Love Next Door

Series Similar to Love Next Door

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

1. Marriage, Not Dating

   2014 · Comedy, Romance · ended96% match

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

   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.

2. Twenty Again

   2015 · Comedy, Romance · ended94% match

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

   Due to an unplanned pregnancy, Ha No Ra married young and dropped out of school. But after two decades as a housewife, she finally gets the chance to experience college, alongside her 20-year-old son Kim Min Soo and his girlfriend Oh Hye Mi. Further complicating things, No Ra already has a strained student-teacher relationship, as her husband Kim Woo Chul and her first love Cha Hyun Suk wind up being her professors.

3. Boys in Love

   2025 · Comedy, Romance · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.2), hidden gem.

   Hop on the rollercoaster of love among 12th graders! Shane, a smart and driven student who excels in academics and school activities, has no interest in teenage life. That is, until he meets Kit, a carefree student who's his complete opposite. Forced to spend time together, sparks fly in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, Kim, another of Shane's classmates, is a hopeless romantic determined to find love before graduation. When he meets Mon, a new transfer student, Kim decides to do whatever it takes to win his heart. This new semester, open your heart to chaotic love experiences!

4. Beautiful Gong Shim

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Welcome to the life of Ahn Dan Tae. A life of ups and dows as he gets wrongly accused of a crime he did not commit and is sentenced to prison. Afterwards, he becomes a human rights attorney and successor of a large company.

5. Because This Is My First Life

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended93% match

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

   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. Crash Landing on You

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

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

   Crash Landing on You follows a wealthy heiress named Yoon Se Ri, who, while paragliding, is forced to land in North Korea due to high winds. A North Korean officer named Ri Jung Hyuk hides and protects her, and in doing so, comes to love her

7. Hidden Love

   2023 · Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

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

   Sang Zhi falls in love with Duan Jia Xu, a boy who often comes to her house to play games in her older brother's room. He is seven years older than her. Sang Zhi had a crush on Duan Jia Xu when she was young, but they lost contact with each other for some reason. After she graduates, she joins the university in the city he is in, and during their day-to-day intimate and close interaction, they slowly fall in love.

8. True Beauty

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on tvN.

   True Beauty is a romantic comedy that tells the story of Im Joo Kyung, who is insecure about her appearance and uses makeup to make herself appear beautiful to the world.

9. No Gain No Love

   2024 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on tvN.

   A comical romance between a woman who faked marriage because she didn't want to lose money and a man who became a fake groom because he didn't want to hurt a woman.

10. Answer Me 1988

    2015 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

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

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