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…
If you loved Marry My Husband's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Lovely Runner delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — second chance and identity — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2017
12 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Fantasy
A married couple who hate each other travel back to their college years and rediscover why they fell in love.
If you loved Marry My Husband's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Go Back Couple delivers exactly that. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2025
10 eps
Netflix
Romance Fantasy Comedy
A woman who has transmigrated into a romance novel realizes she's been cast as the villain's kidnapping target — and must outwit both the plot and her dangerously compelling captor…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is pure fun — the kind you don't have to feel guilty about.
2023
16 eps
MBC
Romance Drama Thriller
Han Yi-joo watches the man she loves marry someone else on the day she expected a proposal — and ends up dead on that same day. When she wakes up one year in the past, she doesn't …
If you loved Marry My Husband's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Perfect Marriage Revenge delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. Same satisfying and romantic energy throughout.
2021
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Comedy
A 999-year-old fox spirit accidentally swallows a college student's fox bead and they must live together.
The pacing is pure fun — the kind you don't have to feel guilty about.
2023
16 eps
tvN
Romance Fantasy Comedy
A civil servant finds a spell book sealed for 300 years and accidentally binds herself to a cold lawyer through a love spell.
Both are built around fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2019
32 eps
MBC
Fantasy Romance Comedy
A high school student suddenly realizes she is a supporting character in a manhwa — and she wasn't supposed to have consciousness. In the space between scripted scenes, she meets a…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is pure fun — the kind you don't have to feel guilty about.
2016
20 eps
KBS
Fantasy Romance Comedy
A mermaid from the Joseon era and a con man karma-reconnect across lifetimes in modern Seoul.
Both are built around 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.
2023
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Thriller
Oh Dan-ah is a no-nonsense fraud detective who has spent her career catching con artists — which makes it spectacularly inconvenient when the most charming man she has ever met tur…
The pacing is pure fun — the kind you don't have to feel guilty about.
2024
12 eps
tvN
Romance Fantasy Comedy
The Do family has supernatural powers — or they used to. Grandma can see the future, the eldest son can time travel in his dreams, and various other relatives have abilities that a…
If you loved Marry My Husband's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, The Atypical Family delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — second chance and identity — is the same. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.