2014
20 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
A meek, people-pleasing office worker accidentally spends the night with a charismatic heir on a cruise and ends up pregnant — forcing them into a contract marriage that slowly bec…
Like Schitt's Creek, it leans hard into character growth. The emotional territory — self discovery — is the same. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2023
16 eps
JTBC
Romance Drama Comedy
Cho Sam-dal, a hotshot Seoul fashion photographer, crashes out of the sky after a scandal destroys her career — and lands back in the tiny Jeju Island village she spent years tryin…
Like Schitt's Creek, it leans hard into slow burn romance. The emotional territory — self discovery and community — is the same. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2016
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A shopping-obsessed heir loses his memory and is taken in by a country girl searching for her missing brother.
If you loved Schitt's Creek's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Shopping King Louie delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2022
16 eps
KBS2
Drama Romance Family
A carefree young man from a North Korean defector family impersonates the long-lost grandson of a South Korean hotel mogul to fulfill the dying grandmother's final wish to reunite …
If you loved Schitt's Creek's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Curtain Call delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2007
17 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A tomboyish woman is mistaken for a man and hired at a coffee shop by its owner who begins to fall for her.
If you loved Schitt's Creek's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Coffee Prince delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2024
16 eps
JTBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Two childhood best friends who went separate ways reconnect in adulthood and discover their feelings run deeper than friendship.
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2021
20 eps
MBN / TV Chosun
Historical Romance Comedy
In the Joseon era, a widower with a troubled past makes his living by kidnapping widows for wealthy clients — a practice called "bossam." He accidentally kidnaps a royal princess w…
If you loved Schitt's Creek's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Bossam: Steal the Fate delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2006
24 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
In an alternate modern Korea where the monarchy survived, a clumsy art-school girl is suddenly betrothed to the cold, aloof Crown Prince per a childhood arrangement — navigating pa…
If you loved Schitt's Creek's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Goong (Princess Hours) delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2012
20 eps
JTBC
Romance Comedy Drama
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 Schitt's Creek's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, A Gentleman's Dignity delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
2014
17 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
A high school hockey star agrees to impersonate his older brother at a company, accidentally excelling at both the ice rink and corporate life — until his cover nearly blows when a…
If you loved Schitt's Creek's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, High School King of Savvy delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.