K-Dramas like Sunshine by My Side

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Go Ahead (2020)Also drama · comedy

  Three school students develop a sibling-like bond. But could the pressures of adulthood deepen – or shatter – their relationships?

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  The Princess Royal (2024)Also drama

  Because of political reasons, princess Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan got married at the age of 18. In the end they drifted further and further afar from each other. After 20 years of a loveless marriage, they were manipulated into turning against each other, leading to their deaths. However, they wake up back at 18, before their marriage, facing the hardest time of their lives. The two of them are given second change together, to save those around them.
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  The First Frost (2025)Also drama

  Wen Yifan, by chance, ends up living with her high school classmate Sang Yan, whom she once rejected. They keep their distance until Wen Yifan learns from Sang Yan that she sleepwalks, intertwining their lives once more.

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  A Love So Beautiful (2017)Also comedy · drama

  The ups and downs of school, family and growing up test the affection between a budding artist and her handsome but indifferent classmate and neighbor.
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  The Prisoner of Beauty (2025)Also drama

  Xiao Qiao, a clever girl from the Qiao family, marries Wei Shao, the brave and kind master of the Wei family. Despite initial wariness due to ancestral grievances, Xiao Qiao and Wei Shao navigate their relationship with humor and determination. As they face challenges together, they come to appreciate each other's qualities through their warm daily life, intertwined with family and national affairs, and work to restore peace and resolve conflicts.

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  Intoxicating Deja Vu (2026)Also drama

  After being abandoned on her wedding night, Qing-era bride Yun Jiao dies with resentment—only to be reborn a decade later as Republican-era student Lin Yunzhi. When she unexpectedly crosses paths with her former husband, Shen Yifu, now a respected academic official, their past collides with new threats surrounding her adopted family.
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  The Next Station is Marriage (2015)Also drama
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  My Prince's First Love (2022)Also drama
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  The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady (2023)Also comedy · drama

  Despite her supposed ineptitude with regular magic, Princess Anisphia defies the aristocracy’s expectations by developing “magicology,” a unique magical theory based on memories from her past life. One day, she witnesses the brilliant noblewoman Euphyllia unjustly stripped of her title as the kingdom’s next monarch. That’s when Anisphia concocts a plan to help Euphyllia regain her good name-which somehow involves them living together and researching magic! Little do these two ladies know, however, that their chance encounter will alter not only their own futures, but those of the kingdom...and the entire world!
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  Scent of Love (2022)Also drama · comedy

  Wang Niang, a carp demon hiding in the human world for 300 years, runs a scent workshop where she meets Fang Mo, a young master trying to buy her business. Meanwhile, Fang Yuren, his brother, is saved by Lan Ze, a disguised disciple of Ling Jing Men. Their intertwined destinies lead to romance, misadventures, and heartfelt connections.
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  A World Worth Protecting (2022)Also comedy

  In the fantastic future world with rich spiritual energy, the enthusiastic and cheerful little fatty Wang Baole saw through the illusion created by the teachers in the entrance examination of the famous"Mischievous Taoist Academy", who won high scores with his outstanding performance, and obtained the special quota of "Magic Soldier Department". Later, he overcome obstacles and opened up his own way of growing. In the process of cultivating immortals and fighting monsters, he made a large number of close friends, and thus started a series of hilarious adventure stories.
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  Tokyo Friends (2005)Also drama · comedy

  Tokyo Friends is a Japanese television drama released on June 3, 2005. Unlike many other dramas, it was never aired on TV but released as a set of 3 DVDs. Volumes one and two contain the first 4 episodes while volume three contains the last episode. Each episode is approximately 70 minutes. The Tokyo Friends Premium Box was also released which includes all 5 episodes, a bonus DVD, and 12 postcards. Although this is a very typical Tokyo-story and was never aired on TV, it was quite successful probably because it was Ai Otsuka's debut as an actress.