If you are a fan of Korean dramas, you must have seen the craze around the rom-com Lovely Runner, its green flag protagonist, Ryu Sun Jae, and his relationship with Im Sol. The Byeon Woo Seok and Kim Hye Yoon starrer show has become one of the best rom-coms of the year and had everyone in its thrall.
So, if you enjoyed the time-travelling romance in Lovely Runner, here are a few other K-dramas you can watch that are similar.
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1. Twinkling Watermelon
Ha Eun Gyeol is the son of deaf parents and wants to debut in a band. While a model student, he moonlights as a guitarist without his parents’ knowledge. When Eun Gyeol’s father finds his secret life, the father and son argue, leading Eun Gyeol to a strange music store that takes him back to 1995. In the past, Eun Gyeol meets Ha Yi Chan, his father, as a high schooler. Yi Chan, though, has a crush on Se Kyeong instead of Cheong Ah, Eun Gyeol’s mother. So, to bring his parents together and to change their lives for the better, Eun Gyeol joins a band his father is a part of.
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2. Marry My Husband
What do you do when you get a second chance at life after your death? Kang Ji Won is married to Park Min Hwan, a selfish, unemployed man with a demanding mother. When Ji Won walks in on her husband and best friend, Jung Soo Min, having an affair, a physical struggle ensues, leading to Ji Won’s death. Suddenly, she wakes up ten years in the past when she was dating Min Hwan. But this time, she is determined to change her life and fate. To change her fate, Ji Won does all she can to make Soo Min marry Min Hwan, with help from her boss, Yoo Ji Hyeok, and some new friends.
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3. Perfect Marriage Revenge
Han Yi Joo, a painter and adopted daughter of Han Ji Woong and Lee Jung Hye, runs away after learning her husband, Yoo Se Hyeok, is in love with her sister, Han Yoo Ra. As she tries to get away from her family and husband, she gets into a car accident and dies. Suddenly, Yi Joo wakes up at home and finds herself a year before her death while she is still engaged to Yoo Se Hyeok. Knowing what she knows of her family and fiancée, she is determined to take her revenge on her family. She breaks off her engagement with Yoo Se Hyeok, and with the help of Seo Do Guk, she tries to avenge the wrongs her family has committed against her.
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4. Mr Queen
Jang Bong Hwan is a celebrated chef cooking for South Korea’s top politicians in the Blue House’s presidential residences. After a serious accident, his soul transports to the past, and he finds himself in the body of a young queen, Kim So Young. So Young’s husband is the reigning monarch, King Cheol Jong, who is only a figurehead, while the true ruler is Queen Dowager Sunwon. So Young and Cheol Jong’s relationship is filled with miscommunications and mistrust, but as Bong Hwan tries to adjust to So Young’s body, he changes the course of the King and Queen’s relationship and history as well.
5. Blue Birthday
Can you get your first love back after you lost him forever? Oh Ha Rin and Ji Seo Jun have been best friends since they were eight years old and each other’s first loves. But when Seo Jun commits suicide on Ha Rin’s 18th birthday, she is heartbroken. Ten years later, a 28-year-old Ha Rin has to rescue an animal from her previous high school. While visiting the school, her traumatising memories haunt her. On her way back, she stumbles upon an old photo shop where she sees Seo Jun’s camera on display and comes across some of his old photos.
Since the old photos bring back a painful past, Ha Rin decides to burn them all. But when she burns a photo, she travels back to the past, when the picture was first taken. With the eight pictures taken from the camera, Ha Rin has eight chances to return to the past. Will she be able to save Seo Jun’s life and change the past to ensure he won’t take a drastic step?
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