k-dramas about con artists/swindlers/vigilantes

Kim Tae-hyun is a talented surgeon. Desperate for money to pay for his sister's medical bills, he adopts the code name Yong-pal and offers his medical skills to those in need of medical attention but who cannot do so publicly, dealing with criminals and corrupt plutocrats. Joining a team of corrupt physicians Kim rescues "sleeping beauty" Han Yeo-jin, a chaebol heiress, from a medically induced coma, leading to unintended consequences.

Eun Bong Hee is a prosecutor trainee who unfortunately becomes a murder suspect. Noh Ji Wook who is a prosecutor tries to help Eun Bong Hee but loses his job in the process. After the prosecution, Eun Bong Hee who is free from the crime falls in love with Noh Ji Wook. But Noh does not accept her love towards him but offers to help her in finding the real suspect. In the mean time the real murderer plots a plan to avoid being caught.

About an actor who's showcase family is famous and a radio writer who fell in love with radio after her mother became blind when she was a teen. She gets the actor to become her DJ not knowing their shared history as teens. He had trouble sleeping but she's just the thing he needs. She had trouble writing but learns to find her voice.

No Eun Seol has struggled to find a job. When she gets the job as secretary to Cha Ji Heon the youngest son of a rich family, she soon discovers that secretary duties go beyond the ordinary. She must help her boss cope and function in normal society. Add to that a rival cousin hoping to take over the company with a mother willing to anything to help her son succeed, a loving and angry father that desperately wants his son to succeed, and you have family intrigue, mixed with comedy and romance.

"When the Camellia Blooms" is a romantic thriller-comedy about the realistic, passionate love between three couples. The drama will follow the story of a woman named Dong Baek and show how her life is tangled up with a good man, a bad man, and a cheap man.

A young boy, whose life and family has been destroyed by new media, gets adopted by a family in a rural area after being found lost at sea. He tries to conceal his past for everyone's sake for 13 years. But when the girl he loves enters the world of news reporting, the truth about his family pours out. However, the girl's mother (being a news reporter) seem to be the cause of the plight of his family.

North and South Korea have agreed to work as a team for The World Officer Championship. Crown Prince Lee Jae-Ha, the self-centered younger brother of the reigning monarch of South Korea, is tricked into joining the team. Meanwhile, North Korean communist agent and trained assassin Kim Hang-Ah agrees to represent her country. Soon, a false story leaks that Jae-Ha and Hang-Ah are engaged. Although the pair are attracted to each other, neither trusts the other. But when tragedy strikes the royal family, Jae-Ha is forced to take on new responsibilities with Hang-Ah at his side.

When a serial killer strikes women who all have a similar appearance, the police department's Special Crime Investigation Team is stumped. While Cha Ji An (Jang Na Ra), an elite detective, and her fellow colleagues are assessing the latest crime scene, the mysterious Lee Hyun (Seo In Guk) shows up and instantly assesses the trademark attributes of the killer. Hyun is a genius criminal profiler with a degree in criminal psychology who received an anonymous email that brought him to the crime scene all the way from the United States. The serial killer seems to be sending a personal message to Hyun with the clues he leaves behind, and Hyun wonders if it could be related to an escaped criminal "monster" from his childhood who killed his father and was responsible for the disappearance of his younger brother. Ji An has known Hyun since childhood and is ecstatic to see her childhood crush again, but Hyun doesn't seem to remember her. With no leads to capture the serial killer, Ji An and her colleagues solicit Hyun's help. Can Hyun and Ji An solve the case and find answers to their pasts?

Fictional webtoon entitled W is written by its legendary author Oh Seong-moo which begins to function on its own, like a different world existing there. The story-line of the webtoon starts when a handsome and intelligent boy Kang Chul becomes famous as he won a shooting competition. But this fame is interrupted when the unknown Murderer massacres his family, and he is erroneously accused of the crime. Yeon-joo is the daughter of the author of the famous W. She goes to her father's studio to investigate his sudden disappearance. There, she is pulled into W's alternate universe and meets its protagonist Kang Chul with whom she eventually falls in love.

A "gangster lawyer" who doesn't trust the law and feels free to use his fists. He takes advantage of loopholes in the law and boasts an excellent win rate. Other lawyers may consider the legal code sacred, but he considers it more of a tool "like an appliance user manual." He fights against those in absolute power, standing all alone in the world, driven solely by the thought of avenging his mother.

Geom is the son of virtuous nobleman Lee Won Ho, a trustworthy supporter and brother to the king and a central member of the secret organization Cheonwoohoe, comprised of important nobles, with the king as their leader. He lives peacefully in a plum-tree-surrounded house with his wife, daughter, and son. However, a mysterious rumor is spread that he is plotting to overthrow the king. Knowing about this, the king kills Lee Won Ho as he believes that 'two suns cannot exist in the same sky'. Geom witnesses the incident from the inside of a safe where his father hid him. Later, he is saved and adopted by a retired thief, Seo Dol, after he becomes stricken with amnesia from the shock of losing his father and being forced to throw a rock at his mother's head to prove that he wasn't her son. 13 years later, Geom--now renamed Ryung by Seo Dol--starts to regain his memory and begins to search for his older sister Yeon--only to see her being sentenced and hanged. Geom seeks revenge; with the emblem on the killer's sword he remembers from 13 yeas ago his only clue, he swears that he will find the one who killed his father and murdered his older sister. To find the sword and its owner, he disguises himself as Iljimae and breaks into the nobles' estates. During the course of his actions, he winds up fighting not only for himself, but also for the common people, although at the core his desire to bring the person who ruined his family to justice burns bright.

A woman is jealous when her friend steals her first love and marries him. When she meets the happy couple, she lies that she is married too. The lie ensnares a hotel president who goes along with the lie for his own business reasons. Will the lie become reality?

A secret agent works under cover as a bodyguard and is forced to deal with both national security missions as well as a temperamental superstar.

Childhood friends Baek Dong Soo and Yeo Woon are both prodigies in combat. But they follow divergent paths. Baek Dong Soo supports the King and became the top swordsman in the land, Yeo Woon elects to join a group of clandestine assassins called the Black Ninjas whose aim is to overthrow the throne.

Cha Dal Geon is a stunt man who dreams of becoming a world famous action actor. His career is floundering, while he tries to take care of his nephew as his guardian. His nephew takes a flight from Incheon to Morocco for a taekwondo exhibition, but the flight crashes. In Morocco, Cha Dal Geon sees someone in public that was a passenger on the fatal flight. He becomes convinced that someone or some group sabotaged his nephew's flight. Go Hae Ri is an NIS agent and is currently working undercover at the Korean embassy in Morocco. She is tasked by the embassy to help the bereaved families from the fatal flight. Cha Dal Geon turns to Go Hae Ri for help in finding the man he saw in Morocco who was a passenger on the flight. Soon, Cha Dal Geon and Go Hae Ri uncover a far darker and more sinister conspiracy than they expected.

P4: are the new recruits in the violent crimes unit at Gangnam Police Station. The journey of four young cops as they fumble, learn, fall in love and find their way to becoming people the citizens can trust.

Jung Saet Byul is a 22-year-old four-dimensional girl with amazing fighting skills who loves her friends, family, and retro fashion. She has the boys lined up but only has one person who keeps her distracted, Choi Dae Hyun. He became imprinted on her as an unforgettable person after a cigarette errand three years ago. Three years later, Jung Saet Byul meets Choi Dae Hyun again at his convenience store that he now manages and becomes a part-time worker. Here, Saet Byul and Dae Hyun's love story begins as they heal the wounds of the heart, gain love, and become adults dreaming of the future. Their stories unfold into a pleasant comedy within the familiar sensibility of a convenience store.