On KajoMag.com, we have covered Korean revenge movies so here are our favourite Korean revenge dramas you need to watch:
1.Doctor Prisoner (2019)
What would you do if you were fired unfairly from your job? Normal people would file a complaint with the labour department, but in this Korean revenge drama, the main character goes as far as applying for a job at the prison.
Doctor Prisoner (2019) centers around an ace doctor named Na Yi-je (Min Nam-gung) who works at a university hospital’s emergency care center.
However, his medical license gets suspended as a result of a medical malpractice incident which he did not cause.
He then gets his certificate as a medical internist and applies to work at a prison.
His plot is to cozy up to all the big-shots in the prison such as business tycoons, celebrities, sports stars to win allies.
Using his connections, he is planning to get revenge against the hospital that ousted him.
2.The Innocent Man (2012)
Song Joong-ki as Kang Ma-ru, is a smart but poor medical student who has to singlehandedly look after his little sister.
He was in love with Jae-hee (Park Si-yeon) who left him for a rich CEO, as she always dreamt of being rich. (Cuz, who doesn’t?)
Six years after Jae-hee leaves, he becomes an arrogant playboy who works as a bartender. Now, he is no longer the ‘innocent man’.
He then meets Seo Eun-gi (Moon Chae-won) as part of his revenge plan against Jae-hee.
Slowly, Ma-ru starts to care for her and eventually falls in love with her. In the end, can he really see through with his revenge onJae-hee?
3.Secret Love (2013)
How much do you love someone? Are you willing to sacrifice your future by going to prison for your boyfriend?
When Do-hoon (Bae Soo-bin) kills a woman in a hit-and-run accident, he asks his girlfriend Kang Yoo-jung (Hwang Jung-eum) to admit she was the one who drove.
Yoo-jung agrees and ends up in prison. Then Do-hoon dumps her when she is in prison.
In the meantime, Jo Min-hyuk (Ji Sung) is burning with revenge after the death of his girlfriend who was killed in the hit-and-run accident.
After realising the truth that Yoo-jung was not the one behind the wheel, Min-hyuk begins to help her making a fresh start in life.
4.Monster (2016)
When you lose all your family wealth, causing you to fall from being a rich, spoilt heir to blind beggar, it is natural for you to seek for revenge.
Born Lee Guk-cheol (Kang Ji-hwan), he was the heir to Sudo Hospital, until the deaths of his parents and aunt.
While he survived several murder attempts against him, he lost everything and became a beggar.
Blinded by the car accident that killed his parents, Guk-cheol’s sense of hearing is heightened to superhuman level, an ability he would continue to possess as an adult.
Years later, he undergoes surgery to cure his blindness and change his appearance.
He obtains a new identity – Kang Ki-tan, using it to take revenge on those responsible for his misfortune.
5.I Hear You Voice (2013)
KajoMag picked this drama as one of our favourite ‘noona’ drama since the main characters are in love with each other and six years apart.
Revenge-wise, it offers viewers a slice of thriller and suspense with a murderer running around trying to kill the main characters.
Lawyer Jang Hye-sung (Lee Bo-young) is a public defender who doesn’t care about her clients and only does her job for the salary.
When she was a teenager, she testified on the witness stand causing the murderer of Park Soo-ha’s father to be convicted and imprisoned.
Meanwhile, Soo-ha has the supernatural ability to read people’s minds by looking into their eyes. He gains it after witnessing his father killed.
Ten years later, the murderer has been released from prison. Now, he is getting revenge on Hye-sung and Soo-ha as well as their loved ones.
6.City Hunter (2011)
Dive South Korean officials plan a covert operation, codenamed “Operation Cleansweep”, to enter North Korea and kill several top members of the North’s high command.
Lee Jin-pyo (Kim Sang-joong) and Park Moo-yeol (Park Sang-min), two Presidential Security Service bodyguards and best friends organised a 21-man team for the mission.
The operation is successful, but as the troops swim out to return, the Navy submarine assigned for their extraction, snipers aboard the submarine open fire on them.
An already injured Moo-yeol sacrifices his life to save Jin-pyo. Jin-pyo then swims back to shore and returns to South Korea.
There he finds out that the assault team’s service and personal records have been erased.
Promising to avenge his fallen comrades, Jin-pyo kidnaps Mu-yeol’s infant son, and names him Lee Yoon-sung (Lee Min-ho).
He flees to the Golden Triangle to raise the child as his own and trains the boy intensively in combat.
Yoon-sung returns to South Korea to avenge his father’s killers.
7.Iris (2009)
Two elite National Security System (NSS) agents and best friends, Hyeong-jun (Lee Byung-hun) and Sa-woo (Jeong Jun-ho) both are in love with fellow agent Seung-hee (Kim Tae-hee).
However for the sake of his friend, Sa-Woo suppresses his feelings for Seung-Hee.
Hyeon-Jun is then sent off on a solo mission to Hungary.
In Hungary, Hyeon-jun accomplishes his mission but wounded while making his escape.
Shortly after that, he finds out that he was betrayed by his friend Sa-woo.
At that time, Seung-hee steps in to help Hyeon-jun escape, but a car explosion separates the two and both are misled to believe that the other person are dead.
Hyeon-jun is then saved by an unknown organisation and learns of the secret society “IRIS”.
One year later, Hyeon-jun returns to Korea to seek revenge. During this time, the two Koreas are set to reunify, while the group “IRIS” are intent on stopping the reunification.
Full of action and suspense, Iris (2009) is one of the most expensive Korean series ever make.
8.Golden Cross (2014)
Speaking of secret societies here is a drama about a secret society known as ‘Golden Cross’.
It secretly controls the Korean economy and marketplace using its deep connections and financial power.
In the midst of it, prosecutor Kang Do-yoon (Kim Kang-woo) gets entangled in the society when his sister is murdered and his father gets framed for it.
Due to this, Do-yoon is set to get his revenge against the powerful man behind the organisation, Seo Dong-ha (Jeong Bo-seok).
Things gets complicated when Seo happens to be the father of the woman he loves. So do you seek vengeance on your potential father in-law?
9.Defendant (2017)
How do you prove your innocence when you have amnesia? Park Jung-woo (Ji Sung) is a renowned prosecutor at the Seoul Central Prosecution Office.
One day, he wakes up in a prison cell and is told that he has killed his wife and that his daughter is currently missing.
To make things worse, he suffers from temporary amnesia not remembering what happened.
Can Jung-woo proves his innocence as well as find the real culprit behind it?
The drama also stars Um Ki-joon, Kwon Yu-ri, Oh Chang-seok and Uhm Hyun-kyung.
10.Pinocchio (2014)
This Korean revenge drama showcases how irresponsible media organisations could ruin families and affect public perception.
It also shows how the rich and powerful could control the media by deverting the public’s attention to juicy, but ultimately unimportant news.
After a misleading news report destroys his family, Ha-myung (Lee Jong-suk) begins to live a new life as Dal-po.
He hides his intelligence and past memories behind a facade.
After years of being a taxi driver, he decides to become a reporter to prove his family’s innocence.
However, not everybody is like him who takes the high ground in taking revenge. Some people who just take the violent and bloody way to seek vengeance.
