Public biases against Korean content for its popularly cheesy romance gets many missing out on other well developed genres; the intricate crime, mystery and thriller plots
For everyone that may not be the biggest fan of cheesy romance but still wants to test the waters, here are 5 thrillers to keep you engaged with their brilliant plots and at the edge of your seat with their suspense.
1. Mouse
Is it possible to identify a psychopath in the mother's womb using fetal genetic testing? And if the child in the womb has a psychopath gene, will it be wise to have that child?
After witnessing a horrific incident meted on his family by a psychopathic serial killer in his childhood in 1995, a detective, with the help of a rookie cop, attempts to catch a newly surfaced psychopathic serial killer in present day
2. The Memorist
A police officer with the gift of reading memories uses it to his advantage in accessing the memories of (potential) witnesses and suspects to solve cases. When a serial killer surfaces, he teams up with a detective to catch them but the killer is not only thoroughly smart but has the ability to erase memories.
3. Vagabond
A stunts man's nephew dies in a plane crash on his school trip with his classmates with supposedly everyone that took off on the flight. When the stunts man recognizes a survivor and decides to investigate with a special agent how he survived, he gets bulldozed into a complex conspiracy and series of life threatening happenings bigger than he imagined that he has to overcome to find out why his nephew died
4. Reborn Rich
When a loyal employee of a company is betrayed and murdered by a member of the family the company is under to cover up a tax evasion scheme, he's reincarnated into the body of the youngest grandson of the family. He takes advantage of the opportunity to enact a revenge plot of a hostile takeover of the family business.
5. The Glory
Based on a real-life incident that occurred in 2006 at a girls’ school in Cheongju, South Korea, The Glory tells, in two seasons, the story of a woman who was tormented by bullies in high school plotting and executing a merciless elaborate revenge plan to make her enemies pay a terrible price for their sins.
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