When the Phone Rings

Series Similar to When the Phone Rings

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

1. Link: Eat, Love, Kill

   2022 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Mystery profile.

   A fantasy mystery drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state. Eun Gye Hoon is a chef who sets up a restaurant in the town where his twin sister went missing 20 years ago. He finds himself randomly experiencing emotions one day, spontaneously crying and laughing, and it turns out that they are the emotions of a woman named Noh Da Hyun.

2. Flex x Cop

   2024 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · returning

   Recommended for similar Romance / Mystery profile.

   A fun-loving rich boy gets entangled in an incident and joins a violent crime investigation team. By mobilizing his enormous wealth and personal connections, the third-generation chaebol detective catches criminals who are beyond the reach of the police. 

3. Who Are You: School 2015

   2015 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Segang High School is a top school located in Gangnam District, Seoul. One of the students, Lee Eun Bi, wake up one day without knowing who she was. After find out that she used to be bullied, she changes herself and becomes popular. She then tries to recover her lost memories, and in the process, discovers the hidden truths behind her famous school.

4. Manner of Death

   2020 · Drama, Crime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Dr. Bahnjit is a medical examiner who works at the provincial hospital. One day, the body of a woman who died as a result of hanging comes in and after carrying out the autopsy, Dr. Bahnjit concludes that it not suicide but in fact a murder case. This suddenly makes him a target of someone powerful. As a result of his statement, Dr. Bahnjit has an anonymous man break into his house and threatens him to change the report to suicide. Dr. Bahnjit doesn't take this man's threat seriously, until one day one of his friends, who is a prosecutor disappears. He begins to secretly conduct an investigation of his own in order to get to the truth — and somehow all clues lead to a man called Tan as the main suspect. Tan, however, denies everything and instead convinces Dr. Banjit to work together in order to get to the bottom of this and find the real murderer together. 

5. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

6. A Piece of Your Mind

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   A Piece of Your Mind is a romance about an artificial intelligence (AI) programmer and classical recording engineer. It is a story told from the perspective of a man who believes that even a small fraction of his significant person's heart is enough for him.

7. Cedar Cove

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Mystery profile.

   Cedar Cove is a small lakeside town full of romance and drama. One person in the middle of it all is Judge Olivia Lockhart, whose municipal court unveils the town's secrets and serves as a microcosm of the personal issues that she faces with her own family and friends. Also, Jack Griffith, the editor of the local newspaper, uncovers what goes on behind the courtroom's doors. The drama, Hallmark Channel's first original prime-time series, is based on a book series by New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber.

8. Marriage Contract

   2016 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   A widow has been forced to raise her daughter alone as her husband died by an accident, but unfortunately she discovers that she has a tumour in her brain. Now she is tasked to find a Guardian for her daughter.

9. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Young's family runs a large firm in which Lee Young Joon works as vice-president. He is known to be rich, smart and handsome, but is known to be very arrogant. His secretary Kim Mi So, who works for them for many years, makes a decision which shocks him...

10. Through the Darkness

    2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

    Through the Darkness is about a criminal profiler who struggles to read the minds of serial killers. Song Ha Young is a criminal profiler. He is calm and has charisma. He digs up cases and looks deeply into the human mind.