2013
21 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
University students from across Korea share a boarding house in Seoul during 1994, while a future-flashback teases which of the men the central female character eventually marries.…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2005
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
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…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2014
20 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
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…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2022
16 eps
KBS2
Drama Romance Family
A carefree young man from a North Korean defector family impersonates the long-lost grandson of a South Korean hotel mogul to fulfill the dying grandmother's final wish to reunite …
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2010
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A straight architect pretends to be gay to rent a room from a woman who only trusts gay men. As fake platonic roommates slowly develop real feelings, his pretence becomes increasin…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2005
20 eps
MBC
Drama Comedy Romance
Two women from different backgrounds become rivals as they both enter the same university and compete for everything.
Both navigate the same emotional territory: female empowerment and identity. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
2024
12 eps
KakaoTV
Romance Comedy Drama
Han Gi-jun and Go In-a have competed for every promotion, every project, and every scrap of recognition at their company for years — and they are equally matched in every way that …
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.
2021
16 eps
KBS2
Romance Comedy Drama
Kim Dal-li is the sophisticated, Harvard-educated daughter of a museum director who has spent her life surrounded by art and culture. Jin Moo-hak is a self-made entrepreneur from a…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2015
20 eps
tvN
Slice Of Life Comedy Romance
Five families in a Seoul neighborhood navigate life, love, and growing up in the late 1980s.
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2024
16 eps
JTBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Two former rival students who were top of their class reunite after both hitting rock bottom in adulthood.
The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.