2024
12 eps
ENA
Romance Drama Slice Of Life
Seo Hye-jin is a legendary test-prep English instructor at Korea's most prestigious cram school. When a younger, talented male instructor joins the faculty and they start collabora…
Like Pasta, Midnight Romance in Hagwon is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same warm and romantic energy throughout.
2025
8 eps
Netflix
Romance Comedy Drama
Oh Seong-sun is a food writer who publishes a guide to Seoul's greatest unknown restaurants — using a pen name that has made her a legend in culinary circles without anyone knowing…
If you loved Pasta's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Tastefully Yours delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — passion — is the same. Same warm and funny energy throughout.
2024
12 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
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…
Like Pasta, Frankly Speaking is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. Same warm and funny energy throughout.
2023
12 eps
P.A. Works / Crunchyroll
Romance Comedy Slice Of Life
Mitsumi Iwakura moves from rural Ishikawa to Tokyo for high school, armed with a five-year plan, an overachiever's work ethic, and almost no social skills. Sousuke Shima is effortl…
If you loved Pasta's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Skip and Loafer delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same warm and funny energy throughout.
2015
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Slice Of Life
Lee Jung-joo moves to Jeju Island after her life in Seoul falls apart and, through a series of improbable events, ends up co-owning a seaside restaurant with Baek Gun-woo — a grump…
Same warm and romantic energy throughout.
2013
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
A socially phobic young woman who refuses to leave her apartment has survived by watching the life of the beautiful man in the apartment across the street — until he shows up at he…
Same warm and funny energy throughout.
2024
12 eps
Netflix
Romance Comedy Drama
An underachieving office worker discovers her hidden talent for confectionery and falls for a cold-hearted patissier who becomes both her toughest critic and her greatest supporter…
Like Pasta, it leans hard into workplace romance. The emotional territory — passion and growth — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2021
16 eps
SBS
Romance Comedy Drama
Former high school sweethearts are forced to reunite for a documentary sequel, reigniting old feelings.
If you loved Pasta's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Our Beloved Summer delivers exactly that. Same warm energy throughout.
2022
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
The head of the PR team managing celebrity crises falls into a reluctant alliance — and then something more — with the top actor she spends every day publicly defending and private…
Like Pasta, it leans hard into bickering duo. The emotional territory — workplace — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2025
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
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…
Like Pasta, it leans hard into workplace romance. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same warm and funny energy throughout.