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I've only read the first 6 chapters of this, because that's all I could find, but it's a really engrossing and suspenseful story and I'm almost frantic for the next chapter. I feel like it needs some support on MAL.
The plot starts with a wild, out of control high school boy, Yeon-Ho, who gets into physical fights a lot, these two other guys who are searching for him but don't know who he is because the rest of the student body is too scared of Yeon-Ho to tell them. Then there is this high school girl, Young-Un who is very popular with guys, ... and has had lots of boyfriends. We first see her breaking up with her latest boyfriend, and we get a false impression of her that's quickly revealed to be slightly off. This makes her character more 3-dimensional than it otherwise would be and levels the field between her and the mystery surrounding Yeon-Ho, and she actually turns out to be a strong and intuitive, smart person (rare in shoujo). She helps him and then he helps her and they become sort of entangled. She realizes quickly how alone this kid is and that he doesn't seem like he has anyone he can depend on. Everything in this story is not rose-colored, and romance is not at the forefront of the action. Somehow, these two people get involved with each other and every time it seems like they are going to drift away from each other, events conspire to throw them together again. It's a compelling read and totally worth your time.
The premise may seem like a classic shoujo type plot but the interactions between the high school characters are a lot more nuanced than other shoujo. Earlier I called the story suspenseful, but it's almost more like the way the story is told is what is really suspenseful. There are mysterious backstories that are only revealed through certain interactions with characters. We meet and see and are regularly reminded of the characters' parents. This is rare and I think should be valued. Updates are sadly not frequent but I think that this is the type of manwha that will gather a larger following later on. The art is clean and conveys emotion with bold dark lines and high contrast for intensity alternating with light greys for delicacy. The artwork actually shows more of an appropriate variation and mirroring of the action it conveys than many other mangas I've read, where it seems like the story planning, drawing, and actually dialogue seem to have been written or planned at different times.

Overall, I totally recommend this to anyone! You should read it!

I noticed that The Dragon Next Door had no reviews so I'm writing the first one. I'm not about to wax rhapsodic but I do feel like this webtoon is not getting the attention it deserves. YOU WILL NOT REGRET READING THIS WEBTOON AND WILL BE QUICKLY HOOKED.

I'm not going to bother separating the story, art, characters, etc. because I really don't see the point in doing that - they are all connected anyway, and especially how readers experience the work intrinsically blurs the lines between each of these aspects.

So. THIS. IS. HILARIOUS. Starting with the first chapter I was laughing out loud, sometimes ... so hard I was crying. The art contributes heavily to how hilarious the dialogue and action is. It's in color, since it is a Korean Webtoon, and published on the site Naver (support the author! read English overlay through Oddsquad.org), and it's a seamless scroll style publication. The characters are quite funny and of course drive the whole plot but the way the art conveys character's feelings and bits of dialogue is actually quite impressive and extensive. In this webtoon it is actually quite remarkable how each expression on a character's face changes and sort of adds a lot to the story - it's something I've not seen so detailed in many other manga or manhwa. You know, after a while it seems like the author's sense of the character's face stagnates and as they pump out chapters the face becomes an automatic construction but strangely not as detailed. This does not happen in The Dragon Next Door. And this is a real joy since the characters are so much fun to imagine/watch/see/read interacting with each other. And the story is actually really really great too, but I can't talk so much about it because I am a spoiler person and I'm trying not to let slip anything big. BUT YOU WILL NOT REGRET READING THE DRAGON NEXT DOOR.
OPEN UP A NEW TAB, WINDOW, W/E AND GET YOURSELF OVER TO ODDSQUAD, AND READ IT READ IT READ IT!!!!
YOUR LIFE WILL BE HAPPY, IF ONLY BRIEFLY!! But hey, you don't have to take my word for it, just try reading the first chapter, it's really not that much effort and The Dragon Next Door will be so much better on other manga-type thing you were planning to spend time read SO JUST READ TDND INSTEAD, OK?! This is the kind of story that you will get cravings for, like chocolate cravings, or comfort cravings, to read at odd moments of the day, you'll say to yourself, goddammit why don't they have the next 37 chapters translated into english yet, I need to know the name of the pink haired dragon lady and blah blah blah.

But srsly, you will be so happy that some obscenely positive review online spooked your interest and you decided to mozy on over to Oddsquad scanlations and look at it. It will improve your life and mental status, and really, what more can we ask for?