14 titles, most popular first
In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
When two North Korean soldiers are shot dead at a guard post inside the Joint Security Area, wounded South Korean sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok escapes back across the border. To calm rising tensions, Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean is sent by a neutral commission to investigate, and she soon notices that the stories from both sides do not add up.
A widow sells medicinal herbs in a small southern town and dotes on her only son, Do-joon, a shy young man with an intellectual disability. When a high school girl is found dead and Do-joon is arrested on flimsy evidence, his mother is sure he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer herself.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
In an alternate 2009, Korea is still ruled by Imperial Japan. Masayuki Sakamoto, an agent of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation, and his partner Shojiro Saigo stop a hostage crisis at a museum, and Sakamoto grows curious about why the rebels were after a mysterious artifact and the foundation linked to it.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
Seo Do-cheol is a tough, relentless police detective. When a truck driver named Bae is found dead in an apparent suicide after protesting over unpaid wages, Do-cheol learns from Bae's son that Jo Tae-oh, the cruel heir to the powerful Sinjin Group, had beaten him, and he starts digging despite the heir's efforts to stop him.
At Incheon airport, a strange man named Jin-seok secretly carries a deadly virus onto a passenger flight, hidden in an asthma inhaler. Among those on board are Jae-hyuk and his young daughter Soo-min, while on the ground Detective In-ho starts tracing an online terror threat video back to the man.
Dae-man is an amateur sleuth obsessed with true crime, and Noh is a veteran detective who has been demoted and now answers to a younger officer. When their friend is accused of murder, the unlikely pair join forces to track down the person who really did it.
Ha Chae-youn, a police crisis negotiator in Seoul, is still shaken by a hostage case that went badly wrong when she is urgently summoned to a new crisis. Arms dealer Min Tae-gu has kidnapped several Koreans in Bangkok, and she must negotiate with him while the officials around her refuse to share key details.
Chairman Jin of One Network has swindled tens of thousands of members using smooth speeches, charm and powerful friends in politics. Kim Jae-myung, head of a crime investigation team, has chased him for months and leans on Park, Jin's brilliant programmer and right-hand man, to reveal the company's computer room and secret lobbying records.
Jung-hoon is the top student at his school, and his rival Tae-gyu constantly attacks him with words and fists. After someone sees Jung-hoon pull a knife on Tae-gyu, he comes back during fourth period to find Tae-gyu stabbed to death, and classmate Da-jung catches him holding the knife. She believes him, and they have 40 minutes to find the real killer.
Kim, a widowed narcotics detective, is meeting a would-be informant named Kang when Kang is arrested for killing his girlfriend. Months later, Kang calls Kim from prison claiming he has murdered six more people, and Kim sets out to find the truth, never sure whether he can trust a word the killer says.
Choi Chang-sik is a decorated homicide detective days away from a promotion when a taxi driver takes him to a remote mountain trail and attacks him with a knife. Choi kills the man in self-defense but covers it up to protect his career, only to find the body hung from a crane outside the police station and himself assigned to the case.
