Top 20 Korean Serial Killer Films

Dr. Seung-hoon sedates his landlord before medical check-up, when the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession.

A police detective and husband take revenge on a serial killer.

Officers Kyung-yoon CHO and Eun-joo PARK are on the hunt a killer following duo of ghastly murders. The victims carry a common military past, and the secret of their past must be unraveled to find the killer.

A little girl who lost her father to a serial killer 15 years ago awaits for his release, while a suspecting detective follows the killer upon release.

Eun-A lost her family at the hands of a serial killer. She is now mentally and physically destroyed. She then decides to get revenge by enlists the help of four people from different life to fulfill her revenge.

Two killers are living in our town An ordinary small town is terrorized when local women are found brutally murdered and 'crucified' in public places. Gyeong-joo, a struggling novelist, impulsively kills his landlady during a fierce argument over rent. With the recent murders, he decides to stage the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer. Mimicking the details of previous killings, Gyeong-joo (Oh Man-seok) hangs the dead body in the village park. The police and media believe the case is the work of the same serial killer, but Hyoi (Ryu Deok-hwan), who runs a small stationery shop in the neighborhood, knows something really interesting has happened. He knows that it is a copycat crime because he is the real killer. While Gyeong-joo's childhood buddy and police officer Jae-shin (Lee Sun-kyun) begins to suspect that there may be a second killer, anxious Gyeong-joo and Hyoi, begin their own secret investigations to track down each other.

Serial killer Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police and confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims. He is imprisoned and awaiting the death sentence but the killings continue, with the same characteristics of the Shin-Hyun serial killings. The case is re-opened when two more bodies are discovered, both pregnant women; one found in the city's landfill site and the other was horrifically murdered on a public bus. Detective Mi Yun (Yum Jung-Ah) and her newly-appointed partner Detective Kang (Ji Jin-Hee) are assigned to the case. Mi Yun and Kang have difficulty working with each other; their personalities and working methods constantly clash. Detective Kang goes about his new job buoyantly and enthusiastically. He follows a new suspect, Huh, and eventually catches him in the act of brutally murdering a woman in a crowded techno bar. Huh is taken into custody after Kang shoots and wounds him at the crime scene. Once again, the case seems to be solved with this spectacular arrest--yet the murders continue in copy-cat style. The police desperately hunt for new leads. They start an in-depth investigation of a Doctor Chu, who is Shin-Hyun's psychiatrist, but progress is frustrated when Dr Chu becomes a victim of the copy-cat killings herself. The murdered psychiatrist's former boyfriend, a fanatical character named Choi, quickly becomes the prime suspect. All the pieces are finally starting to fit together, and the case seems almost resolved. But all efforts are suddenly frustrated once again, when Choi takes his own life--but still, the killings continue. The case gets more complicated when even the police themselves appear to become suspects in the murders. In unraveling this mystery, everyone involved is pushed to the limits of human understanding.

Residents of a mansion live in fear when a young girl is murdered. They suspect their neighbor for the crime, and a battle erupts to protect the next victim.

Lieutenant Cho, a cop on the edge, is mourning his mother's recent death while under investigation for graft; on top of that he is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly-impenetrable mystery.

In 1991, five kids told parents they'd catch frogs on a mountain nearby. They vanished, the case became known in Korea as the "frog children disappearance."

Chul-min is a simple truck driver whose usual cargo is liquor, vegetables and other necessities.

Joo-hyeop is a serial killer living in countryside hiding his identity. When his son befriends a girl who is the only person that knows his true identity, Joo-hyeop decides to kill her for the sake of him and his son.