K-Dramas Like Sugar

Same energy. Different language. These Korean, Chinese, and Japanese dramas share the exact DNA of Sugar — same story beats, same emotional intensity, same kind of show.

2024 TV Show Mystery Thriller Drama
10 Korean & Asian Drama Matches
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you watch
21%
Grid poster
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Grid

21% match
10 eps Disney+ Thriller Sci Fi Mystery Mystery Figure Time Travel Adjacent

Thirty years ago, a mysterious figure called The Ghost appeared and saved humanity from solar winds that would have destroyed all electronics on Earth — and then vanished. Now a wa…

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious energy throughout.

Sugar poster
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21%
365: Repeat the Year poster
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16 eps SBS Thriller Mystery Sci Fi Time Loop Adjacent Ensemble Mystery

Ten strangers receive a mysterious invitation to travel back exactly one year in time — a chance to undo whatever destroyed their lives. What they don't realize until it's too late…

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious energy throughout.

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you watch
19%
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Someday or One Day

19% match
13 eps SET Television Romance Mystery Thriller Time Travel Body Swap Adjacent

Chen Yun-ru is a woman grieving the sudden death of her boyfriend, obsessively listening to a song from 1998. Then she wakes up in the body of a girl from that era — Wang Quan-shen…

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious and melancholic energy throughout.

Sugar poster
you watch
18%
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Dr. Brain

18% match
6 eps Apple TV+ Sci Fi Mystery Thriller Brain Sync Grieving Scientist

Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.

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18%
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16 eps OCN Crime Thriller Sci Fi Time Travel Fish Out Of Water

A meticulous 2018 detective is hit by a car and wakes up in 1988 as a young cop in a rural city. Trapped between a time he knows nothing about and a case he can't solve, he must fi…

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious energy throughout.

Sugar poster
you watch
18%
Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation poster
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12 eps TV Tokyo Mystery Thriller Drama Brilliant Detective Unusual Protagonist

Sakurako Kujo is an osteologist — she studies bones — and her hobby is finding and reassembling skeletons she discovers in nature. She is accompanied on these expeditions by a high…

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Both navigate the same emotional territory: observation. Same mysterious and melancholic energy throughout.

Sugar poster
you watch
18%
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Steins;Gate

18% match
24 eps TV Saitama / Crunchyroll Sci Fi Thriller Drama Time Travel Twist Ending

A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.

Sugar poster
you watch
17%
Black Out poster
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Black Out

17% match
12 eps MBC Thriller Mystery Crime Amnesia Unreliable Narrator

A detective wakes up in a hospital with no memory, covered in someone else's blood, and holding a wedding ring that isn't his. As he reconstructs his identity, every clue suggests …

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Like Sugar, it leans hard into noir. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious energy throughout.

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Sugar poster
you watch
17%
You Are My Spring poster
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You Are My Spring

17% match
16 eps tvN Romance Mystery Drama Slow Burn Mystery Romance

A hotel concierge who learned to hide pain behind a perfect smile and a psychiatrist who moved in to help trauma survivors find each other in an apartment building where a murder m…

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious and melancholic energy throughout.

Sugar poster
you watch
16%
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Kairos

16% match
16 eps MBC Thriller Mystery Sci Fi Time Slip Unlikely Partnership

A man in 2020 and a woman in 2019 are mysteriously connected by a one-minute daily window across time, working together across the temporal gap to change both their fates.

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Same mysterious energy throughout.

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10 Best K-Dramas for Sugar Fans

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K-Dramas Like Sugar: FAQ

What K-drama should I watch if I like Sugar?

If you love Sugar, start with Grid or 365: Repeat the Year — both share the same Mystery and Thriller DNA. DramaMatch found 10 Asian drama matches total.

Is there a Korean version of Sugar?

The closest Korean equivalent to Sugar is Grid (2022), which scores a 21% match on DramaMatch. Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious energy throughout.

Where can I watch Asian dramas like Sugar?

Asian dramas similar to Sugar are available on Netflix, Viki, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and Hulu. DramaMatch shows the exact streaming platform for each recommendation so you can start watching immediately.

Why do Sugar fans like K-dramas?

Sugar fans tend to love K-dramas because Korean drama storytelling delivers the same emotional intensity, strong character arcs, and genre-blending — especially Mystery and Thriller. K-dramas often tell tighter, season-long stories without filler episodes.

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