Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung

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1. To My Star

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended93% match

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

   Actor Kang Seo Joon was once one of South Korea's biggest and most popular stars, but his career is now in decline.But despite his fall in popularity, he believes he has had a change of fortune when he meets and falls for a dashing young chef named Han Ji Woo.Despite having wildly different personalities, the two begin on a relationship. But their love comes under threat when the more conservative Han Ji Woo and the free-spirited Kang Seo Joon realize that their outlook on life, love, and everything else appears irrevocably different.

2. Extraordinary You

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended92% match

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

   It tells the story of a girl who realizes that she is a supporting character inside a romance manga named "Secret". She tries to change the fixed story for her love and life.

3. SKAM

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

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

   SKAM is a Norwegian teen drama television series about the daily life of teenagers at the Hartvig Nissen School, a gymnasium in the wealthy borough of Frogner in West End Oslo.

4. Normal People

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

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   Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College. At school, he's well-liked and popular, while she's lonely, proud and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying in Dublin and Marianne has found her feet in a new social world but Connell hangs at the side lines, shy and uncertain.

5. Revenged Love

   2025 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

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

   After Suowei's girlfriend dumps him, he decides to get revenge by seducing her new boyfriend, Chi Cheng! It started as a game, but falling in love was never part of the plan.

6. One Spring Night

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on MBC.

   Lee Jung In decides to prioritize happiness in her life. She works as a librarian. Her longtime boyfriend is Kwon Gi Suk. He has impressive credentials like a good job as a department head at a bank, wealthy family, handsome and smart. Lee Jung In meets Yoo Ji Ho one fated day after heavy night of drinking with a friend. He is a pharmacist. 

7. Descendants of the Sun

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended90% match

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

   This story tells of doctors stationed in the fictional war zone of Urk, and follows the love story that develops between a surgeon and a special forces officer, both elite in their respective fields. The story tracks both their personal and professional struggles while exploring issues about the value of life.

8. Lovestruck in the City

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Lovestruck in the City is a realistic portrayal of young people who pursue romance and happiness while struggling to get by in a busy, competitive urban environment. 

9. Stay with Me

   2023 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended89% match

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

   Su Yu, a high school student who lives a simple life with his father, faces a major change when his mother remarries a wealthy man, introducing him to his step-brother Wu Bi. Despite their initial differences-Wu Bi being a cold and arrogant top student, while Su Yu is an unreasonable underachiever-their relationship takes an unexpected turn after an accident. As they gradually warm up to each other, their bond grows stronger. However, when a heated fight arises, their true identities are revealed.

10. Thirty But Seventeen

    2018 · Drama, Romance · ended89% match

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Gong Woo Jin is a set designer and is afraid to have a relationship due to a trauma he experienced. Woo Suh Ri is a 30-year-old female who awakes of a 13 year long coma, however due to this her mental age is still of that of a 17-year-old child. Somehow both of them get to know each other and slowly fall in love.