you'll love
2022
12 eps
tvN
Drama Comedy Workplace
Ensemble Workplace Industry Insider
Inside a major Korean celebrity talent agency, agents manage egos the size of stadiums, last-minute crises before live broadcasts, and the industry's most unspoken rule: the talent…
Like Office Space, it leans hard into ensemble workplace. Same satirical energy throughout.
you'll love
2021
12 eps
tvN
Comedy Drama Workplace
Workplace Comedy Corporate Satire
Workers at a smartphone company fight to survive brutal layoffs, office politics, and unexpected romances.
Same satirical energy throughout.
you'll love
2019
12 eps
MBC
Comedy Workplace Drama
Workplace Ensemble New Manager Vs Existing Staff
A supermarket at the bottom of every corporate ranking — staffed entirely by employees too difficult, too eccentric, or too senior to fire, operating out of a building the company …
Both navigate the same emotional territory: workplace absurdism. Same deadpan energy throughout.
2012
8 eps
TV Asahi
Comedy Drama Medical
Lone Genius Institutional Outsider
A freelance surgeon with a perfect record, zero hospital loyalty, and a complete refusal to participate in the Japanese medical hierarchy joins a teaching hospital that runs entire…
Like Office Space, it leans hard into workplace satire. Same satirical energy throughout.
you'll love
2017
20 eps
KBS2
Comedy Drama Workplace
Anti Hero Accidental Hero
A corrupt company accountant is hired specifically for his ability to cook books and embezzle — but finds himself accidentally protecting the employees being exploited by the very …
Same satirical energy throughout.
you'll love
2016
16 eps
MBC
Comedy Romance Drama
Opposites Attract Superstition Comedy
A woman who has been living her life according to superstition and fortune-telling encounters a rational, probability-driven tech CEO who finds her belief system intellectually off…
Lucky Romance scratches the same itch as Office Space — different world, same emotional frequency.
2021
24 eps
Tencent Video
Comedy Romance Workplace
Reconnecting With Exes Workplace Romance
A woman who works at a dating app company is required, for a promotional campaign, to reconnect with all her ex-boyfriends and document the experience. The comedy that follows is b…
My Best Ex scratches the same itch as Office Space — different world, same emotional frequency.
you'll love
2012
11 eps
Fuji TV
Comedy Legal Drama
Eccentric Genius Bickering Duo
Komikado Kensuke is a lawyer who has never lost a case — and charges accordingly, defends anyone regardless of guilt, and operates on a philosophy that the justice system is a perf…
Same darkly comedic and satirical energy throughout.
you'll love
2012
18 eps
MBC
Comedy Drama Satire
Industry Satire Enemies To Collaborators
Anthony Kim is Korea's most feared drama producer — arrogant, brilliant, and willing to do literally anything for ratings. A catastrophic financial disaster forces him into an unli…
Same satirical energy throughout.
you'll love
2015
30 eps
MBC
Comedy Drama Family
Chaebol Family Unexpected Pregnancy
A teenage daughter of a hyper-prestigious chaebol family gets pregnant by her high school boyfriend — the son of a working-class family. Rather than facing scandal, the chaebol fam…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: rebellion. Same darkly comedic and satirical energy throughout.