K-Dramas like Live Your Own Life

12 shows with a similar feel

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  The Penthouse (2020)Also drama

  A woman puts everything on the line to achieve her goal of being able to move into a luxury penthouse in the Gangnam District. In the process, she gradually finds herself turning into a monster.

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  Mine (2021)Also drama

  Encaged in a gold-clad life of secrets and lies, two women in a conglomerate family seek to topple all that stands in their way of finding true joy.
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  Family by Choice (2024)Also drama · family

  A youth romance about two men and woman who aren't blood related but treated each other as family during their teens and how they meet again after 10 years.

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  The Nice Guy (2025)Also drama · family

  Seok-cheol, the eldest son in a family of three generations of gangsters, navigates the tumultuous ups and downs of life with tears and laughter, all to protect his family, career, and love.
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  Curtain Call (2022)Also drama · family

  A drama about an elderly woman from North Korea who doesn’t have much time left to live and a theatre actor who acts as her grandson in order to fulfill her final wish.
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  Light Shop (2024)Also drama

  In a mysterious shop that sells lamps, the dead may return to the world of the living, while the living may not walk out alive.

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  The 8.2 Second Rule (2022)Also drama

  Amai Koichi, a talented baker, helps handsome men with their problems by making sweets, believing love blossoms if they look into each other's eyes for 8.2 seconds.
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  Everything and Nothing (2019)Also drama

  Min-jae and Seo-yeon are no different from ordinary 17-year-old high school students. Min-jae is silent and sensitive, yet a good student. Seo-yeon who plays the piano wished to enter an arts high school but failed. As they grow into adults, their surroundings and the reality they face get harsher. These two somehow similar but different friends get closer as they overcome their growing pains together.
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  When the Camellia Blooms (2019)Also drama

  Dongbaek is a single mother. When a potential new love enters her life, she finds ways to defy the social stigmas surrounding her.

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  Flowers for Algernon (2015)Also drama

  Shiratori Sakuto is 28, but has the intelligence of a 6-year-old boy. He works for Dream Flower Service, a flower distribution centre which provides employment for problem youth. One day, he and a colleague, Yanagawa Ryuichi, delivers a rose bouquet to the apartment building where Mochizuki Haruka lives. Because Haruka does not know that the deliveryman is mentally challenged, she is shocked by his response and tries to call the police. Haruka works for a brain physiology research centre where Professor Hachisuka Daigo has been studying the improvement of mental performance. He has succeeded in lab experiments on a white mouse called Algernon. Sakuto is transformed into a genius through surgery. But Algernon's new intelligence begins to fade, and he dies. Sakuto realises that his genius, too, is destined to leave him.
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  Maid Escort (2021)Also drama

  While protecting a bride-to-be, Yue Ziyuan discovers her growing feelings for the groom, Yang Xiao. Forced to work together to revive the merchant roads and solve their parents’ murders, the two navigate danger, duty, and an unexpected romance.
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  Ju Qing Beng Huai! Si Le Shi Yi Nian De Bai Yue Guang Hui Lai Le (2025)Also drama

  18-year-old Lin Mo travels to the eleventh year after her death. She discovers that her world is a novel, and she and her three younger brothers are merely tools in the story. In order to save herself and her brothers from a tragic fate, Lin Mo begins to resist. Along the way, she suddenly realizes that the domineering CEO who has always silently accompanied her is actually the biggest variable in the novel world.