5 Dramas Like My Demon to Binge After Your Song Kang Withdrawal Hits

Okay, real talk: I finished My Demon at 1am, closed my laptop, and just sat there in the dark like… now what. Sixteen episodes of Song Kang playing a 200-year-old demon who loses his powers to Kim Yoo-jung’s iciest heiress in Seoul, and then it’s just over. No more Jeong Gu-won being extra about his tattoo, no more Do Do-hee side-eyeing an entire conglomerate into submission. If “dramas like my demon” and “song kang my demon” have both been living rent-free in your search bar for the past week, same, no shame.

I rewatched chunks of four different fantasy rom-coms this month specifically hunting for shows that hit the same notes as this whole my demon kdrama hole I fell into: a powerful supernatural lead, a female lead who does not need saving but gets saved anyway because drama, chemistry that makes you feral, and the kind of supernatural kdramas that look like they had a movie budget split across 16 episodes. Here are the five that earned a permanent spot on my rewatch list, plus two bonus picks because five is never enough.

(One more thing: if you haven’t watched the original yet, it’s still sitting there on Netflix — yes, the eternal “my demon netflix” search is valid, go fix that first.)

1. Tale of the Nine-Tailed

Let’s start with the actor who might as well own the patent on “immortal being pining for one very specific human”: Lee Dong-wook. In Tale of the Nine-Tailed, he plays a 1,000-year-old gumiho working an afterlife desk job while he waits for his first love to be reincarnated. Enter Nam Ji-a, a TV producer investigating urban legends who has no idea she’s about to become the center of his entire world again.

Fast Facts:

• Release Year: 2020
• Cast: Lee Dong-wook, Jo Bo-ah, Kim Bum
• Episodes: 16
• Where to Watch: Netflix

The My Demon Connection: if what you loved about My Demon was Song Kang’s “ancient being who’s seen everything but still gets wrecked by one woman” energy, Lee Dong-wook basically wrote the manual on it. There’s also a messy half-brother subplot with Kim Bum that scratches the same itch as My Demon’s tangled family drama.

2. Doom at Your Service

Picture this: you find out you have 100 days to live, your boyfriend turns out to be married, and then the literal embodiment of Doom shows up and offers you a deal. That’s the opening of Doom at Your Service, and somehow it turns into one of the swooniest, funniest fantasy romances in the genre. Park Bo-young plays Tak Dong-kyung, and Seo In-guk plays Myul Mang (aka Doom), a being who’s been trying to end the world for centuries and picks the absolute worst possible moment to fall in love instead.

Fast Facts:

• Release Year: 2021
• Cast: Park Bo-young, Seo In-guk, Lee Soo-hyuk, Kang Tae-oh
• Episodes: 16
• Where to Watch: Netflix

The My Demon Connection: the countdown-clock stakes (100 days here vs. My Demon’s disappearing tattoo) and the bickering-enemies-who-secretly-can’t-stop-thinking-about-each-other setup feel almost like siblings. I rewatched the swing-set scene from episode 9 four separate times before I could function like a normal person again — that’s the chemistry level we’re working with.

3. Goblin (Guardian: The Lonely and Great God)

You can’t build a real list of dramas like my demon without mentioning the show that basically started this whole “immortal guy needs one specific human to end his suffering” wave for an entire generation of fans. Gong Yoo plays a 900-year-old goblin cursed with eternal life until he finds his destined bride, and Kim Go-eun plays the high schooler (later college student) who might be her. Bonus: Lee Dong-wook shows up again here too, this time as the Grim Reaper living in Goblin’s guest room, which might be the single best roommate arrangement in kdrama history. Its finale also pulled one of the highest ratings in Korean cable TV history, if you want proof this isn’t just internet hype.

Fast Facts:

• Release Year: 2016–2017
• Cast: Gong Yoo, Kim Go-eun, Lee Dong-wook, Yoo In-na
• Episodes: 16 (plus 3 specials)
• Where to Watch: Rakuten Viki (also on Netflix in select regions)

The My Demon Connection: the “immortal man finally gets to feel human again because of one woman” arc is basically the great-great-grandparent of My Demon’s entire plot. If you want to see where this trope came from before Song Kang ever put on the demon’s signature ring, this is homework, not optional.

4. Hotel Del Luna

If Do Do-hee’s icy, does-not-apologize CEO energy was your favorite part of My Demon, meet her older, more supernatural sister. IU plays Jang Man-wol, the centuries-old owner of a hotel that only ghosts can check into, and Yeo Jin-goo plays the very human, very unlucky hotel manager she basically drags into the job. The ghost-of-the-week structure means there’s always a new supernatural mess for Man-wol to sort out, which keeps the pacing snappy even through the slower stretches.

Fast Facts:

• Release Year: 2019
• Cast: IU, Yeo Jin-goo
• Episodes: 16
• Where to Watch: Netflix

The My Demon Connection: same “terrifyingly competent woman with centuries of baggage meets a man who slowly chips through her walls” dynamic, just dressed up in ghost-hotel aesthetics instead of chaebol boardrooms. It took me a solid two episodes to warm up to the slower start, but by episode 5 I was completely gone for it.

5. Destined With You

Plot twist: Jo Bo-ah — yes, the same actress from pick #1 — shows up again here, this time opposite Rowoon. She plays a civil servant who accidentally unseals a 300-year-old cursed grimoire, and he’s the sharp-tongued lawyer who becomes the book’s next victim.

Fast Facts:

• Release Year: 2023
• Cast: Jo Bo-ah, Rowoon, Ha Jun, Yura
• Episodes: 16
• Where to Watch: Netflix

The My Demon Connection: same 2023-era glossy production, a supernatural curse forcing two strangers together, and a lead actress who can go from deadpan comedy to gutting you emotionally in the same scene. If you liked how fast My Demon’s chemistry clicked, this one moves at the same speed.

Two More Supernatural K-Dramas Worth Your Time

Quick hits if you’ve already burned through the main five:

Bulgasal: Immortal Souls (2021) — Lee Jin-wook and Kwon Nara, 16 episodes, Netflix.

Same cursed-immortal bones as My Demon, but way darker and moodier — think centuries-spanning revenge plot instead of rom-com banter, with a reincarnation twist that’ll mess with your head in the best way.

The Bride of Habaek (2017) — Nam Joo-hyuk and Shin Se-kyung, 16 episodes, Netflix and Viki.

An arrogant water god loses his powers on Earth and needs a human psychiatrist’s help getting them back, and the “powerful being stuck depending on one unimpressed human” setup should feel extremely familiar by now.

So, Which One Are You Watching First?

That’s five (okay, seven) dramas like my demon to keep the supernatural rom-com train running, and honestly every single one delivers on the “insane chemistry, higher production value than it has any right to” promise that made the original such a hit. You can’t go wrong picking whichever cast you already have a crush on. Tell me which one you’re queuing up first, or if I missed your favorite — I already know someone’s going to be upset I left The Uncanny Counter off this list, and you’re probably right to be.