2022
16 eps
KBS
Fantasy Romance Comedy
Seul-bi is a woman who brings miraculous good fortune to anyone she touches — but has been locked away from the world by the powerful family that exploits her gift. When she escape…
If you loved Legend of the Blue Sea's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Jinxed at First delivers exactly that. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2025
14 eps
SBS
Fantasy Romance Comedy
A contemporary woman who works as a wedding planner begins seeing a man who appears only in liminal moments — doorways, crossings, the space between sleeping and waking. He turns o…
Like Legend of the Blue Sea, Fox Bride Star is built around love story that refuses to end, even across lifetimes. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2016
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Comedy
An immortal goblin seeks his bride to end his cursed immortality, finding unexpected love and friendship.
Like Legend of the Blue Sea, it leans hard into supernatural romance. The emotional territory — reincarnation and sacrifice — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2017
16 eps
tvN
Romance Melodrama Mystery
A bestselling novelist, his zealous number-one fan, and an unwanted ghostwriter find themselves bound together — and then discover they were connected in a previous life as indepen…
Like Legend of the Blue Sea, Chicago Typewriter is built around love story that refuses to end, even across lifetimes. The emotional territory — reincarnation and sacrifice — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2016
20 eps
KBS
Fantasy Romance Comedy
A mermaid from the Joseon era and a con man karma-reconnect across lifetimes in modern Seoul.
If you loved Legend of the Blue Sea's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Knight Runner delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — reincarnation — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2023
12 eps
tvN
Romance Fantasy Drama
A woman who remembers all her past lives searches for her soul connection from her most recent life.
Like Legend of the Blue Sea, See You in My 19th Life is built around love story that refuses to end, even across lifetimes. The emotional territory — reincarnation — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2023
12 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Fantasy
Pontifex Lembrary, a saintly religious leader in a high fantasy kingdom, is transported into the body of Wild Animal — a notoriously arrogant K-pop idol with scandals stacked to th…
If you loved Legend of the Blue Sea's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, The Heavenly Idol delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — fish out of water — is the same. Same warm energy throughout.
2023
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Fantasy
In Hae-won, a vampire who has been sleeping in a coffin for 200 years, awakens to find his body is slowly becoming human — a fatal process unless he can find a way to reverse it. H…
The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2010
16 eps
SBS
Romance Comedy Fantasy
A young man accidentally releases a nine-tailed fox spirit who has been trapped in a painting for 500 years — and strikes a deal to let her stay in his body while he searches for t…
Like Legend of the Blue Sea, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho is built around fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure. 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.
2025
12 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Drama
The last deity in charge of spring — responsible for renewal, growth, and the particular grief of things ending so other things can begin — has been demoted to human form as punish…
Like Legend of the Blue Sea, The Last God of Spring is built around fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.