Shows Like My ID is Gangnam Beauty
If you loved My ID is Gangnam Beauty's Comedy and Drama storytelling, these series deliver a similar experience — chosen for tone, narrative quality, and viewer satisfaction. Each includes where to stream it now.
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True Beauty
Lim Ju-kyung is a high school student. Since she was little, she has had a complex about her appearance. To hide her bare face, Ju-kyung always wears make-up. Her excellent make-up skills make her pretty and she hides her bare face in front of others. She gets involved with 2 men; Lee Su-ho and Han Seo-jun.
Backstreet Rookie
It tells an unpredictable 24-hour love story of the four-dimensional innocent girl Jung Saet Byeol who was once a troublemaker and the adorkable caring male store manager, Choi Dae Hyun, in the context of a convenience store. They have met each other accidentally 4 years ago, back then Saet Byeol asked Dae Hyun to buy cigarettes for them. Until now, Saet Byeol comes to the convenience store Dae Hyun runs for a part-time job, their hilarious romantic story starts.
My Dearest Nemesis
Baek Su-jeong leads a planning team at a renowned department store. She meets her new boss, Ban Ju-yeon, her first love from an online game 16 years ago, stirring up memories of when he confessed his feelings but she rejected him.
True Beauty
Once bullied for her looks, Jugyeong transforms herself using the art of makeup. When she joins a new school with a True Beauty goddess competition, offering winners the chance of recruitment by entertainment agencies, she instantly becomes a top candidate! But her new identity is at stake when heartthrob Suho Lee accidentally sees her bare face. Will her elite status be short-lived?
Dear X
Behind a beautiful face hides a cruel nature—Baek Ah-jin, who sees through and manipulates others' hearts. After stepping on the sacrifices of many to reach the top, everything begins to change the moment she arrives there. A woman wearing a mask to escape hell and climb to the highest place. And the story of the Xs being brutally crushed by her.
Awkward.
An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. Narration in the first-person voice of Jenna's blog posts captures the humor within the struggles and experiences everyone can relate to from their formative years.
The Sound of Magic
An enigmatic magician living in an abandoned amusement park introduces magic into the life of a high schooler struggling with harsh realities.
Never Have I Ever
After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.
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Cheese in the Trap
Hong Seol and Yoo Jung attend the same college, but they couldn't be more different. Hong Seol is a poor, unpopular student with no money, while Yoo Jung is rich, well-liked, extremely smart, and popular. Hong Seol just wants to get through her college career quietly, but finds herself getting caught up in whatever Yoo Jung drags her into. Can Hong Seol break away, or will she continue to be the only person who sees Yoo Jung's true self?
Save Me
Save Me is a web-toon based thriller drama with a story of four young men who try to save one woman. One day, they face a woman in a dark alley who asks for their help. The woman turns out to be involved in a cult group. A sequence of horrifying tension-filled events follow the four young men.
Insatiable
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
Claws
Follow the life and crimes of five diverse and treacherous manicurists working at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County salon, where there is a lot more going on than silk wraps and pedicures.
Boys Over Flowers
Unassuming high school girl Jan-di stands up to — and eventually falls for — a spoiled rich kid who belongs to the school's most powerful clique.
Hyde, Jekyll, Me
A chaebol executive with a split personality spars with a circus leader determined to save her troupe, which he’s trying to eject from his theme park.
A Different World
A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.
XO, Kitty
Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it's your own heart on the line.
Extraordinary You
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.
The Tale of Nokdu
While on the run for his life, a young man discovers that the best place to lie low is in a village of widows — disguised as a woman.
The Sound of Your Heart
Comedy following Cho Seok's ridiculous but hilarious adventures with his girlfriend-turned-wife Ae Bong, their dogs, older brother Jo Joon, and parents. Based on the popular webtoon series of the same name.
Gavin & Stacey
Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.
Why These Shows Are Similar
These recommendations share core qualities with My ID is Gangnam Beauty (2018): Comedy and Drama themes, similar pacing, and comparable production quality. NoBadPicks uses TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface series most likely to resonate with fans of My ID is Gangnam Beauty.
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