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Both shows are crime thriller action mafia BL series. They both feature two leads who fall for each other while keeping secrets from each other while navigating the criminal underworld. They both involve the mafia, mercenaries and hidden identities. They're both very good.
Same character and ML actor, different cases and plot. Both are mini dramas within the same universe.
The relationship between FL & ML is similar in both shows. The FL in "Tastefully Yours" resembles Suzy in some angles. Suzy when debuted in certain angles.
P.S: I'm still watching it atm.
P.S: I'm still watching it atm.
Both explore similar themes of a younger man/older woman relationship, both leads are competent, and the FL is focused on her career and launching a business. The ML is supportive of the FL's career ambitions and offers his talent to help. The FL has experienced previous heartache and is reticent to start a relationship. The ML experiences a hiccup in his career and finds a way to overcome. The ML pursues the FL and we get a HEA for both. dramas.
Similar how a tragedy striked the FL’s family & she worked hard to avenge them ! one of the best of this genre
Both are second-chance romances featuring a hidden child, where the father is unaware that he has a child.
Both have love potions and supernatural romance + a magical substance/spell affecting romantic feelings + characters having to deal with feelings that may not be entirely straightforward.
Both Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight (Korean movie) and Love You Forever (Chinese movie) revolve around love being separated by something beyond the couple’s control. In the Korean film, the girl loses her memories every day, while in the Chinese film, the boy uses time travel to change their fate. Both feature a male lead who continues loving and sacrificing for the girl despite knowing their relationship may not have a normal future, making both stories deeply emotional and centered on love, memory, time, sacrifice, and letting go. Both movies have a bitter-sweet ending where the female leads are left with the memories of the male leads love and sacrifices.
Well, you get to see Ha soek jin here again!! It was sucha treat to watch him solve problems here. Hes so calm and composed and super smart!
both are bit of romantic and medical drama background
difficult times are created in both drama in youth of may that is by gwanju uprising and in dots its by natural disaster
give a try
worth a shot !!
difficult times are created in both drama in youth of may that is by gwanju uprising and in dots its by natural disaster
give a try
worth a shot !!
similar struggles present in both dramas and the romance really reminded me of both these dramas
Both are incredible dramas
Both are incredible dramas
Similar overall vibe, both stories have characters overcoming family crisis and trauma while trying to find their own path and finding love.
Same office setting with a somewhat eccentric boss guiding a small team through projects while confronting hierarchy and navigating the power dynamic within the company.
Both have strong character bonds and martial artists who have frenemy-enemy-friend dynamics depending on how they’re feeling on the day and which third party they’re fighting. There’s also good fight scenes in both. You could say the writing is tighter in Mysterious Lotus Casebook (in that nothing is skippable unlike the sometimes draggy court politics in WBDS, and enemies don’t nicely step back and let you and their targets walk off randomly when they’re meant to be killing them, and let’s not talk about WBDS’s ending) but honestly both are not about the plot, they have the same vibe of plot or no plot the character bonds between the leads is the strongest selling point, and you’d watch them doing basically anything as long as they are doing it together.
"The dying woman trope" makes these two dramas similar on paper, BUT... Scent of a Woman is different in the sense that it focuses on the woman's POV... It's NOT the story of how the "dying woman" changes the heart of the MAN in love with her, but how HER life changes after her diagnosis, and she begins to desire for things that she had always ignored or made secondary to her work and filial duties.
An incredibly empathetic and poignant exploration of feelings of people faced with human mortality (including a parent about to lose their only child, and a doctor who sees numerous patients fall to the same disease), Scent of a Woman is a unique drama in this genre in that it is more than just a love story of the quintessential "dying woman" (who is often otherwise reduced to a naive or saintly figure meant to "reform" the hero). Kim Sun Ah (one of my favourite K-actresses) as the dying woman is at times, pathetic, cringey, and petulant, but the drama implies that she gets to be all that because she has lived a lot of her life burdening and suppressing herself. So she sets out on a path of self discovery in the limited time given to her, and the very same Kim Sun Ah who made you cringe in episode one will make you cry your heart out by episode two (with a lot more "real" human emotions with the other characters through the series). The love story is maybe the clichéd part of this drama, but it is justifiable as her life long dream of being desired by a man finally coming true.
An incredibly empathetic and poignant exploration of feelings of people faced with human mortality (including a parent about to lose their only child, and a doctor who sees numerous patients fall to the same disease), Scent of a Woman is a unique drama in this genre in that it is more than just a love story of the quintessential "dying woman" (who is often otherwise reduced to a naive or saintly figure meant to "reform" the hero). Kim Sun Ah (one of my favourite K-actresses) as the dying woman is at times, pathetic, cringey, and petulant, but the drama implies that she gets to be all that because she has lived a lot of her life burdening and suppressing herself. So she sets out on a path of self discovery in the limited time given to her, and the very same Kim Sun Ah who made you cringe in episode one will make you cry your heart out by episode two (with a lot more "real" human emotions with the other characters through the series). The love story is maybe the clichéd part of this drama, but it is justifiable as her life long dream of being desired by a man finally coming true.




