Love with Flaws

Series Similar to Love with Flaws

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

1. Unintentional Love Story

   2023 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   It started with an ulterior motive, but falling in love is not part of the plan! The heartwarming romance between two men who fall in love and regain trust in a relationship that started with a lie. In the second year of employment, Ji Won-Young, an employee of the general affairs department of the Tae Pyeong Group, is implicated in the shady dealings of his immediate superior and is dismissed from his position. In order to escape from the complicated reality, Won-Young goes on a trip to Gangneung. After breaking a tableware that was treasured by the owner of the hotel where he was staying, he went to a tableware store to buy a replacement. He even changed his name to Cha Joo Hyun. Tae-Joon who lives as the owner of a small tableware store called Moon Pot in Gangneung Youth Mall, suddenly disappeared two years ago. When Won-Young learns that the chairman of the Pacific Group wants to sign an exclusive contract with Tae-Joon, he starts to approach Tae Joon in order to get his job back. But the more time they spend together, the more Won-Young is attracted to Tae-Joon, and Tae-Joon also grows fond of the cheerful and gentle Yuan-Ying...

2. 20th Century Boy and Girl

   2017 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on MBC.

   The heartwarming romantic comedy is about the friendship and love lives of three single virgins born in 1983. Their romantic lives begin when the boy they liked in their youth shows up one day. They live in Oksu-dong in rundown apartments, and the warm human drama will be about neighborly affection, and the meaning of home, family, and friendship.

3. The Heart Killers

   2024 · Comedy, Action, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.1), hidden gem.

   When hitmen are in love, they put both their lives and hearts at risk. Now only one question needs to be answered: is it to kiss… or to kill? Kant, a badass tattooist police informant, is asked to investigate a hitman brother duo. But when his attempt to dig up information by getting close to the younger brother, Bison, gets curbed by the overprotective big brother Fadel, Kant has no choice but to find someone to take Fadel out of the way. That's where Style, his good-looking foolhardy mechanic friend, comes in. Now the two friends are putting their lives, and hearts, on the line.

4. Love Mate

   2023 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   An office push-and-pull romance between a tough iron-clad man who doesn't believe in love and a straight-forward man who is sincere in love. It depicts the story of team leader Seo I-joon and new employee Jeong Ha-ram, who are entangled in their first meeting, falling for each other and learning about true love.

5. Answer Me 1997

   2012 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   This drama will focus on the extreme fan culture that emerged in the 1990s when idol groups took center stage and K-pop was blossoming.It tells the story of 6 former high school friends from a school in Busan who meet again in 2012 and brings back memories to 1997 when they were still high school students. Moving back and forth between the '90s and today, the story centers on the life of Sung Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T., and her 5 high school friends.

6. Cherry Magic!

   2020 · Comedy, Romance · ended

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

   It's complicated: A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reveals he's the object of his male coworker's affections! Adachi, a thirty-year-old virgin, discovers he has the magical power to read the minds of people he touches. Unfortunately, the ability just makes him miserable since he doesn't know how to use it well! And to make matters worse, when he accidentally reads the mind of his very competent, handsome colleague, Adachi discovers the guy has a raging crush on none other than Adachi himself! Things are about to get VERY awkward!

7. Love By Chance

   2018 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   When a bashful scholar meets an outgoing athlete, new feelings and friendship blossom in a collegiate world filled with complex truths.  

8. Skam España

   2018 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Skam España is a portrait of the generation of boys and girls born since 2000: their thoughts, problems, feelings, and wants; and above all, what they are ashamed of and what they don't say. The series accompanies a group of 16-year-olds on the journey of their life following their day-to-day in real time. Dependence on social media, how they face sex, love, and ruptures, the search for identity and the need to fit in. Skam España is an spanish adaptation of an Norwegian online television show called Skam.

9. My Love Mix-Up!

   2021 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   For longer than he'd care to admit, Sota Aoki has had a crush on his classmate Mio Hashimoto. Sitting next to her in class every day, Aoki wishes he could find a way to tell her how he feels but something keeps holding him back. Despite being unable to confess his feelings, he's at least able to talk to her about other, simpler things. He's even occasionally borrowed school supplies from her, which is why he didn't think twice about asking to borrow an eraser from her when he found himself needing one during class one day.Little did Aoki know that borrowing one simple eraser would change his life forever. Noticing Hashimoto had written something on the eraser he'd borrowed, Aoki is devastated to find that she had written "Ida-kun". Crushed by the realization that she has absolutely no romantic interest in him, Aoki finds himself so flustered that he accidentally drops the eraser. Much to his horror, the very same Kousuke Ida, picks up the eraser and hands it back to Aoki. Noticing his name on the eraser, Ida suddenly sees Aoki in an entirely different light.With Ida now convinced Aoki has a crush on him and Hashimoto wanting nothing more from him than their casual friendship, Aoki has no idea what to do next. Will he be able to clear up this misunderstanding with Ida, or will he find that fate has other plans?

10. Sotus: The Series

    2016 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    There's a university system called SOTUS (an acronym which stands for Seniority, Order, Tradition, Unity and Spirit - a tradition in which upper classmen sometimes exploit and even abuse freshmen and others seeking acceptance). Junior level students are required to mentor those freshmen and be respected in return. Enter a rather assertive and vocal freshy at the Engineering faculty named Kongpob who gets to be under the mentorship of Artit, a strict Junior who happens to be the boss of his year.