In Time with You (2011)

-includes childhood friends
-taps into career choices
-struggles of adulthood
-semi slow development

The original version of the story. Both has similar story just the scenes were remade

The main girl and the main boy is best friends of 14 years. Both dramas are focused on the friendship that will create love between the two of them

Has the similar 'Friends To Lovers' theme but is the best version of this I have seen. There is interesting direction and the characters are fantastic.

Both are similar in the sense of: Bestfriends falling in Love

I feel that L&L is the fast version of ITWY because both have a male best friend falling in love with the female bestfriend, female bestfriend falls in love with another guy, but female bestfriend finally realizes at the end that its the male bestfriend that her heart really belongs to, even if she is on the verge of marrying her boyfriend.

They are different in the sense that , L&L has a government mandated partner that is matched with you, so female bestfriend had that, and she fell in love with the guy for real, even if its just an arranged marriage. In ITWY, the other guy is an ex boyfriend, who returned to be the current boyfriend, that the female lead falls in love with enough to decide to marry or atleast, get engaged with.

But on both stories, both female leads decide to go with the male bestfriend.

In Time With You and Apple in Your Eye are similar Taiwanese dramas in the sense that they're both stories of two people who have grown up loving each other in a non-romantic form however end up loving each other romantically in the end.
While Apple In Your Eye is about a man and woman who grow up as siblings while the man secretly harbors feelings of romantic love for the woman, In Time With You is about two best friends who have known each other forever and have always dated separately but the man has secretly always been in love with the woman.
Although I can easily pick favorites out of these two, they were both VERY emotional (in terms of feeling for the guy who has loved the girl forever and has to hold his feelings back) and beautiful dramas that showed aspects of friendship, family and love. Both dramas feature emotional male leads for have to face the horror of loving a woman who only thinks of them as family.
Although both dramas are pretty darn good and worth your time, my personal choice of the two would be In Time With You. It was FANTASTIC. Loved absolutely everything about it.

Both stories are laid back and focuses on real-life issues without being over the top about it. Both male leads could be considered losers who tried to change
Both female leads are self centered but that flaw makes them real and easy to connect with emotionally

They have both the "Bestfriends turned lovers" theme... Like, you are already secretly in love with your bestfriend, but you guys are still denying it, keeping it, or don't wanna ruin the friendship...then another guy comes along to emphasize more how the male bestfriend will get jealous and actually admit to himself that he is really inlove with his bestfriend...But will not do anything about it...till fate just makes them end up together...sweet...

If there's ever a drama that's accurately similar to Soundtrack it's this one.
In time with you takes a proper line as it's a full drama with a magnificent focus on unrequited love and how it blossoms.

Friends falling in love.Love,Timeless only flaw is not enough focus on the two leads towards the end but that is not a problem in In Time With You

This was the original that Operation Proposal is based off. Best friends falling in love but getting fooooorever to act on their feelings

I recommend this both drama because , Male lead and Female lead
try to solve problem
In one drama explosion and another student murder/suicide

Both dramas have a male lead that is almost perfect and too good to be true and paired with a prickly self centered career oriented female lead.
If you like the good guy who wear their hearts on their sleeves instead of the usual bad guy lead, then both these dramas is for you. Just be prepared to get you heart broken as your heart hurts for the male leads as their love and sacrifices for the female lead gets overlooked time and time again.

both have slow-building romances that start from friendship. In both the dramas, the female lead is working in an office and striving hard. Both male leads are super sweet and nice. Not jerks.

Best Friends who have known each other for a long time eventually become lovers. both set in taiwan. guy is more calm and the girl is more stubborn. Friendship that's like family.

It remind me of this drama with similar story line of group of adults who got friends opposite sex & they all try overcome obstacles & hardship in their friendship. Starring famous Japanese actor & actresses.