K-Dramas like I Don't Love You Yet

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Chihayafuru (2011)Also drama

  Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.
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  More Than A Childhood Friend (2025)Also drama

  Two longtime childhood friends drift apart when Cheng Xia gives up on her unrequited love, only to reconnect with Xu Jingxiao, another childhood companion, whose sincere pursuit changes her life. As old regrets collide with new romance, she finally finds real love and a fresh start in both career and heart.
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  Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love (2024)Also drama

  After a painful breakup, Miu vows to focus on art and avoid love — until an encounter with an aloof, charming artist stirs her deepest instincts.

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  Four Hands, Two Sonatas (2026)Also drama

  When two young pianists from completely different worlds meet at an elite music high school, the melodies of their lives become intimately intertwined.

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  Oasis (2023)Also drama

  In 1980s South Korea, two friends face a romantic rivalry amidst the turmoil of political unrest, leading to tragedy and a quest for revenge that could tear them apart.
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  Secret Boutique (2019)Also drama

  Jenny Jang is poor and works at bathhouse in Gangnam, Seoul. She starts a new job as a housemaid for a conglomerate family. She becomes successful and then runs J Boutique. She also begins work as a lobbyist. Jenny Jang gets involved in an international city development project.
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  Hello Old Friend (2024)Also drama

  Childhood friends Lao Dongdong and Jiang Yi are reunited years later when Dongdong, now in the workforce, encounters Jiang Yi, who has become a successful but aloof CEO. After a drunken curse leads to Jiang Yi’s company going bankrupt, he moves in with Dongdong, pretending to be broke.
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  Changes of Heart (2025)Also drama

  Hijiri has loved Koyori since childhood, and she feels the same, but they’ve kept their feelings hidden. At 26, they finally give in to their emotions, leading to a night together. Hijiri wants to deepen their relationship, but Koyori is torn between love and preserving their close friendship.
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  Love Next Door (2024)Also drama

  A woman attempting to reboot her life returns to Korea and becomes entangled with her childhood friend — with whom she shares a complicated history.

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  Bone Scent (2026)Also drama

  Perfumer Chen Yan and her childhood friend Ji Ye, now a renowned street racer, team up to uncover a powerful family’s dark secrets while searching for her long-lost sister. Facing past betrayals and deadly adversaries, they must use courage, cunning, and speed to expose the truth and reclaim what was lost.
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  The Secret of Love (2021)Also drama

  After a fire leaves Su Yi with amnesia, she embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind the incident. Along the way, she meets Li Jiacheng, a cold and calculating heir entangled in the event. Initially at odds, the two form an unlikely partnership, with Su Yi challenging his beliefs and helping him break through the barriers to true love.
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  Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea (2013)Also drama

  Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed. This show follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea. Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface.