6 Lesser-Known K-Dramas on Prime Video You Might've Missed
If you haven’t seen these, you’re missing out.
K-Drama is now available on pretty much every streaming service.
But even if you’ve watched most popular shows like Squid Game, you may have missed these gems:
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The Killing Vote
In this tense drama, vigilante justice is meted out to criminals who evade the law – but whether that person lives or dies is decided by public vote over text.
As the police try to track down the killer, known as Gaetal (Dog Mask), three unsuspecting citizens find themselves dragged into a deadly situation they want no part of.
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Payback: Money and Power
Who doesn’t love a good crime drama?
Eun Yong (played by Lee Sun-kyun), an orphan turned illegal financier, is a wealthy man living off his ill-gotten gains in Mongolia. But when his nephew Jang Tae-chun (Kang You-seok), a prosecutor, comes to him asking for information on a dodgy investment advisor with powerful connections, questions are raised and there is a risk of secrets and lies being revealed.
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May I Help You?
New funeral director Baek Dong-joo (played by Lee Hye-ri) finds she has a weird power. When she touches a dead body, she wakes it and can talk with the newly deceased person. The only way to get rid of this power is to grant 21 people their final wish.
Meanwhile, Kim Tae-hee (Lee Jun-young) is hired by Dong-joo’s boyfriend to break off the relationship. But something keeps bringing Tae-hee and Dong-joo together and the two seem inseparably linked to a series of life and death situations.
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Jirisan
This story follows the Jirisan National Park staff and rangers as they search for lost hikers and rescue them from remote areas of the mountain range.
Lead trainer Seo Yi-kang (Jun Ji-hyun) and her rookie partner Kang Hyun-jo (Ju Ji-hoon) are joined by an ex-army officer who joined the rangers after being subject to a scary incident of their own on the mountain. Stories begin to circulate about some mysterious goings on in some of the unexplored parts of the mountain, and things are about to heat up for the rangers.
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Lost
Don’t worry. This has nothing to do with the other Lost.
A deep, compelling and thought-provoking drama about dreams and ambitions vs. reality. Lee Boo-jeong (played by Jeon Do-yeon) is a 40-year-old who believes she never has and never will accomplish anything. Kang-jae (Ryu Joon-yeol) is 13 years her junior and convinced his life will amount to nothing. life will never amount to anything. The pair find comfort in each other as they search for meaning in their lives.
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Anna
Yu-mi (played by Bae Suzy) fails to get into a prestigious university but tells her parents she was accepted. Relying on her looks and a web of small lies, she nonetheless builds a lavish life for herself and fulfils her fantasy.
But as time goes on, she realises she has become the person she doesn't like.