Business Proposal

사내 맞선 ‧ Drama ‧ 2022
Abandoned by his mother as a child and raised by the Park's family, Oh Soo is a notorious gambler in the neighborhood of Cheongdam. After the death of his first love, he is left heartbroken and cold, not caring about anybody else. Soo is then thrown into prison following the unexpected death of his friend who shares his name.

A year later, Soo meets lawyer Jang Sung, who came looking for the deceased Oh Soo, the heir of PL Group. When he is given 3 months to pay or die, Soo uses this opportunity to con the last remaining heir of the PL Group, Oh Young, to pay his debt. While pretending to be the deceased brother who was separated from his sister after their parents' divorce, Soo starts falling in love with the blind Oh Young.
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Both of these shows are office romcoms.
The comedy is done well and the two characters have great chemistry.
Both ML are successful and good at their jobs.
Love triangles are also a common theme in both the shows.
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Julian has lived off with the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed unless he clears the debt in one month. The only way to save himself is to pretend to be the long-lost brother of an heiress and kill her to get her huge fortune. Min, the blind heiress, cold-hearted like Julian, slowly opens herself to him, and he, too, falls for her. But Julian has to pay his creditor and what makes it worse for him is that the illness that took Min's eyesight relapsed, threatening her life.
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Hirosue Ryoko plays a pouty, blind girl with a chip on her shoulder (chips and grudges are in this quarter), whose very wealthy father has just died and left her his estate. Her mother left him years ago, taking her older brother, but leaving her behind. The sweet, but none-too-sharp brother, Reiji, writes her for years but the housekeeper throws the letters away. Now it turns out that this sweet Reiji (let's call him Reiji I), has gone to work as a cook for another guy named Reiji (Reiji II played by Watabe Atsuro), the cold-hearted head of a very successful Kabukicho host club. The girls all love him, but all he loves is his bankbook. Reiji II's life goes well until one day a rich executive's wife, who has been providing him with millions, turns out to be a poor bank clerk who has embezzled all the cash from her employer. Reiji II did not know this, but the police do not believe him and he heads off to serve six months as an accessory to the crime. The distraught, sweet Reiji I steps into the street to protest as Reiji II is driven off to jail, gets hit by a motorcycle and dies.

Six months later, Reiji II returns to find that the world of Kabukicho has turned against him and, during his incarceration, he has somehow run up a huge debt to the district's worst loan shark. As he prepares to be eaten alive by the nasty loan sharks, a private detective shows up looking for Reiji I, so he can reunite him with his long-lost sister. Somebody gets Reiji I and II confused, but Reiji II does a quick take on the situation. Seeing this as his only hope of swimming out of shark-infested waters, he takes it. He steals the identity of the other Reiji and heads off for a reunion with his newfound "sister." Bitter and angry about something as yet undisclosed, she is in no mood to be won over and slashes him on the cheek with her white cane. End of episode one. And yes, that was the best offering of the week
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Chae Yong Ju, a former special forces member, is a dedicated salesperson for a liquor company, but her branch is about to close. To prevent this, she takes on a mission to sell a new beer created by Yun Min Ju, a sensitive brewmaster and CEO. Min Ju, who lives in a quiet rural area to focus on brewing, finds his life changing when Yong Ju enters it.
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- same fluffy hilarious romcom genre

- Both FLs have disguises and fake identities. Both dramas have boyish CEO MLs with traumatic backgrounds

- In both dramas, MLs know, like and respect the real identity of the FL and her work(ABP- Food research, INAR- inventor/enterpreneur) but don't know that the fake person standing jn front of them js actually that person.

- Both FLs have strong, supportive, fashionable best friends who fall in love with their love interests first and do the pursuing in the beginning
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This one slightly flew under the radar.
-ML is the CEO.
FL is extremely awkward and a klutz.
They start living together after a few accidents.
They're hiding their love at the workplace as much as they can.
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Both Male leads are arrogant, pride and sexyyyyy!

Both Female leads work for Male leads!

Male leads think FL are promiscious at the beginning, but they fall madly in love!

Both are romantic comedies!

In Love in the edge of Divorce however they are married for three years although they have never even seen each others faces.
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8.4 W (2016)
Oh Sung Moo, the father of cardiothoracic surgeon Oh Yeon Joo, mysteriously goes missing while writing the last chapter of his webtoon "W". Yeon Joo goes to his office looking, but a hand from his monitor suddenly pulls her in, and she finds herself on the rooftop of a building, next to a bloodied man. She manages to save the person, only to realize that he is Kang Cheol, the main character of her father's webtoon. Yeon Joo later discovers she can only enter and leave the webtoon depending on Kang Cheol's feelings.
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If you have enjoyed A Business Proposal, you must not miss the original Full House (2004). Full House (2004) is considered a pioneer of the Korean rom-com genre and the many rom-com clichés of rich male lead, boss-employee relationship, contract marriage, and bickering couple. Plus see Rain and Song Hye Kyo in their younger days in a boisterous and silly rom-com back in 2004. Also this drama was such a great success in Asia, propelling the Korean Wave and has been remade in other countries including Thailand, the Philippines, China and Taiwan.
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A successful and confident woman, Kang Ji Yun, is the CEO of a headhunting company. To survive in the fiercely competitive headhunting field, she puts everything she has into her work. Outside of her job, she doesn't know how to do anything. She has a secretary named Yoo Eun Ho who takes care of pretty much everything for her. Unlike his boss, the secretary is friendly, well-mannered, and considerate of other people. He is a single father, who is also good at parenting and housework.
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- both have a little narcissistic, rich and CEO ML's;
- smart and hardworking FL's;
- ML falls in love first;
- office romance;
it was the firework scenes that matched these two romcoms for me, the only big differences, aside the duration of the dramas, are the time loop thing in SBWRE and the fake relationship in BP.
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Hear me out, the only similarity is that the male leads are CEO's, however as I was watching Spring fever I got the same feeling I get when watching Business Proposal (which I've re-watch several times)
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Hayami Honoka works in the sales department for a major consumer electronics company. She is excellent at her job and is respected by her colleagues. She seems like a clean freak at work and her colleagues think she is a perfect person to marry. But, in her private life, her home is a complete mess. Things there are unorganized and dirty. On the flip side, when she arrives at work, she looks perfect.

Meanwhile, Yamamoto Chihiro is Hayami Honoka's co-worker in the same department. He joined the company 3 years after Hayami Honoka. When he was a child, Yamamoto Chihiro and his two brothers did the housework at his home, while his mother was busy with her job. Because of this, Yamamoto Chihiro is excellent at doing household chores. Due to a case, he happens to learn that Hayami Honoka's home is a mess. He begins to stay with Hayami Honoka on the condition of doing the house work.
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Donovan is an American model in search of a woman he's lost touch with. Pam is a kindergarten teacher. When her grandfather becomes sick, Pam learns he'll need to undergo an expensive operation. In order to raise the funds, Pam takes a job working for Palee Modeling where she's assigned to work as a manager and personal interpreter for Donovan. She's soon wrapped up in both his work and personal affairs.
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