Shows Like Gu Family Book

In a fantasy world, a powerful sorceress trapped in a blind woman's body becomes the master of a young mage.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A medieval general travels forward in time to bring a modern Korean doctor back to Goryeo to save the queen — and falls in love with her. A time-travel historical romance that uses…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same warm and exciting energy throughout.

A noblewoman disguised as a male bookseller discovers that a powerful vampire scholar has been protecting the Joseon dynasty from an evil vampire lord for over 120 years. To end th…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A crown prince dies unexpectedly, and his secret twin sister takes his place — ruling as king for years while hiding her identity. When a new court tutor arrives, the "king" finds …

Like Gu Family Book, it leans hard into forbidden romance. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

Crown Prince Sajo Hyun has been locked away his entire life due to a prophecy that the person who sees his face will die — but the bloodthirsty alter-ego that emerges when he loses…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A Joseon-era scholar facing execution discovers a mysterious talisman that transports him to modern-day Seoul each time he opens it. In the present, he meets a warm, struggling act…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A fierce Goguryeo princess raised as an assassin infiltrates enemy territory disguised as a commoner — and finds unexpected peace with a humble general's son who wants nothing to d…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

The legendary story of Gil Dong, a man born with supernatural strength to a slave mother, who rises from oppressed commoner to folk hero — robbing from corrupt nobles to give to th…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same adventurous and emotional energy throughout.

A Joseon crown prince, forced to wear a mask to survive a conspiracy that controls the water supply, must outwit a powerful merchant guild monopolising the nation's most essential …

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A Korean boy born into slavery escapes to America, returns as a US Marine captain, and falls for a noblewoman fighting for independence.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.