K-Dramas like Brilliant Legacy
Finished Brilliant Legacy (2009) and want that feeling again? These 12 shows come closest.
12 shows with a similar feel
Queen of Tears (2024)Also drama · comedyThe queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.
★ 4.7 from 3 members12 tracking it here
Nice to Not Meet You (2025)Also comedy · dramaA 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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Welcome to Waikiki (2018)Also drama · comedyKang Dong-Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Cheon Joon-Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong-Doo-Sik came to Seoul to become a scenario writer, but things have not been easy for him.
5 tracking it here
Dynamite Kiss (2025)Also drama · comedyA passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.
★ 4.3 from 3 members9 tracking it here
Crazy Love (2022)Also drama · comedyNo Go Jin is the most popular mathematics instructor in the private education field and the CEO of GOTOP Education. Even though he has only a high school level education, he has achieved all of his success due to his extreme intelligence. He seems like a perfect man with a handsome appearance, high IQ, and wealth. He is also narcissistic. One day, he is suddenly warned that he will be murdered. Lee Shin A works as No Go Jin’s secretary. She is a diligent and responsible employee. Due to her quiet and introverted personality, she has little presence with her boss No Go Jin and her colleagues at work. Her colleagues begin to recognize her, because she has worked for the notorious No Go Jin for more than 1 year. She then learns that she does not have much time left to live.
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Surely Tomorrow (2025)Also comedy · dramaIn their twenties, Lee Kyeong-do and Seo Ji-woo part ways after two passionate relationships. A decade later, they meet again as a reporter who covers an adultery scandal and the wife of the man at the center of that scandal. Reuniting in their late thirties, their youth has passed, but their love remains vivid. Kyeong-do now strives to prove to her and to himself that he still loves her.
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Our Sticky Love (2026)Also drama · comedyAn ambitious prosecutor loses her memory and moves in with a boxing coach who claims to be her boyfriend. Can this sticky situation turn into real love?
★ 5.0 from 6 members45 tracking it here
If Only You Weren't the One (2026)Also dramaAfter a painful breakup at thirty, a woman’s life is thrown into turmoil when she reunites with a former illicit lover at her workplace, reigniting unresolved desire and drawing her back into a secret relationship where love and temptation blur.
Mr. Kurosaki's Pure Love Never Stops (2026)Also dramaHigh schooler Koharu has never experienced love—until a mysterious regular at her family’s bento shop surprises her with a marriage proposal and a fortune. Thrust into his relentless, over-the-top devotion, she must navigate the whirlwind of first love.
Oshiete Kudasai, Fujishima-san! (2026)Also dramaA clueless romance novelist strikes a daring deal with a stoic banker for “research,” only to find their secret arrangement turning into real love.

The Silent Wife (2024)Also dramaAmnesiac CEO Shen Chiyan unknowingly mistreats his mute wife, Song Qinian, while Shen Chiyan's first love threatens to tear their family apart. As heartbreak and loss mount, Song Qinian finds her voice in a powerful turning point that changes everything.
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