Mother

Series Similar to Mother

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

1. Incomplete Life

   2014 · Drama · ended

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

   Jang Geu Rae was once a baduk player since 7 year old but then gives up the path because of family circumstances. He was given a chance to become an employee of One International Company and because of his mother, he decided to start working there despite of having only G.E.D. qualification for the past 26 years. The drama follows the lives of ordinary salary men and details their struggles in the workplace.

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. 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.

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. 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. 

8. 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.

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. 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.