Workplaces in QL Shows
Step by Step got me thinking about the types of companies that get used as the settings for Office Romance in QL, and then by extension, what kinds of work characters do. I've only included ones where the job or the workplace is somehow part of the story or is a setting (so jobs the characters had as background info don't count). I didn't include censored BL because I feel that setting plays a different (more prominent than usual in BL) role in those types of stories. I didn't count university students doing school projects, but did include teenagers actually working. This is only the list of shows I've seen or know enough about to make as guess, so a lot are missing. Please add on, or make corrections! Titles with an asterisk * are included in multiple categories (leads had different jobs, or one job fits both categories). Titles in (parenthesis) I've only watched a part of, but enough to determine what work they did, titles in [brackets] I haven't seen so I'm going off what I've read.
(updated 1/7/24 with shows some new shows and some old ones I've seen since first posting. still not a comprensive list.)
Marketing/Advertising Office
🇹🇭 GAP
🇹🇭 Step By Step
🇰🇷 The New Employee
🇰🇷 Roommates of Poongduck 304
🇰🇷 All the Liquors *
🇹🇭 [Check Out]
🇹🇭 [Paint with Love] *
Graphic Design Office
🇹🇭 Bed Friend (or is it also marketing?)
🇹🇭 Middleman's Love
🇯🇵 Senpai, This Can't Be Love!
Architecture
🇹🇭 Big Dragon
🇹🇭 Love in the Air *
Game Design
🇹🇭 A Boss and a Babe
🇰🇷 Our Dating Sim
Other/Business Empire/Generic Office setting (or I never figured out what they did)
🇯🇵 Old Fashion Cupcake (i never figured it out)
🇹🇼 We Best Love 2 (some tech thing?)
🇹🇭 To Sir With Love * (business empire)
🇹🇭 Cutie Pie (business empire)
🇯🇵 Cherry Magic (stationary company, iirc)
🇹🇭 Cherry Magic
🇹🇭 Love in the Air * (some sort of business empire?)
🇹🇼 [Be Loved In House: I Do] *
🇰🇷 [Love Mate]
🇰🇷 Naked Dining *
🇯🇵 Doublemints *
🇯🇵 (Ossan's Love) (real estate)
🇭🇰 [Ossan's Love]
Law Office
🇹🇼 Plus and Minus *
🇹🇭 Laws of Attraction *
Restaurant/Coffee Shop/Bar
🇰🇷 Ocean Likes Me *
🇰🇷 Choco Milk Shake
🇰🇷 The Tasty Florida
🇰🇷 (Unintentional Love Story) *
🇰🇷 To My Star * (1 & 2)
🇰🇷 All the Liquors *
🇰🇷 Happy Merry Ending *
🇹🇼 [Be Loved In House: I Do] *
🇹🇼 Plus and Minus *
🇹🇼 [My Tooth Your Love] *
🇹🇼 [DNA Says Love You]
🇹🇭 [Coffee Melody] *
🇹🇭 [Moonlight Chicken]
🇹🇭 [What Zabb Man!]
🇻🇳 [You Are Ma Boy]
🇻🇳 [My Lascivious Boss]
🇹🇭 Laws of Attraction *
🇹🇭 (Bake Me Please)
🇹🇭 [609 Bedtime Story] *
🇹🇼 [VIP Only] *
Other Shop/Service
🇯🇵 Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (laundromat)
🇹🇼 Plus and Minus * (dry cleaner)
🇹🇭 Love in the Air * (mechanic)
🇰🇷 [Oh! Boarding House]
🇹🇭 [My Ride] * (moterbike taxi)
🇰🇷 Naked Dining* (grocery store)
🇹🇭 Pit Babe (race car team)
Artist/Artist's Shop
🇰🇷 (Unintentional Love Story) * (ceramics)
🇹🇼 [Be Loved In House: I Do] * (jewelry/metalworking)
🇯🇵 Utsukushii Kare Eternal* (photographer)
TV/Film/Idol Industry
🇹🇭 War of Y
🇹🇭 [House of Stars]
🇹🇭 [Show Me Love]
🇰🇷 (The Director Who Buys Me Dinner)
🇹🇭 (Vice Versa)
🇹🇭 (Love Stage)
🇯🇵 (Love Stage)
🇰🇷 To My Star * (1 & 2)
🇹🇭 Lovely Writer *
🇰🇷 Individual Circumstances *
🇹🇭 [Paint with Love] *
🇯🇵 I Became the Main Role of a BL
🇯🇵 Utsukushii Kare Eternal *
Music/Idol Industry
🇰🇷 Happy Merry Ending *
🇰🇷 Ocean Likes Me *
🇰🇷 [Wish You]
🇹🇭 [Coffee Melody] *
🇻🇳 [You Are Ma Boy]
🇯🇵 Kabe-Koji-Nekoyashiki-kun Desires to be Recognized *
🇹🇭 [609 Bedtime Story] *
Journalism
🇯🇵 Candy Color Paradox
🇯🇵 My Personal Weatherman *
Publishing Industry/Writers
🇰🇷 Happy Ending Romance
🇰🇷 Individual Circumstances *
🇯🇵 The Novelist/The Pornographer series
🇹🇭 Lovely Writer *
🇰🇷 [First Love, Again]
🇹🇼 [VIP Only] *
Manga/Manwha Artists/Illustrators
🇯🇵 Kabe-Koji-Nekoyashiki-kun Desires to be Recognized *
🇰🇷 Oh! My Assistant
🇯🇵 Jack o' Frost
🇯🇵 My Personal Weatherman *
Medical
🇹🇭 (Dear Doctor I'm Coming for Soul)
🇹🇼 [My Tooth Your Love] *
🇹🇭 [Manner of Death]
🇹🇭 [Physical Therapy]
🇹🇭 (My Ride)*
🇻🇳 [Mr. Cinderella]
🇻🇳 [Want to See You]
🇹🇭 [Triage]
🇹🇭 [Sky In Your Heart] *
Mafia/Criminal Underworld
🇹🇭 KinnPorsche
🇹🇭 [Love Syndrome]
🇹🇭 [Unforgotten Night]
🇹🇭 [Chains of Heart] *
🇹🇭 [3 Will Be Free]
🇹🇭 [Golden Blood]
🇹🇼 [HIStory 3: Trapped]
🇹🇭 Never Let Me Go (debated whether to include these children, but ultimately decided they work. still unclear on whether it's mafia or a legit business)
🇹🇭 To Sir With Love *
🇯🇵 Doublemints *
🇰🇷 Long Time No See
🇹🇭 (My Dear Gangster Oppa)
Sex Work
🇹🇭 [Playboyy]
🇯🇵 The Shortest Distance is Round
Debt Collection
🇹🇭 [Even Sun]
🇰🇷 [You Make Me Dance]
Park Rangers/Teachers (the "Other" category, but that's what's in it so far)
🇹🇭 [1000 Stars]
🇹🇭 [Sky In Your Heart] *
🇻🇳 [TienTai Bromance]
🇹🇭 [Chains of Heart] * (this is based on the MDL synopsis, so I don't know if it's accurate, but I was so tickled to have two shows in the park/forest ranger category I had to include it)