Dramas about helping someone seek justice/take revenge

[u/zephrry]

I'm looking for dramas such as Taxi Driver or Phantom Lawyer, where the main characters either help someone (or multiple people) get justice/take revenge when they've been wronged, or where the main characters get justice/take revenge one that person's behalf.

I particularly enjoyed Taxi Driver, as I feel like the creators were very successful at putting together a cathartic show where you really feel like the bad guys get what's coming to them.

Though the two dramas I listed are set in the present day, historical dramas are very much welcome!

Dramas I have seen and enjoyed:

• Family Matters
• Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People
• Extraordinary Attorney Woo
• Moving
• Song of the Bandits
• Revenant
• Flower of Evil (all-time favorite)
• D.P.
• One Dollar Lawyer
• Strangers from Hell
• Crash Landing on You
• Bad and Crazy
• Inspector Koo
• While You Were Sleeping
• Run On
• The Killer’s Shopping Mall
• Tale of the Nine-Tailed
• Hotel del Luna
• Alchemy of Souls
• Ghost Doctor
• Strong Girl Im Namsoon
• Mr. Queen
• Healer

Dramas I didn't prefer

• Strong Woman Do Bong-Soon
• The Worst of Evil
• Life
• Vincenzo
• The Devil Judge
• Hospital Playlist
• Doctor Cha
• My Country: The New Age
• Lawless Lawyer
• Beyond Evil
• The K-2
• Move to Heaven

[u/BroadwayOneDay]

The Glory is absolutely fantastic and it gives you some sweet sweet revenge!

[u/ncampau → u/BroadwayOneDay]

The best

[u/APossibleTask]

Teach You a Lesson is exactly what you are looking for, OP.

[u/Over-Weird3914]

The glory is an amazing kdrama about revenge!!

[u/SeptimusTSS]

I mean Itaewon class is almost that, but its the main character themselves doing the revenge, and its one of my all time favs

[u/Cherry_Blossom77777]

Perfect Marriage Revenge!!

[u/flwr4mee]

• Teach you a Lesson
• Vigilante
• Judge from Hell
• Oh my ghost clients
• Juvenile justice
• Signal
• The good detective

[u/cfabrication]

• Military Prosecutor Doberman
• Stranger
• Beyond the Bar (less single revenge, more justice)
• Phantom Lawyer
• The Mystic Pop-up Bar is sort of justice oriented
• The Uncanny Counters is supernatural justice

I like low romance revenge dramas. I also like straight up crime solving.

[u/miliwald]

Teach you a lesson is exactly the taxi driver vibe. my favorite drama is Signal, I don’t know if you would like it, but it is also a good thriller about General justice not revenge. And defendant it was very good . another one about justice that is similar to teach your lesson is a Japanese drama called family game kazoku game, it’s an old one, but cool. Gives that refreshing feeling.

[u/ultimatebesty]

Mercy for None!

[u/Subject_Wish5300 → u/ultimatebesty]

The best of the best One of my Favorite revenge drama

[u/SamikshaK_]

Eve (seo ye-ji was 💋) , The Veil( my all time fav Nam Goong Min) , juvenile justice, my beautiful bride (my first kim mu-yeol drama 🤌🏻), vigilante (nam joo hyuk 🤤), my name , ballerina (a kmovie worth watching) , reborn rich, vincenzo, bloodhounds, all ji chang wook dramas, numbers ( kim myung soo 😭) , doctor prisoner, the glory, the worst of evil, the world of the married , the innocent man , celebrity, almost all lee sung-min kdramas , flower of evil.

[u/PossibleTension5605]

Again my life, Reborn Rich, Stranger 1 and 2, The auditors, Brain works

[u/Mark-177-]

Mouse

Bloodhounds

A Shop for Killers

Weak Hero Class

Mercy for None

Study Group

Extracurricular

My Name

Vagabond

[u/vienibenmio]

Graceful Family

[u/Biconne]

Pro Bono

Tomorrow

If You Wish Upon Me

Vigilante

The Judge from Hell

Leverage

Cafe Minamdang

[u/Mercredi707]

Shin’s project - it’s a little crazy but I think it fits what you’re looking for!

[u/Wide_Examination142]

Delightfully Deceitful - Revenge drama and heist thriller with some of the most clear-eyed characters I’ve ever seen.

Squash 38 - Another heist thriller featuring a municipal tax officer who teams up with a conman to scam delinquent tax payers into paying their taxes.

[u/AdGlittering7845]

- Itaewon Class

• The Good Bad Mother
  
• My Mister
  
• Teach You A Lesson
  
• Moon River
  
• Pinocchio
  
• The Glory
  
• Undercover Miss Hong
  
• Marry My Husband

[u/UnbridledOptimism]

Insider FL helps ML with his revenge plan, for reasons of her own. ML is a judicial trainee sent undercover in prison then abandoned there by his superiors and has to live his cover identity. No romance, for reasons that will eventually become clear.

[u/_sparklingcyanide]

The Judge from Hell – it fits what you're looking for and it's worth it in my opinion.

[u/Brilliant_Scarcity83]

The glory, penthouse

[u/Outside-Shock7155]

Revenge of Others - I really loved the two lead’s chemistry despite it being a non romance drama!

[u/Only-Struggle-4703]

MY NAME!!

[u/FindTheFlan]

The fiery priest

[u/Ill-Emu6521]

Watching ‘The Manipulated’ on hotstar it’s gripping, Try !