K-Dramas like Be Melodramatic
Finished Be Melodramatic (2019) and want that feeling again? These 12 shows come closest.
12 shows with a similar feel
Crazy Love (2022)Also drama · comedyNo Go Jin is the most popular mathematics instructor in the private education field and the CEO of GOTOP Education. Even though he has only a high school level education, he has achieved all of his success due to his extreme intelligence. He seems like a perfect man with a handsome appearance, high IQ, and wealth. He is also narcissistic. One day, he is suddenly warned that he will be murdered. Lee Shin A works as No Go Jin’s secretary. She is a diligent and responsible employee. Due to her quiet and introverted personality, she has little presence with her boss No Go Jin and her colleagues at work. Her colleagues begin to recognize her, because she has worked for the notorious No Go Jin for more than 1 year. She then learns that she does not have much time left to live.
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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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Don't Dare to Dream (2016)Also comedy · dramaA weather girl reunites with her old crush, a haughty reporter at her TV station. But this time, she has her eyes on someone else -- his best friend.
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My Dearest Nemesis (2025)Also comedy · dramaBaek Su-jeong leads a planning team at a renowned department store. She meets her new boss, Ban Ju-yeon, her first love from an online game 16 years ago, stirring up memories of when he confessed his feelings but she rejected him.
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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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Welcome to Waikiki (2018)Also drama · comedyKang Dong-Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Cheon Joon-Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong-Doo-Sik came to Seoul to become a scenario writer, but things have not been easy for him.
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Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016)Also comedy · dramaA competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.
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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?
★ 5.0 from 6 members46 tracking it here
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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If Only You Weren't the One (2026)Also dramaAfter a painful breakup at thirty, a woman’s life is thrown into turmoil when she reunites with a former illicit lover at her workplace, reigniting unresolved desire and drawing her back into a secret relationship where love and temptation blur.
Mr. Kurosaki's Pure Love Never Stops (2026)Also dramaHigh schooler Koharu has never experienced love—until a mysterious regular at her family’s bento shop surprises her with a marriage proposal and a fortune. Thrust into his relentless, over-the-top devotion, she must navigate the whirlwind of first love.
Oshiete Kudasai, Fujishima-san! (2026)Also dramaA clueless romance novelist strikes a daring deal with a stoic banker for “research,” only to find their secret arrangement turning into real love.
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