K-Dramas Like Resident Playbook
Loved Resident Playbook (2025), tvN, and want more with the same feel? It is known for senior-junior relationship, friendship and resident doctor male lead. Here are 10 Korean dramas that come closest, ranked from the best match down.
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The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call
중증외상센터
Baek Gang-hyeok is a brilliant trauma surgeon who has worked in war zones, and he arrives at a university hospital with a big personality and no patience for red tape.
Same feel: Hospital Setting, Medical, Comedy
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Flex x Cop Season 2
Flex x Cop
After officially completing his police academy training, chaebol heir-turned-detective Jin I Su returns to Violent Crimes Unit 1, determined to prove himself as a real detective.
Same feel: Senior-Junior Relationship, Comedy
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Positively Yours (2026)
아기가 생겼어요
The drama is a reverse romantic comedy that begins with a one-night encounter between a man and a woman who have both decided they will never get married. Kang Du Jun is a…
Same feel: Senior-Junior Relationship, Comedy
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Spirit Fingers
스피릿 핑거스!
Song U Yeon is a quiet, awkward high school student who blends into the background and lives a life that feels dull and uneventful.
Same feel: Friendship, Youth, Comedy
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Hospital Playlist
슬기로운 의사생활
Five doctors who became friends in medical school in 1999 now work at the same hospital.
Same feel: Friendship, Medical, Comedy
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Family By Choice
조립식 가족
Kim San Ha, Yun Ju Won, and Kang Hae Jun grow up under one unconventional household, bound together not by blood but by love and shared experience.
Same feel: Friendship, Youth, Comedy
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Study Group
스터디그룹
Yun Ga Min is a determined student at the struggling Yusung Technical High School, dreaming of going to college despite his poor grades and notorious fighting skills.
Same feel: Friendship, Youth, Comedy
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The Winning Try
트라이: 우리는 기적이 된다
Ju Ga Ram was once the brightest hope of Korean rugby. Gifted, charismatic, and destined for greatness, his career collapsed overnight after a drug scandal turned him into a…
Same feel: Friendship, Youth, Comedy
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Bloodhounds
사냥개들
Two young boxers meet in the ring and become friends: quiet rookie Kim Geon-u and talkative southpaw Hong U-jin.
Same feel: Friendship
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Daily Dose of Sunshine
정신병동에도 아침이 와요
Nurse Jung Da-eun is transferred to a psychiatric ward, a place she knows nothing about, and has to learn how to care for people whose pain she cannot see.
Same feel: Medical, Life
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About Resident Playbook
At the Jongno branch of Yulje Medical Center, a group of young residents choose the obstetrics and gynecology department, a specialty few people want in an age of falling birth… See the full page, cast and where to watch →
Questions about dramas like Resident Playbook
What are the best dramas like Resident Playbook?
Our top picks are The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Flex x Cop Season 2, Positively Yours (2026), followed by Spirit Fingers. Each one shares parts of its feel, such as senior-junior relationship, friendship and resident doctor male lead, and links to a page with the story, cast and where to watch.
Where can I watch Resident Playbook?
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