you watch
you'll love
2017
16 eps
tvN
Comedy Romance Workplace
Fish Out Of Water Rich Boy Goes Poor
The playboy third son of a Korean conglomerate gets cut off and has to work a series of entry-level jobs — catering, convenience store, temp work — ending up in the orbit of an ext…
Like Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim, Revolutionary Love is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The emotional territory — competence and self discovery — is the same. Same warm and comedic energy throughout.
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you'll love
2023
16 eps
JTBC
Comedy Drama Medical
Late Bloomer Workplace Ensemble
A woman who spent twenty years being a dedicated housewife for a doctor husband decides at 46 to become a doctor herself — enrolling as a first-year resident alongside people half …
Like Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim, it leans hard into workplace ensemble. Same warm and comedic energy throughout.
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you'll love
2024
12 eps
ENA
Comedy Romance Workplace
Rivals In Love Workplace Ensemble
A brilliant but perpetually unlucky researcher at a biotech company discovers that the new hire who is sabotaging her experiments is the same guy her best friend has started dating…
Like Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim, Please Don't Date Him is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. Same warm and comedic energy throughout.
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you'll love
2019
12 eps
MBC
Comedy Romance Workplace
Enemies To Lovers Workplace Ensemble
A diligent office worker at a gaming company — the kind who takes notes on everything, stays late voluntarily, and is profoundly ignored by the CEO — meets that CEO again when he's…
Like Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim, it leans hard into workplace ensemble. The emotional territory — competence — is the same. Same warm and comedic energy throughout.
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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…
If you loved Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Lucky Romance delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — self discovery — is the same. Same warm and comedic energy throughout.
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you'll love
2025
16 eps
Netflix
Medical Drama Romance
Ensemble Cast Found Family
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…
If you loved Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Resident Playbook delivers exactly that. Same warm and comedic energy throughout.
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you'll love
2020
16 eps
SBS
Medical Drama Romance
Gruff Mentor Underdog Hospital
Master Kim is still at Doldam Hospital — the small, remote, undersourced emergency room he's turned into something extraordinary by sheer force of conviction. Two new residents arr…
If you loved Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Dr. Romantic 2 delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — mentorship and healing — is the same. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.
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you'll love
2021
8 eps
Watcha
Romance Comedy Drama
Forced Cohabitation Opposites Attract
A famous actor hiding from his antifan stalker crash-lands in the home of a reclusive chef who hates celebrities. Two people who are opposites in every possible way — one craving q…
If you loved Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, To My Star delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — self discovery and healing — is the same. Same warm and comedic energy throughout.
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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…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: institutional corruption. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.
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2014
21 eps
tvN
Medical Comedy Romance
Second Chance Romance Forced Proximity
Oh Chang-min and Oh Jin-hee were married, had a spectacular implosion, and divorced. Six years later, they're both starting medical residencies at the same hospital. In the same ER…
Same warm and comedic energy throughout.