K-Dramas like How to Buy a Friend

12 shows with a similar feel

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  All of Us Are Dead (2022)Also action & adventure · drama

  A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.

  ★ 4.6 from 9 members21 tracking it here
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  The Sound of Magic (2022)Also drama

  An enigmatic magician living in an abandoned amusement park introduces magic into the life of a high schooler struggling with harsh realities.

  4 tracking it here
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  Weak Hero (2022)Also action & adventure · drama

  With the aid of unexpected friends, a gifted but introverted student confronts bullies and violent foes — unaware of how dangerous his world will become.

  ★ 4.6 from 7 members31 tracking it here
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  ONE: High School Heroes (2025)Also action & adventure · drama

  A former model student, pushed by domestic abuse and bullying, joins a group that stands up to school violence and defends its victims.

  4 tracking it here
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  Moving (2023)Also drama · action & adventure

  Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

  ★ 4.3 from 3 members13 tracking it here
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  Love Alarm (2019)Also drama

  Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.

  ★ 4.0 from 3 members7 tracking it here
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  Hierarchy (2024)Also drama

  The top 0.01% of students control law and order at Jooshin High School, but a secretive transfer student chips a crack in their indomitable world.

  ★ 3.0 from 3 members11 tracking it here
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  Duty After School (2023)Also drama · action & adventure

  When mysterious alien spheres start invading the world, high school students are called upon to join the world's first war against extraterrestrial forces.

  6 tracking it here
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  My Roommate Is a Gumiho (2021)Also drama

  To become a human, a 999-year-old Gumiho, Shin Woo-yeo needs to fill his fox bead with human energy before he turns 1,000 years old. One day, a college girl, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo-yeo's fox bead.

  5 tracking it here
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  Friendly Rivalry (2025)Also drama

  A high-teen mystery thriller about a close relationship between teenage girls in a harsher survival competition than entrance examinations.

  5 tracking it here
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  Revenge of Others (2022)Also drama

  A boy falls to his death at school, but Ok Chan-mi does not believe that her twin brother, Park Won-seok, committed suicide. Chan-mi transfers to her brother's school, Yongtan High, and meets Ji Soo-heon, who witnessed her brother's death. A "hero," who avenges bullied students, appears at Yongtan High. Chan-mi speculates that it may be connected to her brother and starts looking for this hero.

  11 tracking it here
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  Extracurricular (2020)Also drama

  Determined to escape a dead-end life, a gifted high school student turns to a world of serious crime to ensure he can pay for college.

  ★ 3.3 from 3 members7 tracking it here