Abyss

Series Similar to Abyss

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

1. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

2. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar 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.

3. Link: Eat, Love, Kill

   2022 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on tvN.

   A fantasy mystery drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state. Eun Gye Hoon is a chef who sets up a restaurant in the town where his twin sister went missing 20 years ago. He finds himself randomly experiencing emotions one day, spontaneously crying and laughing, and it turns out that they are the emotions of a woman named Noh Da Hyun.

4. Doom at Your Service

   2021 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   Dong Kyung is an editor for a web novel company. Myul Mang, suddenly appears in her ordinary life. She makes a 100 day contract with Myul Mang, risking her life and her love.

5. A Piece of Your Mind

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   A Piece of Your Mind is a romance about an artificial intelligence (AI) programmer and classical recording engineer. It is a story told from the perspective of a man who believes that even a small fraction of his significant person's heart is enough for him.

6. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Young's family runs a large firm in which Lee Young Joon works as vice-president. He is known to be rich, smart and handsome, but is known to be very arrogant. His secretary Kim Mi So, who works for them for many years, makes a decision which shocks him...

7. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Yoon Hye Jin is a woman who has both beauty and brains. Her life plan falls apart because of the tiny bit of righteousness in her heart, and after various obstacles, she moves to the seashore village Gongjin and meets Mr. Hong. Hong Doo Shik is known as Mr. Hong around town. He is unemployed officially, but he is a master of odd jobs who appears to help everyone in Gongjin with any situation they run into.

8. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

9. Hua Jai Sila

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Tor is a love child of a mistress and a wealthy hi-so man. After his mother dies from neglect, Tor is forced to live with his father's family . Abused by his stepmother and stepbrother, he turns to the girl-next-door, Mingta, who also suffers neglect at the hands of her so called mother and sister. One night, while being chased by his stepmother, Tor jumps into a river and is presumed dead, though he survives. He is taken under the wing of another prostitute who knew his mother and takes on a new life under the alias, Sila. Years later, he returns as a notorious, rich pimp, with plans to avenge his mother and to get revenge for the torture and pain brought to him by his stepmother and stepbrother. Sila's main goal is to hurt the people that hurt him as a child, but he never expected to see the only friend he ever had as a child, Mingta. As soon as they see each other, she realizes that he looks familiar to her. She notices a ring he wears around his neck, and immediately comes to the conclusion that he's Tor, her childhood best friend that supposedly died. But he denies it because of his revenge plan.

10. Marriage Contract

    2016 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    A widow has been forced to raise her daughter alone as her husband died by an accident, but unfortunately she discovers that she has a tumour in her brain. Now she is tasked to find a Guardian for her daughter.