Kdramas like Oh My Ghost Clients shows that the spookiest things in life may not be ghosts, but the evil corporations, unethical contracts, and complicity of people who are too scared to talk. This quirky series, starring underdog labor lawyer No Mu-jin played by Jung Kyoung-ho, is packed with acerbic social satire, dark humour and a hint of the paranormal.
When Mu-jin is injured in a workplace accident at a crooked industrial complex, he develops the power to see the restless dead — ghosts that aren’t just unlucky, but victimised. And dragging along a reluctant YouTuber played by Cha Hak-yeon and his sister-in-law played by Seol In-ah, he starts assisting these ghosts towards peace and revealing the darker truths of Korea’s working world.
As a ghost-comedy addict who stuck around to see just righteous indignation and emotional complexity, I had no clue what to watch next. I wanted more of that queasy blend of afterlife hijinks and terrestrial injustice, more shows in which the dead don’t haunt — they unclog something on their chests. Thankfully, there is a valuable cache of supernatural stories in Korean dramas that do just that.
These are the seven Kdramas similar to Oh My Ghost Clients that serve up the same mixture of comedy, suspense, and emotional wallop as each of them teaches us that the afterlife doesn’t necessarily need to be silent, and the living aren’t quite finished yet.
Kdramas like Oh My Ghost Clients
Sell Your Haunted House
In this one, the spirits return — but now they’re trapped in houses that can’t be sold. Jang Na-ra is a former exorcist who has a tragic past, and Jung Yong-hwa is a fake psychic who gets drawn into her life. Just like Mu-jin’s dysfunctional team, here they also encounter a fresh ghost each episode, assisting them to have peace of mind by discovering tragic secrets. What starts out as a career turns into a cause of the heart when it’s found that each ghost tale is an all-too-human story waiting to be told.
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Park Hae-jin is a magician with some extremely unconventional assistants — a group of ghosts helping him in crimes and mischief. A bit more of a comedy, but otherwise the same routine of the everyman dude who ends up in the ghost world and tries to figure out his purpose. The blending of the mystery, the sappy moments, and the goofy ghost back-and-forth makes the show feel like an old buddy, and watching it feels like hanging out at an extra goofy version of Team Mu-jin.
Missing: The Other Side
Located in a secret village where the spirits of the disappeared haunt, this is a drama that is an emotional force to be reckoned with. It abandons the farce for simple human feeling based on unresolved disappearing acts and the individuals who disappear. Starring Go Soo, all the disappearing acts are handled with respect and dignity, and it is one of the most respectful depictions of the dead in K-drama. If you liked how Mu-jin slowly transitioned from being a man fighting for survival to one who fights for justice, this one will be similar.
Delivery Man
What do you do when you begin receiving ghosts in your taxi? If you are Seo Young-min (played by Yoon Chan-young), you make it a side hustle. Each ride is an investigation and each ghost has an untold story behind them. Like our own default labor attorney, the reluctant taxi driver finds his vocation in assisting these fares along their path. It’s funny and sentimental, with lovely moments of being squished amid slapstick mayhem. Imagining it as a ghost takes on a buddy road movie, with an enigma to unravel around every corner.
Hotel Del Luna
Stunning visually and poignant emotionally, this drama tells the story of a humongous, ghost-only hotel owned and operated by introspective and enigmatic Jang Man-wol, played stunningly by IU. The guests? Ghosts who’ve left something behind. Similar to Mu-jin and his team, hotel staff assist these spirits in healing their regrets so they may move on. What makes this show different is depth — every ghost has a sad back story, and every episode is a sad reminder of how hard it is to move on. There’s fantasy, romance, and tragedy all wrapped in velvet and moonlight.
Bring It On Ghost
If you’re in the mood for something lighthearted and rom-com, this is your movie. Ok Taecyeon plays a college boy with clairvoyance and ghost seeing abilities, and Kim So-hyun is the sassy adolescent ghost who comes into his life — literally. They share ghost-hunting gig work, quarrel like siblings, and slowly start to figure out an overarching mystery. The mood is breezy, but the sentimental scenes are what get you, especially the letting go and the mourning.
Tomorrow
This is a show that doesn’t simply help the deceased — it tries to save the living before they become ghosts. Following a squad from the afterlife crisis management unit played by Kim Hee-sun, Rowoon, Lee Soo-hyuk, Yun Ji-on, Tomorrow deals with suicidal prevention, mental illness, and social injustice. It’s dark, but really rewarding. Much like Mu-jin’s casebook, each episode delves into those standing on the edge, frequently victims of unfair systems or the silent suffering. It’s one of the few dramas that scream, not only against inner demons but social ones as well.
Kdramas such as Oh My Ghost Clients are common in the way that they approach ghosts as not boogeymen, but as people who have things that they need to tell us. The paranormal is not done as a joke or to terrify — it’s a point of view from which to talk about the stuff that we don’t want to talk about: regret, injustice, loss, and healing. No matter if it’s a phantom in a factory, a phantom hotel guest, or a wandering spirit in the back of a taxi, the message is always the same: after death, people want to be heard and witnessed.
Also Read: Oh My Ghost Clients Review: Delightful Blend of Humour, Heart, and Haunting Justice
