K-Dramas like Idol I

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Class of Lies (2019)Also crime · mystery

  Ki Moo-Hyeok, a lawyer with a high winning rate, only cares about money. Due to a murder case at a high school which he deals with, his reputation as a lawyer hits rock bottom. To regain his good name as a lawyer, he sneaks into the high school and work as a temporary teacher. He tries to reveal a secret which the students have, and gets involved with Teacher Ha So-Hyun, a P.E. teacher who loves her students. They then face the students'secret.

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  Law School (2021)Also drama · crime · mystery

  Following the case of the murder of a professor at South Korea's top prestigious law school, professors and students become suspects in the murder.

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  Love in Contract (2022)Also drama · comedy

  Contract marriage master Choi Sang-eun's alternate day romance with a long-term mystery client on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and a new superstar client on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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  The Good Detective (2020)Also crime · 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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  Nice to Not Meet You (2025)Also comedy · drama

  A hateful romance between a professional detective actor who wants to become a melodrama master and a female reporter who was demoted from a political reporter who won the Reporter of the Year award to the entertainment department.

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  Suspicious Partner (2017)Also comedy · crime · drama

  Noh Ji-Wook is a prosecutor in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office who ends up switching professions to a private attorney. He harbors a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and his first love. Eun Bong-Hee, a Taekwondo athlete in her youth, is a prosecutor trainee who has become a murder suspect. Eun Bong-Hee and Noh Ji-Wook both find themselves being the focus of a killer.

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  Unmasked (2025)Also comedy · crime · mystery · drama

  In modern-day Seoul, a crack team of investigative journalists fight for their careers after broadcasting a controversial story. With time running out, the team are given an impossible task if they want to save their jobs – solve a twenty-year-old cold case involving a famous actor who disappeared without a trace.

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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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  The Art of Sarah (2026)Also crime · mystery · drama

  A body found in the middle of town. A luxe label on the rise. A detective tests every stitch of a woman's story that keeps changing. What really happened?

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  Ni Chang (2021)Also drama

  Xie Xiaoni, a silk merchant's daughter, rebuilds her life and works to clear her family’s name after a conspiracy ruins them. Determined to succeed, she masters embroidery and navigates challenges from rivals, finding support in Ouyang Ziyu.
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  OMG, Your Honour (2018)Also drama

  John Fan Siu-Yue and James Jiu Lik-Wang are both well-known barristers for handling criminal cases in Hong Kong. They have known each other for thirty years, as classmates and pupils under the same mentor, but have been feuding since the first day of law school. During a rough time in his romantic life, John met TV anchor Ophelia Mok; they married after a short affair but divorced just as quickly. When Ophelia coincidentally meets James, the grudge between the two lawyers deepens.
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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.