K-Dramas like The Heavenly Idol

12 shows with a similar feel

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  The First Night with the Duke (2025)Also sci-fi & fantasy · comedy · drama

  Reincarnated as a minor character in a novel, Cha Seon-taek unexpectedly spends a night with Prince Kyungsung, sparking an intense and unexpected romance.

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  High School Return of a Gangster (2024)Also sci-fi & fantasy · drama

  A spirit of a middle school dropout gangster who accidentally possesses an 18-year-old boy’s body who killed himself, goes back to high school to take a revenge against the bullies with his gangster skills and encounters unexpected relationship.

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  Lovely Runner (2024)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy · comedy

  Right after Ryu Sun-jae, a top star, ends his life, Im Sol, his top fan, somehow ends up at a time when they were in high school and tries to protect him. A fantasy romance unfolds where people who missed each other in time finally meet.

  ★ 4.5 from 4 members14 tracking it here
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  Please Come Back, Mister (2016)Also comedy · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  After being literally worked to death, one man comes back to life while possessing a handsome man for a limited time.
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  Blood (2015)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  Park Ji-sang, a surgeon, leads a double life. While he tries to save his patients' lives, on the other hand, he is also a vampire who constantly craves for blood.

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  Tale of the Nine Tailed (2020)Also sci-fi & fantasy · drama · comedy

  A TV producer discovers a secret supernatural world as she becomes entangled with a former deity who's spent centuries searching for his lost lover.

  ★ 5.0 from 4 members9 tracking it here
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  Spice Up Our Love (2024)Also comedy · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  The R-rated web novel author, Nam Ja-yeon finds herself magically swapped with the female protagonist of her own novel! An unpredictable romance fantasy unfolds between the forever-alone author and the male lead of her romance novel, Kang Ha-jun.

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  Connect (2022)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  Dongsoo leads a solitary life, spending his time uploading music to the internet. His ordinary life is upended when he is kidnapped by an organ hunter, who takes out one of his eyes. Soon, Dongsoo is sharing the vision of someone who got his eye. Through the connected vision, he learns that the taker is a notorious serial killer, and pursues the murderer to get his eye back.

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  Hellbound (2021)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.

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  The Beauty Inside (2018)Also drama · comedy · sci-fi & fantasy

  The love story between a top actress and an airline director who each suffers an unusual phenomenon. He suffers from prosopagnosia, while every month she transforms into someone else for a week.

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  Marry My Husband (2024)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy · comedy

  Kang Ji-won, a terminally ill cancer patient, is killed by her husband and best friend after she witnesses them having an affair. She wakes up 10 years before the incident and decides to seek revenge with the help of Yu Ji-hyuk, a director at the company where she works. Now, she must reclaim her fate and eliminate the trash from her life.

  ★ 4.7 from 3 members11 tracking it here
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  Let Me Understand Your Language (2019)Also drama

  A story that follows a man who discovers a new way of living after he falls in love with a Dai girl and its people. From the moment he fell in love with Yu Bo, Xu Haoran grew to appreciate the Dai people's culture, their positivity and their philosophy towards nature and towards life. He starts to pour his passion and focus towards protecting the rainforest and the animals. Not one to be confined, Xu Haoran never expected to fall for a Dai girl and he never imagined that falling in love would be so hard. Yu Bo has just drank the cross-cupped wine with Yan Long, a man from her tribe who has been pursuing her. His girlfriend Han Wenwen is unwilling to accept that she has lost in love. Moreover, Yu Bo's aunt turns out to be the woman that his father abandoned a long time ago. Even as he finds solutions for his problems, it is said that to love is easy but to stay together is difficult. Will he overcome the challenges to be with the woman that he loves?