Shows that feel likeLove Is in the Air (2020–2021)

Eda, who ties all her hopes to her education, confronts Serkan Bolat, who cuts off her international education scholarship and leaves her with high school diploma. Serkan Bolat offers Eda to give her scholarship back if she pretends to be his fiance for two months. Although Eda rejects the offer of this man as she hates him, she has to accept it when the conditions change. While pretending to be engaged, Serkan and Eda begin to experience a passionate, challenging relationship that will make them forget all they know right. Because love is difficult. And that's why it's amazing.

If you loved Love Is in the Air, the closest series we have are What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018), Emily in Paris (2020) and Business Proposal (2022). All three share Love Is in the Air's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I Am Not a Robot (2017).

★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · FOXcreated by Ayse Uber Kutlucontemplative witty playful romantic

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If Love Is in the Air hit the spot, these will too

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

2018 · 1 season · tvN

★ 8comedy · drama

An arrogant executive undone by the woman he refuses to lose

The difference: Sixteen tidy episodes rather than a sprawling nightly serial

When his secretary unexpectedly quits, an arrogant executive will do anything to bring her back.

Emily in Paris

2020– · 6 seasons · Netflix

★ 6.8drama · comedyNetflix

Bright city romance with beautiful people and low real stakes

The difference: A comedy about career and expat life, with romance sharing the load

New passions. New fashions. New Emily? A plucky American marketing whiz spreads her wings in life and love after landing her dream job in Paris.

Business Proposal

2022 · 1 season · SBS

★ 8.1comedy · dramaNetflix

A fake arrangement between mismatched people that neither can call off

The difference: Brisk and cartoonish, done in twelve episodes rather than two seasons

In disguise as her friend, Ha-ri shows up to a blind date to scare him away. But plans go awry when he turns out to be her CEO — and makes a proposal.

Jane the Virgin

2014–2019 · 5 seasons · The CW

★ 7.8comedy · drama

Telenovela machinery: misunderstandings, reversals, love against the odds

The difference: Narrated American comedy, self-aware where this one plays it straight

A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."

Horimiya

2021 · 1 season · Gunma TV

★ 8animation · comedy · drama

Two people hiding their real selves until each other gets to see it

The difference: Animated, quiet, and school-scaled

A secret life is the one thing they have in common. At school, Hori is a prim and perfect social butterfly, but the truth is she's a brash homebody. Meanwhile, under a gloomy facade, Miyamura hides a gentle heart, along with piercings and tattoos. In a chance meeting, they both reveal a side they've never shown. Could this blossom into something new?

True Beauty

2020–2021 · 1 season · tvN

★ 7.9comedy · dramaNetflixMax

A secret kept from the person you are falling for, stretched to breaking

The difference: High school insecurity rather than adults sparring across an office

After being bullied and discriminated because of her ugly looks, a high school girl transforms herself into a gorgeous "goddess" and quickly rises to fame after mastering the art of makeup via online tutorial videos.

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo

2016–2017 · 1 season · MBC

★ 8.3comedy · drama

Bickering that turns into something neither of them planned

The difference: Korean campus romance, sweeter and much shorter

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.

She Was Pretty

2015 · 1 season · MBC

★ 7.5comedy · drama

Office romance built on a lie neither party can walk away from

The difference: Softer and sadder, more about self-worth than about sparring

A former ugly duckling tries to track down his childhood first love. But what will happen when a case of false identities backfires?

I Am Not a Robot

2017–2018 · 1 season · MBC

★ 8comedy · drama

Pretence that begins as a deal and turns into something real

The difference: A daft sci-fi conceit doing the work the fake engagement does here

Kim Min Gyu has wealth and success, but lives an isolated life due to his allergy of people. He then meets and falls in love with a girl who is pretending to be a robot for her ex-boyfriend, a genius robots professor.

Parks and Recreation

2009–2015 · 7 seasons · NBC

★ 8.6comedyPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: office romance

The difference: Trades the stillness of Love Is in the Air for an angle of its own

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

Crash Landing on You

2019–2020 · 1 season · tvN

★ 8.7drama · comedyNetflix

Two people from opposite worlds forced together and quietly undone

The difference: Real political danger under the romance, and a far sadder ache

A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.

Off Campus

2026– · 1 season · Prime Video

★ 7.8dramaPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

The difference: Easier on the wit than Love Is in the Air

Hannah Wells tutors hockey captain Garrett Graham to win over her crush. Their deal becomes real connection as they face their pasts. Friends Logan, Dean, Tucker, and Allie navigate college life and love.