Asian Dramas Like Belfast

University students from across Korea share a boarding house in Seoul during 1994, while a future-flashback teases which of the men the central female character eventually marries.…

If you loved Belfast's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Reply 1994 delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A queen fights to protect her sons in a brutal royal competition to become the next crown prince.

Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A jester who looks exactly like the Joseon king is brought in as a body double — and gradually wins the hearts of the court and people.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Six friends navigate high school in Busan in 1997 — the height of the first K-pop idol wave — while a flash-forward wedding reveals that one of the men in the group married one of …

The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

In the Joseon era, a widower with a troubled past makes his living by kidnapping widows for wealthy clients — a practice called "bossam." He accidentally kidnaps a royal princess w…

If you loved Belfast's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Bossam: Steal the Fate delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A carefree young man from a North Korean defector family impersonates the long-lost grandson of a South Korean hotel mogul to fulfill the dying grandmother's final wish to reunite …

If you loved Belfast's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Curtain Call delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Rao Yi is an immortal candidate who fails every trial and seems to have no spiritual powers whatsoever — until her abilities activate under the worst possible circumstances. Yu Mo …

If you loved Belfast's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, The Last Immortal delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — belonging and sacrifice — is the same. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Five families in a Seoul neighborhood navigate life, love, and growing up in the late 1980s.

Like Belfast, it leans hard into coming of age. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

1980s South Korea. A spirited young woman with a raw, electrifying voice joins a struggling troupe of female pansori and folk performers, driven by a dream she can barely name and …

If you loved Belfast's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Jeong Nyeon delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is bittersweet in the best way: joy and heartbreak in the same breath.

Five medical interns navigate the intense pressures of residency at a Seoul hospital, forming bonds and rivalries as they discover who they really are under extreme professional an…

Like Belfast, Resident Playbook is built around ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.