Architecture 101 (2012)

First loves. Same setting which is 1990s and back to the present.

Both stories shifted from past and present. The main characters lost in touch with their first love and then found each other in the present.

Saimori Miyo was the unfortunate child of a loveless, arranged marriage. After her mother died, her father brought in his lover and her own daughter, Kaya. From then on, Miyo's life was reduced to that of a mere servant. Even worse, while Kaya inherited the family's psychic abilities, Miyo had none—she was truly the daughter with no merit. After years of being treated like dirt, Miyo has learned to keep her head down, hide her pain, and obey every order. So, it comes as no surprise that she is arranged to be married to Kudo Kiyoka, a military captain rumored to be so cruel that he has driven away every one of his potential wives so far. From a painful upbringing to a painful marriage, that's the future that awaits Miyo—or so she thinks. Contrary to her expectations, her new husband is actually kind-hearted. What really awaits Miyo is a blissful, everlasting marriage full of happiness!

Both movies show the main protagonists experimenting the first flutters of love...

both shows talks about first loves and how the MLs ways of showing the progress..... ultimately it wasn't meant to be ... bittersweet as it may

Steller performances from all Lead Actor and Actresses

Though Cyrano Agency leans more on the romantic comedy side and Architecture 101 on the melodrama one, both deal with the bittersweetness of first love.

Both are about a girl and a boy who were friends when they were young, and then when they grow up, they meet each other again. Both have a similar atmosphere, though Koinaka is a J-dorama.