Friends to Lovers
Dramas and movies where friends become lovers.
Created for the MDL Watch Challenge and for anyone wanting to find more stories like this.
Feel free to add as many (well, up to 100) as you like! :)
- Bok Joo is a weightlifter who is pursuing her dream of winning the gold medal but she then finds romance for the first time in her life. While she is a woman ...more
- Can you still go after your dreams without the right background? Ko Dong Man has always dreamed of becoming famous as a taekwondo athlete but now works as a contract employee in ...more
- Five childhood friends, who all live in the same Ssangmundong neighborhood of Seoul, lean on each other to survive their challenging teen years and set a path for their futures. Sung Deok ...more
- Cha Eun Ho is a successful and handsome writer who is also the youngest chief editor at a publishing company. He has a calm demeanor and remains reasonable at work. He then ...more
- Everyday is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist. (Source: Netflix)
- The stories of people going through their days are seemingly ordinary but actually special at the hospital, a place known as the microcosm of life, where someone is being born and someone's ...more
- Qiao Jing Jing, a well-known celebrity, finds herself in hot water when a leaked video of her terrible gaming skills threatens her endorsement deal. To save her reputation, she jumps into a ...more
- The drama follows Ra Eun Ho, an 18-year-old girl with dreams of becoming a webtoon artist, as she struggles in a school that discriminates based on wealth and academic performance. When she's ...more
- Yun Jin A, a woman in her mid-30s, has never experienced a successful relationship. After being dumped countless times for her clumsy and reckless behavior, she is heartbroken when a man breaks ...more
- At Doldam Hospital, a small, humble medical facility, Kim Sa Bu, a once-renowned surgeon, finds a new purpose as its chief. After a successful operation on Chairman Shin, he gains support to ...more
- Set in the 1990s, the drama centers around a female high school student Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T, and her 5 high school friends in Busan. As the timeline moves back ...more
- Shin Woo Yeo is a handsome and smart writer, who is actually a 999-year-old nine-tailed fox. To become a human, he collects human energy in a bead. One day, the drunk friend ...more
- Teh and Oh-aew were best friends until a boyhood line of reasoning turned them into rivals. Years later as they're preparing for university admissions, both pursuing interests in the field of Communication ...more
- It starts off with high school classmates Chen Xiao Xi and Jiang Chen who are also neighbors. Xiao Xi, a cheerful girl who doesn't study much, is expressive about her admiration towards ...more
- Choi Han Gyul is the grandson of chairwoman Bang of Dong-in Foods, a company that has a thriving coffee business. He has never had a job and does not care for responsibility. ...more
- Seo Gong Myung is an efficient and hard-nosed elite civil servant who can multitask with ease and is titled the ‘Number One Handsome Man’ on the District People's Committee. However, he is ...more
- Eun Dan Oh, a 17-year-old high schooler with a heart condition, discovers she's actually a character in a Korean webtoon – and a minor one at that. After realizing her life is ...more
- Three young men—Dong Goo, an unlucky aspiring film director; Joon Ki, an eccentric actor; and Doo Shik, a lazy freelance writer—open a guesthouse called “Waikiki” in Itaewon to fund their film. Despite ...more
- "Abyss" is the tale of a man and a woman who tragically meet their demise but are granted a second chance at life through soul-reviving marbles found in a mystical abyss. Go ...more
- People say that 18 is a carefree age, but all the moments were too serious to say I was not worried. This is a short teenage school romance web drama.
- Jeon Nok Du lives on an island with his father and older brother. He is smart and a good swordsman. Since he was little, his father did not let him study or ...more
- For 10 years, Palm has been stuck in the friend zone with his best friend, Gink. He has had feelings for her since high school and even tried confessing to her then ...more
- Su Can Can, passionate about literature, meets her best friends during adolescence: Xu Mei Li, lively and cheerful; Lan Tian Ye, handsome and free-spirited; Lin Jia Ze, gentle and refined; and Tao ...more
- Time is a woman's enemy. On her 30th birthday, Cheng You Qing received an e-mail from Li Da Ren, her male best friend of 14 years, about the symptoms of premature aging. ...more
- Sena is a college music graduate who dreams of becoming a professional musician and a world-class pianist. Unfortunately, he has not been able to find any breakthrough opportunities and has to settle ...more
- Jeon Jin Ho is a straight guy who is mistaken as gay when he applies to become Park Gae In's roommate. His hobbies include organization and ironing, and he's known for his ...more
- This is the story of a tragic love that spans 12 years. When they were children, Yoon Na Moo and Gil Nak Won were each others first love. They are forced to ...more
- During the South Korean financial crisis, teen fencer Na Hee Do's high school team is disbanded, but she overcomes obstacles to join the national team. Meanwhile, Baek Yi Jin's life is turned ...more
- A coming-of-age story of a group of youths who grew up together. The story takes place in 2007; five children from Shu De Residential Compound enter high school together, welcoming the youth ...more
- The lead characters who have been friends for eight years end up sleeping together one night. Following this event, the friends struggle between love and friendship. Eun Seong is a translator who ...more
- Park Ri Hwan and Kim Haeng Ah are childhood friends who couldn’t be more different. As the director of an eastern medicine hospital, Ri Hwan selflessly cares for his patients and his ...more
- The story of the teenage girl Oh Ji Na, who get a note which can be used to take revenge on others by typing in their names. It involves handsome brothers Robin ...more
- The romantic comedy series “Shopping King Louie” revolves around a handsome shopaholic named Louis, who is the successor of a vast business empire but becomes homeless after suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, Go ...more
- Choi Won is "the perfect guy" - good-looking, tall and fit with an amicable personality. Although he is very popular with women, he can't have a proper relationship because of his friend, ...more
- The film revolves around a girl who is being bullied at school and her relationship with a tough street kid, with whom she is implicated in the murder of a teenage girl. ...more
- Ai Ruo Man is an outstanding and independent career woman with good qualifications. However, she is not often favored by men. Her ex-boyfriend even told her that no one would dare to ...more
- Mitarai Yo is a successful career woman working for a shoemaker, but her love life is a mess. Her best friend, Ishida Ren, works for a developer and is the one person ...more
- Hong Nan Hee is an ordinary worker at a publishing firm. She's a girl who always falls in and out of love ever since she was young. Nan Hee has a best ...more
- From high school to university, Ding Xian and Zhou Si Yue's youthful love lasts for a lifetime. The superior and unruly campus god Zhou Si Yue is a genius. He is seatmates ...more
- Fang Xue and Wei Lai may attend the same school, but the two students couldn’t be more different. Coming from entirely different backgrounds, the only thing Fang Xue and Wei Lai have ...more
- This story follows three women who were part of the Bongo clique when they lived in the same Seoul Mansion apartment complex. Despite their different careers as a top actress/singer, a food-loving ...more
- This web drama is a teen fantasy drama about a teenager who gets her hands on a note that enacts revenge on anyone whose name is written on it.
- Old high school friends Ji Seok and Hee Jin, who are now in their mid-twenties, meet by random chance. Hee Jin suggests that they start dating for a month and if they ...more
- Tin Yat Hung, a single guy, has been unsuccessful in getting a girlfriend. One day, he discovers that his boss, KK, secretly collects photos of him, and he soon learns that KK ...more
- Haruta Soichi is a 33-years-old single man who isn't popular with women. He works at a real estate office and lives with his parents. However, one day, his mother walks away from ...more
- At 39, Gu Gwang Soo is a fallen former PD of a top live music program, blamed for a scandal where an indie band flashed the nation during a live broadcast. Still ...more
- Zhao Wu Xian, Zhao Yuan Man, Hou Zi Cheng and Lin Mei Xin are good friends who grew up together in the same orphanage in Yun Lin. In year 2009, Wu Xian, ...more
- While on vacation in Hokkaido, Natsuki happens to meet Soichirou, a photographer. Unbelievably, she runs into him two more times completely by coincidence, and out of this, a great friendship is formed. ...more
- One sunny day, a young boy named Jo Kang meets a curious young girl, dressed in a bright yellow raincoat. Jo Kang instantly becomes friends with Ari, and falls instantly in love ...more
- Two people have been friends for two decades, but a mere two weeks of living together blurs that fine line between love and friendship. Han Sun Woo is a handsome rookie photographer ...more
- If you still can’t get over your ex-boyfriend, how do you win his heart back? Seon Eun Woo was dumped by her boyfriend, Baek Seung Gyu. But she can’t get over her ...more
- When Joon Soo falls in love he tries to give everything to the girl. Even though he does all of that, he is the one that gets dumped. Hyun Woo works as ...more
- Ten years ago, Kyung Woo Yeon was an innocent 18-year-old with dreams of love. She confessed her feelings to her friend, Lee Soo, but was rejected. Seven years later, her second attempt ...more
- The plot is centered around the 10 year relationship between Yoon Seok Hyun and Joo Yeol Mae, who have been repeatedly breaking up and getting back together the entire duration of their ...more
- Although admired at school for her amiability and academic prowess, high school student Kyouko Hori has been hiding another side of her. With her parents often away from home due to work, ...more
- "Heavenly Forest" is about a photographer named Makoto, who travels to New York during Christmas to look for his best friend, Shizuru. The two first met when Makoto attended his university entrance ...more
- Kamiya Naoki is a basketball player from a professional basketball team, JC Arcs. However, due to his relatively smaller size and his tendency to crack under pressure, he has been unable to ...more
- Continuation of the web drama "Love in Real Time". Hong Yun tries to stop rumors of her breaking up with Hae Jin, but it isn't easy to deal with. In despair, the ...more
- A story revolving around two people who meet on the train. Since then, their lives have been intertwined as they go through the stages of love, separation and reunion.
- Born smart, Nan Xi never struggled with academics in school, but his time there wasn’t easy. Living with social anxiety, he struggled to find his place in a world that always felt ...more
- Sandee is a university student who is often surrounded by male friends and considered to be their buddy. One morning, she wakes up only to find herself naked in Thada's bed, who ...more
- Ji Hwan and Dal Rae are old friends who grew up together in the same neighbourhood. Ji Hwan admires Hong Kong movie star "Jacky Chan" and wants to be a world action ...more
- Matsuzaki Hatori is a high school student with a crush on her childhood friend, Terasaka Rita. She believes her life is like a shojo manga and Rita will eventually choose her as ...more
- Kang Baek Ho and Ham Yi Seul have been best friends since elementary school. Baek Ho has never acknowledged his attraction to her, unaware that Yi Seul has been in love with ...more
- In Ha smells the "scent of the chrysanthemums" after seeing Hui Jae arguing in the defense of a pregnant woman on the subway. The two meet again in a student club at ...more
- Eun Ho, a famous South Korean actor, has spent 20 years searching for his first love, Eun Dong, who vanished after their brief teenage friendship. They reunite a decade later and start ...more
- A young woman going through a rough breakup with a long-time boyfriend and a man who had a painful first love, meet unexpectedly on Jeju Island. Upon their return to Seoul they ...more
- One day after school, the serious Ito and the child-like Nishi meet by chance as each endeavors to remain walking on the sidewalk's white line. As time goes by, Ito recognizes he ...more
- The most important part in a relationship is not the hello or the goodbye but the In Between. This is about the boys' love (BL) story of Taurus and Otep. (Source: USPHTV ...more
- Yoon Na Na is a well-regarded bartender at XX bar. She takes pride in her work and position as the head bartender. She involves herself in other parts of XX like selecting ...more
- A man named Shin Woo regrets letting his first love go ten years ago because he didn’t have the courage to confess. However, he gets the chance to win her again when ...more
- Goo Dae Yeong has fallen into a slump in his thirties. In order to heal his wounds, he embarks on a journey to revisit the food that he loved in his twenties ...more
- Mayu and Takuma are childhood friends. At age 8, they learn that Takuma will die from terminal illness before he turns 20. Despite knowing this, the two grow older and fall in ...more
- Benjamin is given an ultimatum to become financially self reliant or move to America to live with his family. He learns that his old neighbor and childhood friend, Jimson, is moving back ...more
- Tan and Oil were raised together, and over the years, Tan discovers that he feels more for his friend than a brotherly feeling. However, they were moving away because Oil had to ...more
- Jordan Chan stars in this romantic comedy as a dedicated movie stuntman who falls for the lead actress on the film he is working on. He seeks advice from Candy Lo, an ...more
- After Hyung Seob and Jung Ae worked hard to raise their four children, they are now ready to retire but one day all of their children move back into the house. Hyun ...more
- Love can be confusing, but it's never wrong. A journey of discovery through Jeju Island in search of themselves, and ultimately love. (Source: The Authority)
- Tired of life in Seoul, Hae Won, a cellist who has closed her heart due to past emotional wounds, returns to her hometown, Bookhyun Village. There, she meets Eun Seob, the owner ...more
- Set in 1994, six university students from various provincial areas live together at a boarding house in Sinchon, Seoul, which is run by a couple with a daughter named Na Jung. The ...more
- The second season follows Goon Dae Yeong's character as he moves to a new building and reunites with his grade school classmate Baek Soo Ji. She’s been living alone for ten years, ...more
- A group of Yoon Tae Oh’s friends suddenly move into his house for their own personal reasons, where they experience love, friendships, and struggles. Song I and Tae Oh have been friends ...more
- Kim Eun Hee, the middle child in a drifting family, faces challenges as her older sister, former attorney, and younger brother struggle with their own issues. Her distant father and her mother's ...more
- As a young girl, Hye Jin was impossibly cute and lived a comfortable life with her wealthy parents. Since entering her teens, both her looks and fortunes have drastically changed. She currently ...more
- Cha Heon, a handsome and smart student at Chun Ji High School, seems cold but has a warm heart he struggles to express. Shin Sol Yi, a cheerful 17-year-old, has a crush ...more
- Born from a low caste, Baek Gwang Hyun first started working as a horse doctor, then worked his way up to become a famous veterinarian. Eventually, he became a doctor appointed to ...more
- In 2019, 27-year-old Huang Yu Xuan yearns for her missing boyfriend Wang Quan Sheng, presumed dead for two years. On her birthday, she wishes to "see him." Meanwhile, in 1998, 17-year-old Chen ...more
- On his birthday, Med, the kind-hearted heir of a rich family, dies mysteriously and becomes a ghost. For twenty years, he waits in the graveyard for someone to visit so that he ...more
- After losing his mother—who worked as a haenyeo (female diver who harvests sea life)—at a young age due to a mistaken weather report, Cho Yong Pil makes up his mind to become ...more