Where can I watch My Name?

My Name is available exclusively on Netflix worldwide.

How many episodes does My Name have?

My Name has 8 episodes, each approximately 50 minutes long. All episodes were released simultaneously on Netflix on October 15, 2021.

Is My Name worth watching?

Yes — My Name is one of the best action thrillers Netflix Korea has produced. Han So-hee's physically demanding lead performance is career-defining, and at 8 episodes the drama is tightly paced with zero wasted minutes.

Who are the lead actors in My Name?

The lead actors in My Name are Han So-hee as Yoon Ji-woo / Oh Hye-jin, an undercover gangster mole inside the police, and Park Hee-soon as crime boss Choi Mu-jin.

📺 K-Drama Guide · Action · Crime · Thriller

My Name

Name: My Name
Director: Kim Jin-min
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Noir
Cast: Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon, Ahn Bo-hyun, Kim Sang-ho, Lee Hak-joo

마이 네임 · 2021

✅ Completed · 8 eps
🎬 Netflix
⭐ 8.7 / 10 MDL
🔞 18+ · Violence

⚡ Updated · Apr 7, 2026

📋 Drama Overview

Everything worth knowing, before the opening credits.

Completed
🔥 Action Must-Watch

My Name

마이 네임 (Mai Neim) · 2021 · South Korea

WriterKim Ba-da

DirectorKim Jin-min

Episodes8 eps · ~50 min each

⏱️ Binge Time6h 40m

AiredOct 15, 2021 · Netflix

GenreAction · Crime · Thriller · Noir

Content Rating18+ · Violence & Profanity

Netflix

Revenge
Undercover
Crime
Female Lead
Double Identity
Noir

Yoon Ji-woo (Han So-hee) grows up in the shadow of her father’s reputation as a gangster. She resents him — until the night of her birthday, when a masked gunman shoots him dead right in front of her. With no leads and no one to trust, she does the only thing that makes sense: she goes to the one man who knew her father. Choi Mu-jin (Park Hee-soon), the head of the Dongcheon crime ring, takes her in, trains her, and erases her identity. Under a new name — Oh Hye-jin — she is sent into the police force as a mole. Her mission: find the man who killed her father.

What she walks into is a world where every person is playing two games at once. Her partner, Detective Jeon Pil-do (Ahn Bo-hyun), is building a case against Dongcheon while falling for the woman beside him — not knowing she’s the enemy. The head of the drug unit, Cha Gi-ho (Kim Sang-ho), is running his own investigation that cuts uncomfortably close to the truth. And Mu-jin, Ji-woo’s protector and surrogate father, is holding a secret that will rewrite everything she has ever believed about the night her father died. Eight episodes. Zero wasted minutes. This is what revenge costs.

Episode Progress
8 / 8 ✅ Completed

▶ Official Trailer

🎭 Cast & Characters

Six performances in a world where no one is who they say they are.

Han So-hee

Yoon Ji-woo / Oh Hye-jin

Lead

Park Hee-soon

Choi Mu-jin

Villain

Ahn Bo-hyun

Jeon Pil-do

Supporting

Kim Sang-ho

Cha Gi-ho

Supporting

Lee Hak-joo

Jung Tae-joo

Antagonist

Chang Ryul

Do Gang-jae

Supporting

🍿 Where to Watch

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Netflix

📺 Episode Guide

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to know what you’re getting into, nothing more.

EP 01

Her Father’s Daughter

October 15, 2021

Ji-woo watches her father die on her birthday. Everything the first episode does — the bullying, the estrangement, the love she’s been hiding under resentment — is compressed into a single sequence that earns every choice she makes afterward. Han So-hee doesn’t perform grief here. She performs a decision. The drama knows the difference, and it makes the whole machine click into motion.

EP 02

A New Name

October 15, 2021

Ji-woo is declared dead and reborn as Oh Hye-jin. Mu-jin handles Do Gang-jae — Dongcheon’s internal punishment is not subtle — and sends her into the police academy with a clean identity and a single purpose. Park Hee-soon plays Mu-jin with the kind of stillness that reads more dangerous than shouting. Every favour he extends comes with a price tag Ji-woo hasn’t been given yet.

EP 03

The Drug Unit

October 15, 2021

Hye-jin gets assigned to the drug investigation unit — exactly where Mu-jin needs her. A sudden raid forces her to choose between her cover and her mission in real time. This episode introduces the full geometry of the trap she’s in: she’s spying on cops who are hunting her boss, while her boss is hunting whoever killed her father. Pil-do starts paying attention to her in a way that will become a problem.

EP 04

The Mole Problem

October 15, 2021

There are now too many people looking for the same thing from different directions — and this is the episode where they start colliding. Cha Gi-ho’s investigation takes a turn that suggests the unit head knows more than he’s letting on. Ji-woo gets a photo that shifts everything she thought she knew. The drama is tightening its fist, and the audience can feel the compression.

EP 05

What the Photo Means

October 15, 2021

The reveal that lands here reframes every prior scene with Mu-jin. It’s the kind of twist that doesn’t feel cheap because the drama laid the architecture for it quietly and correctly. Ji-woo’s relationship with the man she trusted most shifts into something far more complicated than betrayal — it becomes a question of what she’s been fighting for and whether that thing still exists. Han So-hee holds the weight of the episode in her face alone.

EP 06

Pil-do Knows

October 15, 2021

Jeon Pil-do finally gets the full picture — or close enough to it. Ahn Bo-hyun plays the moment not as a confrontation but as a reckoning with himself. The chemistry between him and Han So-hee has been building slowly and deliberately, and this episode is where it pays off — not romantically, but in the specific intimacy of two people who know each other’s secrets. Jung Tae-joo moves into position in the background. Nobody’s safe from here.

EP 07

The Cost of Truth

October 15, 2021

This is where the drama collects its debts. Jung Tae-joo makes his move. Pil-do pays for caring about the wrong person. The episode doesn’t linger on its most brutal moment — it just lets the consequence sit there in the frame, unblinking. If you’ve been emotionally neutral until this point, episode 7 ends that. The final ten minutes are the dramatic fulcrum that the entire series has been building toward.

EP 08

Her Name

October 15, 2021

Mu-jin is waiting. Ji-woo is coming. The finale doesn’t blink. It gives Ji-woo her confrontation — and then, quietly, it gives her something more interesting than a clean ending: a question about what she is now that the mission is done. The drama’s title lands in the final scene with a weight that only makes sense in retrospect. Eight episodes, one name, and a story about identity that earns every drop of blood it spills to get there.

✍️ KDramaWorlds Editor’s Take

Is it worth your time? Here’s our honest take, and who it suits best.

🥊 Brutal & Physical
🌑 Zero Comic Relief
🎭 Identity Crisis
🔪 Revenge That Costs
💀 Nobody Is Safe

Han So-hee trained for three months in action school — an extra month beyond the full cast — and it shows in every frame. My Name is the kind of drama that is built around a performance, and hers is one of the most committed physical acting jobs in recent Korean television. This is not the Han So-hee of Nevertheless or A World of Married Couples. Ji-woo moves like someone who has decided that pain is irrelevant, and Han So-hee makes that conviction completely legible without a single line of dialogue to explain it. The direction by Kim Jin-min — who previously did Extracurricular — keeps the action honest: no shaky cam, minimal wire work, choreography that reads as violence rather than spectacle.

The drama gets compared to Infernal Affairs often, and the comparison is fair — double identity, mole inside the police, the question of which side you actually belong to. What My Name adds is something Infernal Affairs didn’t have: a female lead whose body is the instrument of the whole story, and a villain in Park Hee-soon’s Mu-jin who is genuinely difficult to read as purely evil. He is monstrous by any standard accounting. He is also the only person who ever treated Ji-woo as capable of being more than what her circumstances said she was. The drama doesn’t resolve that tension neatly, which is the right call. The back half does lose some momentum — episodes 6 and 7 repeat certain dynamics before the finale pays them off — and the one romantic scene in episode 8 lands like an editorial accident. But these are dents, not collapses.

My Name is eight episodes of a woman dismantling herself in order to find out who she really is. It is not a comfortable watch. The fight scenes are brutal, the emotional cost is real, and the ending refuses to hand Ji-woo anything she didn’t bleed for. That’s the agreement the drama makes with you in episode one, and it keeps it all the way through. If you came here after finishing The Glory and need the next dark hit — this is exactly it. If you want a revenge thriller with a female lead who is genuinely, unconditionally terrifying — this is the one.

👍👍👍 BEST FOR 👍👍👍

🥊 Fans of brutal, no-gloss action choreography
🎭 Viewers who want a female lead with zero helplessness
🌑 Anyone who finished The Glory and needs the next dark hit

⚖️ Final Verdict

What works

•Han So-hee’s career-defining physical performance — four months of action training that shows in every frame

•Action choreography that reads as real violence, not spectacle — minimal wire work, no shaky cam

•Park Hee-soon’s Mu-jin — a villain who is monstrous and genuinely ambiguous in the same breath

•8 episodes with zero filler — tight, relentless, and structurally airtight

What to know first

•18+ content — violence is graphic, sustained, and not stylised away

•Episodes 6–7 repeat some dynamics before the finale resolves them — minor momentum dip

•One romantic scene in the finale feels out of place with the drama’s tone

•Zero comic relief — this is unrelenting from episode one to the last frame

8.7 / 10If you want a revenge thriller with a female lead who is genuinely terrifying — this is the one.