Marriage Contract

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

1. She Was Pretty

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

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

   Can you over-romanticize a cherished memory from childhood? Ji Sung Joon (Park Seo Joon) was a shy, porky kid who was constantly teased by the other kids for his rotund shape. When he transfers to a new school in fifth grade and meets Kim Hye Jin (Hwang Jung Eum), the prettiest, most popular girl in school, his life turns around. The kind-hearted Hye Jin becomes his only friend and protector — and they become each other's first love. But then everything changes when Sung Joon's family immigrates to the United States and then Hye Jin's father's business goes downhill, plunging her family from their previous wealthy lifestyle. But that's not all! Hye Jin's beautiful looks initially took after her mother. But as soon as Hye Jin hits puberty, her father's genetic skin condition takes hold and leaves her with reddish facial scars that makes her resemble a raccoon. Fifteen years later, Sung Joon is a whole new person — dashing and handsome and a successful art director — who is transferred from New York to the Seoul office of "The Most" fashion magazine to work as the deputy chief editor. He tries to find his childhood friend, Hye Jin, again. But embarrassed by her current unglamorous appearance, Hye Jin passes off her best friend, the stunning Min Ha Ri (Go Jun Hee), as herself. But when Hye Jin is suddenly transferred to the magazine department at her new job to work as in intern under Sung Joon, how much longer can she keep her true identity a secret? "She Was Pretty" is a 2015 South Korean drama series directed by Jung Dae Yoon

2. Beautiful Gong Shim

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   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.

3. Business Proposal

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

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   Ha Ri goes on a blind date pretending to be her best friend for a hefty cash payment – but she's horrified to realize "her" date is Tae Mu, the CEO of the company she works at. To make matters worse, he's dead set on marrying her, unaware that she's an employee of his. And the one thing he hates most? Liars.

4. 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...

5. 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.

6. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

7. 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.

8. Angel Eyes

   2014 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Park Dong Joo and Yoon Soo Wan were two teenagers that fell in love but were then separated by unfortunate family circumstances. Soo Wan had been blind but recovered her sight after a successful eye transplant surgery. Feeling grateful for the donor, she decided to become an emergency rescue worker. Meanwhile, Dong Joo has become a successful surgeon which eventually leads to their paths crossing again.

9. My Secret Romance

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

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   Cha Jin Wook is the son of a wealthy family who runs a large firm. He is known to pursue short term love only, but he is changing when he is crossing paths with Lee Yoo Mi. They both end up having an one-night stand together in a dating world of busy people who tend to flirt and chase ''certain'' relationships rather than a connection in which they are allowed to show their true feelings. Once they meet again three years later, they kick off a shaky push-pull romance which will keep them both on their toes as they slowly fall in love.

10. My Love Eun Dong

    2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    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.