2014
20 eps
MBC
Melodrama Romance Drama
Two childhood sweethearts are separated after a tragic accident gives a blind girl her sight — twelve years later, a firefighter returns to find her, not knowing she's become engag…
Like Uncontrollably Fond, it leans hard into noble idiocy. The emotional territory — first love and fate — is the same. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2002
20 eps
KBS2
Romance Melodrama Drama
A woman falls in love with a mysterious young man who appears in her life twenty years after her first love died in a tragic accident — identical in face and manner, ignorant of th…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love and fate. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2018
16 eps
tvN
Romance Melodrama Drama
A divorced CEO of a hotel group, living under the thumb of her powerful politician mother-in-law, has a spontaneous, magical night in Cuba with a young man she'll never see again —…
Both are built around class divide that poisons every relationship it touches. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2003
20 eps
SBS
Melodrama Romance Drama
Two childhood sweethearts are separated when their parents remarry and a scheming stepsister grows obsessed with destroying them. After years apart they reunite — but fate keeps pi…
Like Uncontrollably Fond, it leans hard into terminal illness. The emotional territory — first love — is the same. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2016
16 eps
KBS2
Melodrama Romance Drama
A flight attendant in an empty marriage and a quiet airline ground supervisor meet repeatedly by chance — their restrained, undeniable connection forcing both to confront the lives…
Both are built around fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2021
16 eps
SBS
Romance Drama Melodrama
Ha Young-eun is the head designer at a Seoul fashion company — composed, excellent at her work, and clear about what she wants and doesn't. Yoon Jae-guk is a photographer based in …
If you loved Uncontrollably Fond's second-chance romance carrying the weight of everything they couldn't say before, Now We Are Breaking Up delivers exactly that. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2013
16 eps
KBS2
Melodrama Romance Drama
A woman takes the blame for a fatal accident caused by her beloved boyfriend — and goes to prison for it. The dead woman's bereaved fiancé sets out to destroy her. What he doesn't …
Like Uncontrollably Fond, it leans hard into noble idiocy. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2020
32 eps
MBC
Romance Mystery Drama
A news anchor with hyperthymesia who remembers everything meets a top actress who has lost her memories. As they fall for each other, they discover a tragic connection linking thei…
If you loved Uncontrollably Fond's love story the universe keeps trying to destroy, Find Me in Your Memory delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
2018
32 eps
MBC
Romance Drama Melodrama
Three rich, bored friends make a cruel bet: seduce a serious, rule-abiding woman and break her heart within a month. But the designated seducer — charming, emotionally closed-off, …
Both are built around class divide that poisons every relationship it touches. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2015
38 eps
SBS
Romance Drama Melodrama
Choi Jin-eon and Han Jung-hoon were once married, but the death of their child and professional betrayal ended them. When Choi Yoon-gi — a woman with no memory of her past — begins…
If you loved Uncontrollably Fond's second-chance romance carrying the weight of everything they couldn't say before, I Have a Lover delivers exactly that. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.