Most Popular Action-Thriller Korean Dramas (Part 2)
IRIS (2009) and IRIS 2 (2013)
IRIS tells the fight between two bestfriends, Hyeong Jun (Lee Byung Hyun) and Sa Woo (Jeong Jun Ho), who are agents of NSS. However, Sa Woo bertrayed Heong Jun and joined IRIS, a criminal organization which goal is to mess up the union of South and North Korea. Meanwhile, IRIS 2 takes place 3 years after IRIS, focusing on Yoo Gun (Jang Hyung), an NSS member, who tried to destroy the still existing IRIS.
Athena (2010-2011)
To prevent terrors after the breaktrough of TWR (a high speed nuclear reactor), the government created an organization called NTS (National Anti-Terror Service). Jung Woo (Jung Woo Sung) was deployed from NIS to NTS. Later, Jung Woo realized that there’s a secret group in NTS that is responsible to fix problems that could not be fixed by other agents.
Signal (2016)
Hae Young (Lee Je Hoon) is a profiler and a police lieutenant. Back in 2000, when Hae Young was in elementary school, his class mate Yoon Jung was kidnapped and later was found dead. Hae Yong saw a woman picking up Yoon Jung from school that day, but the police announced that the suspect is a man. The real murderer was never caught and the case remains unsolved even until this day.
