An ordinary businessman is pulled into a clandestine government operation targeting a Korean drug lord in South America — that premise anchors Narco Saints, a 2022 Korean crime drama directed by Yoon Jong-bin.
What is Narco-Saints about?
Narco Saints follows an entrepreneur with no background in espionage who agrees to help a secret mission aimed at capturing a Korean narcotics kingpin operating out of South America. What begins as a favor tangles him deeper into a world of surveillance, shifting loyalties, and operatives who each have their own reasons for wanting the drug lord stopped. The series builds its tension less around gunfights than around the slow, uneasy process of infiltrating a criminal network from the inside, where trust is the scarcest resource anyone has.
About the cast
Ha Jung-woo and Hwang Jung-min anchor the cast, joined by Park Hae-soo, Jo Woo-jin, Yoo Yeon-seok, Chang Chen, Choo Ja-hyun, and Hyun Bong-sik in a lineup stacked with veteran Korean film and television actors. Director Yoon Jong-bin, known for crime and gangster narratives, brings a similar eye for procedural detail to the series, letting the ensemble carry long stretches of tension without leaning on spectacle.
Context & significance
Released in 2022 with hour-long episodes, Narco Saints was based loosely on real events involving Korean nationals and international drug trafficking, a premise that gave the crime drama a grounded, docu-thriller edge uncommon in the genre. It arrived during a period when Korean crime series were drawing wider international attention, and its South America-set story stood out from the more common Seoul-centered procedurals of the same period.
Watching Narco-Saints on Ktime
Narco Saints is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the series' dense plotting without missing a beat. A free K-Time account login is required to watch, though the show's page can be browsed without signing in. K-Time's Farsi interface is built specifically for Persian-speaking audiences in the diaspora.