A Korean Odyssey

Series Similar to A Korean Odyssey

If you enjoyed A Korean Odyssey, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8.1), also on tvN.

   Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies. It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Moo Duk—Jang Wook's servant from a powerful and noble family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Wook, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny. 

2. The Master's Sun

   2013 · Fantasy, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile.

   The story revolves around a woman who can see ghosts and a man who tries to protect her, and is described as a drama with horror and romantic elements infused together. So Ji Sub plays the miserly, greedy, and conceited CEO Joo Joong Won, who measures all human relationships through money. Gong Hyo Jin will play the melancholy and tearful assistant Tae Gong Shil, who is able to see ghosts after an accident and thus suffers from insomnia. She lives a very reclusive and closed-off life due to her ability. The story is being touted as "soul healing" drama that brings together very different types of people: one who can see and hear things that no one else in the world can and another who only hears and see things he wants too. As Joo Joong Won starts to believe in Tae Gong Shil's claim of being able to see ghosts, these two people will grow together in faith and in character.

3. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8).

   The Devil is released into the human world and soon opens a door into a parallel world. The Devil asks if he lived a better life in the other world, if he could live in the other world. Against the Devil's question, Korean Emperor Lee Gon tries to close the door to the parallel world and South Korean Detective Jung Tae Eul tries to protect the lives of people and the person she loves.

4. My Demon

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile.

   A fantasy rom-com about the demon-like chaebol heiress Do Do Hee and the demon Jung Goo Won, who loses his powers one day, as they enter a contractual marriage.

5. Chicago Typewriter

   2017 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Chicago Typewriter is a story about three writers who lived during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s, and are reincarnated into the present as a best-selling writer in a slump, an anti-fan and a ghostwriter.

6. Queen In Hyun's Man

   2012 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Kim Boong Do is a scholar who had supported the reinstatement of Queen In Hyun when Jang heebin's schemes resulted in her being deposed and replaced as King Sukjong's queen consort. He travels 300 years into the future of modern Seoul and meets Choi Hee Jin, a no-name actress who is expecting a career renaissance through her role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama.

7. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   The irresistible romance between a civil servant who obtains a forbidden book that was thoroughly sealed 300 years ago and a popular lawyer who becomes a victim of the forbidden book.

8. The Legend of the Blue Sea

   2016 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern-day Seoul? Shim Chung is a mermaid who finds herself transplanted to modern times. She is caught by Heo Joon Jae, a charming but cold con artist who is the doppelgänger for Kim Moon, the son of a nobleman from the Joseon Dynasty. But in the present time, Joon Jae works with Jo Nam Doo, a skilled conman who guides Joon Jae to become a genius scammer. But Joon Jae's friend, Cha Shi Ah, who works as a researcher at KAIST, may be Chung's only hope for surviving in her strange new world.

9. My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

   2010 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Cha Dae Woong is a spoiled brat with plans to become a successful action star. One day, on the run from his rich grandfather's latest fit of rage towards him, he accidentally frees a nine-tailed fox, Gu Mi Ho, who has been imprisoned in a painting for 500 years. Frightened at first, he runs away to the woods and ends up getting seriously injured. Feeling indebted to him, Gu Mi Ho gives him her " fox orb " a powerful part of her life force, to heal him. When he wakes up, the two form an awkward partnership, as Dae Woong begins to rely on the power of the orb to shoot his action sequences, while also giving in to Mi Ho's request to teach her how to act human. Though Dae Woong is initially acting out of fear, things start to change as he gradually begins to fall for her. However, Mi Ho will be faced with a terrible choice as her time in human form runs out in this heart-wrenching comedy.

10. Marriage, Not Dating

    2014 · Comedy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

    A romantic comedy about a man who doesn't want to get married and a woman who earnestly wants to get married. Gong Ki Tae is a successful plastic surgeon who keeps getting pressured by his family to get married but all he wants is to live alone in peace. He then comes up with a plan to introduce Joo Jang Mi to his family, believing that they will never be able to accept her as their daughter-in-law.