K-Dramas like Secret Mother

12 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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  The Frog (2024)Also mystery · drama

  One tranquil summer, a mysterious woman checks into a vacation rental — triggering events that disrupt the lives of the owner and those around him.

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  Hello Monster (2015)Also mystery · drama

  A top detective is reunited with a childhood friend who has since become a leading criminal profiler. Can they join forces to stop a serial killer?

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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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  The Art of Sarah (2026)Also 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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  Monstrous (2022)Also drama · mystery

  A giant Buddha statue is unearthed in a small rural town. The mayor believes that it will change the town into a major tourist attraction. However, a catastrophe starts to grow. A centuries-old curse is unleashed from the statue, and it starts to eat up people's souls and make them non-human. Jung Ki-hoon, as archaeologist tries to seek the truth behind the paranormal phenomenon.
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  Love Has It Planned (2024)Also drama

  While on a mission, Song Yao, a law enforcement team intern, mistakes Pei Che, the president of Jianghai Group, for her undercover colleague. On the other hand, Pei Che, who was on his way to get married to a stranger at his grandmother's request, mistakes Song Yao to be his marriage partner. The two get their marriage certificate by accident, and thus begins the love story between a woman and her "kept" man.
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  Caged Revenge (2025)Also drama

  After her brother Lin Chen dies under suspicious circumstances, Lin Wan’er disguises herself as a cadet named “Lin Shen” to infiltrate the Beichen Military Academy, where she suspects the cold, enigmatic instructor Gu Yanzhi. As she searches for the truth behind Lin Chen’s death, she uncovers a deeper conspiracy and an unexpected connection with Gu Yanzhi.
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  Return the World to You (2019)Also drama · mystery

  After losing her boyfriend Qi Lei in a suspicious accident, aspiring designer Yi En builds a thriving fashion brand on her own. But Qi Lei, secretly alive and seeking revenge, returns under a new identity.
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  Ms. Incognito (2025)Also drama

  A bodyguard hides in a village as a kindergarten teacher to avoid her boss' enemies – but faces a new challenge in a skeptical strawberry farmer!

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  Talking Bones (2018)Also mystery

  The story revolves around Shang Jie, the overly critical head of a crime investigation team; Xia Ying, a forensic examiner who is completely engrossed with her profession; Li Xue Kai, a detective and a good tracker; Song Mi, an innocent and ditsy analyst and Ying Ming, a second-generation rich who works as a criminal psychologist. The five form an unlikely team as they are the rejects of the department, yet through teamwork and dedication, they succeed in solving the most unusual murder cases.
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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.