If You Loved Stranger Things, Watch These K-Dramas

High school students are trapped on campus during a zombie outbreak and have to survive using only each other. All of Us Are Dead is Stranger Things with the dial turned up on horror: same ensemble of teens with different personalities and skills, same mixture of real emotional beats with visceral terror, same sense that the bonds between them are what will either save or doom them. Compulsively watchable.

Residents of an apartment complex survive a monster apocalypse where humans transform into creatures born from their own suppressed desires. Sweet Home has Stranger Things' core monster-horror DNA plus a psychological layer — the Upside Down made internal. The ensemble of survivors mirrors Stranger Things' found-family structure, and the monsters are genuinely inventive.

Five teenagers and their families living in the same alley in 1988 Seoul navigate growing up, first loves, and family hardship together. If Stranger Things' nostalgia and friendship are what hook you, Reply 1988 is the Korean equivalent — no supernatural elements, but the same emotional warmth and period detail. You will cry. Everyone cries.

A team of noodle shop workers are secretly demon-hunters with supernatural abilities. The Uncanny Counter has Stranger Things' essential structure: an ordinary-seeming team with hidden powers, a supernatural threat that keeps escalating, and the found-family bonds that form when regular people are thrown into extraordinary circumstances together. Huge fun.

An immortal goblin waiting for the one who can end his centuries-long life meets a girl with the power to do it — and falls in love with her instead. Goblin is Stranger Things for the supernatural romance angle: mythology-heavy world-building, a mythology that the protagonists are trapped inside, and an emotional payoff that justifies the elaborate setup. The bromance subplot is some of the best television ever made.

A crown prince investigates a zombie plague spreading across Joseon Korea and uncovers the political conspiracy behind it. Kingdom is Stranger Things' structure — ordinary people investigating something deeply wrong, discovering it goes higher than they thought — in a historical epic package. The six-episode first season is essentially a perfect piece of television.

A former mountain spirit living in modern Seoul investigates supernatural disappearances alongside a documentary filmmaker who may be connected to his past. Tale of the Nine Tailed has Stranger Things' mythology-from-another-world energy: creatures with rules and histories, a protagonist with one foot in each world, and the sense that the ordinary and the supernatural are always just one door apart.