Big Mouth
An underachieving lawyer suddenly finds himself caught up in a murder case. Fighting to survive and keep his family safe, he begins to dig into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the country's wealthy and powerful elite.
Dark K-dramas: Legal
20 titles, most popular first
Theme: Legal
Juvenile Justice
Shim Eun-seok is a top judge with a chilly, aloof manner who is known for disliking young offenders. When she is assigned to a juvenile court in Yeonhwa District, she breaks with custom and handles cases in her own way, balancing her distaste for teen criminals with her firm beliefs about justice and punishment.
Stranger
Hwang Si-mok is a dedicated prosecutor who lost his sense of empathy after surgery for an extreme sensitivity to sound. While investigating a murder, he teams up with police lieutenant Han Yeo-jin, and the two soon find their search for the truth blocked at every turn by powerful interests.
The Devil Judge
In a dystopian South Korea where people resent their leaders and society has fallen into chaos, trials are broadcast as a live television show. Three judges preside over these courtroom broadcasts, presenting themselves as the ones who will restore justice and peace to a nation in turmoil.
Graceful Family
Mo Seok-hee, the only daughter of the MC Group chaebol, was sent to America as a teenager after her mother was murdered. Fifteen years later she returns to Korea when her grandfather falls into a coma, and after a prickly first meeting she hires Heo Yoon-do, an honest neighborhood lawyer with no real office.
The Price of Confession
Art teacher An Yoon-soo finds her husband, a painter, dead in his studio, and a prosecutor quickly decides she is the killer despite thin evidence. Behind bars she meets Mo-eun, a mysterious woman arrested for a separate poisoning, who offers her a dangerous bargain.
Innocent Defendant
Park Jung-woo, a prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, wakes up one day to find himself a death-row inmate. Suffering from temporary memory loss, he can't recall how he ended up behind bars, and he fights to get his memories back and clear his name.
Vampire Prosecutor
Min Tae-yeon, a well-regarded prosecutor, was bitten and turned into a vampire. Despite the pain it causes him, he tastes the blood of murder victims to see what happened to them, using these glimpses to catch killers while keeping his secret from almost everyone except his partner, Detective Hwang Soon-bom.
Made in Korea
Set against major events of 1970s Korea, the story follows Baek Ki-tae, a shrewd and ambitious KCIA agent who secretly runs illegal business networks to gain power and wealth. When principled prosecutor Jang Geon-young begins investigating Ki-tae's smuggling and its ties to high-ranking officials, the two men are pulled into a dangerous rivalry.
Misty
Go Hye-ran becomes the main suspect in a murder investigation. Her husband, Kang Tae-wook, ends up acting as her lawyer, even though their marriage is already badly strained by her choice to put her career ahead of family.
Class of Lies
Gi Moo-hyeok, a well-known lawyer, takes on a false name, Gi Kang-jae, and slips into Chunmyung High School, an elite private school, as a substitute teacher. His real aim is to dig into the murder of one of its female students.
Golden Cross
Prosecutor Kang Do-yoon's life falls apart when his beloved sister is killed through a scheme by Golden Cross, a secret group that controls Korea's economy, and his father is blamed for her death. Vowing revenge on the group's leader Seo Dong-ha, Do-yoon faces a painful complication: Seo is the father of Yi-re, the fellow prosecutor he loves.
One Ordinary Day
Kim Hyun-soo, a straight-A university student, borrows his father's taxi one night to meet his friends. When a sad, mysterious young woman, Hong Gook-hwa, mistakes it for a working cab and climbs in, the choices he makes that night leave him the main suspect in a brutal killing, with only a shabby lawyer, Shin Joong-han, offering to help.
Reset
Prosecutor Cha Woo-jin has spent fifteen years haunted by the unsolved murder of his first love, Seung-hee. With only ten days left before the case can no longer be prosecuted, he meets Jo Eun-bi, a 17-year-old student who looks exactly like Seung-hee, and their meeting sets off a chain of events around the old crime.
Dongjae, the Good or the Bastard
Prosecutor Seo Dong-jae, stuck at the Cheongju office with a past stained by corruption, sees little future for himself. While wrestling with a redevelopment case, he is handed a case involving a murdered high school student and must balance his gut as a prosecutor against his habits as an opportunist.
Insider
The story follows a young man training to work in the legal system whose life is thrown into chaos after he takes on an undercover investigation. Afterward, he has to fight hard just to get back the normal life he has lost.
Honour
Yoon Ra-young, Kang Shin-jae and Hwang Hyun-jin have been inseparable since university, united by a shared drive for justice. Now lawyers at L&J Law Firm, they defend women who have been victims of crime, until a secret the three buried twenty years ago comes back to shake their lives.
Incarnation of Money
Raised in an orphanage, Lee Cha-don has become a prosecutor, a respected job he uses to squeeze extra cash out of gamblers. He has no memory of his early life. His fate is bound up with Bok Jae-in, whose loan-shark mother paid for his upbringing and wants a return, and with senior prosecutor Ji Se-kwang, who poses as honest while hiding past wrongs.
Punch
Park Jung-hwan heads the anti-corruption team at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, a post he reached through years of moral compromise. When he learns he has a malignant brain tumor and just six months left, he decides to fight for justice at any cost, aiming to bring down his corrupt boss, Prosecutor General Lee Tae-joon, with help from his ex-wife, prosecutor Shin Ha-kyung.
The Empire
This drama looks inside the world of the nation's elite legal class, powerful figures of the law who dream of passing their status down through their families. Behind their respectable image, a string of scandals threatens the empire they have built.