Shows Like Welcome to Samdalri

Gu Ae-jeong was once the most beloved member of a top girl group — now she's tabloid fodder and the punchline of every variety show. Dokko Jin is Korea's biggest movie star and he …

Both are built around a redemption arc that actually earns it through real consequence. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A surgeon pressured by his family to marry brings a loud, unsophisticated woman to family events to scare his parents off — not expecting to actually fall for her. A beloved rom-co…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A once-gorgeous lawyer who gained significant weight over the years crosses paths with a celebrity personal trainer — and the two make a deal: he gets her body back in shape, she h…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: second chances. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Noh Go-jin is Korea's most arrogant math genius — the CEO of a private education company who treats everyone around him as furniture. Lee Shin-a is his assistant, long-suffering an…

The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Yumi is an ordinary 30-something office worker who feels her emotions and impulses — Food Cell, Reason Cell, Love Cell — as tiny animated characters running a control room inside h…

Like Welcome to Samdalri, it leans hard into slow burn romance. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Jin Ha-kyung is a meticulous deputy director at Korea's Meteorological Administration — and just got publicly dumped by a colleague for a younger woman. Lee Si-woo is the new trans…

Like Welcome to Samdalri, it leans hard into slow burn romance. Same funny and romantic energy throughout.

A tomboyish woman is mistaken for a man and hired at a coffee shop by its owner who begins to fall for her.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Two childhood best friends who went separate ways reconnect in adulthood and discover their feelings run deeper than friendship.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: second chances. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A former advertising executive rebuilds her career as an entry-level employee in a publishing company run by her childhood friend.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: second chances. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

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…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: first love. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.