For sensitive viewers: drama trigger warning watch guide

A woman making her everyday life beautiful through her home, food, and music. A pure comfort show.

Possible triggers;

None at all

Blood or injuries:

None.

Two young schoolkids teasing each other. No drama - pure comfort.

Possible triggers;

None

Blood or injuries:

None

A girl moves to her childhood home in the countryside and finds herself again. Very slow and calming. Lots of food, friendships, and scenery.

Possible triggers:

Parental abandonment after high school (very slight and only lightly touched on)

Blood or injuries:

No injuries or startling moments.

A woman spills coffee on a man, ruining his expensive shirt. To compensate, she agrees to make him lunch boxes every day for a month.

Possible triggers;

dysfunctional families, parental neglect, cancer

Blood or injuries:

• ep 4: Mother collapses (no blood)

• ep 5: Mother in hospital - cancer (no blood)

Two neighbors bond over food, fall in love, and heal each other. All about food and found familiy.

Possible triggers:

marriage pressure, slight homophobia, slight body dysmorphia, slight commenting on eating habits, eating-related trauma

Injuries and blood:

None at all.

Two neighbors bond over food, fall in love, and heal each other. All about food and found familiy.

Possible triggers:

marriage pressure, slight homophobia, slight body dysmorphia, slight commenting on eating habits, eating-related trauma

Injuries and blood:

None at all.

A guy's life changes when two brothers (with an age gap) ask him to teach them how to cook. foundfamily, BL, and lots of good food.

Possible triggers:

Eating-related trauma, deceased mother, strained family relationships (resolved)

Blood or injuries:

None at all

A guy's life changes when two brothers (with an age gap) ask him to teach them how to cook. foundfamily, BL, and lots of good food. 

Possible triggers:

Eating-related trauma, deceased mother, strained family relationships (resolved)

Blood or injuries:

None at all

A girl pretends to be a boy to land a job at a coffee shop and ends up falling in love with her boss, who is unaware of her identity.

Possible triggers;

Slight stalking

Blood or injuries:

None

Five people become best friends and grow from youth to adulthood together. Cozy slice of life romance full of a wonderful friend group.

Possible triggers;

parental favorism, strained family relationships, often absent parents, mild workplace harassment

Blood or injuries:

• ep 6: A girl is startled by a dog and falls off her bike, getting a skinned knee. Redish but not really any blood.
• ep 10: fighting (no blood), flashback to a time when a character often got into fights - small bruise on cheek but no blood.
• ep 18: grandma surgery in hospital - she is fine (no blood or injuries visible)

Two aromantic and asexuals decide to become a family without any romantic feelings attatched.

Possible triggers:

Repeated pressure to pursue romantic relationships, unwanted romantic advances, refusal from family members to understand a character’s romantic orientation (resolved), unwanted physical contact (kissing and sex), light stalking behavior from an ex-partner, cheating, divorce, arguments in front of children, labor

• Ep 2: a man to fall down a staircase (no blood shown).

• Ep. 3: A man falls down a staircase, resulting in a broken arm and back injury (no blood shown). Later, he pretends to have memory loss as a joke.

• Ep. 6: A woman goes into labor and is shown screaming in pain. The birth itself is not shown.

A woman suffering from insomnia seeks out a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. Through time, their relationship begins to grow closer. A sweet, healing romance.

Possible triggers;

Cancer, acupuncture (a lot), toxic ex, withheld family illness

Blood or injuries:

Acupuncture is used in almost every episode. No blood.

• ep 1: ML performs cupping on a patient (blood for a bit)

otherwise none

Half-animated, half-live-action, this unique drama portrays how feelings drive our decisions. Following Yumi, a woman whose love 'cell' has been comatose for three years, it explores what happens when it begins to wake.

Possible triggers:

Break up

Blood or injuries:

ep 2: small blister on foot - no blood

ep 4: Yumi faints and ends up at the hospital (she is fine)

ep 13: guy falls from table and hurts hand (small scratch, minimal blood)

Half-animated, half-live-action, this unique drama portrays how feelings drive our decisions. Following Yumi, a woman whose love 'cell' has been comatose for three years, it explores what happens when it begins to wake.

Possible triggers:

Break up

Blood or injuries:

• ep 6: Yumi's father falls off a chair. No blood or lasting effects

• ep 11: Nightmare horror sequence (a zombie woman with a bloody face). A man gets a car door slammed at him; he ends up with a broken arm and torn shirt (no blood)

• ep 12: car accident: broken leg and bandaged head (no blood shown)

Half animated; half live action, this unique drama portrays how feelings drive our decisions. Following Yumi, a woman whose love 'cell' has been comatose for three years, what happens when it begins to wake.

Possible triggers;

Persistent unwanted advances

Blood or injuries:

• ep 1: Yumi has a bandage on her head after sky diving; her PD has a broken leg (no blood)

• ep 6: A fight resulting in very minor scratches on face and hand (no blood)

• ep 7: same minor injuries from ep 6

An introverted high schooler lives her days insignificantly. Then she is invited to a mysterious arts club. Her life begins to gain color, and through the support of her new friends, she learns how to speak up for herself and maybe even find romance...

Possible triggers;

Parental pressure and favorism, parental neglect, slight body dysmorphia, bullying, dysfunctional families

Blood or injuries:

Frequent pushes or fights (think sibling-violence) played humorously. Every time someone is actually hurt, it is mentioned below.

• ep 1: Nosebleed

• ep 4: Slightly bruised hand (no blood)

• ep 8: horror theme in artclub (slight jumpscare, horror music, scary costumes - one with blood), fight resulting in 6 people slightly injured (small wounds or injuries but not bloody)

• ep 9: children fight, resulting in small, unbloody wounds and injuries

A girl has a crush on her brother's friend. Years later, they meet again and fall in love.

Note: while the show has a lot of triggers, they are all very lightly touched on, and the show doesn't feel heavy at all

Possible triggers;

murder while drunk driving (past - not shown), suicide attempt (jump out the window  - no blood or injuries are shown, coma, vomiting (ep 12), money extortion, stalking by victims, death by cancer

Blood or injuries:

• ep 3: A girl falls during a sports day. Her knee and hand are scraped and have a bit of blood. It is not zoomed in on, but it is cleaned and therefore present for a while.
• ep 9: a guy has his appendix removed (no surgery or wound shown)
• ep 16: flashback - dad rushes home after driving a man down and jumps out the window (neither incident is shown, but we do see horrified faces of family members -no blood)
• ep 18: two guys fight - blood running from lip and cheek. 
• ep 24: dad in coma passes away

A woman gets off to the wrong foot with the new president at her hospital when she accidentally mistakes a man for a seller of false medical wine.

Possible triggers;

acupuncture, child death during surgery (not shown), loss of a parent due to suicide (in the past - not shown)

Blood or injuries:

• ep 1: A man finds an injured goat in a storm (a bit of blood), a slight car crash (no blood), a small wound on his hand (a bit of blood), acupuncture

• ep 5: a woman is almost hit by a scooter. Her elbow gets injured (slight blood, shown being cleaned for a few seconds, but not zoomed in on.

• ep 9: man gets a cut from broken glass on his ankle (two small lines of blood. shown being cleaned for a few seconds, but not zoomed in on.)

• ep 10: nosebleed from being bumped into.

• ep 11: ML jokes that his head is bleeding (he is pulling a prank, no blood -even fake)

• ep 12: a child collapses and receives CPR (we are told she is fine)

Acting as a replacement on a blind date, Shin Ha Ri is shocked when she learns on the first date that he is not only the president of her company but wants to marry her.

Possible triggers;

Acupuncture (ep 4), Voyeurism leading to fear of surveillance, loss of parents in a car crash, strained family relationships,

Blood or injuries:

• ep 2: Nose bleed twice. Very minimal blood

• ep 3: A girl is accidentally pushed into the ground (she clutches her knee: no visible injury). Hit by a baseball, resulting in a black eye.

• ep 4: acupuncture

• ep 5: Voyeurism leading to a fight - no blood

• ep 6: slight injury at lip after fight (no blood), Flashback: car accident (emotionally intense; no blood/violence; overturned car; child witnessing in distress; parents lying motionless).

• ep 7: Sauce splatter resembling blood (visual only).

• ep 8: Repeat of sauce scene (resembles blood). Twisted ankle; sprained wrist (no blood). Appendicitis and surgery (not shown). Minor burn (covered). Small finger cut with minimal blood.

• ep 10: Minor car accident (not shown; no blood).

• ep 11: Broken arm (in cast; no visible injury). Repeat flashback: car accident (no blood/violence).

Two childhood best friends navigate their relationship and the growing feelings between them.

Possible triggers;

workplace harassment, slight sexual harassment, someone threatening with a knife, drunk driving

In episode 29: attempted murder, financial fraud, assault, suicide

Blood or injuries:

• ep 4: flashback: a boy getting his arm bandaged after injury (no blood shown; a slightly bloodstained paper in the background, though not zoomed in on)

• ep 9:man holding a knife to the throat of a pregnant woman (intense, but no blood or injuries)

• ep 10: car accident (very minor, no harm to persons or cars), leading to an intoxicated man smashing her car window while she is inside (intense but no harm)

• ep 11: slight cut on leg

• ep 12: a character's mother undergoes surgery - she is fine, and nothing is shown

• ep 16: A man threatens harassment; The woman defends herself by putting a fork to his neck. Her friend sees and later beats the man up. Her friend gets a small injury on the hand (a bit of blood), and then the man has some cuts on his face (doesn't look very bloody)

• ep 21: a man undergoes surgery for acute appendicitis. No blood or surgery is shown.

• ep 29: attempted murder, financial fraud, assault, suicide (all quickly mentioned and not shown)

A girl pretends to be a boy to land a job at a coffee shop and ends up falling in love with her boss, who is unaware of her identity.

Possible triggers;

Cancer, Vomiting: heard not shown(ep 5),  kisses without consent, disgusting food scenes, slight gender misogyny, slight homophobia, slight body dysmorphia, cheating, toxic relationships, drinking while pregnant, miscarriage and infertility (implied)

Blood or injuries:

• ep 1: A girl falls after her purse is stolen; she gets a scraped knee. Not bloody and seen 1 second from far away.

• ep 5: A dog runs out in front of a car (turns out fine), a girl runs after it, and a man pulls her to the ground. She gets a bloody palm (seen 2 times, a couple of seconds), and the guy gets a bruise. Later, a guy gets multiple bee stings on his face.

• ep 6: a car backs into a girl, who falls off her scooter. She has a scraped elbow (doesn't look very bad), which is seen a few times throughout the episode.

• ep 7: quick replay of bloody palm from ep 5. She punches her boss in the face, and he gets a bloody nose. Grandmother in hospital (cancer, no injuries)

• ep 8: a fight - girl gets a skinned knee.

• ep 9: A  slightly bloody foot.

• ep 11: one face punch - no blood

• ep 12: one pricked finger - no blood.

• ep 14: quickly mentioned from past, not shown: a woman being beaten by her husband until she bleeds