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Plot Summary:
Kim Sam Soon is a baker who has a talent in making pastries and cakes. On Christmas Eve, she caught her boyfriend, Min Hyun Woo, cheating on her and breaks up. On that same night, she accidentally went into the men's restroom and met Hyun Jin Hun. By sheer coincidence, Jin Hun needs a baker for his restaurant Bon Appetit and Sam Soon is unemployed. Sam Soon is hired as the restaurant's chief baker and the two fight like cat and dog.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 960 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, entertaining, novela
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My Love Eun Dong (2015)
Plot Summary:
A renowned actor who is still pining over the loss of his first real love writes an autobiography about his memories of her, hoping to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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The King of Dramas (2012)
Plot Summary:
A satirical dramedy about what goes on behind the scenes in making a TV drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, feel good, humorous, entertaining, parody
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Tangled Hearts (2013)
Plot Summary:
This Brazilian soap opera is about three orphans and a girl who spent part of their childhood together, reunite after years when they're already grown. Old feelings will arise and new discoveries will happen about these kids' pasts and futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, soap opera, telenovela
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A Gentleman's Dignity (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four men with complicated love lives refuse to admit they're getting older, and attempt to prove that forty is the new thirty!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, psychological, touching, captivating, realistic, novela
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Ho Goo's Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's not easy being Ho Goo, a low-key guy who can neither score a date nor score high enough on his civil service exams, which he's failed 7 years running. But when he has a chance reunion with national swimming champion Do Hee, the most popular girl of his high school, his luck begins to change — perhaps for the worse. After staying out all night with Do Hee, Ho Goo experiences a rude awakening when he realizes that not only has Do Hee left him, she's also pregnant!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, light, captivating, entertaining
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Was It Love? (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 14 years devoid of romance, a struggling movie producer and single mom faces the unexpected arrival of 4 men into her life—an author, an actor, a CEO, and a younger man—who might just revive her dormant desire for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love's Complicated (2016)
Plot Summary:
Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-management class. In the class, Leah finds herself locking horns with a handsome, radio talk-show host who thrives on making waves. Through the course, Leah develops new friendships, an inner strength she never knew she had and discovers real love should never mean settling for the easy and predictable.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, cute
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My Golden Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
A hardworking contract worker desperate for a full-time job finds her life turning upside down after an unexpected revelation about her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating
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Student's Hearts (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, soap opera
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Passionate Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Passionate Love is an upcoming South Korean weekend television drama series starring Sung Hoon and Choi Yoon-young. It is set to premiere on SBS on September 28, 2013, airing every Saturday and Sunday at 20:45 for 50 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, sexy, captivating, entertaining, dorama, soap opera
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Love Rain (2012)
Plot Summary:
Love Rain is a 2012 South Korean television series directed by Yoon Seok-ho. It aired on KBS2 from March 26 to May 29, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. Set in the seventies and the present day, it tells a heartrending love story over two generations, with Jang Keun-suk and Im Yoona playing dual roles.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining, dorama, psychological, sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, emotional, disturbing
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Hyde, Jekyll, Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Koo Seo Jin reaches an all-time low when he uses his power as a theme park director to decommission Wonderland's popular circus. Refusing to give into the demands of her frosty boss, ringleader Jang Ha Na puts up a fight, but is thrown off guard when Seo Jin's secret persona reveals itself with genuine kindness. In the battle to save her circus, Ha Na realizes she must tease out Seo Jin's brighter side with magic, wonder and love, but who's listening — Jekyll or Hyde?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, humorous, captivating, psychological, sentimental, romantic
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Love Actually (2017)
Plot Summary:
It’s a story about the eras of the 70s, 80s and 90s; about the rapid development of the great era of love and how to deal with the success and failure of life, self-growth and self-transformation. It’s a drama genre of modern day city life; about singles’ rigid pursuit of love; about the lives of a group of ordinary people. It avoids dramatic negative energy. Instead, it’ll bring forth positive energy to encourage men and women to move positively forward in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Hooray for Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hooray for Love is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Lee Bo-young, Lee Tae-sung and Jin Yi-han. It aired on MBC from July 16, 2011 to January 29, 2012 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 57 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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More Than Friends (2020)
Plot Summary:
Due to a misunderstanding, Lee Soo and Kyung Woo Yeon have held a crush on each other for over 10 years. Lee Soo works as a photographer and he is attractive. He is also mistaken for a model many times. Kyung Woo Yeon works as a calligrapher. She has had a crush on Lee Soo for the past 10 years, since she was 18 years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Lie to Me (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gong Ah-jung, a level 5 Ministry of Culture official, gets entangled in a web of lies when she mistakenly lies that she's married to Hyun Ki-joon, a hotel manager from an affluent family. Their relationship is further complicated when Ki-joon's ex-fiancée and a close friend of his brother's, Oh Yoon-joo, reappears in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, novela, romantic comedy
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I Need Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
I Need Romance is a 2011 South Korean romantic comedy series starring Jo Yeo-jeong, Kim Jeong-hoon, Choi Yeo-jin, Choi Song-hyun and Choi Jin-hyuk. It aired on tvN from June 13 to August 2, 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 23:00 for 16 episodes. The cable drama revolves around three thirty-something career women and their complicated love lives. It was popular with female viewers in their 20s and 30s for depicting contemporary women in a realistic way.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dorama, captivating, romantic comedy
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The Snow Queen (2006)
Plot Summary:
A boxer who was previously a genius, and a rich girl who has a serious illness. Despite appearing not to have any connection, they are similar. Nothing can melt their heart of ice. What is the sunlight that can melt their frozen heart? If the answer is love, is it too cliché? Tae Woong`s love melted the heart of the ice princess, Bo Ra. Although this winter will be very cold and scary, winter is not the end of the seasons, but the beginning of the hope for a greater love.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (2007)
Plot Summary:
Han-gyeol is a smart young man who hates to be tied down to one career in his life. Abhorring the idea of joining the family business, he is ordered by his grandmother to manage a cafe. Unable to disobey his grandmother, he reluctantly takes over the responsibility of running a cafe and begins to immerse himself in the gourmet coffee business. One day, he meets Eun-chan, whom he mistakes as a boy, and learns the meaning of true love.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, feel good, inspirational, touching, captivating, entertaining, emotional, novela, romantic drama
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Princess Aurora (2013)
Plot Summary:
Oh Ro-ra is a 25-year-old woman whose family owns Chunwang Foods, a large food conglomerate. Both of her parents are in their seventies and a 20-plus age difference exists between Ro-ra and her three other male siblings - Wang-sung, Geum-sung and Soo-sung. As the youngest child of a wealthy family, Ro-ra is charming, uber-confident and seemingly a spoiled material girl, but there's more to her than meets the eye. Unafraid to speak her mind, she intervenes to salvage her 50-year-old second brother's marriage by getting rid of his mistress who had lied about getting pregnant. One day, she falls head over heels for Hwang Ma-ma, an irritable novelist and perfectionist. But he has one flaw that could torpedo their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 39 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Why Why Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tong Jia Di needs a life besides work, paying down family debt, and more work. So her best friend Jiang Xiao Nan sneaks in a "Love" coupon in Jia Di's raffle box praying that the lucky guy who draws it will sweep Jia Di off her feet. As it so happens, Huo Yan, the compassionate manager Jia Di has secret crush on, is the lucky guy. But, tho' the prince can exchange the coupon for Cinderella's love, it doesn't mean he will, especially when his devilish younger brother is determined to exchange his "Master/Angel" coupon for her servitude.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Anitomo (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sota Nishino is a good looking high school student. He meets Mai who is his friend Yukihiro Nanase's younger sister. She is also a high school student and somewhat naive. Sota mutters to Yukihiro "Your sister is cute." Mai overhears Sota's remark through the thin wall between her room and her brother's room.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Sweet 18 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kwon Hyuk Joon's grandfather, the head of the traditional Kwon family agrees to an arranged marriage between his grandson, Hyuk Joon, and Yoon Jung Sook when Yoon Jung Sook is born. Eventually, the two families lose contact with each other, because soon after the contract is signed, Jung Sook's family encounters financial issues and is forced to run away. 18 years later, Jung Sook has grown up to be a rebellious and strong-willed girl who just wants to live her life as she sees fit. With little aspirations, she is the direct foil of her achievement-bound counterpart, Hyuk Joon. When the two meet again, they clash horribly; Jung Sook thinks her fiancee is nothing but boring, and Hyuk Joon believes Jung Sook to be nothing but an immature child. Despite this, they marry. What follows is the story of their new life living together as a couple, and the obstacles they are faced with.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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Discovery of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Han Yeo-reum is a furniture designer who owns a workshop space that she shares with other designers. For the past three years, she's been dating Nam Ha-jin, a plastic surgeon with a sweet and gentle personality. But Yeo-reum's peaceful existence is shaken when her ex-boyfriend Kang Tae-ha suddenly reappears in her life. The CEO of an interior design company, Tae-ha is a smart, confident man with a strong competitive edge who always gets what he wants. Meanwhile, Ha-jin's childhood friend Ahn Ah-rim has secretly been carrying a torch for him all these years. As she begins working with Tae-ha, Yeo-reum is forced to reevaluate her romantic history, which sets her off on a search for true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Can Love Become Money? (2012)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama about what happens when young and successful CEO Ma In Tak offers to pass on a 10 billion won inheritance to his future wife. Young CEO, Ma In Tak (Yun Jung Hoon) considers money as the most important thing in his life. He calculates everything in terms of money, and his success has also earned him the reputation of being a tyrant. The CEO then finds himself entangled in a strange conspiracy due to his obsession with riches, but along the way, will he be able to admit that something else has become more important than money?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Time We Were Not in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang Ha Na and Choi Won are incredibly close platonic friends: throughout 20 years, they've braved it all through thick and thin. As Ha Na's 30th birthday approaches, Won extols the virtues of aging as a man—like a wine—while explaining that women are like grapes that shrivel into raisins. Determined to prove him wrong, Ha Na strikes a bet on which of the two will marry before turning 35. Can these two friends make the ultimate leap?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Touch Your Heart (2019)
Plot Summary:
A legal romance drama about the love of a successful lawyer and his secretary, who is actually a fallen top Hallyu actress in disguise. It depicts the success and happiness of two formidable people.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, light, captivating, entertaining
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EXO Next Door (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ji Yeon-hee is an extremely shy, introverted 23-year-old girl with zero dating experience and a tendency to blush when talking to someone she likes. One day, four young men move into the house right next door to Yeon-hee's home, and to her surprise, they turn out to be Chanyeol, D.O, Baekhyun, and Sehun from her favorite boy band EXO, who are looking to lay low for a while. They hire her to clean their house part-time during the winter vacation and that's when Yeon-hee found out that Chanyeol was her long lost childhood friend and crush "Chan" and is the grandson of the house owner. As the story goes on, Yeon-hee soon becomes involved in a love triangle with Chanyeol and D.O.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, humorous, touching, feel good, romantic, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Sweet Stranger and Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hong Na-Ri works as a flight attendant. Her mother passed away 3 years ago and she doesn't have any other immediate family members. Hong Na-Ri returns to her hometown to visit her mother's grave during her death anniversary. There, she sees a young man at her mother's grave. The man, Go Nan-Gil, introduces himself as her father. Before Hong Na-Ri's mother died, she married Go Nan-Gil. He now lives at her mother's house and runs the small dumpling restaurant that her mother ran.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang (2005)
Plot Summary:
Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Han Chae-young, Jae Hee, Uhm Tae-woong and Park Si-eun. It aired on KBS2 from January 3 to March 1, 2005 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 17 episodes. A modern retelling of the classic Korean folktale Chunhyangjeon, the romantic comedy series was called "fusion-style" for, among others, mixing rap with pansori in the background music. This is the first Korean drama written by Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran, and remains the highest-rated in their filmography, with a peak viewership rating of 32.2%. The story begins when Lee Mong-ryong is transferred from Seoul to a high school in Namwon, North Jeolla Province. Chun-hyang does her best to help Mong-ryong, her first love and the son of the Namwon Police Station chief, to enter a prestigious university. However, after meeting with Mong-ryong’s first love, Chae-rin, Mong-ryong’s love toward Chun-hyang is shattered, although Chun-hyang’s love remains unwavering. One day, Byeon Hak-do, CEO of a famous entertainment company, appears in her life. He exudes confidence that he can make any woman fall for him. But as Chun-hyang shows no interest in him, his self-esteem is damaged profoundly. Byeon Hak-do is determined to make her love him.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, romantic drama