K-Dramas like My Lovely Sam Soon
Finished My Lovely Sam Soon (2005) and want that feeling again? These 12 shows come closest.
12 shows with a similar feel
Nice to Not Meet You (2025)Also comedy · dramaA hateful romance between a professional detective actor who wants to become a melodrama master and a female reporter who was demoted from a political reporter who won the Reporter of the Year award to the entertainment department.
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Our Sticky Love (2026)Also drama · comedyAn ambitious prosecutor loses her memory and moves in with a boxing coach who claims to be her boyfriend. Can this sticky situation turn into real love?
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Surely Tomorrow (2025)Also comedy · dramaIn their twenties, Lee Kyeong-do and Seo Ji-woo part ways after two passionate relationships. A decade later, they meet again as a reporter who covers an adultery scandal and the wife of the man at the center of that scandal. Reuniting in their late thirties, their youth has passed, but their love remains vivid. Kyeong-do now strives to prove to her and to himself that he still loves her.
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Dynamite Kiss (2025)Also drama · comedyA passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.
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Love in Contract (2022)Also drama · comedyContract marriage master Choi Sang-eun's alternate day romance with a long-term mystery client on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and a new superstar client on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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A Love So Beautiful (2020)Also drama · comedyLove is as tough as it is sweet for a lovestruck teenager, whose relationship with her next-door neighbor transforms as they grow into adulthood.
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Mousetrap (2026)Also dramaA reclusive writer wakes to find his identity stolen — and must ally with a ruthless loan shark to reclaim his life from a man known as "The Rat."
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Antique Bakery (2008)Also drama · comedyAntique Bakery is a small bakery that's run by four handsome men. Tachibana the owner, Chikage the one who was sent to watch over his childhood friend, Ono the "demonically charming" master pastry chef, and Kanda a former boxer.
The Gâteau Affairs (2005)Also dramaKo Gan was a very talented cake master. Because of his dedication to making cakes, he neglected his family which caused his wife and son to leave him. While he rushed to the airport to see his wife and son, Ko Gan got into a car accident and was caught by the police when he lied about the cake for his son being a bomb so he could get to the airport on time. Two years later, Ko Gan is released from jail and is once again in the cake business, being a chief chef at Gateaux, a cake shop owned by Sabayung. Ko Gan acts coldly and is strict on the shop's employees, plus having to face all sorts of hardship in new cake creations and competitions from cake masters from all over the world; not to mention meeting hotheaded girl, Tong Sheung, who has a passion for baking. From her, he learns new things as well as with her around Ko Gun turns into a gentler man. But something huge stands in their way that causes their relationship to waver... and it has something to do with Kuk Kei.
KIRA KIRA☆PRETTY CURE A LA MODE (2017)Also comedyIchika Usami is a second year middle school student whose family runs the Kirakira Patisserie shop. One day, she encounters a fairy named Pekorin and learns that evil monsters known as Henteko have been stealing "Kirakiraru", the energy that resides within sweets and desserts. Thus, Ichika becomes a Pretty Cure and, alongside four other cures, forms the Kirakira PreCure a la Mode to fight off the Henteko and protect the sweets.
Stepmom and Daughter Blues (2018)Also drama · comedyEight-year-old Miyuki lost her mother several years ago and has since lived with just her father, Ryoichi. One day, she is suddenly introduced to Akiko, who is to be her new mother. Akiko uses her stellar business skills to try to win the little girl over, only to fail miserably. Ryoichi tries to reason with Miyuki, but to no avail. Akiko changes tactics and tries to get Shimoyama, a woman in the neighborhood who knows Miyuki well, on her side.
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Panda and Hedgehog (2012)Also comedy · dramaA sweet-natured bakery owner and her prickly new pastry chef battle rival desserts and unexpected romance while fighting a national cake franchise.
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