2022
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
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…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same funny and heartwarming energy throughout.
2021
14 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
An ordinary office worker navigates her romantic and professional life as shown through the animated cells in her brain.
Like Yumi's Cells, it leans hard into office romance. The emotional territory — self expression — is the same. Same cute and heartwarming energy throughout.
2018
16 eps
JTBC
Romance Comedy Drama
CEO Jang Sun-gyul has severe mysophobia — a pathological fear of uncleanliness that has shaped his entire adult life and business. Gil Oh-sol is a cleaning worker who needs money b…
Both are built around the slow, non-linear work of healing — done with real tenderness. Same funny and heartwarming energy throughout.
2017
16 eps
MBC
Comedy Drama Romance
Eun Ho-won has failed every job application for three years and is at rock bottom when a medical test suggests she might have a terminal illness. In a reckless act of liberation, s…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same funny and heartwarming energy throughout.
2021
16 eps
KBS2
Romance Comedy Drama
Kim Dal-li is the sophisticated, Harvard-educated daughter of a museum director who has spent her life surrounded by art and culture. Jin Moo-hak is a self-made entrepreneur from a…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same funny and heartwarming energy throughout.
2022
16 eps
MBC
Romance Drama Comedy
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 Yumi's Cells, it leans hard into slow burn romance. At its core, it's about the slow, non-linear work of healing — done with real tenderness. Same funny and bittersweet energy throughout.
2024
16 eps
KBS
Romance Drama Comedy
Two orphans who grew up as fake siblings reunite in adulthood and must navigate the fine line between family and love.
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. 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 Yumi's Cells, it leans hard into slow burn romance. Same funny and heartwarming energy throughout.
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…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same funny and bittersweet energy throughout.
2024
12 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
A broadcast writer takes experimental medication and loses his filter — unable to say anything but the absolute truth, no matter how catastrophic the social fallout. His unfiltered…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: love. Same funny and quirky energy throughout.