Interesting and engaging dramas that push romance into the backseat. Each of the dramas on this list prove that romance isn't required to make a good story.

Not Quite Cupid

Blackmailed and in love, Jang Tae San, a member of a criminal organization, is about to be a father. With a new life ahead of him, Tae San decides to give up a life of crime. However, before he gets the chance to retire, he is forced to take the blame for a murder his boss, Moon Il Seok, had committed or would see his girlfriend, Seo In Hye, die. Without question, Tae San tells In Hye to get an abortion and ends the relationship. Eight years later, after serving the prison sentence and still affiliated with the gang, Tae San runs into In Hye and finds out that she never got the abortion and that his daughter, Soo Jin, is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. Apparently, In Hye is not a match. Luckily, Tae San turns out to be a perfect match. He decides to save his daughter\u2019s life and schedules the operation to occur in two weeks when suddenly he is placed under arrest for the death of two detectives.

Two Weeks

The Tweeks Team 

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We have been living in a country that is generous to small and big of all corruption for a long time. When such tolerance has been rotten to the core, a man proudly shouts out for the fact that when one should be punished when one earns ill-gotten money, and those who regard such wickedness as normal should also be punished. Sung Ryong joins the TQ Group to make more money with his inborn persistence and extraordinary brain but ironically saves the crumbling company, fighting injustice and absurdity.

Good Manager

Workaholics Team

He wins every criminal case in the day as a prosecutor, and he's a trophy husband and father to his family at night. Jung Woo's life is perfect, but a murder that takes place in his home on the night of his daughter's 6th birthday changes it all for him. He wakes up in a prison cell, knowing nothing about what happened that night, but he happens to find himself with four fellow prison mates who help him to find justice for his family. Fighting one trial at a time, while suffering the effects of short term amnesia, Jung Woo makes his way to Min Ho, a chaebol who happens to have some issues with him. Though he's a seasoned law enforcer, Jung Woo knows that he's against South Korea's giants, and his case will be a tough cookie to swallow. Will justice prevail, or would corruption persist?

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