The Beauty Inside

Series Similar to The Beauty Inside

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

1. 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.

2. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   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.

3. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8).

   The Devil is released into the human world and soon opens a door into a parallel world. The Devil asks if he lived a better life in the other world, if he could live in the other world. Against the Devil's question, Korean Emperor Lee Gon tries to close the door to the parallel world and South Korean Detective Jung Tae Eul tries to protect the lives of people and the person she loves.

4. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

   2016 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance 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.

5. Melting Me Softly

   2019 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Go Mi Ran is a young jobseeker who is told she will be given around US$ 4,200 if she takes part in a cryogenic freezing program. She is told that she will be frozen for just 24 hours and then leave with her money.Also being frozen is Ma Dong Chan, a popular entertainment TV producer who is cold as ice when it comes to working – but tends to get hot and passionate when it comes to affairs of the heart.But instead of waking up a day later, the duo awakes from cryogenic slumber to find they have slept through 20 years. All the people Mi Ran and Dong Chan once knew have aged by 20 years, but their own bodies and memories have not changed at all.Life 20 years in the future is not easy – and things are made harder for the duo when they discover that should their body temperatures rise above 33 degrees Celsius, they will die.When Mi Ran and Dong Chan begin developing feelings for each other, temperatures start to rise…spawning all sorts of dramatic consequences.Will the duo fight back the heat of a potentially fatal romance? And will they discover the mysterious reason why they were frozen for two decades – and the role of the enigmatic Dr. Hwang, the shady figure behind the freezing project?

6. When Time Stopped

   2018 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   A man goes back and forth in the time-space continuum, with no regard for the passing of time and aging.Joon Woo leads a lonely existence due to his special ability. One day, he meets a woman who makes time matter for the first time in his life. Will he be able to be with her?

7. Doom at Your Service

   2021 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Dong Kyung is an editor for a web novel company. Myul Mang, suddenly appears in her ordinary life. She makes a 100 day contract with Myul Mang, risking her life and her love.

8. Twenty-Five Twenty-One

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Twenty-Five Twenty-One depicts a story from 1998 to 2021. In 1998, twenty-two and eighteen meet for the first time in an uneasy year as the whole world shook and called each others' name and when they became twenty-three and nineteen, they hurt each other. In the year of twenty-four and twenty, they relied on each other, and they loved only when they were twenty-five and twenty-one.

9. Marry My Husband

   2024 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Kang Ji-won, a terminally ill cancer patient, is killed by her husband and best friend after she witnesses them having an affair. She wakes up 10 years before the incident and decides to seek revenge with the help of Yu Ji-hyuk, a director at the company where she works. Now, she must reclaim her fate and eliminate the trash from her life.

10. Lover Merman

    2025 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8.2), hidden gem.

    Phurich moves from Bangkok to Khen Island to look after ocean-themed bar Full & A Half with his close friend Pana. Upon his arrival, he meets Nava, Full & A Half's most talented bartender – who just so happens to be one of the world's last mermen. Before long, Phurich falls for with Nava, not knowing about Nava's true identity, but he clashes with Nava's best friend Prapai, another young merman who's secretly loved Nava for a long time. Prapai believes that human and merman relationships would never work, and warns Nava that dating Phurich would only end in tragedy. But one fateful night, Phurich follows Nava to the beach and witnesses a secret that changes both of their lives forever.