Age of Youth

Series Similar to Age of Youth

If you enjoyed Age of Youth, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Family By Choice

   2024 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   Yoon Ju-won is a bright, down-to-earth girl who lives with her single father, Yoon Jeong-jae, when Kim San-ha and Kang Hae-jun, two boys from complicated circumstances, come into her life. Her father takes in the boys to grow up together as a family. Despite being unrelated by blood, Ju-won adores San-ha and Hae-jun and thinks of them as her brothers, no matter how differently others think or say. They reunite after a decade apart - facing new dynamics, unresolved pain and the complexities of adulthood.

2. Marriage, Not Dating

   2014 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A romantic comedy about a man who doesn't want to get married and a woman who earnestly wants to get married. Gong Ki Tae is a successful plastic surgeon who keeps getting pressured by his family to get married but all he wants is to live alone in peace. He then comes up with a plan to introduce Joo Jang Mi to his family, believing that they will never be able to accept her as their daughter-in-law.

3. Oh My Ghost

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Na Bong-sun has an extremely timid personality and low self-esteem, doesn't have any close friends, and is constantly getting reprimanded at her job as an assistant chef at Sun Restaurant. She also occasionally sees ghosts, thanks to a shaman grandmother. One day, Bong-sun gets possessed by a lustful virgin ghost named Shin Soon-ae. To make up for the lack of romance in her short life and believing that only by losing her virginity will she be able to "resolve her grudge" and move on to the afterlife, Soon-ae is determined to seduce as many men as she can by possessing various women, and she finds the perfect vessel in Bong-sun.Bong-sun's boss is arrogant star chef Kang Sun-woo, whom she secretly has a crush on. Sun-woo hasn't dated anyone since getting his heart broken by his college friend Lee So-hyung, who's now a TV producer. But when Bong-sun seemingly gets rid of her shyness and suddenly changes into a confident, dynamic woman, she finally catches his eye. Meanwhile, the mystery surrounding Soon-ae's death involves Sun-woo's brother-in-law, kindly police officer Choi Sung-jae who may not be what he seems.

4. She Would Never Know

   2021 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   Yoon Song Ah works as a marketer for a cosmetic brand. She enjoys her job and does it with vigor. Her dream is to start her own cosmetic brand. Meanwhile, Chae Hyun Seung works with Yoon Song Ah as a marketer. He becomes attracted to Yoon Song Ah and tries to develop a romantic relationship with her. However, Yoon Song Ah rebuffs his advances, because she does not see younger guys as dating partners.

5. Because This Is My First Life

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8).

   A house-poor man and homeless woman become housemates in a drama that examines the institution of marriage and the problems that young people face today.Nam Se Hee is a single man in his early 30's. He has chosen to not marry. He owns his home, but he owes a lot on his mortgage. Meanwhile, Yoon Ji Ho is a single woman in her early 30's. She does not own a home and envies those that do. She has given up on dating due to her financial struggles. Yoon Ji Ho begins to live at Nam Se Hee's house. They become housemates.

6. Something in the Rain

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on jTBC.

   Yoon Jin Ah is a single woman in her 30s who works as a store supervisor in a coffee shop. Despite being an easygoing person, she lives a rather empty life. She suddenly feels romantic feelings towards her best friend's younger brother, Seo Joon Hee, a designer at a video game company, who has just returned from working abroad.

7. Answer Me 1988

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A drama about a small cluster of neighboring families set in 1988.

8. Go Ahead

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8).

   Three unrelated children who suffer different injuries in their original families, by chance, get together and become siblings.The eldest brother Ling Xiao, the second brother He Zi Qiu, and the younger sister Li Jian Jian support each other and grow up together under the support of their two fathers. The history follows their childhoold, highschool years and adulthood.

9. Be Melodramatic

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   At the start of their 30s, three friends navigate the demanding entertainment industry while juggling love, careers and dreams.

10. It's Okay, It's Love

    2014 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Jang Jae Yul is a famous mystery novelist and popular radio DJ who suffers from OCD. When he meets Ji Hae Soo, a first-year psychiatry fellow at the hospital where he is being treated, they help each other work through their deep-rooted emotional issues. But how will Jo Dong Min, Hae Soo's senior colleague and first love, and Lee Pul Ip, Jae Yul's girlfriend, feel about their growing closeness?