11 K-Dramas Like Welcome to Samdal-Ri on Netflix in March 2024
One of the most tried-and-true tropes in romantic stories — childhood friends to lovers — shines wonderfully in Welcome to Samdal-Ri, last year's K-Drama hit available on Netflix.
If you want something that has similar vibes to this show, a bit somber, sometimes even heavy, but ultimately beautiful and even majestic, then this guide is for you.
Stories like these usually focus on adult protagonists, meaning that they feature people that already lived for quite some time, made mistakes, and have baggage that they carry with them and that affects their decisions, both in romance and in their professional lives.
This is exactly the part that makes these shows so interesting: you're not dealing with the kids, who are, essentially, very ambitious clean slates that are looking forward to the future; you're dealing with people who already have put some constraints on their lives and now have to navigate it while taking them into consideration.
Their past experiences, including the ones that they had together if we're talking about the stories with reunited childhood friends, weigh heavy on them, and their journeys are not only about the romance but about overcoming these obstacles and building new things with each other's help.