K-Dramas like O'PENing: Grand Shining Hotel

9 shows with a similar feel

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  The Price of Confession (2025)Also mystery · drama

  Accused of killing her husband, a woman is offered a way out by a mysterious stranger: in exchange for a confession in her place, she must commit murder.

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  Light Shop (2024)Also mystery · drama

  In a mysterious shop that sells lamps, the dead may return to the world of the living, while the living may not walk out alive.

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  Somali and the Forest Spirit (2020)Also drama

  The world is ruled by spirits, goblins, and all manner of strange creatures. Human beings are persecuted, to the very point of extinction. One day, a golem and a lone human girl meet. This is a record of the pair, one a member of a ruined race, the other a watchman of the forest. It tells of their travels together and of the bond between father and daughter.
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  Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea (2013)Also drama

  Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed. This show follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea. Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface.
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  Under the Veil (2015)Also drama

  The drama is told in three separate folklore stories about love, lust, vanity, greed and selfishness. {Changing Pins} - Male and female fraternal twins fall in love with different men with the same appearance. The older male twin has an homosexual affair with a Prince of the Liao Kingdom, while the female twin falls in love with a poor scholar. {Judge Lu} - A poor scholar has an affair with a courtesan that resembles his wife. {Chasing Fish} - A scholar becomes the object of affection to a fish spirit and human girl with the face.
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  Lotus Lantern (2005)Also drama

  San Sheng Mu was a kind and beautiful deity who saved the life of Liu Yan Chang, a mortal scholar. The two fell in love and had a son, Chen Xiang. San Sheng Mu's older brother, Er Lang Shen, found out about their romance and led the Heavenly Brigade in pursuit of the family. During this time of peril, San Sheng Mu gave the Lotus Lantern to Yan Chang to protect him and their son. Soon she was captured and pinned beneath Mount Hua. Thereafter, Yan Chang and Chen Xiang hid in a small village, making a meager living. Sixteen years later, Chen Xiang has grown up. One day he discovers that he possesses some mysterious powers, such as the ability to pass through walls. However, these powers begin to attract the attention of Er Lang Shen and Xiao Tian Quan; thus, Yan Chang must tell his son the story of their forbidden past. After learning of his mother's imprisonment at the hands of his uncle, Chen Xiang sets out on a journey to rescue her.
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  My Heart (2021)Also drama

  It tells the love story between Lu Qing Qing, a girl with no spiritual powers but full of vitality, and the Tsundere prince Nangong Yi Xin. Set in a fictional world where everyone has spiritual powers, Lu Qing Qing tries hard to improve her cultivation, but no matter what she does, she is still relegated as a loser. Until one day, she finds a way to increase her powers. Prince Nangong Yi Xin is an arrogant playboy on the outside who is actually wise and warm-hearted on the inside.
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  Kaiba (2008)Also drama · mystery

  In a world where memories can be stored like computer data, a young man named Kaiba searches for his lost memories and discovers a connection with a mysterious girl.
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  The Spirealm (2024)Also drama · mystery

  Jiu Shi’s skills are pushed to the edge as he faces life-or-death challenges inside a brutal VR maze.

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