2024
16 eps
MBC
Romance Sports Comedy
Two elite athletes from rival teams have hated each other since they were rookies competing for the same spot. Now they're forced to train together — and everything they built thei…
If you loved Rivals's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Heated Rivalry delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. The pacing is pure fun — the kind you don't have to feel guilty about.
2022
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Oh Woo-ri has kept a virginity pledge since high school, waiting until marriage. During a routine procedure, she is accidentally artificially inseminated by a fertility specialist …
If you loved Rivals's love triangle where every choice breaks someone's heart, Woori the Virgin delivers exactly that. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.
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…
If you loved Rivals's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Shooting Stars delivers exactly that. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.
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…
If you loved Rivals's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, My Boss's Ex-Wife delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about 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.
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 …
If you loved Rivals's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, My Dearest Nemesis delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about 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.
2022
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Choi Sang-eun is a professional contract wife — she marries lonely men for exactly 3 days a week, providing warmth, companionship, and the appearance of a normal life, before retur…
If you loved Rivals's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Love in Contract delivers exactly that.
2023
12 eps
ENA
Romance Comedy Drama
A competitive, image-obsessed PR strategist and a free-spirited, principled product developer are thrown into a high-stakes rivalry for the same senior position at Korea's top car …
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.
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…
If you loved Rivals's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Be My Candy delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — love — is the same.
2009
25 eps
KBS
Romance Comedy Drama
A poor girl attends an elite school and clashes with the leader of the school's most powerful group of boys.
If you loved Rivals's love triangle where every choice breaks someone's heart, Boys Over Flowers delivers exactly that. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.
2023
10 eps
Netflix
Romance Comedy Drama
A man-hating attorney and a women-fearing top actor wage war on each other while falling unexpectedly in love.
If you loved Rivals's two people who despise each other helplessly, inevitably falling in love, Love to Hate You delivers exactly that. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.