Best South Korean science fiction series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch science fiction shows from South Korea, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Sweet Home

    Sweet Home 2020

    As humans turn into savage monsters and the world plunges into terror, a handful of survivors fight for their lives — and to hold on to their humanity.

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  • Poster for Hellbound

    Hellbound 2021

    Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.

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  • Poster for Goblin

    Goblin 2016

    In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

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  • Poster for The Silent Sea

    The Silent Sea 2021

    During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.

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  • Poster for Parasyte: The Grey

    Parasyte: The Grey 2024

    When unidentified parasites violently take over human hosts and gain power, humanity must rise to combat the growing threat.

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  • Poster for Death's Game

    Death's Game 2023

    At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.

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  • Poster for Hotel Del Luna

    Hotel Del Luna 2019

    When he's invited to manage a hotel for dead souls, an elite hotelier gets to know the establishment's ancient owner and her strange world.

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  • Poster for Alchemy of Souls

    Alchemy of Souls 2022

    A powerful sorceress in a blind woman's body encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help to change his destiny.

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  • Poster for Happiness

    Happiness 2021

    A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in the new habitation.

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  • Poster for While You Were Sleeping

    While You Were Sleeping 2017

    Burdened with visions of the future in their dreams, a young woman and two men try to prevent horrible events before they actually happen.

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  • Poster for My Demon

    My Demon 2023

    A pitiless demon becomes powerless after getting entangled with an icy heiress, who may hold the key to his lost abilities — and his heart.

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  • Poster for Love Alarm

    Love Alarm 2019

    Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.

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  • Poster for Black Knight

    Black Knight 2023

    In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average delivery men.

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  • Poster for Scarlet Heart: Ryeo

    Scarlet Heart: Ryeo 2016

    A story of a 25-year-old Go Hajin who is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty. She then wakes up in the body of Lady Hae Soo and finds herself amongst the ruling princes of the Wang Family.

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  • Poster for The King: Eternal Monarch

    The King: Eternal Monarch 2020

    Korean emperor Lee Gon tries to close the doors to a parallel world which was opened by demons; a detective tries to protect the people and the one she loves.

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  • Poster for Signal

    Signal 2016

    
Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.

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  • Poster for Gyeongseong Creature

    Gyeongseong Creature 2023

    Gyeongseong, 1945. In Seoul's grim era under colonial rule, an entrepreneur and a sleuth fight for survival and face a monster born out of human greed.

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  • Poster for Marry My Husband

    Marry My Husband 2024

    Kang Ji-won, a terminally ill cancer patient, is killed by her husband and best friend after she witnesses them having an affair. She wakes up 10 years before the incident and decides to seek revenge with the help of Yu Ji-hyuk, a director at the company where she works. Now, she must reclaim her fate and eliminate the trash from her life.

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  • Poster for Mr. Queen

    Mr. Queen 2020

    A modern chef suddenly becomes trapped inside the body of a queen from the Joseon era, which causes chaos for everyone involved.

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  • Poster for The Legend of the Blue Sea

    The Legend of the Blue Sea 2016

    A mermaid from the Joseon period ends up in present-day Seoul, where she crosses paths with a swindler who may have ties to someone from her past.

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  • Poster for Tomorrow

    Tomorrow 2022

    Once guiding the 'dead', now saving those who want to die! The Afterlife Office Human Fantasy.

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  • Poster for I'm Not a Robot

    I'm Not a Robot 2017

    Kim Min Gyu has wealth and success, but lives an isolated life due to his allergy of people. He then meets and falls in love with a girl who is pretending to be a robot for her ex-boyfriend, a genius robots professor.

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  • Poster for Doom at Your Service

    Doom at Your Service 2021

    A woman with only a short time to live and a man with the supernatural power to bring the world to an end discover the true meaning of life and love.

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  • Poster for A Korean Odyssey

    A Korean Odyssey 2017

    A self-serving mythical creature's bid for invincibility backfires when he finds himself at the mercy of a woman who can see otherworldly beings.

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  • Poster for Oh My Ghostess

    Oh My Ghostess 2015

    Na Bong Sun may be a skilled sous chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the seductive ghost of Shin Soon Ae possesses her. Imbued with a fiery new "personality," Bong Sun starts turning heads, including that of Kang Sun Woo, the hottest chef in town and Bong Sun's secret crush!

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  • Poster for Mouse

    Mouse 2021

    A psychopath's ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.

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  • Poster for Tale of the Nine Tailed

    Tale of the Nine Tailed 2020

    A TV producer discovers a secret supernatural world as she becomes entangled with a former deity who's spent centuries searching for his lost lover.

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  • Poster for Memories of the Alhambra

    Memories of the Alhambra 2018

    While looking for the cryptic creator of an innovative augmented-reality game, an investment firm executive meets a woman who runs a hostel in Spain.

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  • Poster for Secret Garden

    Secret Garden 2010

    A wealthy young man and a poor stunt woman fall for each other, but when their souls swap they soon learn how different their two worlds are.

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  • Poster for Lovely Runner

    Lovely Runner 2024

    Right after Ryu Sun-jae, a top star, ends his life, Im Sol, his top fan, somehow ends up at a time when they were in high school and tries to protect him. A fantasy romance unfolds where people who missed each other in time finally meet.

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  • Poster for My Holo Love

    My Holo Love 2020

    Unexpected love finds a lonely woman when she forms a connection with a humanlike hologram who looks exactly like his prickly creator.

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  • Poster for Extra-ordinary You

    Extra-ordinary You 2019

    When a high-school girl finds that she is merely a character from a comic book whose destiny is decided by the writer, she decides to change the plot to suit her desires and find the love of her life.

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  • Poster for Twinkling Watermelon

    Twinkling Watermelon 2023

    A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.

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  • Poster for Master's Sun

    Master's Sun 2013

    Joo Joong-won is the arrogant, greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a supermall and a hotel. "Ghost whisperer” Tae Gong-shil, is a misunderstood outcast who can't keep a boyfriend or a job since a near death experience left her seeing needy ghosts. She feels compelled to help them resolve their earthly issues so they can move on to the afterlife... and he feels compelled to think she's crazy. Soon their lives merge into a complicated web of hijinx, misunderstandings, and... yes, love.

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  • Poster for Abyss

    Abyss 2019

    After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they’ve come back to life in new bodies they don’t recognize.

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  • Poster for Sisyphus

    Sisyphus 2021

    An unfathomable incident introduces a genius engineer to dangerous secrets of the world — and to a woman from the future who's come looking for him.

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  • Poster for I Hear Your Voice

    I Hear Your Voice 2013

    Government tax lawyer Hye Sung meets Su Ha, who has the ability to read people's thoughts.

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  • Poster for Destined with You

    Destined with You 2023

    A lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom — igniting an unexpected romance.

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  • Poster for Bring It On, Ghost

    Bring It On, Ghost 2016

    Hyun-Ji studied for her 19 years before she died in an accident. She is now a ghost and has wandered around the world for several years. Hyun-Ji then meets exorcist Park Bong-Pal. Hyun-Ji and Bong-Pal listens to various stories from ghosts and sends them to the otherworld.

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  • Poster for The Sound of Magic

    The Sound of Magic 2022

    An enigmatic magician living in an abandoned amusement park introduces magic into the life of a high schooler struggling with harsh realities.

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  • Poster for My Roommate Is a Gumiho

    My Roommate Is a Gumiho 2021

    To become a human, a 999-year-old Gumiho, Shin Woo-yeo needs to fill his fox bead with human energy before he turns 1,000 years old. One day, a college girl, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo-yeo's fox bead.

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  • Poster for The Bride of Habaek

    The Bride of Habaek 2017

    Yoon So Ah is a pragmatic neuropsychiatrist who carries a tremendous financial burden to run her own practice. Her family has been tasked with serving Ha Baek, a reincarnated water god, for many generations, and So Ah is forced to do the same. Ha Baek starts to develop feelings for So Ah, but he has competition for her heart from Hoo Ye, the CEO of a resort company, who clashes with So Ah over a piece of land but then falls in love with her. Can a relationship between a mortal female and a god have a future?

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  • Poster for Black

    Black 2017

    A Grim Reaper, a detective and a woman who foresees death get ensnared in matters of life and death -- and dark mysteries of twenty years past.

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  • Poster for Mystic Pop-up Bar

    Mystic Pop-up Bar 2020

    At this mysterious late-night food cart run by an equally mysterious woman and her part-timer, customers are provided a space for respite and counseling through their dreams. But most importantly, everyone here is treated equally—living or dead.

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  • Poster for Bad and Crazy

    Bad and Crazy 2021

    A superhero drama about Soo-yeol who has lived his whole life as a materialistic police detective, but changes into a champion for justice and fights against police corruption when a hidden persona called "K" awakens inside him.

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  • Poster for The Beauty Inside

    The Beauty Inside 2018

    The love story between a top actress and an airline director who each suffers an unusual phenomenon. He suffers from prosopagnosia, while every month she transforms into someone else for a week.

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  • Poster for 18 Again

    18 Again 2020

    At a difficult place in his marriage and career, a middle-aged man gets a shot at a do-over when he's transformed back into his 18-year-old body.

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  • Poster for Reborn Rich

    Reborn Rich 2022

    After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.

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  • Poster for Are You Human?

    Are You Human? 2018

    Nam Shin is a son from a family who runs a large company. After an unexpected accident, he falls into a coma. His mother Oh Ro-Ra is an authority on brain science and artificial intelligence. She creates an android named Nam Shin III which looks like just like her son Nam Shin. The android pretends to be Nam Shin and he has a bodyguard So-Bong.

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  • Poster for Dr. Brain

    Dr. Brain 2021

    Brilliant brain scientist Sewon suffers a horrific personal tragedy. Desperate to uncover what happened to his family, he conducts "brain syncs" with the dead to access their memories for clues.

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  • Poster for He Is Psychometric

    He Is Psychometric 2019

    Lee Ahn has the ability to read a person's secrets as soon as he touches them. He meets a woman who has secrets that she desperately tries to hide. The two team up to bring down criminals.

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  • Poster for The Atypical Family

    The Atypical Family 2024

    Once blessed with unique superpowers, a family loses their abilities due to modern day problems — until a mysterious woman changes everything.

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  • Poster for The Judge from Hell

    The Judge from Hell 2024

    A cruel and vicious judge, who wields power only for herself, meets a warm and cheerful detective who puts the victims first.

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  • Poster for Rooftop Prince

    Rooftop Prince 2012

    Crown Prince Yi Gak finds that he has been transported from the Chosun Dynasty to modern-day Seoul. He meets Hong Se Na, who bears a striking resemblance to his dead wife, and is determined to solve the 300-year-old mystery of her death. With his own resemblance to the CEO’s grandson at the company where Se Na works, Gak assumes the identity of the young man to stay close to her. Can the Crown Prince navigate a modern corporation to find clues to his own time period?

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  • Poster for Splash Splash Love

    Splash Splash Love 2015

    Dan-Bi is a senior high school student. She has a special ability which allows her to transport to anywhere on rainy days. For her university entrance exam, Dan-Bi can't deal with the pressure and runs off to a playground. Without knowing why, she goes into a puddle and finds herself transported to the Joseon period. There, she meets Lee Do. He is a young King of the Joseon period. Lee Do is in a difficult situation due to droughts and the spread of an epidemic.

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  • Poster for Strong Girl Nam-soon

    Strong Girl Nam-soon 2023

    Gifted with superhuman strength, a young woman returns to Korea to find her birth family — only to be entangled in a drug case that could test her power.

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  • Poster for Behind Your Touch

    Behind Your Touch 2023

    A psychic vet and a detective join forces to crack small-town cases — but their skills are tested when they unravel a chilling serial killer mystery

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  • Poster for Newtopia

    Newtopia 2025

    Jae-yoon, a late military enlistee, and his girlfriend, Young-joo, break up over the phone over growing misunderstandings. But a zombie outbreak rocks the world. A national emergency is declared, a plane crashes in the city center, and Jae-yoon and his unit get trapped on top of a Seoul skyscraper. Young-joo risks the zombie-filled streets to find him. Can their love survive the apocalypse?

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  • Poster for Ghost Doctor

    Ghost Doctor 2022

    A skilled surgeon becomes a coma patient and possesses a first-year resident who is the polar opposite of him in expertise and personality.

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  • Poster for Bulgasal: Immortal Souls

    Bulgasal: Immortal Souls 2021

    Cursed since birth and exempt from death, a revenge-driven immortal sets out on a quest to reclaim his soul and end a 600-year-old vendetta.

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  • Poster for Island

    Island 2022

    Jeju Island is taken over by evil spirits. An exorcist, priest, and chaebol heiress are fated to fight against evil spirits attempting to end the world. “They are stirring at last.”

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  • Poster for Miss Night and Day

    Miss Night and Day 2024

    A bittersweet romantic comedy about a job seeker who suddenly gets stuck in time as an old-ager one day, and an extraordinary internship with a prosecutor who is caught up in her all day and night.

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  • Poster for Duty After School

    Duty After School 2023

    When mysterious alien spheres start invading the world, high school students are called upon to join the world’s first war against extraterrestrial forces.

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  • Poster for The Moon Embracing the Sun

    The Moon Embracing the Sun 2012

    Years after she's assumed dead by the palace, a young noblewoman, now trained as a shaman, returns to court to reclaim her rightful position as queen.

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  • Poster for Chicago Typewriter

    Chicago Typewriter 2017

    Writers that lived under Japanese rule in the 1930's are reincarnated into a bestselling writer who is in a slump, a mysterious ghostwriter and an anti-fan of the bestselling writer.

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  • Poster for Color Rush

    Color Rush 2020

    Yeon-woo, neurologically colorblind, sees colors through Yoo-han in a "color rush." Their connection intertwines with the mystery of his missing mother.

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