2014
20 eps
MBC
Melodrama Romance Drama
Two childhood sweethearts are separated after a tragic accident gives a blind girl her sight — twelve years later, a firefighter returns to find her, not knowin…
Like Uncontrollably Fond, it leans hard into noble idiocy. The emotional territory — first love and fate — is the same. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2002
20 eps
KBS2
Romance Melodrama Drama
A woman falls in love with a mysterious young man who appears in her life twenty years after her first love died in a tragic accident — identical in face and ma…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love and fate. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2018
16 eps
tvN
Romance Melodrama Drama
A divorced CEO of a hotel group, living under the thumb of her powerful politician mother-in-law, has a spontaneous, magical night in Cuba with a young man she'…
Both are built around class divide that poisons every relationship it touches. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2003
20 eps
SBS
Melodrama Romance Drama
Two childhood sweethearts are separated when their parents remarry and a scheming stepsister grows obsessed with destroying them. After years apart they reunite…
Like Uncontrollably Fond, it leans hard into terminal illness. The emotional territory — first love — is the same. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2016
16 eps
KBS2
Melodrama Romance Drama
A flight attendant in an empty marriage and a quiet airline ground supervisor meet repeatedly by chance — their restrained, undeniable connection forcing both t…
Both are built around fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.