After the success of Squid Game (2021), Netflix is increasingly active in releasing original Korean dramas in 2024 that can be your recommendation, especially in the thriller genre that keeps the audience curious about the storyline.
Korean dramas with the thriller genre are television series that offer a tense atmosphere, mystery, and complex storylines. In addition, the drama also explores the emotional and psychological aspects of each character.
In 2024, Netflix has launched a number of thriller Korean dramas. One of the latest is the second season of Gyeongseong Creature, which will air at the end of September 2024.
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Recommendations for the Latest Thriller Korean Dramas 2024
Here is a list of recommendations and synopsis of Netflix original dramas with the thriller genre released in 2024.
1. Gyeongseong Creature Season 2
Gyeongseong Creature is a Netflix original series that airs in late 2023 with 7 episodes in the first part and 3 episodes in the second part in January 2024. This Korean thriller drama is set in 1945 in Gyeongseong, Seoul, in post-colonial Japan. The story follows Jang Tae Sang (Park Seo Jun), a famous rich man who runs a business with his three confidants and becomes a trusted source of information.
Yoon Chae Ok (Han So Hee) is a missing persons expert who traveled with her father from Manchuria to Shanghai in search of her mother who went missing 10 years ago. Trained in combat, Chae Ok gets involved with Tae Sang on a mission to find a missing woman. Their search leads them to a military hospital, where people are being kidnapped for dangerous experiments.
2. The Frog
The next thriller Korean drama recommendation is The Frog, which aired in August 2024 on Netflix.
The series tells the story of the peaceful lives of ordinary people, which turns chaotic after the arrival of a mysterious guest at a summer vacation cottage. Lee Jung-eun, plays Yoon Bo-min, a police officer who gets involved in a mystery investigation at the cottage.
Twenty years later, Yoon Bo-min returns to the police station as chief of police. When a strange incident occurs involving Jeon Young-ha after meeting Seong-a, Yoon Bo-min, who loves challenges, gets involved in the investigation, especially regarding Jeon Young-ja who has an important role.
3. Sweet Home 3
Sweet Home 3 is a Netflix thriller Korean drama airing in 2024, continuing the story of humans and monsters in search of a safe world. The third season features characters such as Cha Hyun Su, Pyeon Sang Wook, Lee Eun Yu, Seo Yi Kyung, and Kim Yeong Hu, and adds a new character, neohuman Lee Eun Hyeok, who has passed the final stage of monsterization.
The main antagonist in Sweet Home 3 is Nam Sang Won, who controls the body of Pyeon Sang Wook. He tries to transfer into the body of his daughter, Seo Yi Su, who has extraordinary abilities than other monsters.
4. The Whirlwind
“The Whirlwind” is a thriller political drama that follows the story of Park Dong Ho (Sol Kyung Gu), an ambitious prime minister who seeks to change political power by prosecuting a corrupt president who colluded with chaebol companies.
Next, there is the deputy prime minister for economic affairs named Jung Soo Jin (Kim Hee Ae). She is a smart and confident woman, ambitious to reach the top in politics. Jung Soo Jin rejects Park Dong Ho’s decision, which causes the two to engage in an intense political conflict full of intrigue. The Whirlwind series airs on June 28, 2024.
5. The 8 Show
The 8 Show is a combination thriller and comedy about eight financially struggling people who get an invitation to join a game of chance. They are unaware of the risks of the game and must live in a secret concrete-walled room with very high expenses, which will be deducted from the prize. This situation forces them to work together and betray each other in order to survive.
Participants must devise survival strategies amid fierce competition, where greed drives them to collect prize money. Over time, some begin to get violent and disregard the lives of other participants.
6. Parasyte: The Grey
The latest thriller Korean drama on Netflix is “Parasyte: The Grey,” directed by Yeon Sang Ho, who previously worked on “Train to Busan” and “Hellbound.” Consisting of 6 episodes, this drakor has a science-fiction theme about the invasion of parasitic monsters into humans.
The story begins when a mysterious parasite falls to earth and is able to control the human body, creating chaos in the world. Jeong Su In (Jeon So Nee) has an accident and is infected by the parasite, but the parasite fails to take control of her, so they begin to coexist.
Seol Kang Woo (Koo Kyo Hwan) searches for his missing sister by chasing parasites and cooperating with Su In. On the other hand, Choi Jun Kyung (Lee Jung Hyun), the head of the parasite extermination team, lost her husband to a parasite attack.
7. Hierarchy
Hierarchy is a drama that follows the lives of four conglomerate kids at Jooshin High School, an elite school for students from wealthy families. The main characters consist of Jung Jae Yi, Kim Ri Ahn, Yoo He Ra, and Lee Woo Jin, who are children from influential families. Their lives change when Kang Ha, a scholarship student, enters the school.
Kang Ha’s presence at Jooshin High School created a jarring and tense atmosphere. Although Kang Ha seemed like a simple and smiling student, he kept a significant secret. Through Kang Ha’s actions of exposing all the dark secrets of the students at Jooshin High School, the higher-ups are finally aware of the ugliness going on among the students and the dangerous school environment there.
8. A Killer Paradox
A Killer Paradox tells the story of Lee Tang (Choi Woo Shik), an ordinary college student who works as a shopkeeper. After accidentally killing a drunken customer who turns out to be a serial killer, Lee Tang realizes that he has a special ability to recognize bad people. He then decides to become a serial killer and target the bad guys.
Detective Jang Nan Gam (Son Suk Ku) investigates a murder case allegedly committed by Lee Tang. With his detective instincts, he suspects Lee Tang and starts looking for evidence to confirm her involvement in the crime.
9. The Bequeathed
Netflix’s thriller series The Bequeathed, written by Yeon Sang Ho, tells the story of Yoon Seo Ha (Kim Hyun Joo) who inherits a burial plot after an uncle she never knew passes away.
As the confusing situation unfolds, a mysterious man named Kim Young Ho (Ryu Kyung Soo) appears and claims to be the half-brother. Young Ho is trying to get a share of the inheritance. On the other hand, Choi Sung Jun (Park Hee Soon) is a detective who is assigned to investigate the death of Seo Ha’s uncle. Shortly after that, several similar suspicious deaths begin to occur in the village.
10. Goodbye Earth
Goodbye Earth is a Korean drama adapted from a Japanese novel by Kotaro Isaka. The story focuses on the chaos in the city of Woongcheon when citizens receive a warning that an asteroid will hit Earth in 200 days, and they are unable to escape.
Ahn Eun Jin, a famous actress from the Korean drama Hospital Playlist, plays high school teacher Se Kyung who tries to protect her students by volunteering at Woongcheon city hall. Her boyfriend, Yoon Sang Eun played by Yoo Ah In, is a biotechnology researcher who flew from the United States to Korea after hearing about the threat of Earth’s collision with an asteroid.
Goodbye Earth features Kim Yoon Hye, known from the drama Vincenzo, as an alert soldier when the Earth is threatened. Jeon Sang Woo plays a priest who disappears when a disaster warning is announced, while child actor Kim Kang Hoon also appears in the trailer, although his role is yet to be revealed.
Those are some recommendations for Korean dramas with the latest thriller genre 2024 that you can watch on Netflix. Hope this helps!
