Love feels better when it arrives with a lot of patience. Puppy love is good but mature romance is perfect. Today we are sharing the best middle-aged romance Korean dramas.
Love Scout (2025)
Network: SBS
Episodes: 12
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Office-Romance
Cast: Han Ji-Min, Lee Joon-Hyuk, Kim Do-Hoon, Kim Yoon-Hye
Synopsis: Kang Ji-Yun (Han Ji-Min) is a confident and successful CEO of a head-hunting company. She is excellent at her job but lacks other skills. Yu Eun-Ho (Lee Joon-Hyuk) is her new secretary who is well-mannered and takes care of everyone in the company.
It’s Okay That’s Love (2014)
Network: SBS
Episodes: 16
Genre: Psychological, Romance, Comedy
Cast: Jo In-Sung, Gong Hyo-Jin, Do Kyung-Soo, Sung Dong-Il, Lee Kwang-Soo
Synopsis: Jang Jae-Yeol (Jo In-Sung) is a popular novel writer and RJ. Ji Hae-Soo (Gong Hyo-Jin) is a psychiatrist at a University Hospital. She has a phobia of skinship and intimacy with the opposite gender. Han Gang-Woo (Do Kyung-Soo) is a high-school boy and a good friend of Jang Jae-Yeol. It’s Okay That’s Love is one of the best middle-aged romance Korean dramas.
Thirty-Nine (2022)
Network: JTBC
Episodes: 12
Genre: Friendship, Rom-Com, Life
Cast: Son Ye-Jin, Jeon Mi-Do, Kim Ji-Hyun, Yeon Woo-Jin, Lee Moo-Saeng, Lee Tae-Hwan
Synopsis: The story is about three female friends in their late thirties. Cha Mi-Jo (Son Ye-Jin) is a 39-year-old woman and the director of a derma clinic in Gangnam. Kim Seon-Woo (Yeon Woo-Jin) is a dermatologist. Cha Mi-Jo’s friend Jung Chan-Young (Jeon Mi-Do) is an acting coach.
Hospital Playlist (2020)
Network: tvN
Episodes: 12 (Season 1) , 12 (Season 2)
Genre: Medical, Comedy, Friendship
Cast: Cho Jung-Seok, Yoo Yeon-Seok, Jeon Mi-do, Kim Dae-Myung, Jung Kyoung-Ho
Synopsis: Hospital Playlist of a story of five doctors who work at the same hospital. They all graduated from the same medical university and were very good friends. This drama is about the stories of doctors, nurses, and patients at the hospital. The second season of this drama was aired in 2021.
Search: WWW (2019)
Network: tvN
Episodes: 16
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Cast: Lim Soo-Jung, Lee Da-Hee, Jeon Hye-Jin
Synopsis: Bae Ta-Mi (Lim Soo-Jung) is the director of a web portal company Unicon. She is a very competitive person and sacrifices her personal life to work. But she falls into some bad company politics and leaves that company. Later she joined another web portal company Barro which is a competitor of Unicon.
Love Is For Suckers (2022)
Network: ENA
Episodes: 16
Genre: Friendship, Romance
Cast: Choi Si-Won, Lee Da-Hee
Synopsis: Goo Yeo-Reum (Lee Da-Hee) is a PD and working on the project Ramen-Chef. However due to poor viewership, her program got canceled. Now she is working with Jo Soo-Hyang (Kang Chae-Ri) in a hit show “Kingdom of Love”. Park Jae-Hoon (Choi Si-Won) is a childhood friend of Goo Yeo-Reum who works at a plastic surgery clinic.
Another Miss Oh (2016)
Network: tvN
Episodes: 18
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Eric, Seo Hyun-Jin, Ye Ji-Won, Kim Ji-Suk, Heo Jeong-Min, Kim Ji-Suk
Synopsis: Oh Hae-Young (Seo Hyun-Jin) gets dumped a day before her wedding. She left her house and lives in a rented place. His landlord Park Do-Kyung (Eric) is a sound director. This is one of the best middle-aged romance Korean dramas.
The Beauty Inside (2018)
Network: JTBC
Episodes: 16
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
Cast: Lee Min-Ki, Seo Hyun-Jin, Lee Da-Hee, Ahn Jae-Hyeon, Lee Tae-Ri
Synopsis: Han Se-Kye (Seo Hyun-Jin) is one of the top actresses with many rumors. She is a troublemaker as her appearance changes every month to a different person. Seo Do-Jae (Lee Min-Ki) is an executive at an airline company dealing with prosopagnosia. The Beauty Inside Drama is about a woman whose face changes from time to time and a man who can’t recognize faces.
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