K-Dramas like Start-Up

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Love Alarm (2019)Also drama

  Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.

  ★ 4.0 from 3 members6 tracking it here
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  Be Melodramatic (2019)Also comedy · drama

  Three 30-something friends chase dreams in Korea's competitive entertainment scene, balancing love, career, and personal growth.
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  The Heirs (2013)Also comedy · drama

  After a chance encounter in LA, two teens from different social backgrounds reunite at an exclusive high school attended by Korea's über rich.

  5 tracking it here
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  Our Sticky Love (2026)Also drama · comedy

  An 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 5 members33 tracking it here
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  Crash Course in Romance (2023)Also drama · comedy

  The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.

  5 tracking it here
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  No Gain No Love (2024)Also drama · comedy

  Son Hae-yeong seeks out a fake wedding with her neighbourhood convenience store employee, Kim Ji-uk, to avoid missing out on a promotion.

  8 tracking it here
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  Crazy Love (2022)Also drama · comedy

  No 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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  Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017)Also comedy · drama

  Born with supernatural strength, Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.

  ★ 4.3 from 4 members15 tracking it here
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  Welcome to Waikiki (2018)Also drama · comedy

  Kang 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.

  5 tracking it here
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  Princess Hours (2006)Also comedy · drama

  A high school girl’s world turns upside-down after she learns her grandfather promised her hand in marriage to the nation’s crown prince!

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  Nice to Not Meet You (2025)Also comedy · drama

  A 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.

  1 tracking it here
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  Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016)Also comedy · drama

  A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.

  5 tracking it here