Ballerina
Ex-bodyguard Jang Ok-ju loses her best friend Min-hee and learns that her friend's final wish was for revenge on Choi Pro, a predator who exploited her. Grieving and furious, Ok-ju starts tracking him down, determined to make him pay.
Completed K-dramas & movies: Revenge
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Theme: Revenge
Green Rose
Lee Jung-hyun and Oh Soo-ah are a happy couple until he learns she is the daughter of the chairman of SR Electronics, the company where he works. One night at the chairman's vacation house, Jung-hyun is wrongly blamed for a deadly attack and sentenced to life in prison, forcing him to run for his life.
Mercy for None
Nam Gi-jun, a former enforcer for a criminal gang, walked away from that life and from his brother after an incident. Eleven years later, his younger brother Nam Gi-seok is brutally killed, pulling Gi-jun back into the underworld to find out what happened and take revenge on those behind it.
Rugal
Elite police officer Kang Gi-beom is trying to bring down Argos, one of the country's biggest crime groups, when hitmen kill his wife and he is blinded and framed for her murder. Recruited into a secret task force called Rugal, whose members have biotech-enhanced abilities, he gets artificial eyes and sets out to clear his name.
A Love to Kill
Kang Bok-gu is a talented K-1 fighter who never tries to win because he wants no fame. Out of guilt toward Han Da-jung, who was scarred saving him from a fire, he plans to stay with her for life though he does not love her. When his older brother collapses after hearing his ex-girlfriend, actress Cha Eun-suk, is engaged, Bok-gu blames her and swears revenge.
Bad Guy
Gun-wook loses everything in a single night when the wealthy Hong family takes him in as President Hong's illegitimate son, then throws him onto the streets once they realize they were wrong. Years later he returns to bring down the Hongs and their Haeshin corporation piece by piece, using the family's children as pawns, until he meets the sharp and ambitious Jae-in.
Buried Hearts
Seo Dong-ju is the secretive corporate secretary to Chairman Cha Kang-cheon at Daesan Group. After being betrayed by the woman he loves and surviving an attempt on his life, he hacks into a huge political slush fund worth two trillion won, setting off a dangerous struggle over the hidden money.
Father, I'll Take Care of You
Once their four children have moved out, an older couple, Hyung-sub and Jeong-ae, decide it is finally time to live for themselves. Then one day all four children come back home to stay. At the same time, a new neighbor moves in with a plan for revenge against Hyung-sub.
Get Karl! Oh Soo-jung
Back in school, Oh Soo-jung was the girl everyone admired, and she dumped her nerdy law-student boyfriend Go Man-soo when he failed the bar exam. Eight years later she is in her thirties managing a jewelry store, while Man-soo returns from America as Karl Go, a rich, famous pro golfer with a plan to pay her back.
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.
May Queen
Chun Hae-joo grows up in deep poverty in Ulsan, unaware of the secrets surrounding her real parents. At school she grows close to Park Chang-hui, a butler's son facing his own hardships, and meets Kang San, the cheerful heir to a rival shipping group, against the backdrop of Korea's shipbuilding boom.
Pegasus Market
Moon Seok-goo manages Pegasus Market, a struggling discount store. When Jeong Bok-dong is demoted within Daema Group and sent in as the new CEO, Seok-goo gets his hopes up. He has no idea that Bok-dong secretly plans to sink the store to get back at the group.
Queen of Divorce
Korea's top divorce fixer runs a special service for clients stuck in troubled marriages. Rather than simply ending things, the service makes sure the bad husband or wife faces punishment, helping each client close the door on a problem marriage for good.
Red Swan
Born into a poor family, Oh Wan-soo becomes a world-class golfer and marries Kim Yong-kook, heir to the Hwain Group, partly to pay off her mother's debts, then learns of his affair. Over a decade later, as a goodwill ambassador in Manila, she narrowly survives a terrorist attack thanks to Seo Do-yoon, who then becomes her bodyguard.
Resurrection
After his father dies in a car crash, young Ha-eun is raised by a kind family of strangers and grows up to become a police officer. Looking into his father's death, he uncovers troubling truths about the accident and his own identity, including that he has a twin brother who is now a company executive.
Sweet Revenge
Ho Goo-hee is a high school student who openly calls herself a pushover. One day she finds a new app on her phone that promises to get revenge on anyone whose name she enters into it, giving her an unexpected way to strike back.
The Manipulated
Park Tae-jung is an ordinary man whose life is turned upside down when he is wrongly accused of a horrific crime and sent to prison. When he discovers that the whole thing was set up by An Yo-han, he sets out to make the people responsible pay.
Two Mothers
Hwa-young is convinced that Yeon-hee, her brother's ex-girlfriend, drove him to his death. When Yeon-hee, now married, learns that uterine cancer means she cannot carry a child, Hwa-young offers to become her surrogate while secretly planning her revenge.
A Bird That Doesn't Sing
Oh Ha-nui loses everything she has because of an insurance murder case worth a staggering 10 billion won. Determined to get even, she sets out to take revenge on Chun Mi-ja, the woman responsible for her misfortune.
Avengers Social Club
Three women and one young man from very different backgrounds team up to get even: a fishmonger who once hoped for a better life, a housewife raised as an orphan, a chaebol heiress brought up in a sheltered bubble, and a young man ignored by his parents. They would never normally meet, but they join forces to pursue their own personal payback.
Cross
A gifted young man trains as a doctor with one goal in mind: getting revenge for his father, who was brutally killed fifteen years ago. His medical skills become the tool he plans to use to settle that old score.
Delightfully Deceitful
A man and a woman with completely different personalities cross paths and decide to join forces. Despite how little they seem to have in common, the unlikely pair team up to pursue revenge, working side by side toward a single shared goal.
Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus
Han Yi-soo's father, chauffeur to the family that owns Gaya Hotel Group, is killed after backing out of taking the blame for a hit-and-run caused by the family's son. When high schooler Yi-soo digs for the truth, he barely survives an attempt on his life and vanishes. Twelve years later he returns under a new Japanese-Korean identity, while his first love, Jo Hae-woo, has become a prosecutor.
Hyper Knife
Jung Se-ok was once a brilliant neurosurgeon, but after losing her medical license she now performs illegal operations in secret, chasing the limits of brain science. When she crosses paths again with her former mentor, the famous and mysterious Dr. Choi Deok-hee, old wounds reopen and a risky contest of power begins.
Love Song for Illusion
Yeon Wol conceals who she really is and becomes an assassin to avenge her family. Sent to kill the king, she falls into a trap laid by an unknown hand and wakes the next day with no memory of her past, only to be named the crown prince's concubine.
Lucifer
A string of murders, each leaving only tarot cards as clues, lands on the desk of Detective Kang Oh-soo. His search leads him to Seo Hae-in, a quiet librarian who can sense the history of objects by touching them, and to Oh Seung-ha, a kind-seeming young lawyer defending the suspects. Oh-soo is also haunted by his own past.
Man from the Equator
In high school, top student Jang-il and carefree troublemaker Sun-woo become unlikely best friends, both poor but proud. Their fathers are both tied to a powerful businessman, and a crime between those families sets the two boys on a dark path that follows them into adulthood.
Queen: Love and War
Kang Eun-ki becomes Queen of Joseon, but she and King Lee Kyung are attacked by assassins during their wedding parade. As her father faces a treason charge, her secret twin sister, Kang Eun-bo, enters the palace contest to choose a new queen under a false name, determined to uncover who planned the attack on her sister.
Ruby Ring
Twins Ruby and Runa are complete opposites: Ruby is kind and dutiful, while Runa is selfish and scheming. When Ruby gets engaged to Bae Kyung-min, Runa's jealousy deepens, and after a car accident leaves both sisters disfigured, a mix-up during surgery gives Runa the chance to live as Ruby.
Secret Boutique
Jenny Jang owns J-Boutique, which looks like an ordinary clothing and accessories shop. Behind the storefront, it is a hidden network linking politicians and business leaders to a small law firm that quietly fixes problems for the wealthy. The story centres on women chasing money, power and revenge.
The Defects
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.
The Judge Returns
Lee Han-young is a corrupt judge who dies before his time, only to wake up and find himself back in the past. Given another shot at life, he sets out to change his fate and make wrongdoers pay for what they have done.
Vengeance of the Bride
In this revenge drama, a woman searching for the mother who gave birth to her makes a bold move: she marries into the family of her enemy. As the new daughter-in-law, she pursues a desperate plan for payback from inside their home.
A Man Called God
Choi Kang-ta lost his parents as a child and was raised by an American couple, growing into a feared super agent with almost godlike abilities. Now an adult, he returns to Korea to take revenge on the four people responsible for his father's death.
Angel's Revenge
Lee Seon-yoo is about to become a nun when she learns her beloved older sister Jin-yoo has died, betrayed by her lover Jang Tae-jung, who married into a wealthy family. Giving up her dream, Seon-yoo marries Seo Ji-seok, an immature rich heir, becoming Tae-jung's sister-in-law so she can get close enough to make him pay.
Glass Mask
Kang Yi-kyung carries the heavy burden of being a murderer's daughter, and life has not been kind to her. Determined to settle the score, she takes on another woman's identity and steps back into the world under the name Seo Jung-ha, ready to carry out her plan.
Miss Mermaid
Eun Ah-ri-young is a successful TV drama writer still consumed by hatred for her father, who left the family for another woman. She carefully plots her revenge, writing a script drawn from his affair and casting his unsuspecting actress wife, Shim Soo-jung, as the blind mother, while scheming to win her half-sister's fiancé, Lee Joo-wang.
Pink Lipstick
Kind-hearted Yoo Ga-eun married Park Jung-woo, the man she loved in college, only to learn he has been unfaithful with her closest friend, Kim Mi-ran. After the divorce she falls for a man named Ha Jae-bum, but painful truths about the people who betrayed her push her toward revenge.
Reborn Rookie
Young soccer player Hwang Jun-hyeon loses his career when the son of Choiseong Group chairman Kang Yong-ho hits him with a car while covering up embezzlement. When Jun-hyeon confronts the chairman, the two tumble down the stairs together, and the elderly chairman ends up in the young man's body, working as a rookie at his own company.
Strongest Chil Woo
Around 1648, during the troubled reign of King Injo of Joseon, a group of mysterious assassins takes vengeance on behalf of the suffering poor, with a Zorro-like hero at the center of the story. As old political plots from earlier bloody purges resurface, a string of murders shakes the kingdom.
The Chaser
Detective Baek Hong-suk is a devoted family man whose life falls apart when his 15-year-old daughter is killed in a car accident. Learning that her death is tied to a cover-up by powerful politician Kang Dong-yoon, who is chasing the presidency, Hong-suk sets out for revenge against the corrupt officials behind it.
The King of Pigs
Twenty years after being viciously bullied at school, Hwang Gyeong-min begins killing people tied to that past. Detective Jung Jong-seok, his former classmate, starts getting messages from an old friend, and he teams up with principled detective Kang Jin-ah to find the next targets in time.
The Woman Who Swallowed the Sun
In a world where those who are wronged are often painted as the wrongdoers, one woman takes a desperate stand. Fighting in the name of her only daughter, she sets out to take revenge on a powerful chaebol family.
Wife Returns
Jung Yoo-hee grows up in an orphanage, loses touch with her sister, and finally finds happiness when she marries Yoon Sang-woo. When their daughter needs heart surgery, Sang-woo's mother will only pay if Yoo-hee leaves her husband for good, so she goes without telling him why. Years later, she runs into Sang-woo again.
Woman in a Veil
A woman is left blind because of her husband and his lover, and falls into locked-in syndrome, fully aware but unable to move. She then trades souls with an heiress who seems to have everything, and a search for the truth and for revenge begins.