Deserving of the Name

Series Similar to Deserving of the Name

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

1. Ghost Doctor

   2022 · Fantasy, Medical · ended

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

   Cha Young Min is a genius doctor, but he is arrogant and selfish. One day, he gets involved in an unexpected case. Due to the unexpected case, his spirit possesses another doctor's body. These two doctors are complete opposites, with opposite personalities and medical abilities.

2. Kill Me, Heal Me

   2015 · Comedy, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar 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.

3. Let's Fight Ghost

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

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

   Hyun Ji is a wandering ghost who died when she was a 19-year-old. One day she meets an exorcist named Bong Pal. They team up to listen and solve the problems of various ghosts so that they can rest peacefully.

4. Doctor Slump

   2024 · Comedy, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, hidden gem.

   A rom-com about doctors who are in a slump as they try to resuscitate their lives. Their story captures the love and growth of two characters who live in a rooftop house after quitting their jobs as doctors.

5. The Indian Doctor

   2010 · Drama, Comedy, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, hidden gem.

   Comedy drama set in a 1960s Welsh mining village which is forever changed by the arrival of the new doctor, a high-flying Delhi graduate.

6. Secret Garden

   2010 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   Kim Joo-won is the arrogant, eccentric heir to a large company who is poised to inherit a large department store. He constantly rejects the girls his matchmaking mother sends his way. When he meets Gil Ra-im, a beautiful, driven stunt-woman, she changes his life as he becomes fascinated by her strength and vulnerability.One day, a magical incident occurs and they find that they have switched bodies.

7. Doc Martin

   2004 · Drama, Comedy, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Successful surgeon Dr Martin Ellingham relocates to the seaside village of Portwenn in Cornwall; but his gruff demeanour and poor bedside manner bring him into conflict with the locals as he begins his new life as a GP.

8. Big

   2012 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Da Ran is a girl who is engaged to the brilliant Dr. Seo Yoon Jae. She is going to start her work as a temporary teacher in a school and by accident meet a transfer student from USA named Kang Kyung Joon and because of some coincidences they get to know each other. Recently Yoon Jae behaved coldly to Da Ran and Kyung Joon finds out how much she suffers so he try to help her improving her relationship with Yoon Jae, but he and Yoon Jae are involved in a car accident and both fall into the river. Yoon Jae trys to save Kyung Joon. In hospital Kyung Joon wakes and find himself in the body of Yoon Jae, as his body is lying in hospital and everybody thinks he is in a coma. The only one whom he can tell that he is not Yoon Jae is Da Ran.How he should act as Yoon Jae and not young Kyung Joon and how Da Ran should behave him from now on?

9. Chicago Typewriter

   2017 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy 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.

10. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

    2017 · Comedy, Action, Fantasy · ended

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

    Strong Woman Do Bong Soon tells the story about Do Bong Soon who is a woman born with Herculean strength, anything she touches with too much force crumbles in her hands. Ahn Min Hyuk is her love interest and he is an extraordinary second-generation chaebol with crazy tendencies. Meanwhile, Gook Doo is the guy who's harbored a one-sided crush on the heroine.