1 year old romance kdramas - no female rival/no 2nd female lead

 kanade:

Can someone reassure me about Touch Your Heart, is it female love rival free for sure? asking cause I was about to start watching some of the dramas you all recommended here and wanted to begin with this one (female lead is one of my favorites actresses, nice to see her get a lead role for once), and since this drama is quite popular and highly rated here  and yet was only mentioned once in this thread i want to make sure that i wont get disappointed

Yes, it's rival free.

There is no other female love interest at all:

• Doom at Your Service
• Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
• My Roommate Is a Gumiho - ML has a female friend and had lovers in the distant past, but no female love interests other than the FL in modern times.
• Into the Ring * 
• It's Okay to Not Be Okay * 
• When the Weather Is Fine *
• Meow, the Secret Boy - If I remember correctly there was a secondary female character who liked the SML but there weren't any love rivals when it came to the ML.

* Can someone confirm? I 100% don't remember there being a female love rival in these, but it's been a while since I watched them.

There are one or more secondary female characters that have romantic interest in the ML or that marry him or get engaged to him, but he has zero romantic feelings for them and only ever has feelings for the FL:

• The Red Sleeve
• Dali and the Cocky Prince
• The King's Affection
• The King: Eternal Monarch
• True Beauty

 kanade:

btw AH, gotta say the way you recommend dramas is always top notch, you read carefully what one is looking for and really give some thoughts into you recs, really appreciate it

Happy to hear that ^^ I hope you find some dramas you enjoy. 

 hayaka:

Meow the Secret Boy isn't a romance, right?  I mean the ML is actually

Your note about the ML is correct and yet it's still a romance drama. 

 kanade:

romance   kdramas

 kanade:

without 2nd female lead/female love rival

 kanade:

romance must be the main focus of the drama

• A Business Proposal - The SFL's romance storyline is with the SML, not the ML.
• Soundtrack #1

 kanade:

bump, anything recent like this?

Here's my list of Dramas that match the listed criteria since 2017, sorted by year. I', not 100% sure, but I'm fairly confident most if not all have no significant 'love rival' elements