K-Dramas like Café Minamdang

12 shows with a similar feel

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  The Prosecutor's Proposal (2026)Also mystery · drama

  A victim’s son and a killer’s son reunite as a prosecutor and investigator, fighting systemic corruption while becoming each other's salvation.

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  Siren's Kiss (2026)Also drama · mystery

  Ace insurance investigator Cha Woo-seok hunts a fraud ring tied to mysterious deaths and becomes dangerously entangled with Han Seol-ah, a flawless art auctioneer whose lovers all seem to die. As attraction and suspicion blur, he must uncover whether she’s a killer or a victim, before the truth costs him his life.

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  The Good Detective (2020)Also drama · mystery

  A drama about the race between people who want to get closer to the truth and those who want to cover it up. Jang Seung Jo will take on the role of Oh Ji Hyuk, an elite detective of nine years who does not share his feelings with others due to pain he experienced when he was young. He is not swayed by money and power, even with the huge wealth he inherited from his uncle.

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  Possessed (2019)Also mystery · comedy · drama

  A reluctant clairvoyant joins forces with a brusque police detective hiding a soft heart to help him solve criminal cases using her psychic abilities.

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  Confidence Queen (2025)Also comedy · drama

  Three con artists with different backgrounds, team up for a daring and adventurous scheme of revenge against the villains of this era.

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  Flower of Evil (2020)Also drama · mystery

  Hiding a twisted past, a man maintains his facade as the perfect husband to his detective wife — until she begins investigating a series of murders.

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  Police College Whirlwind (2019)Also mystery

  When Peng Fei was young, his father died a sudden death. In order to find the truth of his father's death, Peng Fei entered the police academy and his teacher is coincidentally the man who was in charge of the case of his father's death, Meng Fan Sheng. With mixed feelings, Peng Fei, Li Wen Wen, Yang Si Guo, and others are teamed up to form the experimental class at the police academy. They work through the devil Meng's physical training and the new virtual reality mystery cases to grow and become stronger together. Later on, Peng Fei realizes that there may be a huge criminal group behind the death of his father. After Peng Fei graduates from police academy, endures hardships, goes undercover in the criminal group, with his fellow classmates, and with teachers collaborating on the outside, to destroy the criminal group, to find out the truth behind his father's death, and to reveal the "big boss" behind the whole scene.
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  Flee For One's Life (2001)Also mystery
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  Love in Memory (2018)Also mystery

  Love in Memory is a Korean Drama about brain hacker Loe, the only person who can create a visual using people's brain waves. Together with an aspiring actress, Ha-ri, and Min-young, a NSCI agent, Loe protects the precious technology developed by Dr. Yoo, a renowned scientist killed in a terror attack. And Loe gradually realizes that Ha-ri is the girl he's been looking for all his life.
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  权利场 (2003)Also drama
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  Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka (2010)Also drama · mystery

  Adapted from the book with the same title by Ryusho Kadota, a journalist who followed the "Hikari City Mother and Child Murder Case" that took place in Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1999, the drama is a fictionalized human story of a bereaved family that suffered repeated setbacks and was on the verge of despair, but continued to fight on with the support of others.
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  Like Love (2014)Also drama

  An offbeat love story about campus life around An Ziyan and Mai Ding who start military training as college acquaintances. Mai Ding was the one who made the first move to An Ziyan, they have a good relationship and gradually felt sparks. But after their relationship strengthens, their relationship is obstructed by their family and friends. As a result, An Ziyan secretly asks for help from his ex-girlfriend Bai Xiaosi.