Descendants of the Sun

Series Similar to Descendants of the Sun

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

1. Crash Landing on You

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

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

   Crash Landing on You follows a wealthy heiress named Yoon Se Ri, who, while paragliding, is forced to land in North Korea due to high winds. A North Korean officer named Ri Jung Hyuk hides and protects her, and in doing so, comes to love her

2. Tunnel

   2017 · Crime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   In 1986, Park Kwang Ho works an excellent and enthusiastic detective. To save his daughter, he travels in time to the present day. Wherever he goes, he causes trouble and creates problems, but his antics are funny and bizarre because he is an old-fashioned detective from the past trying to adjust to life in modern day.

3. Healer

   2014 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on KBS2.

   A mysterious messenger, an online newspaper reporter who only concerns her own interests, a popular reporter who agonizes over the truth and reality.When these three people meet, a passionate romance starts and the truths from the past and present reveal themselves to the world. This drama features young people and how they grow into real reporters.

4. The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

   2025 · Drama, Medical · returning

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8).

   To create a top-tier trauma center, a war-seasoned doctor arrives bringing his blunt but skilled ways to transform his team into life-saving mavericks.

5. Kill Me, Heal Me

   2015 · Comedy, Romance, Medical · ended

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

   A romantic comedy between a third-generation billionaire with Dissociative Identity Disorder and a first-year Psychiatrist resident who treats him secretly.After a traumatic experience in his childhood, Cha Do Hyun suffers memory lapses and his personality then fractured into seven different identities. He tries to regain control over his life with the help of Oh Ri Jin, a first-year psychiatric resident who treats him secretly. But Ri Jin's twin brother, Oh Ri Ohn, is a famous mystery novelist who investigates about Do Hyun and his family.

6. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.

7. Law School

   2021 · Thriller, Mystery, Legal · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Law School is about the students and professors of South Korea's top law school who get caught up in an unusual case.It follows the case of a murder of a professor at a prestigious law school. Professors and students become suspects in the murder, and the drama will feature its characters making realizations about the law and justice as they search for the killer.

8. Secret Love

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on KBS2.

   Everyone has their own secrets. Secrets can help people succeed and even fall in love; but secrets can also destroy people. Secrets can sometimes make us happy, worried, or even blind us to reality. This drama is about secrets. It is an exploration into the trials and tribulations of people who live with secrets. These secrets drive the four characters desire to find love and exact revenge.

9. Signal

   2016 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.

10. Through the Darkness

    2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

    Through the Darkness is about a criminal profiler who struggles to read the minds of serial killers. Song Ha Young is a criminal profiler. He is calm and has charisma. He digs up cases and looks deeply into the human mind.