2005
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Sam-soon, a 30-year-old pastry chef dumped on Christmas Eve, enters a fake-dating contract with the arrogant CEO of a restaurant chain while both are nursing he…
If you loved Fantasy Couple's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, My Lovely Sam-Soon (My Name is Kim Sam-Soon) delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — second chances and identity — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2021
12 eps
SBS
Romance Comedy Drama
Lee Ho-joon is Korea's top idol — handsome, famous, and accustomed to adoration. Choi Geun-young is a tabloid reporter and one of his most vocal anti-fans, know…
If you loved Fantasy Couple's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, So I Married an Anti-Fan delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2011
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
An ordinary college student discovers she's actually the secret heir to Korea's formerly royal family — right when a referendum is underway about restoring the …
Like Fantasy Couple, My Princess is built around fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure. The emotional territory — fish out of water and identity — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2016
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A shopping-obsessed heir loses his memory and is taken in by a country girl searching for her missing brother.…
If you loved Fantasy Couple's amnesia as a device to rediscover love from scratch, Shopping King Louie delivers exactly that. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2014
21 eps
KBS2
Romance Comedy Drama
After being abandoned by her cheating husband, a bullied and overweight woman undergoes a total physical transformation and returns as a stunning stranger. She …
Like Fantasy Couple, Birth of a Beauty is built around two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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