Healer

Series Similar to Healer

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

1. City Hunter

   2011 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   Not long after his birth in October 9, 1983, the same day as the notorious bombing at Aung San in Myanmar, Lee Yoon Sung is kidnapped and raised by Jin Pyo believing Jin Pyo is his father. Trained like a special military agent spending years in deadly places like the Golden Triangle, deserts and battlefields, Yoon Sung becomes the most capable man who can survive in any situation anywhere.

2. Vincenzo

   2021 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   During a visit to his motherland, a Korean-Italian mafia lawyer gives an unrivaled conglomerate a taste of its own medicine with a side of justice.

3. Secret Love

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Thriller 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.

4. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Thriller 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.

5. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Romance profile, highly rated (8.1).

   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. 

6. Descendants of the Sun

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

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

   This story tells of doctors stationed in the fictional war zone of Urk, and follows the love story that develops between a surgeon and a special forces officer, both elite in their respective fields. The story tracks both their personal and professional struggles while exploring issues about the value of life.

7. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for 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.

8. Reborn Rich

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.

9. Tunnel

   2017 · Crime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, 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.

10. Twinkling Watermelon

    2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

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

    Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.