2022
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Choi Sang-eun is a professional contract wife — she marries lonely men for exactly 3 days a week, providing warmth, companionship, and the appearance of a normal life, before retur…
If you loved Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Love in Contract delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — class difference and identity — is the same. Same funny and warm energy throughout.
2021
16 eps
KBS2
Romance Comedy Drama
Kim Dal-li is the sophisticated, Harvard-educated daughter of a museum director who has spent her life surrounded by art and culture. Jin Moo-hak is a self-made entrepreneur from a…
Like Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale, it leans hard into class difference. The emotional territory — class difference and identity — is the same. Same funny and warm energy throughout.
2024
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Go Eun-ha runs a small but wildly popular online content business, and her biggest financial backer turns out to have a considerably murkier background than she knew. Seo Il-hwan i…
Like Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale, it leans hard into class difference. The emotional territory — class difference — is the same. Same funny and warm energy throughout.
2014
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
A driven, no-nonsense journalist in her mid-thirties who has given up on love finds her personal space invaded by a bubbly young paramedic a decade her junior — and slowly, against…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: self worth. Same funny and emotionally honest energy throughout.
2025
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A sharp, underpaid marketing team leader discovers that the charming man she's been confiding in at her neighbourhood café is her company's intimidating new CEO — and worse, he tur…
If you loved Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, My Boss's Ex-Wife delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same funny and warm energy throughout.
2025
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Goo Won and Seo Bora have lived next door to each other for 25 years and spent every one of those years in open, enthusiastic competition with one another. Their two families' busi…
If you loved Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Love Your Enemy delivers exactly that. Same funny and warm energy throughout.
2011
18 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A tough, street-smart woman becomes the secretary and bodyguard for a handsome but socially anxious heir to a chaebol empire. As she protects him from corporate rivals and family s…
Like Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale, Protect the Boss is built around two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love. The emotional territory — self worth — is the same.
2005
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Sam-soon, a 30-year-old pastry chef dumped on Christmas Eve, enters a fake-dating contract with the arrogant CEO of a restaurant chain while both are nursing heartbreak — and slowl…
If you loved Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, My Lovely Sam-Soon (My Name is Kim Sam-Soon) delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — self worth and identity — is the same.
2022
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Oh Woo-ri has kept a virginity pledge since high school, waiting until marriage. During a routine procedure, she is accidentally artificially inseminated by a fertility specialist …
Both navigate the same emotional territory: class difference and identity. Same warm energy throughout.
2023
12 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Seo Mok-ha dreamed of becoming a singer since childhood, but at age 15 she was stranded alone on a deserted island — surviving for 15 years before being rescued. She returns to a w…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: dreams. Same funny and warm energy throughout.