Shows Like Mr. Plankton

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 Mr. Plankton's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Love in Contract delivers exactly that. The pacing is bittersweet in the best way: joy and heartbreak in the same breath.

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…

Same funny and emotional energy throughout.

Choi Michaela can see everyone's remaining lifespan — including her own, which is running dangerously short. Lee Do-ha's presence somehow stops her clock from ticking. She needs to…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: mortality and living fully. The pacing is bittersweet in the best way: joy and heartbreak in the same breath.

Cho Sam-dal, a hotshot Seoul fashion photographer, crashes out of the sky after a scandal destroys her career — and lands back in the tiny Jeju Island village she spent years tryin…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love. The pacing is bittersweet in the best way: joy and heartbreak in the same breath.

Gu Ae-jeong was once the most beloved member of a top girl group — now she's tabloid fodder and the punchline of every variety show. Dokko Jin is Korea's biggest movie star and he …

If you loved Mr. Plankton's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, The Greatest Love delivers exactly that. Same funny energy throughout.

A surgeon pressured by his family to marry brings a loud, unsophisticated woman to family events to scare his parents off — not expecting to actually fall for her. A beloved rom-co…

If you loved Mr. Plankton's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Marriage Not Dating delivers exactly that. Same funny energy throughout.

A civil servant tells a small lie to impress her successful friend — claiming to be married to a hotel CEO she's never met. When that CEO finds out, instead of exposing her, he pla…

If you loved Mr. Plankton's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Lie to Me delivers exactly that. Same funny energy throughout.

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 Mr. Plankton'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 pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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 Mr. Plankton's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Goong (Princess Hours) delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — first love — is the same.

A meek, people-pleasing office worker accidentally spends the night with a charismatic heir on a cruise and ends up pregnant — forcing them into a contract marriage that slowly bec…

If you loved Mr. Plankton's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Fated to Love You delivers exactly that. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.