She Was Pretty

- Both male leads have drastic appearance changes as they appear more handsome when they grew up, thus looks/appearance is one of the main theme in both dramas
- Both leads knew each other when they were children
- There is a boss and employee relationship in both dramas
- Both male leads are rich
- When they met up again after years, in both dramas, the leads start off on the wrong foot.

The dramas has fashion magazine and office life as the main set, has eccentric female lead, fancy second female lead, job hunting etc

- Male and female leads were childhood friends.
- She was considered a goddess and he wasn't (in one case he was chubby and in the other one he was a thug).
- They meet again after years and whilst the female lead is doing ok, he has becomen a freaking god in work, visuals and reputation.
- The male lead becomes the female lead's new boss.
- They are both set in a work environment.
- The female lead's company is doing bad and the male lead was hired to help.
- They are about the same length (16 and 17 episodes).

DIFFERENCES:
- While in "She Was Pretty" the male lead doesn't recognize the female lead and she tries to hide the fact that they were childhood friends at all cost, in "Refresh Men" he knows exactly who she is and he decides to actively influence her life.

- They both depict physical changes made by the mains and tells the story of how their lives change
- Both set in the work place
- Both male leads are the females' bosses/manager
- She was Pretty's transformation was from attractive to unattractive (even though she wasn't really in my opinion, I thought she was so cute!!) While diamond lover was the other way around

Shibata Ichiha, who entered a publishing company dreaming of becoming a fashion magazine editor, learns on her very first day that the magazine has been discontinued. With her dream crushed, she spends her days stagnating in the editorial department of a lifestyle magazine. Her fate takes a dramatic turn when she meets charismatic model and ultra–queen-like diva Haizawa Aria. Assigned to launch Aria’s new romance-advice column, Ichiha is even forced into working as its ghostwriter.

At her wits’ end, Ichiha visits a university hoping to interview a “specialist in the study of romance,” only to encounter Associate Professor Shido Tsukasa, a hyper-cool, human-averse researcher who studies not human romance, but animal courtship behavior. Though the two clash at first, they gradually come to realize that the ways animals express love contain unexpected hints for solving the modern dilemmas of work, romance, and human relationships.

Love this dramas much, a mix of comedy and romance then some lovely fantasy in it. You would really regret not watching this drama...

Bullied at school because of her plain and dull appearance, Reina stops attending classes. However, a fateful encounter with makeup dramatically changes her life—after starting from zero, learning techniques, and putting in hard work, she undergoes a complete transformation into a goddess who turns heads wherever she goes!

She planns to start a perfect new life at her new school! …Or so she thought. By sheer coincidence, her "top secret" is discovered by Kanda Shun—a cool, mysterious classmate with the top grades in their year. In exchange for keeping her secret, he forces her into an unexpected master-servant relationship!?

As Reina grows closer to Shun, another classmate, Haruka Igarashi—who shares a certain "past" with Shun—also starts to take an interest in her.

>In both dramas the male lead is portrayed by Park Seo Joon , in which he is a cold CEO
> Both dramas are romantic and have beautifully developed characters
>Actors have lovely chemistry
> If you enjoy Rom- Com this is definitely a must watch drama
> Has more witty and adult humor and does not rely on slap stick as much
> Definitely a more grown up / adult drama
> Portrays a very wholesome and somewhat realistic relationship

A comfort drama for me that is filled with lovable and memorable characters and a well written story.

Bullied at school because of her plain and dull appearance, Reina stops attending classes. However, a fateful encounter with makeup dramatically changes her life—after starting from zero, learning techniques, and putting in hard work, she undergoes a complete transformation into a goddess who turns heads wherever she goes!

She planns to start a perfect new life at her new school! …Or so she thought. By sheer coincidence, her "top secret" is discovered by Kanda Shun—a cool, mysterious classmate with the top grades in their year. In exchange for keeping her secret, he forces her into an unexpected master-servant relationship!?

As Reina grows closer to Shun, another classmate, Haruka Igarashi—who shares a certain "past" with Shun—also starts to take an interest in her.

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.

Time is a woman's enemy. On her 30th birthday, Cheng You Qing received an e-mail from Li Da Ren, her male best friend of 14 years, about the symptoms of premature aging. Unable to bear the fact that, as a man, Li Da Ren is likened to a fine wine that gets better with age and that as a woman, she is likened to a grape that will dry up like a raisin over time, she makes a bet with him to see who will marry first before they turn 35.

As she scouts for a potential husband, she finds that despite whoever she meets, there is always one person whom she can be totally at ease with and who is willing to put up with her independent, ill-tempered and stubborn personality - her best friend, Li Da Ren.

The only problem is that the both of them had already sworn to each other that they would never fall in love with each other.

Both dramas:
- FL was pretty in her younger teenage years and became less so in their adult years
- A budding romance in teen years that stopped & rekindled years later
- Handsome ML
- FL gets a makeover

Both shows have the same plot where two childhood friends one rich and inside the beauty standandarts get separated and meet again as adults with the roles reversed. It is a good reflection about how much of love comes from inner beauty, emotional conextion, social starndarts and self esteem.

Although the theme and setting contrasts between the two dramas, they have similarities in terms of rivalries in the industry.

I watched My Love Eun Dong after I watched She was pretty. It gave me the same goosebumps as She Was Pretty gave me... My Love Eun Dong is really great, but soooo underrated! You should give both a go and you will fall in love with it instantly!