Start-Up

An ex-convict opens a bar in Itaewon to take down the food conglomerate that destroyed his family.…

Like Start-Up, it leans hard into rags to riches. The emotional territory — entrepreneurship — is the same. Same inspirational and dramatic energy throughout.

An orphaned girl rises from kitchen servant to become the first female royal physician in the Joseon court.…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same inspirational and romantic energy throughout.

A poor girl attends an elite school and clashes with the leader of the school's most powerful group of boys.…

If you loved Start-Up's love triangle where every choice breaks someone's heart, Boys Over Flowers delivers exactly that. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A group of privileged high school heirs navigate love, rivalry, and family pressure when a humble girl enters their world.…

If you loved Start-Up's love triangle where every choice breaks someone's heart, The Heirs (Inheritors) delivers exactly that. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A delinquent girl transformed by a dedicated teacher's belief in her becomes a top neurosurgeon — then faces her former mentor again as a colleague, reopening e…

Like Start-Up, it leans hard into rags to riches. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.