Sageuk Lover

=> antihero male lead
=> 2pm band member cast as one of the main roles
=> both have a comedic approach
=> written by Park Jae Bum

King Injo era sageuk dramas with lots of action and romance (though female lead in Chuno is mostly with second male lead).

King Injo era sageuk dramas with lots of action and romance (though female lead in Chuno is mostly with second male lead).

Both dramas include Lee Bang Won as one of the main characters. Thus, we know that the background story of both dramas is that they are both set in the early stages of Joseon Dynasty.
However, King of Tears Lee Bang Won has more focus on Lee Bang Won's rise to power while The Queen Who Crowns focuses more on the perspective of his Queen Minkyung and how she copes with being Queen (like dealing with her now unequal status with her husband to dealing with her jealousies to his concubines).

Both dramas include Lee Bang Won as one of the main characters. Thus, we know that the background story of both dramas is that they are both set in the early stages of Joseon Dynasty.
However, Six Flying Dragons has more focus on Lee Bang Won's rise to power while The Queen Who Crowns focuses more on the perspective of his Queen Minkyung and how she copes with being Queen (like dealing with her now unequal status with her husband to dealing with her jealousies to his concubines). There are also a lot of fictional characters added in Six Flying Dragons that are not present in real life nor in The Queen Who Crowns. plus Six Flying Dragons has a lot of martial arts scenes as well.

These are both Kim Tae Ri dramas where she is talented in a skill and works her way up to be well known in that particular skill (gukgeuk in Jeongnyeon, fencing in 2521). In both dramas, she has a female rival who seems to have more professional training than her at the beginning of the show. The rivals in both shows initially hate Kim Tae Ri's characters, but Kim Tae Ri's characters and the rivals eventually overcome their differences to form a friendship.

Similarities:
=> Main characters are part of an entertainer group where all members of their group are of their gender (Jeongnyeon focuses on gukgeuk indoor theater while King and the Clown focuses on performing plays in the streets)
> Have characters that often play characters opposite their own gender in their performances (Jeongnyeon and Okgyeong in Jeongnyeon, Gonggil in King and the Clown)
> Implied same sex romantic relationships on some characters

Both are stories of talented women and how they thrive in the mainly female organizations that they joined. In these organizations, they gain friends and rivals. While Jeongnyeon joined the female gukgeuk organization, Jang Geum joined the palace maid/cook female organization and then later on the became one of the female nurses in the palace (Jang Geum gained a best friend and a rival in both her palace maid/cook years as well as her nurse/medicine years).

Similarities:
=> Story of female characters doing all what they can to thrive in the art form they chose
=> There is implied lesbian relationship in both dramas between the female lead and another female character

Similarities:
=> set in Korean not very far from the war years like Korean War and WW2, Jeongnyeon is set after the Korean War while Handmaiden was set about a few years before WW2
=> Kim Tae Ri has a female love in Handmaiden. While it's not directly stated in Jeongnyeon, there seem to be a lesbian relationship in between Jeongnyeon and her friend Jooran.
=> The writer of Jeongnyeon novel was partly inspired by Kim Tae Ri's Handmaiden character

Both What Comes after Love and Alone/Together depict couples, contrasting their college/young adult idealistic lives in contrast to wondering about their "what ifs" and meeting again as older professionals about 5 years after they break up. The main couples seem to have other people they are either dating/considering dating but they still deeply love each other and thus a meeting 5 years later as career professionals made them question about their life's decisions in the past.

Both shows are about women who dreams to become a great artist/performer. The major differen ce though is that Hwang Ji Ni also focuses on the lovelife of the female lead while living as an artist/performer while Jeong Nyeon doesn't seem to be that way.