If You Loved The Office, Watch These K-Dramas

The definitive Korean workplace drama. A former baduk prodigy enters a corporate trading company as a temp — with no university degree, no connections, and no idea how office culture works. Misaeng has The Office's essential quality: finding the profound inside the tedious. The coworker relationships are as richly observed as anything in The Office, and the mentorship between the protagonist and his team leader is genuinely moving.

A brilliant lawyer with autism navigates the workplace politics and case-of-the-week challenges of a mid-tier law firm. Extraordinary Attorney Woo has The Office's ensemble structure — the boss, the overachievers, the slackers, the office romance — plus a genuinely warm protagonist whose perspective makes the familiar feel fresh. The recurring whale obsession is an Office-caliber bit.

Five doctors who've been best friends since medical school navigate hospital life, band practice, and the slow realization that their friendships might be romantic. Hospital Playlist is The Office if Jim and Pam had four close friends who were all equally interesting. The ensemble chemistry is extraordinary, and the show rewards patience with one of the warmest TV friendships ever filmed.

An impossibly efficient secretary announces she's quitting after nine years — and her narcissistic boss realizes, to his horror, that he might be in love with her. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim has The Office's boss-employee dynamic with the awkward romance made explicit and the comedy pitched at a slightly broader register. Enormously fun, and the leads have great chemistry.

A cash-strapped young woman takes a job at a coffee shop — disguised as a man — and her new boss starts developing feelings he can't explain. Coffee Prince is The Office's premise (people stuck working together slowly falling in love) with a gender-disguise twist that generates both comedy and genuine emotional complexity. A landmark of the workplace romance genre.

A young man opens a small bar in Itaewon and builds a scrappy found-family team of misfits to compete against the conglomerate that destroyed his life. Itaewon Class has The Office's ensemble energy — a motley crew of coworkers each with their own arc — plus a vengeance plot that keeps the stakes higher than anything Dunder Mifflin ever faced.

A group of young entrepreneurs navigate the chaos of startup culture, falling in love, and the question of what they're actually building and why. Start-Up has The Office's feel for the small dramas that happen when ambitious people share space — the love triangle, the mentor who's hiding something, the coworker rivalry — in a tech startup setting that's quintessentially modern.