What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

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If you enjoyed What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

   2016 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.1), also on tvN.

   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.

2. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

3. Secret Love

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   Everyone has their own secrets. Secrets can help people succeed and even fall in love; but secrets can also destroy people. Secrets can sometimes make us happy, worried, or even blind us to reality. This drama is about secrets. It is an exploration into the trials and tribulations of people who live with secrets. These secrets drive the four characters desire to find love and exact revenge.

4. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar 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.

5. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar 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.

6. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Yoon Hye Jin is a woman who has both beauty and brains. Her life plan falls apart because of the tiny bit of righteousness in her heart, and after various obstacles, she moves to the seashore village Gongjin and meets Mr. Hong. Hong Doo Shik is known as Mr. Hong around town. He is unemployed officially, but he is a master of odd jobs who appears to help everyone in Gongjin with any situation they run into.

7. Red Sleeve

   2021 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

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

   Red Sleeve tells the record of a royal court romance between the King of Joseon who believes his duty is to his country first above love, and a court lady who wants to protect the life she has chosen.

8. Descendants of the Sun

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

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

   This story tells of doctors stationed in the fictional war zone of Urk, and follows the love story that develops between a surgeon and a special forces officer, both elite in their respective fields. The story tracks both their personal and professional struggles while exploring issues about the value of life.

9. Something in the Rain

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Yoon Jin Ah is a single woman in her 30s who works as a store supervisor in a coffee shop. Despite being an easygoing person, she lives a rather empty life. She suddenly feels romantic feelings towards her best friend's younger brother, Seo Joon Hee, a designer at a video game company, who has just returned from working abroad.

10. Because This Is My First Life

    2017 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), also on tvN.

    A house-poor man and homeless woman become housemates in a drama that examines the institution of marriage and the problems that young people face today.Nam Se Hee is a single man in his early 30's. He has chosen to not marry. He owns his home, but he owes a lot on his mortgage. Meanwhile, Yoon Ji Ho is a single woman in her early 30's. She does not own a home and envies those that do. She has given up on dating due to her financial struggles. Yoon Ji Ho begins to live at Nam Se Hee's house. They become housemates.