When the Weather Is Fine

Both dramas feature..
-- Slice-of-life romance with mature adults
-- A one-sided crush during high school
-- Lots of nice flashbacks showing their interactions during high school
-- A reserved ML who likes to read and is an overall kind person
-- An outgoing FL who confesses to the ML first
-- Cute couple moments and nice dialogue showing their level of maturity
-- A nicely written slow-paced story with interesting side characters and well rounded subplots
-- No unnecessary angst, melodrama, love triangles or psychotic characters

It is written by the same writer. And both the drama gives off that warm and cozy feeling. If you loved any one of these 2 dramas, give the other one a try.

Both are romances in which the ML has feelings for the FL from the start but initially hides them due to his childhood trauma/inability to open up to people. Both MLs seem quite cold and distant but once they open up to the FL they are adorable to watch

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 dramas have gentle and warm male leads who love books but have deep scars in their hearts.
The dramas have a similar feel with the script and acting. WTWIF is a slower burn slice of life romance but has a calming and sweet vibe to it, where MAW is a fantasy romcom with a cuter and more lively vibe.

Both are about the female leads returning to their home town and ultimately finding love with a former classmate. Heartwarming and mature romances.

The melodramatic first loves who have come back together in a dramatic and almost sad fashion.

From the OSTs to the cinematography it just seems familiar to me

#people who had feeling for each other before and meet again
# male lead loved female lead forever but did not say it until they meet again as adults
#male lead is a green flag

Tired of life in Seoul, Hae Won, a cellist who has closed her heart due to past emotional wounds, returns to her hometown, Bookhyun Village. There, she meets Eun Seob, the owner of "Goodnight Bookstore," whose simple routine of coffee, reading, and blogging begins to shift as their lives intertwine.

Tired of life in Seoul, Hae Won, a cellist who has closed her heart due to past emotional wounds, returns to her hometown, Bookhyun Village. There, she meets Eun Seob, the owner of "Goodnight Bookstore," whose simple routine of coffee, reading, and blogging begins to shift as their lives intertwine.

Im Eun sub's character remind me of Park Dong Hoon in My Mister. both of them look kind of lost in the world full of loud people. an d trough the story we come to know them and their thoughts and this is so calming. both drama deal with deep sadness yet you come out of them with a feeling of being healed.

Although the stories are drastically different, they have the same slow-burn, melodramatic ambience that centers around a love story.

FL goes back to hometown to take a break from city life.... the setting is small village but during winter season.

-The leads knew each other as teens, after a family trauma resulted in the FL moving to a small town to live with her grandmother and aunt. When the FL moves back as an adult following a workplace incident, she begins working at the ML’s bookstore near her home.
-Their feelings grow from friendship to something more.
-Slowburn.

They have the same feeling for me. It's slice of life, really developing a lot of townspeople characters. A main through line is slowly healing from repeated trauma in the countryside, Both also deal with hidden pasts.