She Was Pretty

Love the friendships in these! Both are about supporting your friends as much as they are romantic comedies. In both of these dramas, the leads knew each other as children.

Love the second leads in both of these dramas. It is for different reasons but both of the leading ladies have a ruddy unattractive appearance. Both dramas follow the usual Rom/Com formula (leading man is successful and handsome/leading lady is hardworking and has a good heart). In both dramas the leading man is drawn to the leading lady due to his own insecurities/fears.

Imagine She Was Pretty's Kim Shin Hyuk getting his own drama
Park Jae Hoon is carefree and sloppy but a funny sweetheart with beautiful dimples, and yes I'm siwon biased

As a young girl, Hye Jin was impossibly cute and lived a comfortable life with her wealthy parents. Since entering her teens, both her looks and fortunes have drastically changed. She currently lives rent-free with a friend and is a part-time clerk at a convenience store. Out-of-the-blue, Sung Joon, her childhood friend, contacts her and suggests they meet. He is unaware that Hye Jin recently spotted him and knows how fit and handsome he had become. Not wanting to disappoint him, she insists her pretty best friend go in her place. What could go wrong?
After landing a full-time job, Hye Jin is surprised to find out that Sung Joon is her boss. To add insult to injury, he is treating her with nothing but disdain and contempt. This is not the friend she fondly remembers, so she goes about hiding her true identity from him.

- Both dramas are romcoms centered around a magazine-based workplace
- In both, the ML is the FL's boss and they've met each other previously
- The ML is a tsundere to the compassionate, persevering (and endearingly quirky, lol) FL
- The SML is a more bubbly character who also works with the FL

Edit: The wrap-up of MMH was disappointing. Nowhere near as wholesome as SWP, which I now feel certain in saying is superior of the two.

In both dramas the lead actress is 'ugly' and falls in love with handsome, populair guy..

Both story environments are the workplace, also the FL has prior history with main male lead. A strong 2nd ML is also interested in the main FL. I like that the characters in both seem more mature, and emotions are expressed with really great acting.

Fifteen-year-old Sei Saotome is the type of person who tends to fail at the most crucial times. After nearly becoming a high school drop-out, she enrolls into a school that is overambitious for her. There she meets the bold and popular Taiyou Udagawa; and the dreamy and stars obsessed, Mizuki Ootaka. After being asked by Mizuki to join the two guys in the Astronomy Club, it turns out high school life isn't as bad as she had expected.

“I’m cute. After all, every man becomes captivated by ‘cute me.’” That belief is both the norm and her greatest weapon. Kotone has lived a life of effortless popularity since her student days. But one day, an “elite scheming-cute girl,” Sahara Nazuna, appears before her. No matter what happens, all the attention and affection are taken by Nazuna, leaving Kotone flustered as she experiences the feeling of “losing” for the first time. To make matters worse, even her handsome boss, Shimizu Masaki, whom she has her eye on, seems to be drawn to Nazuna as well…?! However, Nazuna also sees Kotone as someone not to be underestimated. With neither willing to back down, a fierce battle of pride begins—“scheming cute” versus “scheming cute.”

The plot is def not the same but the leads resemble eachother in a way like how the male leads both had childhood crushes and now they are grown up to find their lovers again. They are both rich and its also an enemies to lovers trope in both although " She was pretty " had more of the enemies to lovers i feel like. I didnt really like both but if you did liked " Radio Romance" maybe you could like this one . Just my opinion.

As a young girl, Hye Jin was impossibly cute and lived a comfortable life with her wealthy parents. Since entering her teens, both her looks and fortunes have drastically changed. She currently lives rent-free with a friend and is a part-time clerk at a convenience store. Out-of-the-blue, Sung Joon, her childhood friend, contacts her and suggests they meet. He is unaware that Hye Jin recently spotted him and knows how fit and handsome he had become. Not wanting to disappoint him, she insists her pretty best friend go in her place. What could go wrong?
After landing a full-time job, Hye Jin is surprised to find out that Sung Joon is her boss. To add insult to injury, he is treating her with nothing but disdain and contempt. This is not the friend she fondly remembers, so she goes about hiding her true identity from him.

Both dramas have a mean cold-hearted lead male character in the beginning. Also, there seems to be a concept similarity in two of the main leads being in the wrong relationships in both "She Was Pretty" and "Itazura na Kiss".

It has a similar vibe.
Both of the main female lead go through being mistreated when they were "ugly" (I don't think they were ugly but you know).
Main lead slowly fall in love with the female lead.

its also ugly duckling theme based... but not exactly the similar plot ... same nerdy fl and handsome ml lead ... and too the second lead ... but she was pretty doesn't have negative second female lead like in gangnam beauty ... love in both over flows and male lead admire and fall for female lead like from head to toe

As a young girl, Hye Jin was impossibly cute and lived a comfortable life with her wealthy parents. Since entering her teens, both her looks and fortunes have drastically changed. She currently lives rent-free with a friend and is a part-time clerk at a convenience store. Out-of-the-blue, Sung Joon, her childhood friend, contacts her and suggests they meet. He is unaware that Hye Jin recently spotted him and knows how fit and handsome he had become. Not wanting to disappoint him, she insists her pretty best friend go in her place. What could go wrong?
After landing a full-time job, Hye Jin is surprised to find out that Sung Joon is her boss. To add insult to injury, he is treating her with nothing but disdain and contempt. This is not the friend she fondly remembers, so she goes about hiding her true identity from him.