K-Dramas like Checkmate

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Nevertheless, (2021)Also drama

  The intoxicating charm of a flirtatious art school classmate pulls a reluctant love cynic into a friends-with-benefits relationship.

  ★ 4.5 from 4 members7 tracking it here
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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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  Summer Strike (2022)Also drama

  After getting dumped by her boyfriend and losing her mother in an accident, Yeo-reum decides to move to a small village to do nothing.

  1 tracking it here
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  My Roommate Is a Gumiho (2021)Also drama

  To become a human, a 999-year-old Gumiho, Shin Woo-yeo needs to fill his fox bead with human energy before he turns 1,000 years old. One day, a college girl, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo-yeo's fox bead.

  4 tracking it here
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  Love Alarm (2019)Also drama

  Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.

  ★ 4.0 from 3 members6 tracking it here
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  Love for Love's Sake (2024)Also drama

  A man winds up inside a video game where he plays a teen character who must make a tragic athlete happy — or risk dying. Can their love survive?

  1 tracking it here
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  Bloodhounds (2023)Also drama

  Faced with ruthless foes with a violent thirst, two young boxers band together — risking life and limb to bring justice and protect their loved ones.

  ★ 4.6 from 8 members20 tracking it here
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  MIGNON (2023)Also drama

  In a brutal underground world, a vampire medic and a wounded young fighter form a fragile bond—one built on pain, longing, and forbidden desire.
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  Friendly Rivalry (2025)Also drama

  A high-teen mystery thriller about a close relationship between teenage girls in a harsher survival competition than entrance examinations.

  5 tracking it here
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  Link: Eat, Love, Kill (2022)Also drama

  Eun Gye-hoon, a famous chef, opens a restaurant in a town he lived when he was a little kid. In the past, he had a twin sister. But after a traumatic incident tat the hometown, the family lost her. He used to have a strong emotional link to his sister, able to synchronize with any kinds of feelings she was having. When Noh Da-hyun, a young woman in need of help, visits him one day, Gye-hoon starts to feel that strong link again.

  1 tracking it here
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  Bloody Heart (2022)Also drama

  It is a fictional historical drama about the story of King Seonjong who ascends to the throne due to a rebellion, and Lee Tae who becomes the King after him.
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  The Witch (2025)Also drama

  The story of a woman who is kicked out of her village and called a "witch" when the men that she likes get hurt or die, and a man who risks his life to try to save her from the law of death.

  3 tracking it here