Both dramas are essentially 2020s reimaginings of "old" romcom tropes from 2010s and both dramas execute use of these tropes well.
In both stories male CEO decides to enter a contract relationship with troublemaking female lead just to please his beloved grandfather (and essentially inherit the grandfathers company). The grandfather is in both dramas a goofy guy who knows more than he shows.
Both female leads are hardworking independent girls skilled in their own thing but sometimes helpless in male leads rich world of ritchy ritches.
Both drama have elements of slapstick comedy and animated way of expressing comedy.
The difference is in framing of the story - in TSOPMC, the female lead (joseon lady) time-travels from Joseon era into current time thus not being aware of modern customs; in ABP, the female lead is employee in ml's company and disguises as someone else to contract date the male lead.
In both stories male CEO decides to enter a contract relationship with troublemaking female lead just to please his beloved grandfather (and essentially inherit the grandfathers company). The grandfather is in both dramas a goofy guy who knows more than he shows.
Both female leads are hardworking independent girls skilled in their own thing but sometimes helpless in male leads rich world of ritchy ritches.
Both drama have elements of slapstick comedy and animated way of expressing comedy.
The difference is in framing of the story - in TSOPMC, the female lead (joseon lady) time-travels from Joseon era into current time thus not being aware of modern customs; in ABP, the female lead is employee in ml's company and disguises as someone else to contract date the male lead.
Na Ae Ra is the prettiest girl in her town. Many guys around her try to win her heart but she dreams of marrying a civil servant. One day she meets dorky Cha Jung Woo who is preparing for civil service exams. They fall for each other and eventually marry.
Her dream of living happily ever after is short-lived when her husband announces that he quit his job and wants to go into business. She supports him throughout the years by working herself to her bone while he coded software in a basement and failed to find investors. When she could no longer take it, she decided she wanted a divorce.
She is still juggling jobs years later, to repay the debt she accrued while supporting her husband. She feels life is unfair when she finds out that her husband's business is a success and made him rich. Wanting to even the score, she joins his company as an intern. Thus begins a cat and dog quarrel between ex-husband and wife, who hurt each other, but can’t seem to get over one another.
Her dream of living happily ever after is short-lived when her husband announces that he quit his job and wants to go into business. She supports him throughout the years by working herself to her bone while he coded software in a basement and failed to find investors. When she could no longer take it, she decided she wanted a divorce.
She is still juggling jobs years later, to repay the debt she accrued while supporting her husband. She feels life is unfair when she finds out that her husband's business is a success and made him rich. Wanting to even the score, she joins his company as an intern. Thus begins a cat and dog quarrel between ex-husband and wife, who hurt each other, but can’t seem to get over one another.
Jang Man Ok (Man Ok means "full house" in Hanja) is a martial arts instructor at her grandfather's institute. Yet, Man Ok is interested in fashion and runs an internet shopping site without her grandfather knowing. Later, she poses as a stylist for top idol group TAKE ONE and moves into the band's luxurious house, which superstar musician Lee Tae Ik inherited from his father.
Hasebe Sosuke is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Japanese edition of the fashion magazine, 'The Most' a worldwide publication. He is an unfriendly and cold rationalist transferred from New York to complete a mission. When young, he was overweight and often bullied. Now a handsome elite, he aims to reunite with his first love.
Meanwhile, that first love Sato Ai is unemployed and living with her best friend since her company went bankrupt. Hired as an intern at 'The Most ', Ai is an energetic, cheerful, and honest co-worker.
Once a beautiful honor student, she can be timid and overly self-conscious. While she does meet Sosuke again, she hides her true identity.
Meanwhile, that first love Sato Ai is unemployed and living with her best friend since her company went bankrupt. Hired as an intern at 'The Most ', Ai is an energetic, cheerful, and honest co-worker.
Once a beautiful honor student, she can be timid and overly self-conscious. While she does meet Sosuke again, she hides her true identity.
University student, Takatsuki Minato, likes things to be clean and in order while her stepbrother, Takatsuki Toru, is a bit of a player. One day, while cosplaying as a high-school student in a fashionable district in Tokyo, Minato accidentally bumps into Toru and quickly lies about her identity. To her surprise, Toru appears to take an interest in her alternate identity, Mina, and asks her out. Thinking that she might be able to cure Toru out of his playboy ways, Minato continues to disguise herself as Mina but will she be able to keep up the charade when she starts developing feelings for Toru?
In both the guy falls first and very hard for the girl. His love for her is very obvious to everyone around her (except her), because of his unusual dotting for her.
In both he turns out to be her boss at work.
In both she had a very long previous love-interest before meeting him and needed a time to move on.
In both he turns out to be her boss at work.
In both she had a very long previous love-interest before meeting him and needed a time to move on.
Higashiyama Yui works as a director at Net Heroes, a web production company. Due to her workaholic father and bad experiences in the past, she loathes working overtime. Even 2 years ago, she broke off her engagement to Taneda Kotaro because he was a workaholic. At her job, Higashiyama Yui always leaves at the end of the regular working day and never works overtime. She tries to be as efficient as possible and productive during her normal working hours. After she leaves her office, Higashiyama Yui normally drinks beer at her regular Chinese restaurant. Her peaceful days begin to change after a new department head arrives at work.
Shirai Yui has decided to take a new job as a secretary at the law firm of her childhood friends, the Kami brothers. Yui has feelings for her older brother, Soichi, but when they meet again for the first time in 18 years, she is confused to find that Soichi has become a cool, unsmiling man. Meanwhile, her younger brother, Yushiro, has always loved Yui, but has not been able to express his feelings. And Soichi has been unable to express his love for Yui due to a childhood trauma. The love stories of Yui, who loves Soichi, Yushiro, who loves Yui, and Soichi, who is jealous of Yui's close friend, all intertwine.
Gong Ah Jung, a level 5 Ministry of Culture official, gets entangled in a web of lies when she mistakenly lies that she's married to Hyun Ki Joon, a noble hotel manager from an affluent family. Their relationship is further complicated when Ki Joon's ex-fiance and a close friend of his brother's, Oh Yoon Joo, reappears in his life
