2024
12 eps
ENA
Romance Drama Slice Of Life
Seo Hye-jin is a legendary test-prep English instructor at Korea's most prestigious cram school. When a younger, talented male instructor joins the faculty and …
Like Pasta, Midnight Romance in Hagwon is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same warm and romantic energy throughout.
2025
8 eps
Netflix
Romance Comedy Drama
Oh Seong-sun is a food writer who publishes a guide to Seoul's greatest unknown restaurants — using a pen name that has made her a legend in culinary circles wi…
If you loved Pasta's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Tastefully Yours delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — passion — is the same. Same warm and funny energy throughout.
2024
12 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
A broadcast writer takes experimental medication and loses his filter — unable to say anything but the absolute truth, no matter how catastrophic the social fal…
Like Pasta, Frankly Speaking is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. Same warm and funny energy throughout.
2023
12 eps
P.A. Works / Crunchyroll
Romance Comedy Slice Of Life
Mitsumi Iwakura moves from rural Ishikawa to Tokyo for high school, armed with a five-year plan, an overachiever's work ethic, and almost no social skills. Sous…
If you loved Pasta's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Skip and Loafer delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same warm and funny energy throughout.
2015
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Slice Of Life
Lee Jung-joo moves to Jeju Island after her life in Seoul falls apart and, through a series of improbable events, ends up co-owning a seaside restaurant with Ba…
Same warm and romantic energy throughout.