Mary Stayed Out All Night (2010)

If you're a BIG FAN of JANG GEUN SEUK you will love both of these dramas!.. He's A band-leader in both dramas AND AWSOME SOUNDTRACK!. NOT TO MENTION EYE-CANDY !! mmmmmm....

In both of the dramas plays the amazing and talented Jung Geun Suk and they both are all about music. So if you like musical dramas so its highly recommended. In addition, both of the dramas have a touch of humor so if you like dramas that aren't all just about the heavy and serious stuff, you will love this one!

They were both about poor handsome men trying to build up their music career because they enjoy it and they need money. In both of them there's a girl who is in trouble because of her dad. SUFFB is more about the music than the romance whereas Mary Stayed Out All Night seems to be more about the romance than the music. Either way you see people trying to make a name for themselves and even though they are doubted by many, they will do anything to suceed.

Both dramas are about contract relationship.

In "Something about 1 percent" they enter fake relationship to fulfill wish of male leads' grandfather, in "Mary stayed out all night" they do it so the female lead doesn't have to marry a man she does not love.

Both have practically the same story. The problematic father who has debts to pay, the main male lead singer, the male second lead businessman that works with the female lead, an annoying second female lead, etc.

The stories are vastly different but I couldn't help but notice similarities between both dramas.
Similarities:
-The main female leads look and dress alike.
-The female leads are curious about the world but also shy (Heart to Heart's character has an actual social phobia and is WAY worse)
-The female leads knit and have a cleaning obsession.
-The romance between the male and female lead is VERY unusual and the people around them are always trying to break things off. (For the sake of the female lead)
Differences:
- Plot: Heart to Heart centers around a woman who has severe social phobia and slowly develops a relationship with her psychiatrist. Mary Stayed Out All Night is about a girl who's desperately trying to get out of an arrange marriage and gets into a fake marriage with a stranger she hits with her car...
- Romance:The psychiatrist falls and chases after the female lead first in Heart to Heart but Mary Stayed Out All Night is the other way around.
-Heart To Heart centers around the psychiatrist's job and the people they meet along the way whereas Mary Stayed Out All Night is focused on music and whether the female lead will escape the arrange marriage or not.
Both shows have a lot of charm to them and is great for a rainy day!!

Wi Mae Ri is the cheerful, pragmatic daughter of a failed businessman who had grown used to being constantly on the move to escape from debtors. She becomes fast friends with the free-spirited indie singer, Kang Moo Kyul, when she nearly ran him over in a car. Meanwhile, her father, Wi Dae Han, is saved from his debtors by his old friend, Jung Suk, who had just returned from considerable success in the Japanese entertainment industry. Jung Suk, who had harboured a secret love for Mae Ri's mother, sets up a deal with Dae Han to have Mae Ri marry his son, Jung In. In a desperate attempt to escape this predicament, Mae Ri begs Moo Kyul to pose as her husband, and finds herself in even more trouble than before when her father proposes a 100-day period in which she has to divide her time equally between Moo Kyul and Jung In, after which she has to decide who to marry.

same actor (jang geun suk), also the girl is a bit weird (but cute). jang geun suk's hair sytle (also the'style') is almost the same. but in pretty boy his acting is developed and IU is really cute (and her acting's one of the best among idol :P)

A Romance takes place between a normal girl and a indieband rockstar, The two both makes a promise not to fall in love with the other. When the deadline passes by, Things will go back to the way they were... Or will they really?
If you liked one, You'll surely like the other..

A character that has to get married but don't want to comes up with a plan in introducing a fake 'fiancee'.

In Delightful girl the lead male is engaged by his parents but holds a former love in his heart. in MaeRi the lead female is engaged by her father and holds a love in her heart. The are certainly different MaeRi has way more music, but Delightful Girl has a happier ending.

- ML stays with the FL at her house at the start
- ML is like a stray cat in a way
- Both dramas has a chilled and cozy vibes
- Innocent and kind FL
- beautiful OSTs

same idea of fake marriage, both are funny and sad with great music background