2021
12 eps
JTBC
Comedy Drama Romance
Three women with completely different careers and personalities have one thing in common: they need a drink at the end of the day. Ahn So-hee is a fitness influencer keeping secret…
If you loved Grace and Frankie's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Work Later, Drink Now delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — female friendship and self discovery — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2025
12 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Two ex-colleagues who had a brief, unspoken almost-relationship years ago find themselves unexpectedly working together again. Neither has moved on as thoroughly as they pretended.…
If you loved Grace and Frankie's second-chance romance carrying the weight of everything they couldn't say before, Optional Romance delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — second chances — is the same. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.
2026
30 eps
Romance Comedy Drama
A sharp-tongued marketing executive and a reserved aerospace engineer find themselves sharing a project — and through a bureaucratic disaster, an apartment. Their professional bick…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. Same heartfelt and witty energy throughout.
2024
16 eps
JTBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Two childhood best friends who went separate ways reconnect in adulthood and discover their feelings run deeper than friendship.
Both navigate the same emotional territory: second chances and family. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2012
20 eps
JTBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Four men in their early 40s — childhood friends who've stayed immature in love — navigate romance, heartbreak, and growing up alongside a high school ethics teacher who won't give …
If you loved Grace and Frankie's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, A Gentleman's Dignity 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.
2021
8 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A webtoon writer and a music teacher become neighbors in an apartment building and grow closer over the Christmas season through a series of small but meaningful encounters.
If you loved Grace and Frankie's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Happy Merry Christmas delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — new beginnings — is the same. Same warm energy throughout.
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…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. Same heartfelt and warm energy throughout.
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 are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2022
16 eps
SBS
Romance Comedy Drama
Do Hae-yi joins her university's cheerleading squad to get a coveted family legacy scholarship — but the team is barely holding together, haunted by an incident from the year befor…
If you loved Grace and Frankie's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Cheer Up delivers exactly that. Same heartfelt and warm energy throughout.
2022
16 eps
ENA
Romance Comedy Drama
Goo Yeo-reum and Park Jae-hoon have been best friends for 20 years, going through every relationship disaster together while insisting they'll never date each other. Then Yeo-reum …
Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.