Shows Like Like Flowers in Sand

If you liked Like Flowers in Sand (2023), a drama and comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016)
★ 8.5/10Also comedy and drama
A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.
2
Our Sticky Love (2026)
★ 8.7/10Also drama and comedy
An ambitious prosecutor loses her memory and moves in with a boxing coach who claims to be her boyfriend. Can this sticky situation turn into real love?
3
Doctor Slump (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and comedy
Once rivals in school, two brilliant doctors reunite by chance — each facing life’s worst slump and unexpectedly finding solace in each other.
4
Love to Hate You (2023)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
For an attorney who despises losing to men and an A-list actor who distrusts women, love means nothing — until they're forced to date each other.
5
Don't Dare to Dream (2016)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy and drama
A weather girl reunites with her old crush, a haughty reporter at her TV station. But this time, she has her eyes on someone else -- his best friend.
6
Nice to Not Meet You (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama
A hateful romance between a professional detective actor who wants to become a melodrama master and a female reporter who was demoted from a political reporter who won the Reporter of the Year award to the…
7
Dream to You (2026)
★ 9.4/10Also drama and comedy
Two high school classmates bond over a shared love of filmmaking, turning a deep friendship into first love before an unexpected separation tears them apart. Years later, they reunite with their lives completely…
8
Dynamite Kiss (2025)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
A passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.
9
Start-Up (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
Young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch virtual dreams into reality compete for success and love in the cutthroat world of Korea's high-tech industry.
10
See You in My 19th Life (2023)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
Ban Ji-eum can endlessly reincarnate. But when her 18th life gets cut short, she dedicates the next one to finding her now grown-up childhood love.
11
With Love (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama
The Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge, are on a mission to find love and purpose. They cross paths with seemingly unrelated residents during some of the most heightened days of the year—the holidays.
12
See You at Work Tomorrow! (2026)
★ 8.9/10Also comedy and drama
Cha Ji-yoon is a 7th-year corporate worker who's tired of both work and dating. She crosses paths with Kang Si-woo, the cynical boss with a terrifying reputation. Unexpectedly, she regains spark in her life as she gets…
13
Crazy Love (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedy
No Go Jin is the most popular mathematics instructor in the private education field and the CEO of GOTOP Education. Even though he has only a high school level education, he has achieved all of his success due to his…
14
Shoresy (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and drama
Foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving, fan favourite character, Shoresy, joins the Sudbury Bulldogs of the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization (The NOSHO) on a quest to never lose again.
15
High Fidelity (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and drama
Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.
16
Love in Contract (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and comedy
Contract marriage master Choi Sang-eun's alternate day romance with a long-term mystery client on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and a new superstar client on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
17
Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and drama
Born with supernatural strength, Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.
18
Crash Course in Romance (2023)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.
19
Filing for Love (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy and drama
A romantic comedy about Joo In-ah, a charismatic audit department head with a secret, and Noh Ki-joon, the department's ace who is suddenly demoted to deal with the company's scandals.
20
It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020)
★ 8.5/10Also drama and comedy
Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t…