #793

After losing his parents in a fire, Lee Ahn acquires the power of psychometry, the ability to read a person or an object’s past through physical contact, and he decides...