K-Dramas Like My Perfect Stranger
Loved My Perfect Stranger (2023), KBS2, and want more with the same feel? It is known for time travel, murder and investigation. Here are 10 Korean dramas that come closest, ranked from the best match down.
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Life on Mars
라이프 온 마스
Han Tae Joo is a modern, by-the-numbers detective who trusts data over instinct.
Same feel: 1980s, Time Travel, Murder, Mystery
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Tunnel
터널
In 1986 a determined detective is hunting a serial killer when he slips through a tunnel and comes out in present-day Seoul, thirty years later.
Same feel: Time Travel, Murder, Investigation, Sci-Fi
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365: Repeat the Year
365: 운명을 거스르는 1년
Every year, a mysterious rule allows ten people to go back in time and relive the past twelve months. When they use it, their choices ripple out in strange and dangerous ways.
Same feel: Time Travel, Murder, Mystery, Drama
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Boyhood
소년시대
In the late 1980s, a small, bullied boy transfers to a rough agricultural high school where fists decide everything.
Same feel: 1980s
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Beyond Evil
괴물
Twenty years ago a girl vanished from a quiet town, and her disappearance has never been solved. Now a series of new murders has shaken the same place.
Same feel: Murder, Investigation, Mystery, Drama
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Snowdrop
설강화
In 1987, a wounded man leaps into the dormitory of a women's university in Seoul, and a student named Yeong Ro finds him and hides him.
Same feel: 1980s, Romance, Drama
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Youth of May
오월의 청춘
In Gwangju in 1980, medical student Hwang Hee-tae, a golden boy from a comfortable family, meets nursing student Kim Myung-hee, a girl who dreams of a better life.
Same feel: 1980s, Romance, Drama
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Reply 1988
응답하라 1988
In a small Seoul neighborhood in the late 1980s, five families live so close that their doors are never really shut.
Same feel: Nostalgia, Romance, Drama
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Perfect Marriage Revenge
완벽한 결혼의 정석
I Ju is a painter who feels overlooked by her adoptive family and finds out her husband loves her younger sister.
Same feel: Time Travel, Romance, Drama
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It's Okay to Not Be Okay
사이코지만 괜찮아
Moon Gang Tae is a community health worker at a psychiatric hospital, gifted with intelligence, physical strength, patience, empathy, and quick judgment.
Same feel: Romance, Romance, Drama
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About My Perfect Stranger
Two strangers, a young news anchor and a woman who once wanted to become a writer, are thrown back to 1987 through a strange twist of fate. See the full page, cast and where to watch →
Questions about dramas like My Perfect Stranger
What are the best dramas like My Perfect Stranger?
Our top picks are Life on Mars, Tunnel, 365: Repeat the Year, followed by Boyhood. Each one shares parts of its feel, such as time travel, murder and investigation, and links to a page with the story, cast and where to watch.
Where can I watch My Perfect Stranger?
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