Asian Dramas Like Dynasty (2017)

A competitive, image-obsessed PR strategist and a free-spirited, principled product developer are thrown into a high-stakes rivalry for the same senior position at Korea's top car …

Both navigate the same emotional territory: rivalry and ambition.

A poor girl attends an elite school and clashes with the leader of the school's most powerful group of boys.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: wealth. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Two women from different backgrounds become rivals as they both enter the same university and compete for everything.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: rivalry. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

In the gleaming headquarters of Korea's most powerful conglomerate, a scholarship student from nowhere has clawed his way into the inner circle of the chaebol heir — and the friend…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: wealth and ambition. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Residents of a luxury penthouse apartment engage in schemes, murder, and betrayal over wealth and status.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: wealth. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

A chaebol heiress and her seemingly incompatible husband rediscover their love when life-threatening events reunite them.

The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

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

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

An employee betrayed and killed by his chaebol employers is reborn as the youngest grandson of the family.

Like Dynasty (2017), it leans hard into power struggle. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Workers at a smartphone company fight to survive brutal layoffs, office politics, and unexpected romances.

The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Shin Dan-ah has spent her life believing she's the ordinary character in someone else's story — the kind of woman who ends up with a comfortable enough life but never the fairytale…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.