It's Okay to Not Be Okay

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If you enjoyed It's Okay to Not Be Okay, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. 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.

2. Something in the Rain

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

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   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.

3. Nevertheless,

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   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.

4. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

   2016 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8.1), also on tvN.

   Guardians are always whom we fear. Surely not this time. A guardian living in Seoul in 2016 is the sexiest chick magnet. More than a hundred years old in reality, he hangs out with the young. But not many people know that he is hollow inside. He has been searching for the ‘goblin bride' for decades, but she is no where to be found. Then one day, he keeps getting summoned by Eun-tak. There, he sees the Reaper, not knowing that they are to become roommates. That's where the story begins. A Goblin, trying to protect a girl who should have been dead a long time ago. A Reaper, desperately wanting to take the girl to complete his task.

5. The Atypical Family

   2024 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile.

   A story about Bok Gwi Joo who has extraordinary abilities saving Da Hae, his fated destiny.

6. Doom at Your Service

   2021 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Dong Kyung is an editor for a web novel company. Myul Mang, suddenly appears in her ordinary life. She makes a 100 day contract with Myul Mang, risking her life and her love.

7. Marry My Husband

   2024 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Kang Ji-won, a terminally ill cancer patient, is killed by her husband and best friend after she witnesses them having an affair. She wakes up 10 years before the incident and decides to seek revenge with the help of Yu Ji-hyuk, a director at the company where she works. Now, she must reclaim her fate and eliminate the trash from her life.

8. Twenty-Five Twenty-One

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Twenty-Five Twenty-One depicts a story from 1998 to 2021. In 1998, twenty-two and eighteen meet for the first time in an uneasy year as the whole world shook and called each others' name and when they became twenty-three and nineteen, they hurt each other. In the year of twenty-four and twenty, they relied on each other, and they loved only when they were twenty-five and twenty-one.

9. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   The irresistible romance between a civil servant who obtains a forbidden book that was thoroughly sealed 300 years ago and a popular lawyer who becomes a victim of the forbidden book.

10. The King: Eternal Monarch

    2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

    The Devil is released into the human world and soon opens a door into a parallel world. The Devil asks if he lived a better life in the other world, if he could live in the other world. Against the Devil's question, Korean Emperor Lee Gon tries to close the door to the parallel world and South Korean Detective Jung Tae Eul tries to protect the lives of people and the person she loves.