K-dramas with an adventurous twist. Ongoing list...

Korean Dramas: Action & Adventure

One man will go to any lengths to find his father’s killer. Cha Ji Won (Lee Jin Wook) is a highly trained Navy SEAL officer who is a member of the special Underwater Demolition Team. Ji Won and his best friend, Min Sun Jae (Kim Kang Woo), have done everything together since childhood, when Sun Jae was taken in by Ji Won’s father because Sun Jae wanted to get away from his deadbeat dad. But Sun Jae has always harbored a resentment against Ji Won for having a silver spoon in his mouth while he has had to struggle to get anything in life. While Ji Won’s younger sister, Cha Ji Soo (Im Se Mi), has always liked Sun Jae, Sun Jae has had a secret crush on Yoon Ma Ri (Yoo In Young), Ji Won’s fiancée. Sun Jae decides to leave the Navy to get out from under Ji Won’s shadow, but the only place he has to go is Ji Won’s father’s corporation. New on the job, Sun Jae becomes an easy target for the company’s enemies and he is framed to do a number of deeds that leads to the death of Ji Won’s father. When the devastated Ji Won learns that his father has been murdered in Thailand, he is determined to find the killer, only to find himself framed as the killer of a local man and becoming an outlaw. With the help of Korean ex-patriots Kaya (Moon Chae Won), a two-bit street hustler; Ko Sung Min (Lee Won Jong), an unlicensed doctor to local gangsters; and Kim Ji Ryoong (Kim Tae Woo), a humanitarian worker in Thailand, can Ji Won find his way back to Korea and find his father’s real killer? “Goodbye Mr. Black” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Han Hee. It is based on a comic written by Hwang Mi Na that is loosely fashioned after “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas.

Goodbye Mr. Black

BLACK Is Back Team

KBS02

Lately, many people have complained about how life is getting harder and harder. Such thing as hope is perishing fast in this fiery pit called Korea. It\u2019s almost impossible to look further into our future and set goals, but instead, we live from hand to mouth from day to day. There is no time to look back and reflect on oneself. Rather people are busy blaming others for everything. But \u201CMoorim School\u201D wants to tell the world to find the true power within themselves and believe in friendship and love. Youth itself has always been beautiful, with its potential to grow and improve. There is no crisis you cannot overcome, and anyone can be the strongest when they\u2019re true selves. Hope is for those who encouraged it.

Moorim School

Minions Reloaded Team

Young Jin's supposedly a full-time mother, but she's also got the duty of being one of Seoul's best detectives under the country's police force. Because she loves her job more, Young Jin sticks to her duties as a badass detective against one of the country's toughest chairman. Chairman Kang also seems to be one of the people behind her father's death, which infuriates her the most about this prime suspect.

Mrs. Cop

Justice Seekers

Everyone has a memory of an unrequited love. Most of the time, unrequited love ends in embarrassment. However, unrequited love isn't all that bad. It can be sweet, and it can make your heart flutter. There is a man who has been in love with a woman for a very long time. They aren't lovers nor are they just friends. After giving up his dream to become a track athlete, he couldn't go to college. He spent three years doing nothing and another three studying for the civil servant exam. Now, a week before her wedding, and he's in turmoil over the prospect of losing the woman he loves. He travels back and forth in time with the help of a mysterious manhole in order to gain the heart of the one he loves. However, each time he goes back in time and returns to the present, he realizes that the small changes he made changed his life in unexpected ways. How can he get the girl of his dreams and live a life that he's not ashamed of?

Manhole

The Wacky Wonderland Team

A boy has the psychic power to read other people's minds. Because of that ability, he learned how irrational our world is and how many aggrieved people there are. The boy wants to help them using his power, but the problem is the boy is still a minor. However, there is a woman who overcame the adversity of poverty and became a public defender. Sometimes those who lack their ability become perfect heroes. These days, when rewards and punishments are not fair and desperate people suffer, we want to hear the story where justice is served. This is a 21st-century fairy tale where you can meet a hero who finds happiness by helping others.

I Hear Your Voice

KBS, KOCOWA

Sun Woo is a son with a special emotional bond with his mother but has a secret he can't share. He was a field agent at the National Intelligence Service but is working for the intelligence analysis on North Korea after failing the operation. He tries to catch Hwang Ki Chul, who killed his partner. His mother, Hye Rim, was a spy in the past, but she currently keeps her identity hidden. She has kept it a secret from Sun Woo but when Ki Chul shows up, she becomes a spy once again to protect her son. And along the way, Sun Woo learns the identity of his mother. The mother and the son fight to protect their beloved family and Ki Chul's revenge begins.

The Undercover Team

This drama isn't any other kidnapping story. It's about realizing people's desires by showing how they react to what they see through the media. Jung Hye In is one of the top actresses in the country and a loving mother. On the day of her retirement, someone kidnaps her son, Hyun Woo. The kidnapper demands her to host a live reality show, "Wanted," and carry out a mission for every episode to save her son. With the help from the show producer, Shin Dong Wook, and a skilled detective, Cha Seung In, will Hye In be able to accomplish every mission with the entire country watching? Even when a person's life is at stake, everything is only part of entertainment here. The media brings up more pungent subjects for their shows to satisfy people's demand for every day's entertainment.

Wanted

The Wanted

The frivolous prince of South Korea gets involved with the strongest North Korean special force officer at the World Officer Championship! Lee Jae Ha, the South Korean Prince, loves goofing around and has no interest in state affairs at all. Kim Hang Ah, the first female drill sergeant of the North Korean special force, dreams of finding her Mr. Right and getting married to him. Army officers from 16 countries gather for the World Officer Championship, and South and North Korea enter as one team for the first time. There, Hang Ah and Jae Ha get to share a room, but their start as a team doesn\u2019t seem smooth at all.

The King 2 Hearts

The King's Lovers Team

Blackmailed and in love, Jang Tae San, a member of a criminal organization, is about to be a father. With a new life ahead of him, Tae San decides to give up a life of crime. However, before he gets the chance to retire, he is forced to take the blame for a murder his boss, Moon Il Seok, had committed or would see his girlfriend, Seo In Hye, die. Without question, Tae San tells In Hye to get an abortion and ends the relationship. Eight years later, after serving the prison sentence and still affiliated with the gang, Tae San runs into In Hye and finds out that she never got the abortion and that his daughter, Soo Jin, is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. Apparently, In Hye is not a match. Luckily, Tae San turns out to be a perfect match. He decides to save his daughter\u2019s life and schedules the operation to occur in two weeks when suddenly he is placed under arrest for the death of two detectives.

Two Weeks

The Tweeks Team 

Whatever gets the job done. Bong Sang Pil (Lee Joon Gi) grew up living the gangster life, full of tough physical fights and evading the law. When his mother dies a tragic death, he is determined to avenge her death.

Sang Pil becomes a lawyer and begins to go after people with absolute power who think they are beyond the law. With the cunning and skills from his previous life, Sang Pil uses both his fists and legal loopholes to amass an impressive winning record.

Ha Jae Yi (Seo Ye Ji) is a young lawyer who believes the law is sacred and fights for justice. But her license gets suspended when she hits a judge over an unjust ruling during a trial. Jae Yi ends up going to work for Sang Pil so that she can continue to pay off her father’s debts.

When Sang Pil and Jae Yi get involved in a case that involves Cha Moon Sook (Lee Hye Young), a senior judge who wields a great deal of power, and Ahn Oh Joo (Choi Min Soo), a former gangster who is now the CEO of a corporation, can they figure out a way to beat the most powerful people in the city at a very dangerous game?

“Lawless Lawyer” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Jin Min.

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