K-Dramas like Waiting for Love

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Love Scout (2025)Also drama · comedy

  Yoo Eun-ho, a single dad armed with perfection, becomes the secretary of Kang Ji-yun, the CEO of a popular headhunter company, who doesn't do anything except work.

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  Spring of Youth (2025)Also comedy

  A K-pop star, Sa-gye, reluctantly enters college, forms a 4-member mixed band, and navigates love and growth through music amid the chaos of campus life.

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  Still Shining (2026)Also drama

  A man and a woman whose lives are shaped by loss and time drift apart in youth and reunite a decade later, discovering that the bond they once shared remains a guiding light through love, grief, and growing up.

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  Backstreet Rookie (2020)Also comedy · drama

  It tells an unpredictable 24-hour love story of the four-dimensional innocent girl Jung Saet Byeol who was once a troublemaker and the adorkable caring male store manager, Choi Dae Hyun, in the context of a convenience store. They have met each other accidentally 4 years ago, back then Saet Byeol asked Dae Hyun to buy cigarettes for them. Until now, Saet Byeol comes to the convenience store Dae Hyun runs for a part-time job, their hilarious romantic story starts.

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  Heartstrings (2011)Also comedy · drama

  Lee Gyu Won is the daughter of one of the top three maestros of pansori and is also a gayageum protégé herself. Following her grandfather’s wishes for her to study the gayageum, she enrolls as a major of gugak, or traditional Korean music. Lee Shin is unfriendly, yet a clever student in the Applied Music Department who also is the famed vocalist and talented guitarist of the handsome band named The Stupid. With charming looks equal to those of a handsome character in a romance comic and a cold, taciturn personality, he thinks gugak is boring and belittles it. As the vocalist Lee Shin and Gayageum Protégé Lee Gyu Won passionately confront each other to champion their respective music, they soon fall in love.

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  Romance in the Rain (2001)Also drama

  Lu Yiping, one of many children of a retired general with nine wives, is banished from her family home due to Wang Xueqin. Driven by resentment, she plots revenge by targeting her stepsister's love interest, He Shuhuan. But as Yiping navigates life with her mother, she unexpectedly finds forgiveness and love through the people she meets, transforming her journey of vengeance into one of self-discovery and healing.
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  Love Generation (1997)Also drama

  Love Generation revolves around the relationship of the two leading protagonists, Katagiri Teppei and Uesugi Riko, who begin their relationship as squabbling colleagues before falling in love.
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  My Quiet Love (2026)Also drama

  Yu Jiafei, a freshman with dreams of becoming a screenwriter, begins college and unexpectedly reunites with Jiang Oudi, the campus heartthrob she has secretly admired for years. At the same time, Jiang Oudi realizes that Jiafei is the mysterious singer he has been searching for and invites her to join his band. Brought together by music, the two slowly grow closer as they navigate friendship, self-discovery, and the challenges of college life.
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  My Fair Princess (1998)Also drama · comedy

  Centers around the legend of Princess Huanzhu during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
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  Go Go Song (2019)Also drama

  Gong Seon Hwa (32 years old), a social welfare worker who's getting married to Kang Won Hyung (30 years old), a Korean culinary chef, portrayed by Ji il Joo.
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  Book Girl: Memoire (2010)Also drama

  Three-episode prequel to the upcoming movie told by three main heroines.
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  Ming Dynasty (2019)Also drama

  Sun Ruo Wei entire family is killed on the orders of the Yongle Emperor in 1402, though she escapes death after being secretly adopted by Sun Zhong. Sun Ruo Wei becomes the concubine of crown prince Zhu Zhan Ji by chance, and continues to investigate the truth behind her family’s death. However, Sun Ruo Wei decides to abandon her revenge plans after realizing how dangerous it would be to destabilize the court for her own personal goals. Touched by Zhu Zhan Ji’s kindness, Sun Ruo Wei resolves to become a virtuous empress who can support him in times of hardship. Unfortunately, Zhu Zhan Ji passes away after a decade on the throne, and Sun Ruo Wei is honored as Empress Dowager once her 7-year-old Zhu Qi Zhen ascends the throne.