2020
16 eps
tvN
Romance Drama Psychological
Moon Gang-tae has spent his entire adult life as a caretaker — literally, at a psychiatric hospital where he keeps his autistic brother safe and cared for, and …
Like Dear Hyeri, It's Okay to Not Be Okay is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2015
20 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A wealthy heir with seven personalities falls in love with the secret psychiatrist treating him.…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2020
16 eps
tvN
Romance Drama Psychological
A psychiatry ward caregiver who has never known love meets a self-centered children's book author with antisocial personality disorder. Their unlikely connectio…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, It's Okay to Not Be Okay delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2023
9 eps
Netflix
Romance Drama
Lee Won-jun, a quiet, hardworking university student, moves into a shared house and discovers his new neighbor is Doona — formerly the most famous K-pop idol in…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Doona! delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. Same melancholic energy throughout.
2014
16 eps
SBS
Romance Drama Medical
A crime-fiction writer with severe OCD and a psychiatry resident who refuses to be analyzed move in together as an experiment — and fall in love despite themsel…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, It's Okay, That's Love delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.