Tracer is a good watch, and is also about accountants. The first episode is pretty phenomenal, so much so that the rest of the drama has trouble living up to it, but I still enjoyed it the whole way through.

The other one that comes to mind is Payback, where our hero is amazing with numbers - to the point of being targeted if he ever dares to use his skills for his own or someone else's benefit. They manage to make the actual process of stock trading look pretty exciting and don't worry, Lee Sun-kyun's mullet doesn't stick around the whole drama.

I think in Snow Queen, the ML was a maths genius but I don't really remember if it had an important part in the story.

In Crash Course in Romance, the ML is a maths teacher.

Familiar wife they work in a bank and Chief Kim/Good manager battle between corrupt accountants working in a large firm and those who wont play the system.

When I think of number crunchers I think Korean loan sharks.

There is only one memorable accountant in recent memory and that is Kim Sung Ryong in Chief Kim/Good Manager. I became a Namgoong Min fan because of that drama. 😊

Echoing the love for Tracer and Chief Kim. Both are excellent dramas, although very different, and will really make you believe accounting is a superpower. 😆

Namgoong Min's character also does a convincing job crunching numbers in a different context (baseball stats and salaries, and far less boring than it sounds) in Stove League.

CHIEF KIM! This is one of my all time fav shows.

I'm watching TRACER now, & I like it, but I'm not compelled to watch, in the way I was with CHIEF KIM.

The only drama that I watched was Melancholia and I would not recommend it to anyone.

I once worked at an accounting firm. I think I lasted 1 year. It was the most boring job I’ve ever had. That place was so quiet. No one hardly ever spoke and if they did it was in whispers. I can remember going through a whole day and speaking less than 10 words to my colleagues. It was a busy firm but all I remember is the quiet. Oh and one of the partners was smoking hot but full of himself.
I went from this quiet place to an absolutely crazy business. It was polar opposites. So loud and noisy and bustling with activity. I only lasted 3 months in this one unfortunately. The boss was a psycho. I once hid under my desk to get away from him. Not to mention the time he fired a gun from the front office door. Lol who does that?
I recently started The Good Manager/Chief Kim but gave up in middle of episode 3. But I do love a good office drama and crunching numbers is my thing.

Does Splish Splash Love count??? 😂

You could try The Banker.

Well my first degree was in accounting. And let me tell you I wanted to tear all my hair out. It just reinforced that it isn’t the struggling that get welfare nope, it’s the fucking rich. The shit they get away with is astounding and insane.

Anyway since I’ve had such a godawful experience in the field I’d rather not watch any dramas about. Tho I’d definitely recommend anti capitalist art. PARASITE being a favourite of mine. That’s true accounting for you. Crunching the numbers of how the rich can’t do their own chores and instead reframing their laziness as a good for society because they are providing jobs lol.

Liar Game (the Korean one) and Chief Kim are my two absolute favorite math-y dramas (and I say that as someone who is very much not a math person). I remember reading that Lee Sang Yoon actually put his physics degree to use to correct some of the math-based games in Liar Game, so I'm pretty sure the number crunching was accurate in that one, although I couldn't always keep up with all of it.

Thank you for this post @db-staff!

There was a time I actually wondered why there are not much dramas about Accountants. Today I learned that there are some, and the accountant in me is very much excited to check the recs out: Chief Kim/Good Manager, Tracer, Melancholia and Liar Game.

Can’t think of a tv drama that hasn’t already been mentioned, but there’s movie called IN OUR PRIME, in which the main character is a genius mathematician who defected from North Korea. Now working as a high school security guard, he reluctantly agrees to tutor a troubled student.