A Wife’s Credentials (2012)

Both mature, slower paced dramas focused on more adult relationships and the adult world.

The First Half of My Life and A Wife's Credentials are both dramas with mature couples (mid-30s) involving infidelity / betrayal and divorce. In each series, the 'plot' is about how the main characters deal with the break-down in their relationships and how it affects their lives and their children's lives. The background story of AWC exposes the high pressure on mothers/wives of getting their children into first-rate schools, whereas TFHOML shows the impact on relationships of long-hours spent in a high-pressure business environment (management consultancy). Both series are really well acted and produced.

Both dramas are about married people who discover their soulmates while also being trapped in loveless or toxic marriages. Both dramas question the morality of adultery and what is considered "acceptable" when divorcing or separating have larger consequences for the leads and their families.

- same writer

- same director

- visual style and vibe is similar, it feels like you're peeking into someone's personal life and seeing all of their secrets

- real characters who are dimensional

- romance/family drama, sometimes veering toward makjang but not in a too crazy way that makes it still believable

Filmed by the same director, both are realistic thought-provoking series with similar atmosphere.

Similar themes and the issue of extramarital affair and its causes at the core of the narrative.

both dramas are related to deception.but they have more in common.The two leading female characters are also dragging to deceive.they are afraid to define themselves as immoral women.The steps of the male lead act in the same way. the same feeling between the two male lead and his wife.

Both somehow depicts cheating and affair . In One warm word, female character is entangled with a crush to a business man and internal fight with her conscience to ignore or accept this crush.

Both deal with the issue of Marriage and Family and how to overcome various struggles in relationships.

In an interview after Once Again, Yang Hee Seung refers to A Wife's Credentials as her life drama. Both dramas are interested in the endlessly competitive nature of entrance exams and the warlike private education industry.

In both a family moves to a new house in a rich neighborhood. Both discuss education in Korea, the dedication and stubbornness of mothers with regard to children, and falsehoods in those circles.
But in A wife’s credentials, the children are still in primary school and the coach is a normal person and not an unscrupulous witch. In it you will also find romance and infidelity, but all very well executed!
This is not a satira comedy like Sky Castle, but it is a great drama!
In both the actress Lee Tae Ran plays a good role, and in both she practices Taekwondo!

The wife is having an affair and the vibe is the same.both are mature dramas with beautiful acting.

A Wife's Credentials stars the same lead actress Kim Hee-ae as a wife who is increasingly oppressed by her husband and her parents-in-law and gradually falls in love with her son's dentist.