My Dearest

Series Similar to My Dearest

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

1. The Empress Ki

   2013 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, also on MBC.

   This drama is about the loves and battles of Empress Ki from Goryeo who exercises her influence in the Yuan Dynasty.

2. The Rise of Phoenixes

   2018 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, hidden gem.

   The story of power, desire, lust and love among people of different kingdoms in ancient China. No matter who you are, you have to rise from the mud to become The Great Phoenix.

3. Six Flying Dragons

   2015 · Drama, Action, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, hidden gem.

   A period drama that depicts the ambitions and success stories of six people with Lee Bang Won as the central figure. Lee Bang Won was the third king in the Joseon Dynasty. He helped his father King Taejo establish the Joseon Dynasty.

4. Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

   2016 · Fantasy, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

   When a total eclipse of the sun takes place, a 21st century woman, Go Ha Jin, is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. She wakes up in the body of 16-year-old Hae Soo, an aristocrat living with Lady Hae, her cousin who happens to be married to one of the sons of King Taejo. She soon befriends several of the princes, who find her carefree and exuberant attitude refreshing. Although she knows she should not get involved in palace intrigues over the succession to the throne, she inadvertently becomes a pawn in the struggle, as several of the Princes fall in love with her.

5. Red Sleeve

   2021 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

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

   Red Sleeve tells the record of a royal court romance between the King of Joseon who believes his duty is to his country first above love, and a court lady who wants to protect the life she has chosen.

6. The King's Affection

   2021 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

   When the crown prince is killed, his twin sister assumes the throne while trying to keep her identity and affection for her first love a royal secret.

7. Mr. Sunshine

   2018 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

   During the United States expedition to Joseon in 1871, a boy from Joseon boards an American warship and goes to America. As an adult, he returns to his home country as an American soldier stationed in the country

8. War & Peace

   2016 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

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

   In a new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel, three young people experience life, love and loss against the epic backdrop of Russia's wars with Napoleon.

9. Hwarang

   2016 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

   The names of just few Hwarangs are recorded in history. Not many people these days truly know about Hwarangs. How did they start? How did beautiful looking young men become at the center of unifying old Korea's Three Kingdoms? To these countless questions, we look forward to finding the answers. Let's imagine how life must have been for young people of Silla back in the 6th century. Let us tell you a story about their friendships and love.

10. Memoir of Rati

    2025 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, hidden gem.

    From the pages of the memoir of Rati, an orphan born of a commoner who has been adopted by an aristocrat, who returns to Siam for the first time in 20 years as an interpreter for the French ambassador. There, he meets Theeratorn, a marquis in the Ministry of Education. Their love at first sight turns into companionship, which then turns into love. But this love blooms among various constraints and conflicts of its time. Just like the taboo of social differences between Mek, a lowly commoner, and Baronnet Dech which threatens their budding friendship. Does true love pull through everything?