Incomplete Life

Series Similar to Incomplete Life

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

1. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended

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

   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.

2. The World of the Married

   2020 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Ji Sun Woo is a family medicine doctor. She is married to Lee Tae Oh nd they have a son. She seems to have everything, including a successful career and a happy family, but she is betrayed by her husband and others.Meanwhile Lee Tae Oh dreams of becoming a famous movie director. He runs an entertainment business with the support of his wife Ji Sun Woo. Even though he loves his wife, Lee Tae Oh falls into a dangerous relationship.

3. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

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

   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.

4. Flower of Evil

   2020 · Crime, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   Flower of Evil is a suspenseful drama about a psychopath who changes his identity to conceal his cruel past and his homicide detective wife who tries to track down the truth. This thriller will draw the extremes of this couple, from their harmonious family life to crime scenes. 

5. Healer

   2014 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   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.

6. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama 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. 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.

8. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for 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. 

9. Signal

   2016 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning

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

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

10. City Hunter

    2011 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for 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.