Yong Jiu Grocery Store

Both shows focus on family and friendship; both have a similar melancholic/bittersweet vibe.
Both MLs are orphans that run small shops in place of their grandparents; meet a FL that works in food industry.

They are both about grocery store, LOL. Both are heart warming movie. Kind, caring, love, embracing known and unknown people. Sweet mankind.

Both are about a young man move to countryside due to the harsh life in the city, now they are experiencing the warm and loving people in the countryside

Both are about a young man leaving city life and experiencing village life. It took a little bit of shock, adjustment and adaptation. The end up loving and being love by the pure and sincerity of the simple vilages

Living the busy harsh lifestyle in the city. Pour your heart to the small town. It wasn’t easy at the beginning, but the village has its own life, charm, simplicity, struggle and love. They became part of the villages at the edn

A young man struggle and had bad experience in the city, he went to the village, have to struggle there as well. The villagers embrace him, transformed him, he felt enlighten. He felt belonging, he felt like reborn and have sense of meaning

Both series follow protagonists as they move from Taipei to their hometowns to be with a sick family member. But from there, they face different challenges while learning about who they are, what they left behind, what their hometowns offer them, and what family means.

In both dramas the protagonists returns to the countryside/hometown. Each story is wrapped in a strong sense of community and the protagonists find a way to a "better self" in the warm environment the community brings.

Both main leads left the city life and start anew back to their village. Reconnecting to the people and childhood friends can be seen on both dramas. How the main leads will remember the simple life in countryside.

Both are set in a small village with a focus on several characters who reside in the village. Slice of life with little angst (maybe from 1 or 2 characters).

Both of these shows feature a ML that was raised by his grandfather, both MLs have to deal with death/grave illness of said grandfathers. Both shows are healing journeys that help MLs transform into better people.
While Merman is more funny and Grocery Store is more serious, both have a similar vibe

The main lead movés from the big city to the countryside.
In Meet Yourself she goes to a village where she doesn't know anyone, but learns to love the place and the people.
In Grocery Store the ML comes back to the village where he grew up and reunites with old friends.
Both dramas explore the life in the countryside and little villages, where people still have old crafts and professions.
Both dramas also treat the theme of parents having to leave the town to go to work to bigger cities, leaving their children with their grandparents.
Grocery Store is more nostalgic but both dramas have similar vibes.

Both shows are heartwarming, healing family shows that tell two stories simultaneously - the past, and how it affected the present.

Both drama are about a person who decided to leave the busy city life and reside in a small town and they try to find themselves again.

A girl dis-illussioned by her life in Seoul returns back to her home village, just like the male lead in Yong Jiu Grocery store. The movie is a heart-warming story of life in a village with her new farmer friend who also left his job in a big company.