Chocolate (2019)

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 give a familiar vibe - to with a wealthy son and someone who works for a living. Highly recommend watching both shows

Both are very heartwarming, cozy and healing. There are the backstories to both of the main characters and how they are trying to find their happiness

Both dramas give off similar wistful feeling, with the main leads meeting again after a long time. The leads are tied together due to tragedies taking place in their childhood as well as present.

Both dramas handle the real hardships in life. They are both pretty dark emotion wise. Probably for more mature audience.

Both male leads are neurosurgeons. Both couples have reunion after years . There is same theme for first love and slow burn romance.

- Both Medical Drama
- Female lead like Male lead first
- Both ML comes from a rich family that owns the hospital
- Both shy FL
- Both selfless FL
- Both FL is still trying to find themselves
Note (chocolate has a more serious vibe)

They both deal with wearing yourself out to achieve social goals, and feeling isolated and overworked. They both have strong themes of escaping social pressures and the dramas are not about "winning" but about finding any small ways to be happy. They are both slow-burn and feature main characters who don't talk much.

- Similar feel of innocent-adult-romance
- Both FLs have some kind of "trauma"
- Both MLs struggle with their feeling towards the FL for a reason
- Both met in the past and reconnected after years
- Beautiful, calming cinematography and ASMRs <3

Both are about first loves who got seperated and meet again after many years.

In both dramas one side recognizes the other one first but can't tell the other.
Even after knowing about each other there are many obstacles stopping them from being together (e.g. other partners they got in the meantime), but their story and chemistry makes the viewer root for them to end up together.

Also both dramas have older leads (midthirties?) so for viewers who want to see more mature and not-so-childish romance, this might be good.
(And light spoiler - both have happy endings)

They both revolve around food connecting people to their feelings as well as each other. Both female leads share a troublesome childhood which affected them in different ways. Chocolate is a bit more melo and slow paced compared to Eccentric Chef Moon, however both dramas seem to have a healing type of vibe to them.

In both cases, the main leads are connected by the death of someone they care about. In Chocolate, there is a decent amount of push back from the male lead as he struggles to get over the death and accept his feelings for the female lead. Despite that, like in A Piece of Your Mind, he is drawn to the female lead - he seeks her out constantly (whether he realizes it or not), and looks for her when she isn't around.

Chocolate, is however, with an older couple. Probably around a decade older than that in A Piece of Your Mind. There is also significantly more conflict in the show as it is a full 16 episodes. The conflict the male lead has is similar in both (a good throttling solves the issue in both cases (followed by consolidation of course)).

Fair Warning: If You decide to give Chocolate a try, have a box of tissue ready. Though the romance is progressive, there are single-episode stories since it takes place in a Hospice ward (a place where people go before they die). Some of these stories will break you into a million pieces.

They are both from the same screenwriter (Lee Kyung Hee), maybe that's why you can see some similarities. They are both melodramas.

both take place at a hospice
both have an overall sad vibe
similar cinematography
in Chocolate the leads work at a hospice while the FL in The One and Only is a patient

• Food drama!
• Both are tagged as melodrama and romance
• Focus on backstories
• In Chocolate chocolate is an important theme and has a meaning in the story, in How Are You Bread the bread also has a deeper meaning
• Cute, funny and also heart wrenching chemistry between the leads
• Similar aesthetics, the scenery and the shots of the food are pretty!