2017
16 eps
tvN
Comedy Romance Workplace
The playboy third son of a Korean conglomerate gets cut off and has to work a series of entry-level jobs — catering, convenience store, temp work — ending up in…
Like Modern Express, Revolutionary Love is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The emotional territory — competence — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2019
12 eps
MBC
Comedy Romance Workplace
A diligent office worker at a gaming company — the kind who takes notes on everything, stays late voluntarily, and is profoundly ignored by the CEO — meets that…
Like Modern Express, it leans hard into workplace ensemble. The emotional territory — competence — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2024
12 eps
ENA
Comedy Romance Workplace
A brilliant but perpetually unlucky researcher at a biotech company discovers that the new hire who is sabotaging her experiments is the same guy her best frien…
Like Modern Express, Please Don't Date Him is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2016
20 eps
SBS
Comedy Drama Medical
A legendary trauma surgeon who was once the top doctor in Korea now works at a small hospital in the mountains under an assumed name, deliberately keeping the b…
Like Modern Express, Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The emotional territory — competence — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2021
16 eps
JTBC
Comedy Romance Workplace
A woman obsessed with having her own home — who has never been able to afford one — takes a job at a home-lifestyle magazine and finds herself in daily professi…
If you loved Modern Express's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Monthly Magazine Home delivers exactly that. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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