5 Korean dramas to watch if you like Hyper Knife

The medical crime and thriller Korean drama Hyper Knife premiered from March 19 to April 9, 2025. It featured a star-studded cast, including Park Eun-bin, Sul Kyung-gu, Yoon Chan-young, and Park Byung-eun.

The series was helmed by director Kim Jung-hyun and penned by screenwriter Kim Sun-hee. It featured eight episodes, while CJ ENM Studios, Dongpung Co., Ltd, and Blaad Studios produced the drama.

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According to Asianwiki, the synopsis for Hyper Knife has been provided below:

"Choi Deok Hui is the best neurosurgeon in the world. In the past, he had a pupil named Jung Se Ok. She was a promising and gifted doctor, but Deok Hui had mixed feelings about her. Then, during an operation, he permanently kicked her out of his operating room."

As Hyper Knife concluded, the viewers could binge-watch five other dramas that are similar to it.

Mouse, Dr. Brain, A Killer Paradox, and other Korean dramas to watch if you liked Hyper Knife

1) Mouse

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Where to watch: Apple TV, Rakuten Viki, TVING, and Prime Video

Cast: Lee Seung-gi, Lee Hee-joon, Park Ju-hyun, Kyung Soo-jin, Woo Ji-hyun, and Ahn Jae-wook

The Korean drama-thriller Mouse delved into the story of detective Ko Moo-chi, who embarked on an adventurous journey of catching a psychopathic serial killer due to an incident he faced as a child.

He was joined by rookie partner Jeong Ba-reum. The duo tried to unravel the truth behind the psychopathic behaviors and discovered the answers about the genetic predispositions related to psychopathy.

2) Dr. Brain

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Where to watch: Apple TV

Cast: Lee Sun-kyun, Lee Yoo-young, Park Hee-soon, Seo Ji-hye, Lee Jae-won, and Jo Bok-rae

Dr.Brain followed the story of a brain scientist who was addicted to discovering new technologies to access the consciousness and memories of the brain simultaneously. However, his life took a drastic turn when his wife fell victim to an unexpected accident. He decided to use his significant other's memories to identify the cause behind the ongoing casualties in his life.

3) A Killer Paradox

Featuring A Killer Paradox cast (Image via @dntlrdl/Instagram)

Where to watch: Netflix

Cast: Choi Woo-shik, Son Suk-ku, Lee Hee-joon, Kim Yo-han, Lee Joong-ok, and Choi Sun-woo

The Korean Drama A Killer Paradox follows an intense chase between the killer Lee-tang and the detective Jang Nan-gam. Lee-tang was an ordinary college student who got into a heated argument with a customer during his part-time job. In the process, the former ended up killing the latter. Later, Lee-tang learned that the customer was a serial killer.

Subsequently, the protagonist realized that he had the ability to identify the bad people in society and decided to take justice into his own hands.

4) The Frog

Featuring The Frog Cast (Image via @gominsi/Instagram)

Where to watch: Netflix

Cast: Kim Yoon-seok, Yoon Kye-sang, Go Min-si, Lee Jung-eun, Ryu Hyun-kyung, and Park Ji-hwan

The mystery and thriller Korean Drama The Frog revolved around Jeon Yeong-ha, who used to run a vacation cottage in the deep woods. He used to lead an ordinary and peaceful life. However, his normal life went out of control when an unidentified and mysterious woman, Yoo Seong-a, appeared.

5) Doubt

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Where to watch: Apple TV, Netflix, Viki, and Kocowa

Cast: Han Seok-kyu, Chae Won-bin, Han Ye-ri, Noh Jae-won, Yoon Kyung-ho, and others

The Korean drama Doubt follows the story of a legendary criminal profiler, Jang Tae-su, from South Korea. He created a place for criminal behavior analysts in the country and gained immense respect and trust within the police organization. However, he had his personal side, where he raised his daughter as a single parent.

While working on a case, he realized his daughter was involved. Naturally, he found it hard to disclose the truth.

The Korean drama Hyper Knife is available on multiple streaming platforms, including Disney+, and Hulu.

About the author

Kirti holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism & Mass Communication and has been a Kpop writer at SK POP since 2022. She has been following Kpop and Kdramas since the last 6 years and but has worked in the genre only in the last 3-4 years donning several several caps - social media intern, copywriter, article writer and academic writer.

Kirti likes to pen down insightful features based on Korean dramas, especially the 'Ending Explained' categories. It gives her the satisfaction of creating the most authentic content rather than simply replicating what media outlets generally do.

Her process of creating content is time-consuming, yet methodical; she prefers to use original sources of information, which in her case are Korean outlets. She watches entire episodes, writes them down, cross-checks/fact-checks the details/event timelines off the web and eventually creates her copy.

Kirti likes Lee Je-hoon, IU, and Kim Seon-ho since she feels that their dramas are inspiring and have good plotlines. When she is not writing about K-dramas, she can be found watching them.

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