When the Phone Rings

Series Similar to When the Phone Rings

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

1. Something in the Rain

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Yoon Jin Ah is a single woman in her 30s who works as a store supervisor in a coffee shop. Despite being an easygoing person, she lives a rather empty life. She suddenly feels romantic feelings towards her best friend's younger brother, Seo Joon Hee, a designer at a video game company, who has just returned from working abroad.

2. Link: Eat, Love, Kill

   2022 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Romance / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   A fantasy mystery drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state. Eun Gye Hoon is a chef who sets up a restaurant in the town where his twin sister went missing 20 years ago. He finds himself randomly experiencing emotions one day, spontaneously crying and laughing, and it turns out that they are the emotions of a woman named Noh Da Hyun.

3. My Dearest

   2023 · Drama, Romance, History · ended91% match

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

   A love-story between a noble woman and a mysterious man who shows up in her hometown set in the 1600s during the Qing invasion. Yu Gil Chae is a pretty, bubbly and a bit spoiled young lady who's named as the 99 tailed fox of Neunggun-ri. She is a bit of an outcast too because other young ladies are jealous of her. They seem to think she's too straight forward and her behavior is inappropriate for a young lady while young noble men think highly of her. Gil Chae knows how to get men to fall for her but fails to capture the heart of the person she likes. Lee Jang Hyun is a mysterious man who suddenly appears in the Neunggun-ri social scene one day. Nobody really knows about him. Young nobles don't like him while he has elderly people wrapped around his finger. He's been dating around a lot but becomes curious about a certain 99 tailed fox. And one day, the said fox crash lands to his arm literally. With the brewing war, the pair find themselves separated even before they start to make sense of their feelings.  

4. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended90% match

   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.

5. A Piece of Your Mind

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended89% match

   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. Marriage Contract

   2016 · Drama, Romance · ended89% match

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

   A widow has been forced to raise her daughter alone as her husband died by an accident, but unfortunately she discovers that she has a tumour in her brain. Now she is tasked to find a Guardian for her daughter.

7. Flex x Cop

   2024 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · returning89% match

   Recommended for similar Romance / Mystery profile.

   A fun-loving rich boy gets entangled in an incident and joins a violent crime investigation team. By mobilizing his enormous wealth and personal connections, the third-generation chaebol detective catches criminals who are beyond the reach of the police. 

8. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended87% match

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

   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...

9. What Comes After Love

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Five years have passed since Hong Yi has left Japan and Joon Go. Nearing thirty, Hong Yi works at her father's publishing firm and has spent the last few years trying to forget. But when Joon Go, now a famous writer, comes to Korea to promote his new book, Hong Yi confronts past memories of love, yearning, and heartbreak. When they finally meet, it's as if no time has passed at all. Both lovers are still trapped in old memories.

10. Red Sleeve

    2021 · Drama, Romance, History · ended86% match

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

    Red Sleeve tells the record of a royal court romance between the King of Joseon who believes his duty is to his country first above love, and a court lady who wants to protect the life she has chosen.