you watch
2005
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Fake Dating Contract Relationship
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 Fantasy Couple'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 — second chances and identity — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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you'll love
2021
12 eps
SBS
Romance Comedy Drama
Fake Dating Enemies To Lovers
Lee Ho-joon is Korea's top idol — handsome, famous, and accustomed to adoration. Choi Geun-young is a tabloid reporter and one of his most vocal anti-fans, known for writing unflat…
If you loved Fantasy Couple's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, So I Married an Anti-Fan delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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you'll love
2011
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Cinderella Story Royalty Romance
An ordinary college student discovers she's actually the secret heir to Korea's formerly royal family — right when a referendum is underway about restoring the monarchy. She has to…
Like Fantasy Couple, My Princess is built around fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure. The emotional territory — fish out of water and identity — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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2016
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Amnesia Fish Out Of Water
A shopping-obsessed heir loses his memory and is taken in by a country girl searching for her missing brother.
If you loved Fantasy Couple's amnesia as a device to rediscover love from scratch, Shopping King Louie delivers exactly that. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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you'll love
2014
21 eps
KBS2
Romance Comedy Drama
Makeover Transformation Fake Relationship
After being abandoned by her cheating husband, a bullied and overweight woman undergoes a total physical transformation and returns as a stunning stranger. She joins forces with a …
Like Fantasy Couple, Birth of a Beauty is built around two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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you'll love
2004
16 eps
KBS
Romance Comedy Drama
Contract Marriage Fake Relationship
A woman returns from a trip to find her house sold, and ends up in a contract marriage with the actor who bought it.
Like Fantasy Couple, it leans hard into fake relationship. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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2006
24 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Arranged Marriage Enemies To Lovers
In an alternate modern Korea where the monarchy survived, a clumsy art-school girl is suddenly betrothed to the cold, aloof Crown Prince per a childhood arrangement — navigating pa…
If you loved Fantasy Couple's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Goong (Princess Hours) delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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2020
16 eps
SBS
Romance Comedy Drama
Boss Employee Romance Enemies To Lovers
A convenience store district manager's life is upended when a woman he briefly met years ago shows up as his new employee — bringing chaos, honesty, and an inconvenient attraction …
If you loved Fantasy Couple's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Backstreet Rookie delivers exactly that. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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2022
8 eps
Watcha
Romance Comedy Drama
Opposites Attract Enemies To Lovers
A rule-bound computer science student reports his credit-stealing group partner — inadvertently destroying the free-spirited design major's graduation show. When they're forced int…
If you loved Fantasy Couple's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Semantic Error delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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2019
12 eps
MBC
Comedy Romance Workplace
Enemies To Lovers Workplace Ensemble
A diligent office worker at a gaming company — the kind who takes notes on everything, stays late voluntarily, and is profoundly ignored by the CEO — meets that CEO again when he's…
If you loved Fantasy Couple's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Level Up delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — second chances — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.