Itaewon Class

Series Similar to Itaewon Class

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

1. Love in the Big City

   2024 · Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   An audacious tale of two roommates, one a homosexual man and another a heterosexual woman. Through the eyes of Mi Ae begins Go Yeong's clumsy love story. Stories of laughter, tears, and wounds between a mother in denial of his gender identity and a lover unable to escape societal judgment. Go Yeong finally meets a pure love like no other, Gyu Ho, but has no choice but to let him go. With Gyu Ho gone, Go Yeong follows a stranger to Thailand and spends a late monsoon vacation. Reminiscing about the good old days that can never be retrieved, he achieves complete personal growth.

2. Only Friends

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Only Friends will depict a story among a group of friends who bet their hearts to win this secret love game. Alcohol, nicotine, pheromones, night lights, and music bring Sand, Ray, Top, Mew, Boston, and Nick to meet and begin their relationship filled with love, heat, and secrets that eventually lead to the end of their friendship. How will these "friends" who should have stayed "only friends" handle their relationship issues?

3. Doctor Stranger

   2014 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   The series will revolve around Park Hoon, a South Korean who was captured with his father and grows up in North Korea. He is trained to become a genius doctor, and though Park Hoon lands a job at the best South Korean hospital after defecting, he is treated as a foreigner. To find his lost North Korean first love, Song Jae Hee, he does anything to make money.

4. A Piece of Your Mind

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   A Piece of Your Mind is a romance about an artificial intelligence (AI) programmer and classical recording engineer. It is a story told from the perspective of a man who believes that even a small fraction of his significant person's heart is enough for him.

5. 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.

6. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Young's family runs a large firm in which Lee Young Joon works as vice-president. He is known to be rich, smart and handsome, but is known to be very arrogant. His secretary Kim Mi So, who works for them for many years, makes a decision which shocks him...

7. My Love Eun Dong

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   A renowned actor who is still pining over the loss of his first real love writes an autobiography about his memories of her, hoping to reconnect.

8. Nevertheless,

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Park Jae Eon is a university student, majoring in art. He seems nice to everyone and he is usually cheerful. Yet, he is really indifferent to others and he doesn't want to have a romantic relationship. Unexpectedly, he fall for Yoo Na Bi and begins to change. Yoo Na Bi is an art srudent at the same university as Park Jae Eon. In her past, she broke up with her first love due to his unfaithful ways. After that, she decided to become unswayed by love. She then meets Park Jae Eon and develops feelings for him.

9. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

10. Hua Jai Sila

    2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

    Tor is a love child of a mistress and a wealthy hi-so man. After his mother dies from neglect, Tor is forced to live with his father's family . Abused by his stepmother and stepbrother, he turns to the girl-next-door, Mingta, who also suffers neglect at the hands of her so called mother and sister. One night, while being chased by his stepmother, Tor jumps into a river and is presumed dead, though he survives. He is taken under the wing of another prostitute who knew his mother and takes on a new life under the alias, Sila. Years later, he returns as a notorious, rich pimp, with plans to avenge his mother and to get revenge for the torture and pain brought to him by his stepmother and stepbrother. Sila's main goal is to hurt the people that hurt him as a child, but he never expected to see the only friend he ever had as a child, Mingta. As soon as they see each other, she realizes that he looks familiar to her. She notices a ring he wears around his neck, and immediately comes to the conclusion that he's Tor, her childhood best friend that supposedly died. But he denies it because of his revenge plan.