2014
16 eps
SBS
Romance Drama Medical
A crime-fiction writer with severe OCD and a psychiatry resident who refuses to be analyzed move in together as an experiment — and fall in love despite themselves. Groundbreaking …
Both navigate the same emotional territory: love. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2016
20 eps
SBS
Medical Drama Romance
A brilliant but eccentric surgeon mentors two young doctors at a small countryside hospital.
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2016
20 eps
MBC
Medical Romance Drama
A delinquent girl transformed by a dedicated teacher's belief in her becomes a top neurosurgeon — then faces her former mentor again as a colleague, reopening every wound and possi…
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2019
32 eps
JTBC
Medical Romance Drama
A brilliant pain management doctor — jailed for euthanizing a patient who begged him — is released to work at a pain clinic where a resident doctor who can't feel emotional pain be…
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2017
40 eps
MBC
Medical Romance Drama
Song Eun-jae is a brilliant but arrogant Seoul surgeon reassigned to a hospital ship serving remote island communities — patients who have no other access to medical care. Kwon Hyu…
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2022
32 eps
iQiyi
Romance Drama Slice Of Life
Lin Zhixiao is a calm, competent music teacher whose life is quietly derailed when her father is diagnosed with a serious illness. Gu Wei is a doctor — brilliant, seemingly cold, a…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: illness and love. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2021
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Drama
A terminally ill woman accidentally summons a supernatural entity named Doom, and they make a dangerous contract.
Like One Litre of Tears, it leans hard into terminal illness. The emotional territory — love and living fully — is the same.
2013
20 eps
KBS
Medical Drama
Park Si-on is a surgical resident with autism and savant syndrome — an extraordinary visual memory and surgical instinct that should make him a brilliant doctor, except that the ho…
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2025
16 eps
Netflix
Medical Drama Romance
Five medical interns navigate the intense pressures of residency at a Seoul hospital, forming bonds and rivalries as they discover who they really are under extreme professional an…
The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2022
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Noh Go-jin is Korea's most arrogant math genius — the CEO of a private education company who treats everyone around him as furniture. Lee Shin-a is his assistant, long-suffering an…
Like One Litre of Tears, it leans hard into terminal illness. The emotional territory — illness and love — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.