K-Dramas like I Am a Running Mate

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Hierarchy (2024)Also drama

  The top 0.01% of students control law and order at Jooshin High School, but a secretive transfer student chips a crack in their indomitable world.

  ★ 3.0 from 3 members11 tracking it here
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  Snowdrop (2021)Also drama

  An enduring love story in 1987 Seoul; Young-ro, a female university student, treats the bleeding Soo-ho, a student attending a prestigious university, who one day jumps into a women's university dormitory despite the dangerous situation.

  3 tracking it here
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  Pyramid Game (2024)Also drama

  Every last Thursday of the month at an all-girls high school, the students of Class 2–5 cast their votes in a popularity poll. The results classify them into Grades A, B, C, D, and F. If they fall into Grade F, they become legitimate victims of school violence.

  5 tracking it here
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  Doona! (2023)Also drama

  A college student navigates life and school while dealing with a unique predicament — he's living with a beautiful former K-pop sensation.

  5 tracking it here
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  Love Alarm (2019)Also drama

  Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.

  ★ 4.0 from 3 members7 tracking it here
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  The Crowned Clown (2019)Also drama

  The story takes place at a time in Joseon history, when upheaval and power struggles surrounding the throne had reached extreme levels. In order to escape those who plan to assassinate him, the king puts a clown, who looks exactly like him, on the throne.

  2 tracking it here
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  High School Return of a Gangster (2024)Also drama

  A spirit of a middle school dropout gangster who accidentally possesses an 18-year-old boy’s body who killed himself, goes back to high school to take a revenge against the bullies with his gangster skills and encounters unexpected relationship.

  2 tracking it here
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  The Scent of Lime (2024)Also drama

  In their final year of high school, three teens in the least promising class each grapple with personal struggles. Gao Ling, brilliant but withdrawn, is haunted by his father's arrest. Wei Yuno hides her loneliness behind a fearless façade, while Zhang Wenqi, from a single-parent household, seeks to prove her maturity by rushing into adulthood. Together, they navigate the challenges of adolescence, facing emotional scars and self-discovery.
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  The Black Devil and the White Prince (2015)Also drama

  Yū Akahane moves to a dormitory room after her father's transfer at work. She and Haruto, aka "Black Devil", have the worst meeting. Since then, Haruto treats her like his slave. The only person who is kind to her is Takumi, aka "White Prince". Haruto orders Yū to go to her middle-school reunion, but Yū, who doesn't want to remember her middle school days, refuses. At this time, Suzune appears. She is a childhood friend of both Haruto and Takumi. Due to her, the relationship between Yū, Haruto and Takumi changes.
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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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  Haikyu!! (2014)Also drama

  Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.
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  Waiting For You In The Future (2019)Also drama

  After a disappointing class reunion, high school teacher Hao Huigui is transported back in time and becomes the teacher of his own teenage classmates. Revisiting his youth, he is given a second chance to face old regrets and change his perspective on the past.