The Master's Sun

Series Similar to The Master's Sun

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

1. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance 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.

2. 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.

3. My Demon

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   A fantasy rom-com about the demon-like chaebol heiress Do Do Hee and the demon Jung Goo Won, who loses his powers one day, as they enter a contractual marriage.

4. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   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.

5. While You Were Sleeping

   2017 · Fantasy, Romance, Legal · ended

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

   Can tragedies be avoided if they can be foreseen? In life, we witness small and big events. What would happen if someone can foresee every single event? A woman, played by Suzy, can see accidents that take place in the future through her dreams. A prosecutor, played by Lee Jong Suk, struggles and does everything he can to stop those dreams from becoming real. Will they be able to save our world from tragedies?

6. 49 Days

   2011 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance 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.

7. Reborn Rich

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

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

   After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.

8. Pinocchio

   2014 · Family, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   A drama depicts love, frustration, growth and the competitive process of young people in their 20s becoming reporters as they cry and get hurt by truth but realize that as reporters, they must tell the truth. It will center the story of a man who hides a special talent living under a fake name and a woman who cannot lie due to ‘Pinocchio Syndrome'.The story starts with a fire incident and all the firemen who entered the building in the blaze were killed by the fire. The fire incident news report was focused on the story of Kim Ha Myung's father, chief of the fire brigade sent his men in the blaze and caused them all to die and then he fled the scene as an error of his misjudgement as reported by the news reporter, Song Cha Ok. This caused a chaotic situation for Ha Myung's family and end up causing his mother to commit suicide with him and his brother ends up in jail over night due to Song Cha Ok's untruth story. However, the led to Ha Myung growing up with hatred for reporters especially Cha Ok. Fatefully, as he is growing up he meets with Cha Ok's ex-husband and daughter, Choi In Ha and takes on a new identity as Choi Dal Po. In Ha is someone with Pinocchio Syndrome hence she cannot lie.The story is about how important news reporting the truth. It revolves about how life's at stakes if lies are reported as news.

9. Tale of the Nine Tailed

   2020 · Drama, Thriller, Supernatural · ended

   Quality match from the curated show pool.

   Tale of the Nine Tailed follows the life of the gumiho, who once ruled as a living god of the Baekdudaegan Mountain Range but now works as a sort of public official between this world and the underworld. His main job is to clean up the mess left behind by those who disturb the world of the living while hiding behind the guise of ghost tales.

10. 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.