2021
50 eps
MBC
Romance Drama Family
A widower with three children hires a nanny. The nanny is a bright, cheerful young woman who wins over the children before she wins over their guarded father. A long-form family me…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2023
12 eps
tvN
Melodrama Drama Family
A cold, successful man and a fierce, outspoken woman become unlikely partners in raising a child neither of them expected — discovering in the process that the family you build fro…
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2023
14 eps
JTBC
Melodrama Family Drama
A cold, ruthless prosecutor is gravely injured and regresses to the mind of a child — and his fiercely tough-love farmer mother must learn to care for him all over again. What begi…
Like Hi Bye, Mama!, it leans hard into sacrifice. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2018
16 eps
tvN
Romance Fantasy Melodrama
An exhausted, dissatisfied husband uses a mysterious opportunity to travel back in time and choose a different woman — and wakes up in a comfortable life with his ideal partner. Bu…
Like Hi Bye, Mama!, it leans hard into second chance. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2019
12 eps
JTBC
Romance Fantasy Drama
A young woman gains a watch that controls time and uses it to help others, but each use costs years of her own life.
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
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…
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2011
20 eps
MBC
Fantasy Romance Melodrama
A woman in a coma following a car accident is given 49 days to collect three genuine tears of love from people who truly love her. She must inhabit the body of a part-time 'schedul…
Like Hi Bye, Mama!, it leans hard into second chance. The emotional territory — second chance — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2019
16 eps
tvN
Romance Melodrama Food
A chef with an extraordinary gift for recreating the exact tastes of memory and a cold, guarded neurosurgeon are reunited by chance at a hospice in Greece, where her cooking become…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
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 knowing she's become engag…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2024
16 eps
tvN
Romance Fantasy Drama
Sol is a lifelong fan of K-pop idol Ryu Sun-jae — his music has been the thing she returned to every time she needed to feel okay through years of chronic illness. Then she wakes u…
Like Hi Bye, Mama!, it leans hard into sacrifice. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.