Rain or Shine

Both stories deal with past trauma that continues to affect the main characters in their present stories.

Where with 'When My Love Blooms' it is about the choices people make and how those choices effect others, 'Just Between Lovers' deals with the unexpected, and how we move on from disaster, pain, and suffering.

Both dramas are slow, but they both offer a glimpse into how people deal with pain. Each episode is well thought out, and soul deep.

Finding love while dealing with strained family relationships, job hardships and fighting a serious illness.

They just feel the same. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The difference in status of lovers, trauma and illness and how family and society viewed their relationship. Community issues and cast of characters that create great sub plots. Also the soft flow, pace and setting of this drama was very similar.

Characters bonding over their shared loneliness and trauma and healing together. Both are sad stories with happy endings and both are Korean dramas.

The main characters have deep emotional wounds and trauma and start to heal with each other's help. There's also a scene where ML clings to/hugs FL that reminds me so much of a similar scene in the other drama. Both feature happy endings after much suffering and heartbreak.

The atmosphere is really common. Not the story, not the background, but the atmosphere itself, a bit dark, a bit hopeless.

I was really shocked how similar I found those two titles.
Not by story, but by aesthetics.
I thought, I was convinced, that those titles are connected by the same director and yet I was wrong which is amazing.
Still I think that JBL has better acting and music than DAYS (hehehe I just did ‘days’ while typing the shortage of the title, lol).
Yeah, but the vibe in DAYS is like mix of JBL and Goblin.

Both the film and the drama deal with the trauma that happens to someone once they have been caught in a building collapse. One is a natural disaster, while the other is a human one. If you liked the healing nature of this drama, you will love the film.

The main characters have suffered trauma and are emotionally and physically damaged. ML doesn't value his own life much and comes across as a tough character at first but later has the softest heart toward the FL. Hopeful ending, despite all the suffering. Also similar tones and city night scenes.

-Both involve a disaster
-Both have a theme of the importance of family
-Both dramas have a nice male lead who is somewhat selfless
-Male lead of both have poodle hair :)

OSN might feel like a cozy drama, but it is a devil of pain in disguise. definitely not light.
After watching OSN, it is making me crave another romantic-melodrama. Like I said it is deceiving; making you think it is a cheerful one when it is really full of suffering and tension. I do recommend SITR after OSN for something very similar but slightly brighter, but it is actually making me crave watching something like Just Between Lovers to ease the suffering. The same sadness and slow romance. They’re very much alike.
They are beautiful and cozy pieces of art that put you through so many suffering sad emotions.

They are similar only on the fire trauma thing...in Love Scout, both of them were in the same fire in the same building as children.

Then in Just Between Lovers, both leads are in an earthquake tragedy in the mall and both got buried and rescued and it was traumatic for them.

Then both dramas are about healing too.

Tearjerkers.

Both ML and FL suffer/have suffered loss or trauma. Both heal and slowly move forward with each others' help. The tone was similar in many ways.