Extraordinary You

Series Similar to Extraordinary You

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

1. One Spring Night

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Jung In decides to prioritize happiness in her life. She works as a librarian. Her longtime boyfriend is Kwon Gi Suk. He has impressive credentials like a good job as a department head at a bank, wealthy family, handsome and smart. Lee Jung In meets Yoo Ji Ho one fated day after heavy night of drinking with a friend. He is a pharmacist. 

2. The Beauty Inside

   2018 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Top actress Han Se Kye is known to be a troublemaker and object to many rumours. While her life is for many a mystery, she actually suffers an unusual phenomenon in which her appearance changes to a complete different person once every month. One day she bumps into Seo Do Jae, an executive of an airline. Even though Seo Do Jae is unable to recognize faces, he tries his best to hide his issue and to memorize people by their habits and mannerisms.

3. To My Star

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Actor Kang Seo Joon was once one of South Korea's biggest and most popular stars, but his career is now in decline.But despite his fall in popularity, he believes he has had a change of fortune when he meets and falls for a dashing young chef named Han Ji Woo.Despite having wildly different personalities, the two begin on a relationship. But their love comes under threat when the more conservative Han Ji Woo and the free-spirited Kang Seo Joon realize that their outlook on life, love, and everything else appears irrevocably different.

4. Semantic Error

   2022 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Computer science major Chu Sang Woo is the epitome of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. While working on a liberal arts group project with freeloaders who don't put in any effort, Sang Woo reasonably decides to remove their names from the final presentation. But he didn't imagine how involved he would become with the person whose study-abroad plans were messed up because of that project. The involved person: the campus star who everyone knows, Department of Design's Jang Jae Young. He has everything from skills, looks, family background and good relationships except for 1 big problem: Chu Sang Woo. What happens when an engineer and an artist whose personalities are like oil and water have to work together? Jang Jae Young is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Chu Sang Woo. Will Sang Woo be able to debug this?

5. Love Tractor

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Love Tractor tells the heartwarming rural love story that unfolds when Seonyul, a temporarily relocated city man, meets Yechan, a rural man who adores the countryside. Seonyul, a city man who comes to the countryside to experience life, knows nothing about farming. At that moment, Yechan, a passionate young man who loves rural life, appears before him. As Seonyul learns to adapt to rural living and engage in farming activities, he becomes increasingly attracted to Yechan's sincerity and enthusiasm. Together, these two young individuals embark on a chaotic and romantic countryside journey of healing and love.

6. Lovestruck in the City

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Lovestruck in the City is a realistic portrayal of young people who pursue romance and happiness while struggling to get by in a busy, competitive urban environment. 

7. All the Liquors

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Han Ji Yu works in the marketing team of an alcohol-producing company named Pai Syn Tang Liquors. He is exuberant and loves drinking and eating, and his busy social life reflects this. One day, his team is charged with finding an up-and-coming chef to partner with – to help promote the company. The team settles on Park Ki Hoon, the handsome and talented chef at a wildly popular restaurant.However, there's a big catch: Park Ki Hoon hates alcohol! He refuses to sell alcoholic beverages in his restaurant – and even kicks out customers who try to smuggle liquor into the eatery! When Han Ji Yu arrives at Park Ki Hoon's restaurant to explain the company's plan, the latter refuses. But Han Ji Yu refuses to be put off – and takes a part-time job at the restaurant in a bid to change Park Ki Hoon's mind. As the men start to get to know each other, Park Ki Hoon begins to mellow. And as time passes, they begin to develop feelings for one another. Could love be on the menu?

8. The Eighth Sense

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Ji Hyun is a freshman at a university in Seoul. He comes from a small rural town and is used to living in the quiet countryside. He struggles to form meaningful relationships, and moving to the busy South Korean capital has left him feeling disorientated and confused. The older Jae Won, meanwhile, is now returning to Seoul – and the same university – after completing his mandatory military service.The duo starts to develop a mutual curiosity about one another. But things begin to escalate when Ji Hyun joins the same surfing club that Jae Won attends. Their bond begins to deepen as Ji Hyun discovers a love of surfing and the sea. When the surfing club embarks on a journey, the duo finds themselves together alone – and share a kiss. Later, though, Jae Won begins to act as if nothing happened between them. Is this just a fleeting attraction...or the love of a lifetime?

9. Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung

   2019 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

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

   The story is set in the 19th century where men and women are not seen as equal. A woman will try to become a historian and try to ‘change' society. And it tells the romance between her and the prince.

10. Thirty But Seventeen

    2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile.

    Gong Woo Jin is a set designer and is afraid to have a relationship due to a trauma he experienced. Woo Suh Ri is a 30-year-old female who awakes of a 13 year long coma, however due to this her mental age is still of that of a 17-year-old child. Somehow both of them get to know each other and slowly fall in love.