Silver_Sylphy

New worker introduced to a restaurant because of a special skill.
Similar theme of owner falls in love with employee.
Food porn

Food porn with recipes. Relationships are made over food/ cooking. Restaurant scenes with food. Bigger mystery with characters

Sport themed with strong bonds between the main protagonists. Also strong competition between a strong team and an underdog.

From the same producer: Oxin Films. Just as hammy, bad acting, emotions all over the place, and some really horrid ad-libbing. However: it's another trainwreck that's just an addictive piece of madness.
O, and Chukchuk is in it too.

Similar in terms of learning to work as a team with different, clashing personalities; coming of age story (albeit Dive is College)

While not really the best out of the Thai's, there are similar treads of coming of age, leadership, swimming, and friendship.
The differences come where the Thai story is, of course, a BL

Similar themes of the effect of COVID on meeting, BL of course, and meeting soulmate/ coming of age.

Similar themes of coming of age and meeting a soulmate but via technology due to the pandemic and lockdown.

Similar themes of meeting virtually in the pandemic and getting to know the other person via screens at first.

Similar coming of age of the main character
Working/ college life clashes
Food-themed romances
Food competition

Supernatural creatures in the real, every-day world. Interactions between human and otherworldly creatures

While Room Alone was not done in pandemic times, it still shows coming of age in a time of rampant social media and the effects of this new phenomenon on the lives of the users.