Secret Garden

Series Similar to Secret Garden

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

1. My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

   2010 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   Cha Dae Woong is a spoiled brat with plans to become a successful action star. One day, on the run from his rich grandfather's latest fit of rage towards him, he accidentally frees a nine-tailed fox, Gu Mi Ho, who has been imprisoned in a painting for 500 years. Frightened at first, he runs away to the woods and ends up getting seriously injured. Feeling indebted to him, Gu Mi Ho gives him her " fox orb " a powerful part of her life force, to heal him. When he wakes up, the two form an awkward partnership, as Dae Woong begins to rely on the power of the orb to shoot his action sequences, while also giving in to Mi Ho's request to teach her how to act human. Though Dae Woong is initially acting out of fear, things start to change as he gradually begins to fall for her. However, Mi Ho will be faced with a terrible choice as her time in human form runs out in this heart-wrenching comedy.

2. Chicago Typewriter

   2017 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy 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.

3. Queen In Hyun's Man

   2012 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy 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.

4. 49 Days

   2011 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, also on SBS.

   A young woman named Ji Hyun was enjoying absolute bliss as she was about to be married with her fiancé, but her perfect life is shattered in a car accident that left her in a coma. She is given a second chance at life by a reaper, but it comes with a condition: she has to find three people outside of her family who would cry genuine tears for her. In order to do this, she borrows the body of Yi Kyung, a part-time employee at a convenience store.

5. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

   2016 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Guardians are always whom we fear. Surely not this time. A guardian living in Seoul in 2016 is the sexiest chick magnet. More than a hundred years old in reality, he hangs out with the young. But not many people know that he is hollow inside. He has been searching for the ‘goblin bride' for decades, but she is no where to be found. Then one day, he keeps getting summoned by Eun-tak. There, he sees the Reaper, not knowing that they are to become roommates. That's where the story begins. A Goblin, trying to protect a girl who should have been dead a long time ago. A Reaper, desperately wanting to take the girl to complete his task.

6. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   The irresistible romance between a civil servant who obtains a forbidden book that was thoroughly sealed 300 years ago and a popular lawyer who becomes a victim of the forbidden book.

7. Go Back Couple

   2017 · Drama, Family, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   Choi Ban Do and Ma Jin Joo are both 38-years-old and a married couple. Choi Ban Do has been burdened with being the breadwinner and Ma Jin Joo is a housewife with low self-esteem. Even though they loved each other when they married, they now hate each other. They both regret marrying at such a young age. The couple travel through time and find themselves as 20-year-old university students, when they met for the first time.

8. Let's Fight Ghost

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Hyun Ji is a wandering ghost who died when she was a 19-year-old. One day she meets an exorcist named Bong Pal. They team up to listen and solve the problems of various ghosts so that they can rest peacefully.

9. Big

   2012 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Da Ran is a girl who is engaged to the brilliant Dr. Seo Yoon Jae. She is going to start her work as a temporary teacher in a school and by accident meet a transfer student from USA named Kang Kyung Joon and because of some coincidences they get to know each other. Recently Yoon Jae behaved coldly to Da Ran and Kyung Joon finds out how much she suffers so he try to help her improving her relationship with Yoon Jae, but he and Yoon Jae are involved in a car accident and both fall into the river. Yoon Jae trys to save Kyung Joon. In hospital Kyung Joon wakes and find himself in the body of Yoon Jae, as his body is lying in hospital and everybody thinks he is in a coma. The only one whom he can tell that he is not Yoon Jae is Da Ran.How he should act as Yoon Jae and not young Kyung Joon and how Da Ran should behave him from now on?

10. Being Erica

    2009 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

    Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

    Being Erica is a one-hour series that explores the life of Erica Strange, a woman who has been given a wonderful gift. Every episode, Erica goes back to relive a regret from her past, in order to come back and make a positive change in her present.