- Updated on: July 27, 2022
- by Ernie
Even though you might think that Korean Webtoons or Manhwa are just for the Slice of Life genre, you would be surprised to see how many ACTION Webtoons are out there. Well, in these recent times, Manhwa are getting quite a lot of hype, and most of all, they’re fun and competitive to look at if we compare them directly to Manga!
I can’t say that Webtoons are better than Manga in any way. However, these are the 37+ EPIC Action Korean Webtoons/Manhwa that you should definitely check out.
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37. The Boxer

Genres: Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Thriller
Talent can be found in the most unexpected places and this is where K, a boxing coach, tries to found a new prodigy to polish. In a banal, run-down club, he meets Baek San Ryu, a boxer made of sheer talent but absolutely no experience. Baek has a unique body that is out of the ordinary. He can dodge and place punches in impossible positions.
At a first glance, the protagonist of the story is Baek but what makes this Webtoon special is that we will follow the growth of Beak and two other high school students, In Jae and Yu.
36. HIVE

Genres: Thriller, Action
When the ones you love are facing danger, the most normal people can turn into heroes.
A mid-level manager, Lee, makes it his mission to save the world from the invasion of Gigantic Bees that want to up humanity under their rule.
All odds are against him and the situation seems desperate but Lee will not stop fighting for the sake of his dear family.
35. Dr. Frost

Genres: Drama, Psychological
Peeking into the minds of humans to try and understand their emotions and actions, is the job of our genius psychologist Dr. Frost and his assistant Yoon Sung-ah.
They opened a counseling center focused on helping patients understand themselves so they can move on with their lives.
34. Trace

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Gaming
“Trace” is the title given to people who were born or developed some kind of special power.
Those people are the only human beings capable of facing some unidentified alien species that are trying to destroy the earth.
We will follow the story of Sah Gang-Kwon and Yun-Seong as they try to save the earth while making sure they don’t become puppets of the government.
33. Annarasumanara

Genres: Mystery, Romance, School, Psychological
Yun Ai abandoned her dream of becoming a magician and decided to work hard instead to make sure that she will be able to support her little sister. Managing to go to school and handle part-time jobs at the same time she is hoping for a chance to get a better life.
This chance manifested when she meets a real magician that agrees to make her his pupil.
Now all she thinks about is to revive the passion that she had as a child when she dreamed to become a full-fledged magician.
32. SAVE ME

Genres: Drama, Slice of Life, Psychological
This Webtoon is the story of seven best friends who went separate ways after high school.
Two years later, Seokjin comes back home to find all his old friends in horrible situations. Wondering when all went wrong, he tries to fix their lives. But did he make it back in time to help them?
31. I Love Yoo

Genres: Romance, Slice of Life
Shin-Ae life has not been an easy one. Her parents had divorced when she was very young, she grew up to be an unsociable girl with trust issues. Satisfied with the way she is and avoiding any kind of romantic relationship, her life gets turned upside down when she accidentally drops her drink on the clothes of a stranger.
30. Wind Breaker

Genres: Action, Sports
On the outside, Jay is a serious A student and President of the Student Body. On the inside, he is an extreme biker.
He has been hiding his passion from his parents and friends all his life until he decides that it’s time to show people who he is. Will his loved ones support him or try to stop him as his adventures begin to be more and more dangerous? For those of you who love bikes, this will make you break all the winds out there!
29. Age Matters

Genres: Romance, Slice of Life
A 29-year-old romantic has always been disappointed with the course of her life until she is hired as the assistant of a 23-year-old billionaire that is hiding a secret. Together they try to change the definition of friendship. But will their age gap stand in their way?
28. True Beauty

Genres: Drama, Romance
The thing that a little bit of makeup can do. Overnight, an unpopular geek manages to change her whole social standing at school just by learning how to be a makeup artist.
Now considered the most beautiful girl in the school, she tries to hide her true identity from everyone around her. But how long can she keep up the act? In True Beauty, there’s a lot of action involved as well. While the Webtoon isn’t quite known for its Action serving, both main MCs had times where they even fought each other. Well, in True Beauty, a lot of lover’s quarrel is involved.
27. Siren’s Lament

Genres: Romance, Adventure, Fantasy
Lyra is your everyday girl, she helps her grandmother with her flower shop and got a crush on the childhood friend Shion. And like every other girl she gets her heart broker. To try and improve her mood she goes on a little trip to the ocean where she discovers the existence of the world of Sirens. Cursed by those creatures, she starts a brand new journey trying to break free of that world, while learning about this new area!
26. Red Storm

Genre: Action, Supernatural, Fantasy
Yulian Provoke is the Chieftain of the Pareia Tribe. He has one goal in mind; to be recognized as the stronger fighter of the Red Desert. To achieve his goal he decides to defeat all the monsters that are infesting their desert.
25. The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor

Genres: Action, Adventure, Gaming
Royal Road is a virtual reality game where you can earn money by playing. A ray of hope for all the people who are struggling economically. This is the case of Hyun Lee that recently entered the game as a sculptor. But what can he possibly do to level up with an avatar like this?
24. DEAD DAYS

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Fantasy
Humanity is on the brink of extinction. A virus broke out of a lab and is turning people into zombies.
Some of them managed to survive till now, but what will they do next to stay alive in an apocalyptic world?
23. Let’s Play

Genres: Romance, Slice of Life, Comedy
What would have been your reaction, if your new neighbor was the person who crunched your life’s dream?
A young video game creator finally makes her debut by launching her first achievement and gets horrible reviews from a popular streamer that just moved next door.
22. unTouchable

Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Vampire
Vampires, to be able to live peacefully with humans, found a way to keep on living by absorbing energy from the people they touch instead of drinking their blood.
Sia Lee, a vampire has been using this method all her life and her next target is no one else than her germaphobe neighbor Jiho. For an unexplainable reason, she stubbornly struggles to manage to touch him when he tries to avoid her.
21. Orange Marmalade

Genres: Romance, School, Vampire, Slice of Life
This story takes place in a world where humans and vampires coexist. But vampires, being considered an inferior race, are being discriminated against.
Mari Baek is a vampire and has been hiding her true identity so she can try and live a peaceful high school life. Her plans get foiled when she uncontrollably bites one of her comrades. What’s worse is that he hates vampires from the bottom of his heart. The question now is, will he expose her secret and destroy her life or not?
20. DICE

Genres: Action, Psychological, Fantasy
Dong Tae is living a miserable life. He is neither handsome nor intelligent. His social skills are mediocre and on top of it all, he is being bullied at school.
Everything changes the day a new student by the name of Tae Bin comes into his life and introduces him to a game called DICE. I’m sure you are already suspecting this, but DICE isn’t a normal game. It has the power to reconstruct your life the way you desire. But who created it? What are the consequences of playing this game? It’s all gain and no losses, way too good to be true and Gong Tae knows it. Man, I wish this DICE thing was real.
19. Tomb Raider King

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tombs are appearing all around the world and started the age of Tomb raiders. Two different fates await those brave enough to wander into those tombs. They can be bestowed upon unimaginable treasures known as Relics or become slaves of those same relics.
Seo Joo Heon decided tomb raiding later than all the others but the Relic he managed to put his hands on gave him information about all the other tombs scattered around the world. With the huge advantage that he now has, he resolves to loot all the tombs and claim for himself every single relic.
This Webtoon can be compared to a very famous anime called Sinbad.
18. Afterschool War Activities

Genres: Action, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural
Slime-like creatures are invading the world and humanity’s military power is not powerful enough to repel them. They are left with no other choice but to mobilize high-school and college students to turn them into soldiers. Forced to risk their lives against their wills, how will a platoon constituted of young, inexperienced soldiers, manage to survive?


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17. Catharsis

Genres: Fantasy, Psychological
Leon More is a character that we can all relate to. A high school student that is bored of everything and everyone around him. One thing that makes him special, the fact that he can see sounds as colors. He has been struggling with the color of fear that has been constantly creeping into his life. A powerful emotion that is overtaking his life. The line between dream and reality slowly starts to blur, and he ends up entering, Catharsis, an organization that helps people control and overcome their fears. But does Leon know what true fear is? Will he be able to face it when he discovers its terrors?
16. Terror Man

Genres: Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi
Appearances can be deceiving and labels put on people may be wrong too.
Min Jung Woo is believed to be a terrorist in the eyes of the, but his action has been analyzed completely wrong. The public mistook a savior for a villain.
The truth is that Min Jung Woo has a unique ability called “The Eyes of Misfortune“, an ability that enables him to see the patterns that lead to a certain event, and he uses this power to save lives.
Disgusted and disappointed by the people that have been criticizing him he starts to doubt if they are really worth saving. Struggling with his emotions, will Min become the villain that everyone makes him out to be?
15. Hardcore Leveling Warrior

Genres: Action, Shounen, Gaming
Everyone has that one thing where they are unmatched, and Ethan’s thing aka “Hardcore Leveling Warrior” is his talent at the game “Lucid Adventure”. In this world he is on top, he is Number 1.
And one day, he loses everything in a blink of an eye. The nightmare begins with the arrival of an unknown player that manages to kill him. Back at level 1, the only thing left for Ethan is to take his revenge by winning back his crown.
This is where his dark past will become an enormous thorn in his side.
14. The Beginning After the End

Genres: Action, Adventure, Supernatural
Having it all isn’t the definition of a perfect life. Being on top and unmatched can become the traits of a curse in no time.
King Grey lives in a world where everything is controlled by your fighting abilities and no man was able to dethrone the current King.
He has been leading a dull life without any purpose.
His holy grail was when he reincarnated in another world governed by monsters and magic. A new unfamiliar world where he has the chance to start again. A new purpose and also a new enemy trying to stop his ascension from the shadows. Now, we’re seeing an Isekai Webtoon as well? This sounds interesting eh.
13. A Returners Magic Should Be Special

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Desir Arman, a time traveler, is the last hope of humanity. He went back thirteen years in the past to try to save the earth from The Shadow World. In his timeline, The shadow World successfully took over humanity, and every attempt to retake what was stolen from them failed.
He now has three years before the imminent apocalypse and will stop at nothing to change the fate of the world.
12. How to Fight

Genre: Action, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Comedy
High school isn’t a wonderful experience for everyone. This is especially true for Yoo Hoobin who has been constantly bullied. But one simple mistake turned his life upside down. He uploaded, by error, an old video on his Youtube account. Unexpectedly, the video turned out to be a hit and went viral earning him money and fame at the same time. Taking advantage of the situation, he decides to learn how to fight to start recording greater videos.
11. Lookism

Genre: Drama, School, Slice of Life, Fantasy
Park Hyung Suk is a loser. His physical appearance is just horrid, he sucks at sports and isn’t very intelligent either.
At school, Logan Lee has been making his life a living nightmare by constantly bullying him.
Only one solution arises for Park, running away.
He moves to Seoul and transfers to a new school. Before his first day, Park obtains a second body. One that is can be described with one word: Handsome. He can switch between the two bodies at his disposition. He now can experience the world through two pairs of eyes and sees how people react and treat a person just by looking at his appearance.
10. Gosu

Genre: Action
Gang Yong wants to taste the bitterness of revenge. His master is now dead, only one thing has to be done! Punish those who wronged him. Having to travel while hiding his identity, he disguises himself as a fat delivery boy. Gosu is such a nice Anime for those of you who are looking for an Action Webtoon series. It will not disappoint you, and that’s a fact!
9. unOrdinary

Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Slice of Life
John was born powerless in a world where having special abilities is normal. A world ruled by those abilities.
But John is hiding a secret, a secret so big that it threatens the entire world’s order.
He has the power to change the fundamental values that society was built on, but didn’t act on it… Yet.
We say that information is power and with power comes responsibility. How will a weak human, with no power, manage to fulfill his destiny when powerful foes are waiting at every corner? unOrdinary has a great Action aspect to it, making it one of the best Action Manhwas of all time.
8. Cheese in the Trap

Genre: Romance, Comedy, School, Slice of Life
Seol is an A student who finally comes back to school after taking a gap year. She gets acquainted with Jung, AKA Mr. Perfect and suddenly her life starts turning into a big disaster.
All of this begins when she met Jung, is it a coincidence or is he the one pulling the strings behind the curtains? While the Webtoon is not an Action one, it is so popular that we have to recommend this! No hard feelings, okay? There are action scenes from time to time involved as well!
7. Burning Effect

Genre: Action, Psychological, Slice of Life, Martial Arts
Burner, our MC, lives in a world where any crime, no matter how small, is punishable by death.
Her city is divided into six blocks. Each block is controlled by an Administrator whose purpose is to eradicate all crime. Burner lives in Block five, the most difficult job to live in because of its dictator Administrator, Great.
She has been living her life, head down, just trying to make enough money to leave her district.
But one day, she witnessed a young boy getting kidnaped. Unable to do nothing, she shows off her mastery of Martial Arts and defeats all the kidnappers to free the boy.
The next day, however, she finds the same boy dead, killed by a character named Great for stealing a Teddy Bear.
Filled with uncontrollable rage, and disgusted by the society she puts it on herself to change the rules that are governing the world. And it all starts by destroying Great.
6. Peerless Dad

Genre: Action, Martial Arts,
Noh Ga Jang is an ex-mercenary, but one day decides to put this dishonest life behind him to start a brand new chapter. He got married and had a child. Now, a father with obligations to protect and tend to the needs of his family, he takes one the post of a door guard. Unfortunately, his remarkable fighting abilities do not go unnoticed and he ends up having to accept dangerous missions. How will he manage to keep up with this new job and fulfill his fatherly duties? That’s the catch in Peerless Dad Manhwa.
5. Girls of the Wild’s

Genre: Comedy, Action, Martial Arts, Romance
Song Jae Gu is the only male student in an all-girls private school. Having to take care, alone, of his two siblings, he had no other choice but to accept the school invitation since they offered him a scholarship. But this is no ordinary school, it’s a school created for girls, masters of martial arts, and to teach them how to behave as a maiden of society.
None of them ever had any interaction with a boy, and Song Jae Gu is peeking all of their interests. Girls of the Wild’s is full of Romance and Action. So, if you are in it for some of the badass-looking scenes, this Manhwa is highly recommended.
4. The Breaker

Genre: Action, Psychological, Slice of Life, Martial Arts
Shi-Woon is a coward. He never stood up for himself in his entire life. That led to a gang constantly bullying him. Fed-up with his current situation and with no way out he starts thinking of committing suicide.
But suicide also requires courage. He then remembers that his teacher, Chun-Woo once defeated on his own, another gang. Another solution rises in his mind. Become the disciple of his teacher and become strong. But getting Chun-Woo to help him turned out to be the most difficult part of the process.
3. The God of High School

“The God of High School” is a Martial Arts tournament held in Seoul. People all around Korea participate to earn the title of the number 1 martial artist. But that’s not all, the winner is granted any, one wish, of his desire. Jin Mori is one of the participants in this year’s tournament. But it turns out that the competition is a façade for something much greater.
This Manhwa became so popular that it was also turned into an anime.
2. Noblesse

Genre: Vampire, Supernatural, School
Rai, short for Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, is a powerful vampire, a noble with pure blood.
He has been asleep for now 820 years and woke up in a modern world he knows nothing about.
Living a double life, he tries to fight the secret organization that is trying to uncover his past while he acts as a normal high school student. Noblesse is full of ups and downs, but most of all, the action in this Korean Webtoon is crazy!
1. The Tower of God

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
If you make it to the top of the tower, any dream can become reality. In the Tower of God, Regulars (the chosen ones) have been constantly climbing the Tower in the hopes of making their wish come true.
Baam is an irregular among them, and he was not chosen but entered the Tower through his own will. Ban wishes to be reunited with his friend Rachel. The Anime is darker than it looks like!
Conclusion
These Action Webtoons will keep you hooked to the screen for hours. So, make sure to take breaks in between and relax as this is going to be a fun time getting dopamine released. Nah, I’m just kidding. GET READY FOR GREAT ACTION WEBTOONS THAT WILL BLAST YOUR AWAY!
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