The World of the Married

Series Similar to The World of the Married

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

1. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.

2. Incomplete Life

   2014 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Jang Geu Rae was once a baduk player since 7 year old but then gives up the path because of family circumstances. He was given a chance to become an employee of One International Company and because of his mother, he decided to start working there despite of having only G.E.D. qualification for the past 26 years. The drama follows the lives of ordinary salary men and details their struggles in the workplace.

3. Sky Castle

   2018 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5), hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   Sky Castle is set in a four-story apartment building in Seoul's suburbs, which is inhabited by some professionals such as judges, prosecutors, doctors, professors and their wives.It will depict their efforts to have their children admitted into good universities. Some grew up in families with many generations of doctors or lawyers. Thus, their ambitions will be shown with comedy and realism.

4. Flower of Evil

   2020 · Crime, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Flower of Evil is a suspenseful drama about a psychopath who changes his identity to conceal his cruel past and his homicide detective wife who tries to track down the truth. This thriller will draw the extremes of this couple, from their harmonious family life to crime scenes. 

5. Law School

   2021 · Thriller, Mystery, Legal · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   Law School is about the students and professors of South Korea's top law school who get caught up in an unusual case.It follows the case of a murder of a professor at a prestigious law school. Professors and students become suspects in the murder, and the drama will feature its characters making realizations about the law and justice as they search for the killer.

6. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.

7. Tunnel

   2017 · Crime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   In 1986, Park Kwang Ho works an excellent and enthusiastic detective. To save his daughter, he travels in time to the present day. Wherever he goes, he causes trouble and creates problems, but his antics are funny and bizarre because he is an old-fashioned detective from the past trying to adjust to life in modern day.

8. Healer

   2014 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A mysterious messenger, an online newspaper reporter who only concerns her own interests, a popular reporter who agonizes over the truth and reality.When these three people meet, a passionate romance starts and the truths from the past and present reveal themselves to the world. This drama features young people and how they grow into real reporters.

9. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8.1).

   Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies. It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Moo Duk—Jang Wook's servant from a powerful and noble family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Wook, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny. 

10. Reborn Rich

    2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

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

    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.