If you enjoyed Netflix’s K-drama horror Sweet Home, here are five other chilling shows you should seek out and watch

Vengeful shamans, nefarious cults, flesh-eating zombies – take your pick if you haven’t had your fill of chills having watched Netflix hit Sweet Home

You could try The Guest, considered the scariest Korean chiller yet, or Flower of Evil, a taut psychological thriller about a cold-case detective’s grisly find

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Ju Ji-Hoon in a still from Korean period zombie drama Kingdom, whose second season launched earlier this year. If you liked the thrills and chills of Sweet Home, this is one of the other K-drama shows you may want to dip into. Photo: Netflix

Published: 7:45am, 25 Dec 2020Updated: 7:54am, 25 Dec 2020

Sweet Home, the latest drama sensation out of South Korea, is tearing up Netflix charts around the world, but it’s far from the first chilling Korean tale to make its way to the small screen.

Ghosts have long figured in TV comedies and tales of romance, but in recent years drama-makers have steadily grown more serious about the horror elements in their shows. If you’re in the mood for vengeful shamans, nefarious cults or flesh-eating zombies, be sure to check out these chilling K-drama horror offerings.

Kingdom

Netflix’s first original Korean series hardly needs an introduction, but no K-drama horror list would be complete without this period zombie smash.

After Train to Busan brought the Korean zombie trend to life in cinemas around the world, Signal writer Kim Eun-hee and Tunnel director Kim Seong-hun teamed up to bring the hot trend to the small screen in 2019, with Ju Ji-hoon ( Along with the Gods ), Bae Doo-na (Stranger) and Ryoo Seung-ryong ( Extreme Job ) facing off against the undead horde.

We’ve had two seasons to date, with a one-episode prequel spin-off in the works for 2021.

Save Me

In 2017, OCN adapted Jo Geum-san’s webtoon Out of This World into this countryside creepy cult horror-drama, starring Seo Yae-ji ( It’s Okay to Not Be Okay ) and 2PM’s Ok Taec-yeon. Set deep in farming country, the show presents an unvarnished side of Korea rarely seen on screen.