To My Star

Series Similar to To My Star

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

1. Light On Me

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

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   Tae Kyung is an 18-year-old high school student. He is also a lifelong loner. But one day, he starts questioning his own judgment and tells a teacher that he no longer wishes to go it alone. The problem is, he has no idea how to start going about making new friends. The teacher advises him to join the school's student council. He agrees, but discovers that making friends may be harder than it seems.He meets the Vice President of the council, Shin Woo, who is cool and level-headed, but also somewhat cold toward him and reluctant to accept Tae Kyung. However, he also meets the super-attractive President of the council: Da On, who appears to take an instant shine to him. The beginnings of a romance appear to be in the cards for Da On and Tae Kyung, but Shin Woo does not seem to approve. Matters are further complicated by the fact that Da On's close female friend – who secretly loves Da On – is jealous of their closeness, and attempts to drive a wedge between them!

2. Our Dating Sim

   2023 · Romance · ended

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   Lee Wan and Shin Ki Tae are best friends. At school, they are almost inseparable and are always to be found hanging out together outside the classroom. Lee Wan is also attracted to Shin Ki Tae, and wants to start a romantic relationship with him. One day, Lee Wan confesses his feelings to his friend, who is stunned by this. The duo parts on unhappy terms.Now, seven years later, the two young men are trying to navigate the job market – with varying degrees of success. Shin Ki Tae has become a middle manager at a team leader at a startup gaming company. He has built up a reputation as a programming ace. Lee Wan, meanwhile, has become a keen illustrator. When Shin Ki Tae's company posts a job ad for an illustrator for a new dating-themed game, Lee Wan comes to the interview. Could romance spark for these two the second time around?

3. 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...

4. Revenged Love

   2025 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   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.

5. Normal People

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   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.

6. SKAM

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

   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.

7. Mr. Heart

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Despite the fact that things just never seem to go his way, Sang Ha always manages to find a reason to smile. A member of the school track team, Sang Ha loves to run, but distance has never really been his thing. For Sang Ha, sprinting is what brings him the most joy.Jin Won, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite. A record breaking marathon runner in high school, Jin Won is well on his way to becoming a marathon superstar. Determined to live up to the expectations of his coaches and colleagues, Jin Won cares about one thing and one thing only: running his next race.When Jin Won finds himself struggling to maintain his record-breaking stats, his coach suggests Sang Ha step in to help as a pacemaker. Disappointed in the coach's decision, Jin Won is anything but friendly to his new partner but with time and determination, the two runners come to find they share a similar passion, both on the track and off. As the two become closer, they begin to realize their feelings for each have taken an unexpected turn. But can they move from friend to friendlier without risking everything they've worked so hard to achieve?

8. The Eighth Sense

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Ji Hyun is a freshman at a university in Seoul. He comes from a small rural town and is used to living in the quiet countryside. He struggles to form meaningful relationships, and moving to the busy South Korean capital has left him feeling disorientated and confused. The older Jae Won, meanwhile, is now returning to Seoul – and the same university – after completing his mandatory military service.The duo starts to develop a mutual curiosity about one another. But things begin to escalate when Ji Hyun joins the same surfing club that Jae Won attends. Their bond begins to deepen as Ji Hyun discovers a love of surfing and the sea. When the surfing club embarks on a journey, the duo finds themselves together alone – and share a kiss. Later, though, Jae Won begins to act as if nothing happened between them. Is this just a fleeting attraction...or the love of a lifetime?

9. Semantic Error

   2022 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Computer science major Chu Sang Woo is the epitome of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. While working on a liberal arts group project with freeloaders who don't put in any effort, Sang Woo reasonably decides to remove their names from the final presentation. But he didn't imagine how involved he would become with the person whose study-abroad plans were messed up because of that project. The involved person: the campus star who everyone knows, Department of Design's Jang Jae Young. He has everything from skills, looks, family background and good relationships except for 1 big problem: Chu Sang Woo. What happens when an engineer and an artist whose personalities are like oil and water have to work together? Jang Jae Young is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Chu Sang Woo. Will Sang Woo be able to debug this?

10. Last Twilight

    2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Burdened with heavy debt, Mhok, a technical college student, unexpectedly finds himself becoming the caretaker of Day, a former badminton player on the brink of losing his sight. Day hires Mhok who, unlike other applicants, seems to take no pity on him. With so much time spent in each others' company, the two develop a deep bond. When Day learns he'll have approximately 90 days until he loses what vision he has remaining, how will the two weather the trials ahead?