Asian Dramas Like The Expanse

In a post-apocalyptic Korea where only deliverymen can move between territories, a legendary courier fights oppression.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

The CEO of a groundbreaking lab-grown meat company becomes a target of powerful food industry forces and a shadowy conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything she has built.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. Same cerebral and dramatic energy throughout.

In a dystopian Korea, a charismatic judge runs a live courtroom show while harboring mysterious motives.

If you loved The Expanse's political maneuvering where every alliance is temporary, The Devil Judge delivers exactly that. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.

Teenagers with supernatural powers discover their parents are former government agents, igniting old conflicts.

Same epic and dramatic energy throughout.

When the Prime Minister of South Korea assassinates the President in a desperate bid to save the country from a corrupt system, he discovers that the system fights back harder than…

If you loved The Expanse's political maneuvering where every alliance is temporary, The Whirlwind delivers exactly that. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.

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…

Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.

An asteroid is going to hit Earth in 200 days. Most institutions have collapsed. A middle school teacher stays in her small town to protect her students while the world outside the…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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…

Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.

2071. A catastrophic meteor strike has turned Korea into a near-uninhabitable wasteland. Less than 1% of the population has clean air; everyone else depends on deliverymen called '…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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…

Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.