K-Dramas like Pleasant Outcast

12 shows with a similar feel

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  All of Us Are Dead (2022)Also 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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  Mousetrap (2026)Also drama

  A reclusive writer wakes to find his identity stolen — and must ally with a ruthless loan shark to reclaim his life from a man known as "The Rat."

  14 tracking it here
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  The Uncanny Counter (2020)Also drama

  A group of supernatural demon hunters known as "Counters," each with unique abilities, disguise themselves as employees of a noodle restaurant, while tracking down evil spirits that terrorize the mortal world.

  ★ 3.7 from 3 members15 tracking it here
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  Duty After School (2023)Also drama

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

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  Hellbound (2021)Also drama

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

  ★ 4.3 from 3 members5 tracking it here
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  May I Help You? (2022)Also drama

  Baek Dong Joo, a newly hired funeral director, has the uncanny gift, or curse, to momentarily resurrect and talk to the recently deceased. She has to grant their last wishes or have her days be filled with a series of bad luck and accidents. And helping the little boy that first terrified her when he came to life will lead her down a path she never could have expected. Kim Tae Hee works as a man for hire. Employed by his uncle Vincent running the newly opened errand service company “A Dime A Job” he can be hired for any odd (but legal) task. One day, Kim Tae Hee encounters Baek Dong Joo, when he is hired by her boyfriend to break up with her in his stead. After that, their paths continue to cross, and by the virtue of their jobs, their fates get intertwined deeper and deeper in a series of life and death situations, surrounding the wishes of the people who had died, and the painful past it is going to unravel for both of them.

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  Fired Up! (2026)Also drama

  Chou Lu-yung sets out to uncover the truth behind his father's death while managing the family restaurant, "Chin Lai Hao." He faces life’s challenges with his close friends and vows to seek justice for his father.
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  Use for My Talent (2021)Also drama

  Because of his incomplete family, Gu Ren Qi has a closed up personality and mysophobia. Shuang Jiao used to have a happy family, but later lost her mother in a car accident, and became a slovenly person. The two became acquainted when Shuang Jiao becomes an employee in Gu Ren Qi's cleaning company. The two became closer as they get to know each other. Under each other's influence, they began to heal from their wounds.
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  And, Live (2019)Also drama

  Toko Ikuta lost her parents in a car accident at the age of 3. Afterwards, her uncle, who ran a barbershop in Morioka, raised her and she had a happy childhood. Toko Ikuta was active as a local idol and she dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age of 19, she is set to take an audition in Tokyo. The day before her audition, on March 11, 2011, the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hits Japan. In the autumn of 2011, Toko Ikuta works at a cafe. She goes with her Korean co-worker Han Yoo-Ri to do volunteer work in Kesennuma as the area recovers from the devastating tsunami. There, Toko Ikuta meets Kiyotaka Shimizu who is a university student from Tokyo and a member of a student volunteer group. While spending time together in Kesennuma, Toko Ikuta and Kiyotaka Shimizu develop feelings for each other.
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  Pegasus Market (2019)Also drama

  Employees at a struggling mart embrace their roles as kings, defying the customer-centric norms. The manager strives to revive the store, battling against a ruthless boss determined to ruin it.
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  Secret Relationships (2025)Also drama

  Trapped in an escalating love square, a salaryman must navigate his tumultuous feelings for a colleague, a former tutor, and an heir.
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  True Beauty (2024)Also drama

  Once bullied for her looks, Jugyeong transforms herself using the art of makeup. When she joins a new school with a True Beauty goddess competition, offering winners the chance of recruitment by entertainment agencies, she instantly becomes a top candidate! But her new identity is at stake when heartthrob Suho Lee accidentally sees her bare face. Will her elite status be short-lived?

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