2020
16 eps
tvN
Romance Drama Psychological
Moon Gang-tae has spent his entire adult life as a caretaker — literally, at a psychiatric hospital where he keeps his autistic brother safe and cared for, and figuratively, buryin…
Like Dear Hyeri, It's Okay to Not Be Okay is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2015
20 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A wealthy heir with seven personalities falls in love with the secret psychiatrist treating him.
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2020
16 eps
tvN
Romance Drama Psychological
A psychiatry ward caregiver who has never known love meets a self-centered children's book author with antisocial personality disorder. Their unlikely connection, along with the ca…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, It's Okay to Not Be Okay delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2023
9 eps
Netflix
Romance Drama
Lee Won-jun, a quiet, hardworking university student, moves into a shared house and discovers his new neighbor is Doona — formerly the most famous K-pop idol in the country, who ab…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Doona! delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. Same melancholic energy throughout.
2014
16 eps
SBS
Romance Drama Medical
A crime-fiction writer with severe OCD and a psychiatry resident who refuses to be analyzed move in together as an experiment — and fall in love despite themselves. Groundbreaking …
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, It's Okay, That's Love delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2024
12 eps
KBS2
Thriller Drama Romance
A celebrated pianist's life shatters when her young son is struck and killed by a drunk driver — a wealthy, well-connected man who walks free. Three years later, she's consumed by …
Both are built around the slow, non-linear work of healing — done with real tenderness. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2025
16 eps
MBC
Romance Drama
A convenience marriage arranged between a chaebol heir with a complicated past and a working-class sign language interpreter — both with reasons to need the arrangement and reasons…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, The Perfect Marriage delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the slow, non-linear work of healing — done with real tenderness. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2018
16 eps
JTBC
Romance Comedy Drama
CEO Jang Sun-gyul has severe mysophobia — a pathological fear of uncleanliness that has shaped his entire adult life and business. Gil Oh-sol is a cleaning worker who needs money b…
Like Dear Hyeri, Clean With Passion for Now is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The emotional territory — mental health and healing — is the same. Same warm energy throughout.
2018
16 eps
JTBC
Romance Melodrama Drama
A 35-year-old woman working in a coffee franchise and enduring relentless marriage pressure from her family falls slowly, quietly in love with her best friend's younger brother. So…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Something in the Rain delivers exactly that. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2016
16 eps
tvN
Romance Drama School
A hardworking scholarship student becomes entangled with the eerily perfect senior who seems to engineer trouble for people he dislikes — then inexplicably starts helping her. As t…
If you loved Dear Hyeri's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Cheese in the Trap delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.