K-Dramas like My Splendid Life

12 shows with a similar feel

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  The Long Season (2023)Also drama

  The 12-episode series follows Wang Xiang, an ex-train driver who had worked his whole life at the steel plant in a fictional small town in North China, as he attempts to solve the mystery behind a brutal murder during the autumn of 1998. For more than 20 years, the murder has haunted him and other people who worked at the steel plant as they struggled to come to terms with the loss they’ve experienced.
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  You Are My Secret (2024)Also drama

  Lobby manager Tu Xiaoning and rising business star Ji Yuheng reconnect as childhood friends with a shared goal of marriage. As their lives intertwine through work and love, they navigate the complexities of relationships, balancing their dual roles as colleagues and newlyweds.
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  Find Yourself (2020)Also drama

  A love story between an accomplished career woman and a younger man... He Fan Xing's company is at risk of being acquired, while her relationship with Yuan Song faces societal pressures due to their age difference. The consecutive blows in her work and love life push her to an emotional quagmire, and it is during this time that Ye Lu Ming enters her life. Being older in age, he is mature, stable and knowledgeable. He becomes He Fan Xing's life coach and the source of conflict between the couple. For He Fan Xing, it's not merely a matter of choosing the man that she loves, but considering the contradictions of adopting the traditional mindset on marriage.
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  Ode to Joy (2016)Also drama

  Five independent, career-driven women living in the Ode to Joy apartment building navigate love, ambition, and personal growth as they chase fulfillment on their own terms. As they try to make it in the big city, each faces unique challenges and romantic entanglements while discovering who they truly want to be.
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  Graceful Family (2019)Also drama

  Mo Seok-hee is an only child and her father runs the large company MC Group. She is beautiful, smart and rich. Mo Seok-hee appears like she is arrogant, but she struggles over her mother’s death. Her mother was killed 15 years ago. Meanwhile, Heo Yoon-do is a lawyer, but he doesn’t even have an office. He solves small problems of neighborhood residents at a restaurant. He is full of love. Miraculously, Heo Yoon-do is headhunted to join the TOP team at MC Group. The TOP team manages the affairs of the family who runs the MC Group. Their job includes covering up immoral or illegal behaviors done by the family.

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  The Imperial Coroner (2021)Also drama

  A female coroner and royal detective solve a decades-old mystery in Tang Dynasty China, risking all to expose dangerous secrets.
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  Story of Kunning Palace (2023)Also drama

  A fallen queen, Jiang Xuening who aspired to have the highest power and authority in her life was held hostage by rebels after the king, Shen Jie was poisoned. In this life, she used everyone around her to reach the authority of the queen but in the end, she remained under house arrest and Xie Wei slaughtered the entire city. Later, she received the decree to be buried with the emperor. She got a second chance to change her fate by not entering the palace but when she woke up after rebirth, she was already messing around. Even though she vowed not to enter the palace, a certain turn of events again entangles her with the palace and Xie Wei whom she hated the most.

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  Cinderella Game (2024)Also drama

  A woman who was used as a false daughter by her real family's enemy becomes the embodiment of revenge, but grows and heals as she realizes the true meaning of what she thought she wanted the most.

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  Pure Pumpkin Flower (2010)Also drama

  The story of the love story and dreams of a pure-hearted girl, Soon Jung, who never loses hope even in difficult circumstances.
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  Romance of a Twin Flower (2023)Also drama

  A quirky genius girl named Ji Man loses her memory through an accident, and inexplicably replaced her twin sister and entered the Hou Manor. With her outstanding wits and business acumen, she managed to resolve numerous crises, eventually winning the favor of Ning Yu Xuan, the cold and arrogant young master of Hou manor.
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  Asura (2025)Also drama

  In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel.
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  My Way (2022)Also drama

  The suicide of her best friend, Cheng Ru Ying, ripples through the lives of four mothers – Fang Yuan, Jin Lu, You Xiao Zhu and Ding Mu Mu – as they search for the truth about her suicide. This accident shatters the perfect life of full-time housewife Fang Yuan. When Jin Lu, a non-maritalist curator, is about to realize her career dream, she accidentally gets pregnant and the father of her baby is her temporary boyfriend. The four mothers bravely face up to the twists and turns and search for their initial dreams, and at the same time, they work together to reveal the truth about Cheng Ru Ying's death and to do justice to the dead.