Some of the most prominent Korean movies to come out in the past couple of decades were renowned for how tactfully violent they could be. In movies like Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy, violence is a strategic tool for the characters, something that told a larger story in a way that felt more meaningful. That doesn’t justify its use, but this continues to be a prominent characteristic in Korean movies, although the films of the early- and late-2000s may have been a peak for the genre. The television counterparts of these movies typically don’t go as far as the film directors do, but they are still out there.