Recommendations

Both are variety shows with actors/performers that a Korean audience would have been exposed to (so, people who are famous or did something notable).
However, the overall vibe (everyone is trying to get to the top, forming and breaking alliances, trying to collect points, and also just the amazing character dynamics, betrayals, and mishaps) are the same in both. They both have a group of people staying in a confined area/close together for a week and know that they likely wouldn't meet outside of the show.
Biggest difference is that New World DOES NOT eliminate people every day/episode, while Time Hotel DOES. This causes Time Hotel to be much more high-stakes and somewhat sadder overall.

Similarities :
Hotel setting
Rom-Com
Good Looking Cast
My secret hotel has an ex-husband, and King the Land will mostly have an ex-boyfriend (But no love triangle in King the Land as in My secret hotel)

PS: I have watched only 1 ep of my secret hotel and only 2 of King the Land have been released so this recommendation is based on very limited knowledge

Same ML, historical setting (costume cdrama), a bit of a similar topic (women empowering themselves through commerce in a patriarchal society), similar new spouses dynamics.

Destined seems to be more romantically-inclined, though.

Both are youth dramas and have smart ML and not studious but lovable FL.
Friendship. School mates. First love.

Both dramas are all about youth, romance, comedy. The characters are students and both are set in school setting.

an investigation involving a mysterious character that manipulates the police into doing his bidding. also to do with hypnotistism

- Both are modern romances about teen loves reuniting as adults
- First half is very strong in both dramas
- Themes on the fulfillment of patriotic work are extremely prominent
- The male lead comes from a dysfunctional family background, but is virtuous, exceptionally talented and restrained, the female lead is bright, talented, and privileged
- The male lead doubts that he can give the female lead the life she deserves
- Both have a cute precocious boy who gets shuttled around


On one hand the Road Home is much more cinematic, with some very beautiful outdoor shot scenes. On the other hand, the female role in Road Home is not a fully flushed out character. Her role the whole way through is to be supportive when no one else in his life is. She doesn't have the same agency as in Here We Meet again.

Both have an office romance between an intern and a 'daddy' boss/manager. The characters have great chemistry and both stories are light, making you smile throughout.

They both are sweet, low-angst stories taking place in an office setting. Adorable, good-looking characters with great chemistry. Both dramas are light and will make you smile.

Mitsu became a college student while dragging along the trauma of her first boyfriend and a broken heart in her years back in junior high school. She was thinking about going to college and finding a new love, but the person in the room next to hers is, Kaede, her ex-boyfriend! It had been 5 years and he has become sophisticated and grown-up, but his gentle smile has not changed.

Mitsu wants to forget her old love and enjoy university life, but she finds herself trapped between her grown-up ex-boyfriend and her best friend.

Mitsu became a college student while dragging along the trauma of her first boyfriend and a broken heart in her years back in junior high school. She was thinking about going to college and finding a new love, but the person in the room next to hers is, Kaede, her ex-boyfriend! It had been 5 years and he has become sophisticated and grown-up, but his gentle smile has not changed.

Mitsu wants to forget her old love and enjoy university life, but she finds herself trapped between her grown-up ex-boyfriend and her best friend.

Mitsu became a college student while dragging along the trauma of her first boyfriend and a broken heart in her years back in junior high school. She was thinking about going to college and finding a new love, but the person in the room next to hers is, Kaede, her ex-boyfriend! It had been 5 years and he has become sophisticated and grown-up, but his gentle smile has not changed.

Mitsu wants to forget her old love and enjoy university life, but she finds herself trapped between her grown-up ex-boyfriend and her best friend.

Sachi is a single mother and the owner of a piano bar. One day, she receives a phone call that her son, Takashi, has died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii. His foot was bitten off completely in the attack. Sachi heads to Hawaii.

Ten years later, Sachi has visited Hanalei Bay every year on her son's death anniversary date. One day, she meets two Japanese surfers and hears about the mysterious Japanese surffer with only one leg...

Both shows follow our leads as they heal from breakups, partly through their relationship with each other. I think both stories are written incredibly well and really take you on that emotional arc with the leads in a way that feels very natural.
Both shows have a bit of a slower pace and are more introspective. Both shows also have episode titles/themes that are incorporated into the episode in clever ways. Both have certain subtleties and through lines that are really brilliantly written into the story.
If you enjoyed one definitely check the other out!

Both have the plot of a young couple from different social classes who separate but still are drawn back together, as well as a similar tone and feel.