K-Dramas like Joseon Survival

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Descendants of the Sun (2016)Also action & adventure

  After a chance meeting in a hospital, an ardent soldier falls for a gifted surgeon. Opposing philosophies tear them apart, but fate has other plans.

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  Lazarus (2025)Also action & adventure

  In 2052, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist develops a drug called Hapna — a cure-all that has the unexpected side-effect of causing death three years later. In response to this threat, a special force of agents—nicknamed "Lazarus"— is assembled to take on the malevolent Skinner.
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  Undercover High School (2025)Also action & adventure

  Ace NIS agent Jung Hae-seong is demoted after a mission failure. He goes undercover at a high school to locate King Gojong's missing gold, meeting his teacher Oh Soo-ah, who sees him as her lost first love, stirring old heartbreak.

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  Iljimae (2008)Also action & adventure

  Set during the Joseon Dynasty, Ryung acts as a useless gangster in the marketplace by day but at night he is a chivalrous robber who robs corrupt government officials to give to the poor. After each robbery he leaves behind a wooden branch from a plum tree at the site of the robbery to take responsibility for the robbery. The poor citizens only know him as Iljimae. Bong Soon is a hilarious girl with good martial art skills and lives as a swindler. She only loves Ryung and sacrifices her whole life for him. Eun Chae is a government official's daughter and is good in nature and usually helps miserable people. She meets Iljimae once by chance, and their sweet love story begins. However, her love puts Iljimae in a dangerous situation because an Imperial Guard also loves her.

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  Moving (2023)Also action & adventure

  Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

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  Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 (2023)Also action & adventure

  The Nine-tailed fox makes a crash landing in the year 1938, an era of chaos, and he struggles to return to the present.

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  The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady (2023)Also action & adventure

  Despite her supposed ineptitude with regular magic, Princess Anisphia defies the aristocracy’s expectations by developing “magicology,” a unique magical theory based on memories from her past life. One day, she witnesses the brilliant noblewoman Euphyllia unjustly stripped of her title as the kingdom’s next monarch. That’s when Anisphia concocts a plan to help Euphyllia regain her good name-which somehow involves them living together and researching magic! Little do these two ladies know, however, that their chance encounter will alter not only their own futures, but those of the kingdom...and the entire world!
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  A Step Into The Past (2001)Also action & adventure

  A Step into the Past is a 2001 Hong Kong television series produced by TVB and based on Huang Yi's novel of the same Chinese title. The series tells the story of a 21st-century Hong Kong VIPPU officer who travels back in time to the Warring States period of ancient China. He is involved in a number of important historical events that leads to the first unification of China under the Qin Dynasty. The series' first original broadcast ran from 15 October to 7 December 2001 on the TVB Jade network in Hong Kong.
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  I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too (2023)Also action & adventure

  A door to another world stretches out before a boy who's been brutally bullied all his life. This alternate reality grants him access to all sorts of things, like cheat skills and a portal that lets him travel between his old and new worlds! Can this class loser turn his life around back home...?
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  Ambassador Magma (1993)Also action & adventure

  The alien invader Goa plots to conquer planet Earth. He first warns the Murakami family (father Atsushi, mother Tomoko, and son Mamoru) of their invasion, and demonstrates his powers by transporting them to a prehistoric jungle and destroying a giant dinosaur before their very eyes. But they will not agree to surrender to Goa, so hope comes in the form of Magma, an armored, golden giant with long hair and antennae. He and his human-sized wife Mol — both created by the wizard Earth — are sent to defend our world against Goa. They befriend Atsushi and Mamoru, the latter has Magma emotionally touched since he wanted to have a child with Mol, so Earth creates a duplicate of Mamoru, named Gam Earth, and gives Mamoru a whistle, with which he can call Gam, Mol, and Magma in times of crisis. So when Goa unleashes his various daikaiju, chances are, Magma, Mol, and Gam will fly to the rescue.
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  The Ultimate Ranger (2016)Also action & adventure

  A man who time-travels from the past ends up getting taken in by a girl. As they spend time together, they start finding out the secrets of their birth.
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  危险又迷人的她 (2024)Also action & adventure

  Ye Nan Yin, ostensibly an ordinary Chinese medicine practitioner, actually wears many aliases, including the legendary doctor Nan Lao and the leader of a hacker group, Ye Tu. Pei Yuan, ostensibly an ordinary university professor, is actually Erye, the ruler of the world's leading family, the Jidao League. Erye and Ye Tu, longtime rivals, unexpectedly fall in love while living in ordinary lives. When their true identities are revealed, what will become of these two deeply in love?