2016
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Sports
A college weightlifter navigates love, friendship, and dreams alongside a swimmer at a sports university.…
Like Twenty-Five Twenty-One, it leans hard into friends to lovers. The emotional territory — youth and first love — is the same. Same youthful energy throughout.
2012
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Six friends navigate high school in Busan in 1997 — the height of the first K-pop idol wave — while a flash-forward wedding reveals that one of the men in the g…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love. The pacing is wrapped in a nostalgic warmth that feels earned rather than manufactured.
2013
21 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
University students from across Korea share a boarding house in Seoul during 1994, while a future-flashback teases which of the men the central female character…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love. The pacing is wrapped in a nostalgic warmth that feels earned rather than manufactured.
2019
12 eps
Netflix
Romance Sci Fi Drama
In a world where a smartphone app alerts you when someone within a 10-metre radius is romantically in love with you, a high school girl with a complicated home …
Like Twenty-Five Twenty-One, it leans hard into bittersweet ending. Same youthful and emotional energy throughout.
2025
16 eps
tvN
Medical Drama Romance
Five first-year medical residents at a major Seoul hospital navigate the brutal learning curve of actual practice — the gap between what they were taught and wh…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.