My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

Series Similar to My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

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

1. Secret Garden

   2010 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, also on SBS.

   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.

2. Marriage, Not Dating

   2014 · Comedy, Romance · ended

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

   A romantic comedy about a man who doesn't want to get married and a woman who earnestly wants to get married. Gong Ki Tae is a successful plastic surgeon who keeps getting pressured by his family to get married but all he wants is to live alone in peace. He then comes up with a plan to introduce Joo Jang Mi to his family, believing that they will never be able to accept her as their daughter-in-law.

3. Love Next Door

   2024 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   A romantic comedy that tells the story of a woman trying to reboot her life after making mistakes, and her mother's friend's son, who is her living dark side.

4. Beautiful Gong Shim

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on SBS.

   Welcome to the life of Ahn Dan Tae. A life of ups and dows as he gets wrongly accused of a crime he did not commit and is sentenced to prison. Afterwards, he becomes a human rights attorney and successor of a large company.

5. The Legend of the Blue Sea

   2016 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on SBS.

   How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern-day Seoul? Shim Chung is a mermaid who finds herself transplanted to modern times. She is caught by Heo Joon Jae, a charming but cold con artist who is the doppelgänger for Kim Moon, the son of a nobleman from the Joseon Dynasty. But in the present time, Joon Jae works with Jo Nam Doo, a skilled conman who guides Joon Jae to become a genius scammer. But Joon Jae's friend, Cha Shi Ah, who works as a researcher at KAIST, may be Chung's only hope for surviving in her strange new world.

6. Queen In Hyun's Man

   2012 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Kim Boong Do is a scholar who had supported the reinstatement of Queen In Hyun when Jang heebin's schemes resulted in her being deposed and replaced as King Sukjong's queen consort. He travels 300 years into the future of modern Seoul and meets Choi Hee Jin, a no-name actress who is expecting a career renaissance through her role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama.

7. Rooftop Prince

   2012 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on SBS.

   A prince from the Joseon era, Lee Gak, is catapulted 300 years forward into the future in Seoul 2012 with his entourage, which includes Song Man Bo, Do Chi San and Woo Young Sul, when he tries to investigate the suspicious circumstances which surround the death of the girl he loved. In the present, he finds a girl who looks exactly like his beloved crown princess...

8. The Master's Sun

   2013 · Fantasy, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, also on SBS.

   The story revolves around a woman who can see ghosts and a man who tries to protect her, and is described as a drama with horror and romantic elements infused together. So Ji Sub plays the miserly, greedy, and conceited CEO Joo Joong Won, who measures all human relationships through money. Gong Hyo Jin will play the melancholy and tearful assistant Tae Gong Shil, who is able to see ghosts after an accident and thus suffers from insomnia. She lives a very reclusive and closed-off life due to her ability. The story is being touted as "soul healing" drama that brings together very different types of people: one who can see and hear things that no one else in the world can and another who only hears and see things he wants too. As Joo Joong Won starts to believe in Tae Gong Shil's claim of being able to see ghosts, these two people will grow together in faith and in character.

9. Chicago Typewriter

   2017 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   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. My Roommate Is a Gumiho

    2021 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

    My Roommate Is a Gumiho tells the story of a male Gumiho, who has lived for hundreds of years to become a human being, having his fox beads taken away by a female college student in an accident and living in a house together to solve this problem.