Just Between Lovers (2017)

Both the MLs suffer trauma and are poor where as the FLs would be considered rich and I find that the vibe of both dramas are similar enough except they’re both heart breaking in their own way

The main characters of both dramas have to deal with their own emotional trauma due to a common and painful past. They grow individually and fall in love in the process. In both dramas, the cinematography is beautiful, the storyline is slow-paced but every scene is meaningful and the OST is magical. The main characters in both dramas learn to overcome their pain and build a strong relationship with themselves and others after a traumatic event. IONTBO talks about many types of mental disorders and mental illness in general whereas Just Between Lovers is more specifically about PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) which is one type of mental disorder.

The people recovering a traumatic events.

Radio Romance tell about serious childhood trauma involving a friends, details that, added to a constant emotional abandonment by his family and the pressure of fame, culminated in a diagnosis of depression for him. This depression will have an even more effective daily treatment when he joins the radio crew, even if he was reluctant at first.

Just Between Lovers begins by telling the story of a disaster involving the collapse of a mall that will unite the fate of three young people. Then they is going to grow up in drama trying to passed your bad moments in the past

Both couples are traumatized and damaged from their past experiences and find healing and comfort in each other, despite guilt and shared trauma.

- leads goes through a hard past and learns to heal together
- leads learning the realities on life and death
- the leads are tied together due to their first meeting during their childhood years (tragic past)
- slow paced romance between leads
- female lead and male lead work together in a project which brings them closer to one another
- melodramatic romance genre from both dramas

The male leads in both dramas are poor and have this “bad boy” vibe.

If you liked the male lead in either of these dramas you will probably like the other too..

the MLs in both dramas are looking for revenge
both Mls are traumatized by their past
both MLs are friends with sex workers
both MLs have been raised and protected by a madam that works as sex providers

Minus the funny scenes which made kill me heal me lighter and dark aura seems bearable. but both dramas focus on the traumas the leads had when they were kids and they are entangled in that past experience.

Both stories deal with past trauma that continues to affect the main characters in their present stories.

Where with 'When My Love Blooms' it is about the choices people make and how those choices effect others, 'Just Between Lovers' deals with the unexpected, and how we move on from disaster, pain, and suffering.

Both dramas are slow, but they both offer a glimpse into how people deal with pain. Each episode is well thought out, and soul deep.

Finding love while dealing with strained family relationships, job hardships and fighting a serious illness.

They just feel the same. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The difference in status of lovers, trauma and illness and how family and society viewed their relationship. Community issues and cast of characters that create great sub plots. Also the soft flow, pace and setting of this drama was very similar.

Characters bonding over their shared loneliness and trauma and healing together. Both are sad stories with happy endings and both are Korean dramas.

The main characters have deep emotional wounds and trauma and start to heal with each other's help. There's also a scene where ML clings to/hugs FL that reminds me so much of a similar scene in the other drama. Both feature happy endings after much suffering and heartbreak.

The atmosphere is really common. Not the story, not the background, but the atmosphere itself, a bit dark, a bit hopeless.