If You Loved Succession, Watch These K-Dramas

The most direct Succession equivalent in K-drama. A loyal conglomerate executive is betrayed and murdered by the family he served — then reincarnated as their youngest son, armed with future knowledge and a revenge agenda. Reborn Rich has Succession's obsession with inherited power, fraternal competition, and the question of whether any of these people actually deserve what they're fighting for. The boardroom scenes are electric.

Succession for the Korean upper class. Elite families in a luxury residential enclave compete viciously over their children's university admissions — and the darkness lurking beneath their polished facades escalates beautifully. Sky Castle has Succession's dark humor, its contempt for wealth without wisdom, and its talent for making you despise characters you can't stop watching.

A corporate fixer for a powerful conglomerate switches sides and channels all her dirty skills into building an opposition candidate. Queenmaker has Succession's DNA — institutional power, ruthless operators, and the question of whether it's possible to do clean work inside a dirty machine. The central dynamic between the fixer and the idealist mirrors Succession's best relationships.

A young man's father is killed by a chaebol heir, and he spends a decade building from nothing to take down the dynasty that destroyed him. Itaewon Class has Succession's focus on corporate power as a site of moral warfare, with an underdog energy that Succession deliberately withholds. The villain family is Succession-caliber awful.

Three sisters from poverty stumble into the orbit of a supremely powerful political family — and discover the secrets that hold their empire together. Little Women has Succession's sense that the ultra-wealthy operate in a different moral universe, and its plot is a masterclass in escalating reveals. One of the best-written Korean dramas of recent years.

A brilliant strategist, presumed dead, returns to the imperial court and methodically dismantles the conspiracy that destroyed his family — while engineering a succession battle among the princes. Nirvana in Fire is what Succession would look like if the Roy family fought for the throne of a medieval Chinese empire. The political chess is extraordinary, and the protagonist is the anti-Logan: methodical, patient, and devastatingly competent.

A former baduk (Go) prodigy enters a corporate trading company as a temp and discovers the institutional violence of office life. Misaeng is Succession from the bottom of the hierarchy — the world where the powerful wage their wars, seen through the eyes of someone with no armor. The show's portrait of corporate culture is the most honest thing Korean drama has ever made.