21 titles, most popular first
Seong Gi-hun is a divorced father buried in gambling debts and living with his elderly mother when he is invited to play children's games for a huge cash prize. He is taken to a remote island with 455 other players who are all desperate for money, and soon learns that losing a game means dying.
A fast-spreading zombie virus breaks out inside a high school and soon reaches the surrounding city of Hyosan. Cut off from the outside world while officials scramble to contain it, a group of classmates must band together, stay alive, and search for a route out.
After a tragedy takes his whole family, Cha Hyun-su moves into Green Home, a shabby apartment complex. One night, terrifying monsters start appearing and tearing through the city. Hyun-su and some of his neighbors band together inside the building to stay alive, while other residents begin turning into monsters shaped by their own desires.
In the near future, a failed drug has unleashed the Lytta Virus, an illness that drives the infected into fits of madness and bloodlust before leaving them zombie-like. Yoon Sae-bom is scratched while subduing an infected trainee from a special operations unit, and is taken to a research facility where she meets Han Tae-seok.
Parasitic creatures from outer space begin taking over human hosts, and a police squad called The Grey, led by Choi Jun-kyung, hunts them while keeping the attacks hidden. Supermarket cashier Jeong Su-in is stabbed one night, and a parasite that tries to seize her brain ends up sharing her body instead, something small-time thug Seol Kang-woo witnesses.
In a near future where Earth is drying out, drinking water is strictly rationed. Scientist Song Ji-an joins a small elite crew led by captain Han Yun-jae on a trip to an abandoned lunar research base, where her sister died years earlier, to bring back a secret sample. What really happened at the station remains hidden.
Eight strangers agree to be locked inside a building for a game that pays them money for every minute it lasts. Known only by their floor numbers, they must buy basic supplies at a hundred times the usual price, and at first they work together to keep the game going as long as possible.
Jeong Ji-an is a college student raised by her secretive uncle, Jeong Jin-man, after her parents' violent deaths, and he trained her in combat and shooting under the cover of odd hobbies. When news of his apparent suicide brings her home, skilled assassins suddenly come after her, and she learns his online farm-equipment store was something far more dangerous.
In the future, a comet has destroyed much of the planet and the air has become badly polluted. Survivors cannot live without oxygen tanks and masks, which are delivered to them by a small group of elite couriers who carry these vital supplies through a harsh, broken land.
Surgeon Lee Hae-seong is sent from a top Seoul hospital to a rundown one with no emergency room after defying his director. When a sinkhole and a massive earthquake cut Seoul off from the outside world, he teams up with Jung Ddol-mi, an orthopedic resident from Busan stranded in the city, to treat the injured.
With an asteroid set to strike Earth in 200 days, South Korea is under martial law and many wealthy people have fled. In the city of Woongcheon, former teacher Jin Se-kyeong volunteers at city hall while her friends, an army captain and an assistant priest, each try to hold things together amid fear, shortages, and crime.
Oh Taek, an ordinary taxi driver, is offered a big fare to drive a passenger all the way to Mokpo. He reluctantly accepts, only to realize his passenger is a serial killer, and he must rely on every bit of his wits to make it through the long, terrifying ride.
Mysterious sphere-shaped creatures fill the sky above Earth, and the senior class at Sungjin High School is drafted to fight them. Promised extra credit toward their university entrance exams, the students learn to handle guns and stay alive under Lieutenant Lee Chun-ho, their platoon commander.
In Jirisan National Park, rangers and park staff venture into the mountain's mysterious, unexplored corners to rescue survivors and lost hikers. Their work draws them into a mystery surrounding the mountain's many visitors, including people who arrive intent on murder and others who come in despair.
Nam Da-jung, a naive college student in debt, is invited onto Liar Game, a reality show where players deceive one another for a huge cash prize. After being tricked out of her starting money, she desperately turns to Ha Woo-jin, a brilliant former psychology professor and ex-con swindler, for help.
A detective and a tow truck driver are thrown together when mysterious black smoke pours out of a sinkhole. Anyone who breathes in the smoke turns into a mutant, and the two must fight side by side just to stay alive.
Class 2-3 of Yooil High School heads to a retreat center on a field trip, but their teacher and the students of a second class soon go missing. When night falls, every student in the building receives a message announcing that a real-life game of Mafia is starting, and staying alive means rooting out the Mafia hidden among them.
Over a single desperate day, an ordinary man learns that his daughter has been kidnapped. To get her back, he must take on the serial killer living right next door, in a race against the clock where only the stronger of the two will make it out alive.
Jang Tae-ho is a successful fund manager until a deal goes disastrously wrong, losing 35 billion won and costing his partner his life. On the run from loan shark gangsters, he sinks into Seoul's underworld and finds a secret society of homeless people living inside Seoul Station, with its own strict rules and ranks.
This action thriller follows a group of children who were abandoned by their adoptive parents and only just escaped death. Having barely survived, they now face a desperate struggle to stay alive while setting out on a path of revenge.
Lee Myung-hyun leads a disease control task force looking into a mutated virus that kills every person it infects within three days. The team races to find a cure while trying to stop the outbreak before it spreads and wipes out humanity.
