Itaewon Class (2020)

Izumi Hidaka is 36-years-old and the CEO of start-up game company Pegasus Ink. Four years ago, she developed the game Love My Pegasus, which was targeted towards women and became very popular. Since then, she has been obsessed with the character Kento-sama from Love My Pegasus. One evening, Wataru Igarashi suddenly appears in front of drunken Izumi Hidaka. She is shocked by Wataru Igarashi’s appearance, which is just like her game character Kento-sama. Wataru Igarashi is a 23-years-old man. But, Izumi Hidaka is disappointed with Wataru Igarashi. Except for his physical appearance, Wataru Igarashi is the opposite of her well-mannered, cultured, and vivacious game character Kento-sama.

Both involve ML playing the long game in revenge by calculating it over multiple years. In both, ML assembles a group of allies to help him achieve his goal. Both have great OSTs.

Both involve the main character suffering an injustice and end up buying a bar/pub. It has similar instances of fighting against a larger power with a small group of friends they gain by work in their bar/pub.

The feel of the dramas are quite different with Local Hero having more emphasis on the action/fighting while Itaewon Class has more focus on friendship and youth but the overarching themes of fighting for justice and placing your trust in some friends are similar.

Narukawa Sana is a young CEO who founded the startup "Dream Pony" that deals with educational apps when she was 23. Although reckless, Narukawa has a goal and that is to make "Dream Pony" into a unicorn company and that its business is available to everyone all over the world within 10 years. The company did well when it was first launched but Narukawa became frustrated as there hasn't been any huge growth. Narukawa dedicates her time mostly on her work and has been neglecting her private life and romance. One day, a middle-aged salaryman Kotori Satoshi decides to change his job and starts working at "Dream Pony". At first, Narukawa is not fond of Kotori but the two become closer as Kotori helps Narukawa by giving advices based on his experiences. Meanwhile, Narukawa's co-founder Suzaki Ko has been in love with Narukawa but he is unable to suppress his feelings after the arrival of Kotori. The team now gets caught in a triangle between work and love.

-Both MLs sort of want to avenge their dads, and they are both very successful in what they do.
-Intergenerational feud between a 'youngster' and a hateful, rich-old man.
-Revenge plot runs for years.
-Both MLs eventually team-up and find strength in their better halves.
-Both stories are modern-day versions of court-politics, where the wronged protagonist takes down the powerful bad guy, although IC plays into business-level politics with far greater number of players involved.
-The revenge is fulfilled at the very end, with the comeuppance being extremely satisfactory.

- Gives similar vibes
- Silly
- Gets involved with the police force in a certain way
• Serves time in prison
- Has a new beginning
- Starts a new business
- Determined/Motived to get back on track
- Friendship that helps the ML's purpose
- Both ML own some sort of place to get food
• In Cafe Minamdang the ML owns a cafe while in Itaewon Class owns a resturant

if anyone wants to see our beautiful strong female lead Kim Da Mi in another equally good project they should try The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion

Takanashi Hinako is a 30-year-old office lady who has been working as a secretary at Relation Gate for the past 8 years. Everyday, the company's charismatic president would give her various "impossible tasks", making her single for the past 6 years and have no time to think about her future. One day, the president gives Hinako an extremely huge "impossible task" - Be the president of the company's subsidiary.

Itaewon Class has everything and more , you probably watched it alreaady but its time to rewatch it :)

Both drama plot is about main lead seek revenge and success. In IC the story revolve around business and how main take revenge and success to get justice for his father while in DP the story is about a talented doctor try to get revenge from chairman of big corporation that cause her mother's death. Both story is worth to watch.

29-year-old Hyuga Toru is a wealthy man. He first started to run an internet website from his small room and his hobby began to make a lot of money. Nowadays, he doesn't like to socialize and if somebody comes to him he suspects that they may want his money. Sawaki Chihiro attends a job fair and by an unexpected occurrence begins to work for Toru. Chihiro soon realizes that Toru isn't so bad. There's pureness in him and also a good deal of loneliness. She then begins to have feelings for him.

Both have one of the leads wanting revenge because of a tragic event of a relative in the past.
In Doctors is the FL, in Itaewon Class is the ML

Both dramas are heartwarming in a way because the main characters father dies and leaves them alone. The main character then has to live life without any family, that is until "family" shows up. Both characters work in a business with this new family. There is also LGBTQ+ representation in both of them.

Itaewon Class
The main character gets out of prison and decides to take revenge on a man who is half responsible for his fathers death. He wants to take revenge by outdoing the mans business. While planning revenge, he meets some people that make him feel he still has a family.
-Business, life, food


Move To Heaven
The main character is a young boy with autism, the boys father dies and he can't be left alone. So the boy's uncle gets called in to look after him. The uncle just got out of jail for beating someone up in a fight. The boy continues to work for the business that he and his father used to run, but instead of working with his father, he has to work with his uncle.
-A type of business to help the deceased and their loved ones
-Life, drama, family
-Very heartwarming and very sad
-Digs into multiple people's issues

Okay I know this is a stretch here but the dynamic between the female and male leads are similar... FLs are super smart while the male leads are full of passion, but not exactly the brightest... It's also the FLs that paves the way for the MLs' successes...

- The main character faces numerous hardships and obstacles, in order to reach his dreams. Through his struggles he faces his most hated enemy, but goes through healing with the help of his new found friendships.
- The male character has a childhood first love and a potential new love. Who will he end up with?
- Both dramas have a food theme, where the ML is an underdog. In Itaewon, the ML wants to open up a successful restaurant and in Baker King the ML wants to be the best baker.