Shows Like Optional Romance

A sharp, underpaid marketing team leader discovers that the charming man she's been confiding in at her neighbourhood café is her company's intimidating new CEO — and worse, he tur…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: second chances. Same warm and witty energy throughout.

Two childhood best friends who went separate ways reconnect in adulthood and discover their feelings run deeper than friendship.

If you loved Optional Romance's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Love Next Door delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — second chances — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A former advertising executive rebuilds her career as an entry-level employee in a publishing company run by her childhood friend.

Like Optional Romance, it leans hard into friends to lovers. The emotional territory — second chances — is the same. Same grounded and romantic energy throughout.

Four men in their early 40s — childhood friends who've stayed immature in love — navigate romance, heartbreak, and growing up alongside a high school ethics teacher who won't give …

If you loved Optional Romance's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, A Gentleman's Dignity delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — second chances — is the same. The pacing is light on its feet even when the stakes are real.

A relationship counsellor who is secretly going through her own difficult break-up meets a novelist who writes about perfect relationships but has never had one. They agree to help…

If you loved Optional Romance's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, My Sweet Lie delivers exactly that. Same warm and witty energy throughout.

Two people who both want a divorce are forced to navigate the process together — except they're not each other's spouses. Kang Yoon-woo is trying to divorce his wife, and Choi Jung…

If you loved Optional Romance's second-chance romance carrying the weight of everything they couldn't say before, Can We Be Strangers? delivers exactly that. Same warm and grounded energy throughout.

Kim Nak-su is the writer behind a beloved webtoon romance, pouring into the characters everything she can't say in her own life. Her leading man is inspired by a man she loved year…

If you loved Optional Romance's second-chance romance carrying the weight of everything they couldn't say before, Serendipity's Embrace delivers exactly that. Same warm and romantic energy throughout.

Goo Yeo-reum and Park Jae-hoon have been best friends for 20 years, going through every relationship disaster together while insisting they'll never date each other. Then Yeo-reum …

If you loved Optional Romance's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Love is for Suckers delivers exactly that. Same warm and witty energy throughout.

A broadcast writer takes experimental medication and loses his filter — unable to say anything but the absolute truth, no matter how catastrophic the social fallout. His unfiltered…

If you loved Optional Romance's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Frankly Speaking delivers exactly that. Same warm and romantic 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 Optional Romance's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Marriage Not Dating delivers exactly that. Same warm and romantic energy throughout.