Top 23 Best Action Korean Dramas Of All Time (Till 2023)

Nobody hates action dramas. They are one of the most entertaining dramas. They give you an adrenaline rush & keep you hooked onto your seat. They are fast-paced too.

Korean dramas are now more popular & known to people all over the world. A wide range of dramas is available to watch on Netflix & Viki. Because of this, dramas are now getting more audience.

South Korea makes some of the best action movies in the world. From gore to never-ending chase to heart-melting romance filled with intense action, Korean dramas have it all.

Best Action Korean Dramas

If you are thinking of watching some great action Kdramas, no worries. Here is a list of some mind-blowing Korean dramas that have great action scenes, comedic moments & plot twists.

These dramas are great for people who don’t want slow-paced dramas, little to zero romance, fighting scenes, chasing scenes, mystery & suspense. If you fit in this category, get ready.

1. Healer

A long-forgotten event that hides dark truths brings together a well-known reporter, a less-known reporter, and a man with the code name “Healer.” The Healer starts to figure out how he and the two reporters know each other, which puts them all in danger.

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• Ji Chang Wook as Seo Jung Hoo
• Park Min Young as Chae Young Shin
• Yoo Ji Tae as Kim Moon Ho
• Kim Mi Kyung as Jo Min Ja

No. Of Episodes: 20 (60 min. each)

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2. The Uncanny Counter

The drama is about people possessing special abilities who hunt demons and are called Counters. They come to earth and work at a noodle restaurant to catch evil spirits who have come back to earth to find eternal life.

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• Cho Byeong Kyu as So Moon
• Yoo Joon Sang as Go Mo Tak
• Kim Se Jeong as Do Ha Na
• Yeom Hye Ran as Chu Mae Ok

No. Of Episodes: 16 (70 min. each)

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3. Cruel City

The drama is about a cop who joins a gang to look into a drug case. Soo Min goes undercover to find the person who killed her friend. But she ends up falling in love with Shi Hyun, the drug lord who might have had something to do with her friend’s death.

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• Jung Kyung Ho as Jung Shi Hyun
• Nam Gyu Ri as Yoon Soo Min
• Lee Jae Yoon as Ji Hyeong Min
• Son Chang Min as Min Hong Ki

No. Of Episodes: 20 (60 min. each)

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4. The K2

Je Ha is an ex-mercenary soldier who was wrongly blamed for killing his girlfriend. Yoo Jin, who is married to a man running for president, hires him as a bodyguard. An Na is the president’s secret daughter. They begin to develop feelings one another.

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• Ji Chang Wook as Kim Je Ha / K2
• Im Yoon Ah as Go An Na
• Song Yoon Ah as Choi Yoo Jin
• Jo Sung Ha as Jang Se Joon

No. Of Episodes: 16 (60 min. each)

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5. Lawless Lawyer

The Lawless Law Firm is made up of Sang Pil, a former gangster turned lawyer who wants to get revenge for his mother, and Jae Yi, a lawyer with a good reputation. Together, they use the law to fight for justice against a corrupt judge and her associates.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Lee Joon Gi as Bong Sang Pil
• Seo Yea Ji as Ha Jae Yi
• Lee Hye Young as Cha Moon Sook
• Choi Min Soo as Ahn Oh Joo

No. Of Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)

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6. Bad Guys

The Police Chief asks Detective Goo Tak to put together a team of criminals in order to stop violent crimes. He gathers his team, which includes the gangster Park Woong Cheol, the contract killer Jung Tae Soo, and the youngest serial killer, Lee Jung Moon.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Kim Sang Joong as Oh Goo Tak
• Park Hae Jin as Lee Jung Moon
• Jo Dong Hyuk as Jung Tae Soo
• Ma Dong Seok as Park Woong Cheol

No. Of Episodes: 11 (65 min. each)

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7. My Name

Yoon Ji Woo, who is part of a drug ring, joins the police to find out what happened to her father. She does this by becoming a mole for the drug group. She works in the police department’s unit that looks into drug crimes.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Han So Hee as Yoon Ji Woo
• Ahn Bo Hyun as Jeon Pil Do
• Park Hee Soon as Choi Moo Jin
• Kim Sang Ho as Cha Gi Ho

No. Of Episodes: 8 (50 min. each)

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8. Kingdom

During the Joseon period, the spirit of a recently dead king comes back, and a mysterious illness starts to spread across the country. To find out what is going on and save his people, the crown prince must deal with a new kind of enemy.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Joo Ji Hoon as Lee Chang
• Ryu Seung Ryong as Jo Hak Joo
• Bae Doo Na as Seo Bi
• Kim Sung Gyu as Young Shin

No. Of Episodes: 6+6 (50 min. each)

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9. The Fiery Priest

Hae Il, a senior Catholic priest, known for his fiery temper and unorthodox methods teams up with detective Dae Young and prosecutor Kyung Sun to solve the murder of a senior Catholic priest. They also go against the officials to stop the corruption.

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• Kim Nam Gil as Kim Hae Il
• Kim Sung Kyun as Koo Dae Young
• Lee Ha Nee as Park Kyung Sun
• Ko Jun as Hwang Cheol Bum

No. Of Episodes: 40 (35 min. each)

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10. Vagabond

The stuntman Cha Dal Gun’s nephew dies in a plane crash. He learns that the plane crash was caused by a huge government scandal, and he and a NIS agent named Go Hae Ri set out to find out the truth and bring those responsible to justice.

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• Lee Seung Gi as Cha Dal Gun
• Bae Suzy as Go Hae Ri
• Shin Sung Rok as Gi Tae Ung
• Moon Jung Hee as Jessica Lee

No. Of Episodes: 16 (70 min. each)

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11. Bridal Mask

In the 1930s, Lee Kang To lives in Korea, which is oppressed by Japanese Imperial rule. Even though he is Korean, he works with the Japanese police to catch “Bridal Mask,” an unknown rebel fighting for Korean independence.

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• Joo Won as Lee Kang To
• Jin Se Yeon as Oh Mok Dan
• Park Ki Woong as Kimura Shunji
• Han Chae Ah as Ueno Rie

No. Of Episodes: 28 (65 min. each)

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12. Player

A con artist, a fighter, an expert hacker, and a skilled driver make up an elite team that works with a good prosecutor to solve crimes. Together, they get rid of illegal money and make sure that people who make money by breaking the law are caught.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Song Seung Heon as Kang Ha Ri
• Krystal as Cha Ah Ryung
• Lee Si Eon as Im Byung Min
• Tae Won Seok as Do Jin Woong

No. Of Episodes: 14 (65 min. each)

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13. Two Weeks

The story of a man who is wrongly accused of a crime and given only two weeks to prove his innocence and save his daughter’s life. He must find the truth in a corrupt system before it’s too late. The clock is ticking, and danger is around every corner.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Lee Joon Gi as Jang Tae San
• Kim So Yeon as Park Jae Kyung
• Ryu Soo Young as Im Seung Woo
• Park Ha Sun as Seo In Hye

No. Of Episodes – 16 (68 min. each)

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14. City Hunter

Lee Yoon Sung is a smart graduate of MIT who works on the Blue House’s international communications team. He makes plans with his surrogate father Lee Jin Pyo to get back at the five politicians who killed his father and becomes a “City Hunter.”

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Lee Min Ho as Lee Yoon Sung
• Park Min Young as Kim Na Na
• Lee Joon Hyuk as Kim Young Joo
• Kim Sang Joong as Lee Jin Pyo

No. Of Episodes: 20 (70 min. each)

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15. Six Flying Dragons

A historical drama that takes place in Korea during the troubled Joseon dynasty. In the drama, six different people, each with their own talents and personalities, work together to fight for justice and change in their country.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Yoo Ah In as Lee Bang Won
• Kim Myung Min as Jung Do Jeon
• Shin Se Kyung as Boon Yi
• Byun Yo Han as Ddang Sae

No. Of Episodes: 50 (60 min. each)

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16. All Of Us Are Dead

A group of high school students get caught with an extreme crisis situation when they become trapped in their school, while a zombie virus spreads like a wildfire. They must fight their way out or turn into one of the rabid infected.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Yoon Chan Young as Cheong San
• Park Ji Hoo as Ohn Jo
• Cho Yi Hyun as Nam Ra
• Park Solomon as Su Hyuk

No. Of Episodes: 12 (60 min. each)

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17. Bad and Crazy

Soo Yeol has spent his whole life as a materialistic police detective. When he meets ‘K,’ a hero of this generation who fights injustice with a fist and doesn’t ask questions, he changes into a champion for justice and fights against police corruption.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Lee Dong Wook as Soo Yeil
• Han Ji Eun as Hee Gyeom
• Wi Ha Joon as ‘K’
• Cha Hak Yeon as Oh Kyung Tae

No. Of Episodes: 12 (70 min. each)

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18. Life On Mars

One day, Tae Joo has an accident while he is looking into a case. When he wakes up, he is in the winter of 1988. He is now a detective who works at a small city’s police station. He tries to solve the case so that he can get back to the present.

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• Jung Kyung Ho as Han Tae Joo
• Park Sung Woong as Kang Dong Cheol
• Go Ah Sung as Yoon Na Yeong
• Oh Dae Hwan as Lee Yong Gi

No. Of Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)

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19. The Veil

The best agent at the National Intelligence Service, Ji Hyuk, gets caught up in a situation that puts NIS in a very tough spot. As he tries to find the employee who betrayed him and caused him to lose his job, he runs into a much bigger enemy behind the organization.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Namgoong Min as Han Ji Hyuk
• Park Ha Sun as Seo Soo Yeon
• Kim Ji Eun as Yoo Je Yi
• Jang Young Nam as Do Jin Suk

No. Of Episodes: 12 (70 min. each)

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20. Taxi Driver

Do Gi is a taxi driver for a company that offers a service called “revenge call” to its customers. It is a secret group that takes care of people whom the law failed to protect. Do Gi and his coworkers will take revenge for customers who ask them to.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Lee Je Hoon as Kim Do Gi
• Esom as Kang Ha Na
• Kim Eui Sung as Jang Sung Chul
• Pyo Ye Jin as Ahn Go Eun

No. Of Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)

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21. Happiness

In the near future, a new apartment building has been built. The people who live there come from different places, but a new disease spreads quickly. It shows the psychological battle and the way that people from different classes treat each other.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Han Hyo Joo as Yoon Sae Bom
• Park Hyung Sik as Jung Yi Hyun
• Jo Woo Jin as Han Tae Seok
• Park Joo Hee as Ji Soo

No. Of Episodes: 12 (65 min. each)

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22. Island

The story of a chaebol heiress who is banished to Jeju Island after she is possessed by a spirit. She meets an immortal human and a priest who performs exorcisms. Together, they must fight against the evil that is trying to destroy the world.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Kim Nam Gil as Van
• Lee Da Hee as Won Mi Ho
• Cha Eun Woo as Kang Chan Hyuk
• Sung Joon as Goong Tan

No. Of Episodes: 12 (50 min. each)

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23. Duty After School

The drama, which is based on a webtoon, tells the story of kids from all over the country who are forced to fight for survival after a mysterious alien invasion and against each other in order to earn bonus points before taking the SAT.

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Main Cast (Characters):

• Shin Hyun Soo as Lee Chun Ho
• Im Se Mi as Park Eun Young
• Kim Ki Hae as Kim Chi Yeol
• Lee Soon Won as Kim Won Bin

No. Of Episodes :10 (75 min. each)

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Wrapping Up

So, these were some of the must-watch action Korean dramas for you. Some of them are available on YouTube to stream for free. You will never get bored while watching these dramas.

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