K-Dramas like The Empress

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Perfect Marriage Revenge (2023)Also drama

  Waking from a fatal accident to find herself in the past, Han Yi-joo teams up with Seo Do-guk to take revenge on the family who never loved her.

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  Hierarchy (2024)Also drama

  The top 0.01% of students control law and order at Jooshin High School, but a secretive transfer student chips a crack in their indomitable world.

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  Woman in a Veil (2023)Also drama

  Jung Gyul Wool loses her vision and ability to walk because of her materialistic husband and his mistress. Despite her shortcomings, she hatches a plot to seek revenge.
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  The Manipulated (2025)Also drama

  Taejoong's life is torn apart when he's framed for a heinous crime and imprisoned. Discovering it was all orchestrated by someone on the outside, he embarks on a rage-fueled quest for revenge.

  7 tracking it here
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  Dear X (2025)Also drama

  Behind a beautiful face hides a cruel nature—Baek Ah-jin, who sees through and manipulates others' hearts. After stepping on the sacrifices of many to reach the top, everything begins to change the moment she arrives there. A woman wearing a mask to escape hell and climb to the highest place. And the story of the Xs being brutally crushed by her.

  7 tracking it here
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  The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017)Also drama

  In the 1700's, Crown Prince Lee Sun fights against Pyunsoo hwe. Pyunsoo hwe is an organization that has accumulated power and wealth through privatizing water all over Joseon. Crown Prince Lee Sun becomes a hope for the people who suffers. Ga-Eun is the woman Crown Prince Lee Sun loves and she helps him grow as a ruler.
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  Call It Love (2023)Also drama

  When her family becomes suddenly homeless, Woojoo decides on revenge for all the injustices she has been put through. However, her supposed foe, Dongjin, is a heart-wrenchingly lonely and gentle soul.

  1 tracking it here
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  Autumn in My Heart (2000)Also drama

  Two men and two women, their relationship begins in tragic fates, and it grows into love, agony, and parting.
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  Revenge of Others (2022)Also drama

  A boy falls to his death at school, but Ok Chan-mi does not believe that her twin brother, Park Won-seok, committed suicide. Chan-mi transfers to her brother's school, Yongtan High, and meets Ji Soo-heon, who witnessed her brother's death. A "hero," who avenges bullied students, appears at Yongtan High. Chan-mi speculates that it may be connected to her brother and starts looking for this hero.

  11 tracking it here
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  Moon Embracing the Sun (2012)Also drama

  Years after she's assumed dead by the palace, a young noblewoman, now trained as a shaman, returns to court to reclaim her rightful position as queen.

  3 tracking it here
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  The Judge from Hell (2024)Also drama

  A cruel and vicious judge, who wields power only for herself, meets a warm and cheerful detective who puts the victims first.

  9 tracking it here
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  The Summer That I Loved My Teacher (2016)Also drama

  The story of how a high school student, Takanashi Fuuka, who falls in love with her teacher, Sawada Hiroki, after meeting him by chance one night.