Asian Dramas Like The English

Gang Nam-soon was separated from her family as a child and raised in Mongolia, where she developed extraordinary physical strength. When she finally returns to Seoul to find her mo…

If you loved The English's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Strong Girl Nam-soon delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — love and identity — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

In the fantasy world of Novoland, Fang Hai Shi is a Pearl Diver — a woman with a rare ability to harvest soul pearls from deep water. She is recruited into the Emperor's guard and …

Both navigate the same emotional territory: love and identity. Same atmospheric and romantic 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 questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A lawyer who used to fight with his fists teams up with a righteous attorney to take down a corrupt judge.

Both are built around a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. 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 questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.

Bai Yuechu is a demon hunter with a past he can't outrun; Hong Yue is a fox spirit matchmaker trying to fulfill a soul pact from a previous life. They despise each other. They're a…

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

A South Korean heiress crash-lands in North Korea and falls for a military officer who hides her.

If you loved The English's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Crash Landing on You delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.

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 questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A young man raised in the Thai jungle as a weapon of revenge returns to Seoul and infiltrates the Blue House as a presidential bodyguard — secretly targeting the corrupt officials …

Both are built around a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

Song Yi-heon, the most feared gangster boss in Korea, is in the middle of a fight when he wakes up inhabiting the body of a bullied high school student. Stuck as a teenager with no…

If you loved The English's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, High School Return of a Gangster delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.