2023
12 eps
SBS
Thriller Horror Mystery
Gu San-yeong, a young woman struggling financially, becomes possessed by an ancient evil spirit after she picks up her late father's hairpin. Professor Yeom Hae-sang, a folklore ex…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. Same terrifying and emotional energy throughout.
2018
16 eps
OCN
Horror Thriller Supernatural
Twenty years ago, a demonic entity called Park Il-do possessed a man and committed a massacre. Three survivors — a shaman woman, a priest, and a detective — each carry the demon's …
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. Same terrifying and atmospheric energy throughout.
2020
32 eps
MBC
Romance Mystery Drama
A news anchor with hyperthymesia who remembers everything meets a top actress who has lost her memories. As they fall for each other, they discover a tragic connection linking thei…
Both are built around trauma that shapes characters' every choice without reducing them to their wounds. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2024
12 eps
Disney+
Thriller Mystery Horror
A mysterious light shop appears overnight in an ordinary neighborhood, and a series of strange deaths begins to surround it. A stubborn detective and a woman with no memory of her …
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2022
16 eps
tvN
Romance Mystery Thriller
A chef who can physically feel the emotions of a stranger he's inexplicably linked to opens his restaurant in the town where his twin sister disappeared 20 years ago. There he meet…
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2025
8 eps
Netflix
Fantasy Mystery Drama
A woman who inherited the family business of guiding the newly dead to the afterlife discovers that the recent surge in unresolved cases isn't random — someone has been deliberatel…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2021
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Horror Drama
Bulgasal is an immortal creature that cannot be killed — but 600 years ago, a human woman took his ability to feel and his humanity with her when she died. Now she has been reborn,…
Both are built around trauma that shapes characters' every choice without reducing them to their wounds. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2020
16 eps
tvN
Romance Drama Psychological
A psychiatry ward caregiver who has never known love meets a self-centered children's book author with antisocial personality disorder. Their unlikely connection, along with the ca…
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2021
6 eps
Apple TV+
Sci Fi Mystery Thriller
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…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2025
8 eps
Netflix Original
Thriller Horror Mystery
A group of strangers trapped in an isolated rural compound discover they've been brought together by someone who knows exactly what each of them has done — and the 'game' they're f…
Pigpen scratches the same itch as The Haunting of Hill House — different world, same emotional frequency.