K-Dramas like Sweet Stranger and Me

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Autumn in My Heart (2000)Also drama

  Two men and two women, their relationship begins in tragic fates, and it grows into love, agony, and parting.
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  Something in the Rain (2018)Also drama

  Explore the relationship of two people as they go from being “just acquaintances” to “a genuine couple” — Yoon Jin Ah, a coffee shop supervisor in her 30s, and Seo Joon Hee, a designer at a video game company who has just returned from working abroad.

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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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  Secret Love Affair (2014)Also drama

  Despite being married and having a fulfilling career as a sophisticated arts foundation director, something is missing in Oh Hye Won's life. When she meets twenty-something Lee Seon Jae, Hye Won's appetite for passion is awakened, and she soon falls for the impoverished piano prodigy. Though they risk everything, Hye Won and Seon Jae can't help but embark on an affair that threatens to destroy both their lives. Based on the 2005 Japanese film Tokyo Tower, this romance aches with the desperate struggle between love and reality.
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  May I Help You? (2022)Also drama

  Baek Dong Joo, a newly hired funeral director, has the uncanny gift, or curse, to momentarily resurrect and talk to the recently deceased. She has to grant their last wishes or have her days be filled with a series of bad luck and accidents. And helping the little boy that first terrified her when he came to life will lead her down a path she never could have expected. Kim Tae Hee works as a man for hire. Employed by his uncle Vincent running the newly opened errand service company “A Dime A Job” he can be hired for any odd (but legal) task. One day, Kim Tae Hee encounters Baek Dong Joo, when he is hired by her boyfriend to break up with her in his stead. After that, their paths continue to cross, and by the virtue of their jobs, their fates get intertwined deeper and deeper in a series of life and death situations, surrounding the wishes of the people who had died, and the painful past it is going to unravel for both of them.

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  The Imperial Coroner (2021)Also drama

  A female coroner and royal detective solve a decades-old mystery in Tang Dynasty China, risking all to expose dangerous secrets.
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  少帅每天都在吃醋 (2025)Also drama

  In a warlord’s mansion filled with hidden dangers, Mu Wan survives an attempted drowning and uses her medical skills to protect herself as a series of suspicious deaths unfolds. Forced to confront the truth, she joins forces with her once-distant husband Ling Shenxing to expose the real killer.
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  Vampire Dormitory (2024)Also drama

  After Mito loses her parents and is fired from her job, she must fend for herself on the streets disguised as a boy. She comes across a stranger named Ruka and learns his dark secret—he's a vampire! Ruka invites Mito, still in disguise, to live in an all-boys dorm. Mito exchanges her blood for a place to stay, but a budding romance and her true identity threaten all that hangs in the balance.
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  Fight! Bookstore Girl (2015)Also drama

  Pegasus Bookstore is going through hard times due to competition from internet bookstores. Kitamura Aki and Nishioka Riko are employees at Pegasus Bookstore. Aki is 23 years old. She has a strong will and freewheeling personality. She places her job and dreams above marriage. Riko is a 40-year-old single woman. She is the vice-manager at the bookstore. She has pride in her work. The two women have completely different personalities.
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  Time-Limited Love (2022)Also drama

  Lin Xiaoxi is transported into a parallel universe by a time transmitter invented by scientist Zhou Yuheng, sparking a love story that unfolds across time and space.
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  Love Has It Planned (2024)Also drama

  While on a mission, Song Yao, a law enforcement team intern, mistakes Pei Che, the president of Jianghai Group, for her undercover colleague. On the other hand, Pei Che, who was on his way to get married to a stranger at his grandmother's request, mistakes Song Yao to be his marriage partner. The two get their marriage certificate by accident, and thus begins the love story between a woman and her "kept" man.
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  Reborn as a Cat (2025)Also drama

  Ji Miaomiao, a young woman just starting her career, is betrayed by a friend and left with a mountain of debt. While fleeing from ruthless debt collectors, she accidentally falls from a building. On the brink of death, a mysterious figure transforms her into a cat. By a twist of fate, she ends up being adopted—by none other than her own boss, Lu Chengze. Thus begins her strange and magical 100-day life... as a cat.