More K-Drama RomCom Recommendations

Here are some more K-Drama RomCom recommendations. I previously recommended these Korean dramas.

Business Proposal (Netflix)

This one is so good! If you love fake dating, definitely watch this K-drama! It is also very good at making fun of certain K-drama beats. I discussed one of the brilliant set scenes in this post. Shin Ha-ri has a best friend whose wealthy father keeps setting her up on blind dates with other wealthy prospects so that she can marry someone who will help the family business, but her best friend wants to marry for love. So Shin Ha-ri agrees to go on the blind date instead and scare the guy off by acting crazy. But after acting crazy, she finds out that her date is actually her boss! And unfortunately the acting crazy didn’t work, and he wants to marry her…

I also recommend checking out Dramabeans and participating in the K-drama discussion.

Marriage, not Dating (Viki)

Another really funny one with a fake dating plot. Wealthy plastic surgeon Gong Gi-tae has no interest in getting married. He meets the protagonist and asks her to be his fake girlfriend and to behave terribly so his mom will stop pushing him to get married. It’s a great set-up. It’s similar to my favorite movie, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, only in this case, they’re both in on the plan.

Gogh, the Starry Night (Viki)

If you like grumpy/sunshine romance, this one is for you! He’s a smoldering grumpy and a sweetheart underneath.

Go Ho, our protagonist, works very hard at an advertising company for a very difficult-to-please boss (the male protagonist, Kim Young-Kwang), and the series starts with an older woman mentor whom she admired dying after being hit by a car. And people at the funeral question whether this woman gave too much to work because she didn’t have any other life. And so Go Ho defends her mentor but also questions what she herself is doing. Meanwhile she is haunted by the fact that her perfect boyfriend just dumped her out of the blue and she doesn’t understand why.

Suddenly, her difficult-to-please boss agrees to her request to transfer to a new boss. Unfortunately, it’s her ex who has just joined the company. And thus you have the triangle between her ex-boyfriend and her grumpy, sexy work colleague.

And I will say that I think Kim Young-Kwang is a very talented actor because he plays a completely different character (an optimistic man-child heir) in THE SECRET LIFE OF MY SECRETARY, and it’s incredible that it’s the same actor.

1% of Something/Something about 1% (Viki)

Another fake dating one! I do love the fake dating trope. In this one, the wealthy grandfather tells his workaholic, completely-committed-to-the-company heir that he has to contract-date this woman for 6 months in order to inherit the company. The woman in question is an elementary school teacher that the grandfather met when he collapsed and she rescued him. She doesn’t want to date the heir because she thinks he’s crazy and arrogant. But eventually she agrees . . .

Run On (Netflix)

The female protagonist is a film translator, and since I’m now watching all these translated subtitled films, I love this insight into the process. It follows the romance between the subtitle translator and a former sprinter who is working to become a sports agent. (It does have some violent bullying scenes when he is on the Track and Field team.)

Let’s Talk – Do you have any more K-drama RomCom Recommendations?

What are you reading or watching? Do you have any K-drama recommendations? I’ve been reading a lot this summer. I just finished Book Lovers, and it definitely lived up to the hype for me. Loved the banter and the New York City love. Hoping you enjoy the rest of your summer!