Asian Dramas Like The Chi

An audacious heist of the newly formed Unified Korea Mint: a masked crew of desperate people, each with nothing left to lose, takes hundreds of hostages and demands the impossible …

If you loved The Chi's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Six high school boys from a rough-and-tumble background form a band that's too raw, too real, and too good to stay small. When they're forced to transfer to an elite prep school, t…

Like The Chi, Flower Boy Band is built around ensemble where every character earns their screen time. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

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 The Chi's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, 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 emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

The Yoon family has run the same traditional Korean restaurant for three generations — each one with a completely different idea about what the restaurant should be. The grandmothe…

If you loved The Chi's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Generation to Generation delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

An Sheng and Qi Yue have been inseparable since they were thirteen — one loud and restless, the other quiet and safe. Then a boy named Su Jiaming walks in and becomes the fault lin…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

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

Like The Chi, Reply 1988 is built around ensemble where every character earns their screen time. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Interconnected stories of people living on Jeju Island, each facing their own joys, sorrows, and loves.

If you loved The Chi's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Our Blues delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — community and coming of age — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

The Lee family has run a traditional Korean iron-works business for three generations — and the fourth generation is tearing it apart. Between the eldest daughter who wants to mode…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

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 The Chi, Resident Playbook is built around ensemble where every character earns their screen time. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Ma Tian is a well-off transfer student who walks into an ordinary inner-city high school and immediately clashes with Lao Gou — loud, broke, and genuinely the most himself person M…

If you loved The Chi's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Run for Young delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.