Both dramas deal with Palace intrigues involving the crown.
The theme of cross-dressing is also dealt with.

Both these drama center on a traditional Japanese family in which the female lead has to uphold responsability as the daughter/daughter-in-law for the family's prestige.

While Fukuyado Honpo is more about the relationship between the female lead, her mother, sisters and love interest ; ETnTS us about a mothe-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship.

Both these dramas center on the working environnement.

Ms Temper & Nam Jung Gi is a comedy but one can see the working and struggle of a small-and-medium-sized in Korea.

The Best Moment To Quit Your Job is more about a group of four friends making their way in the professionnal world.

Both these dramas are about a group of female friends. While The Best Moment To Quit Your Job is about women in their 20's making their first step in the professionnal world and and their subsequent struggle to adjust, Because This Is My First Life is about 30 years-old women we follow as much as in their professional than personnal life.

Also, TBMTOYJ is more of a slice-of-life drama, BTIMFL is a romantic comedy with depth.

Both these dramas are set up in the work place. In both of them, we follow a group of young people who are making their first step in the working field.

While The Best Moment To Quit Your Job is about four female friends struggling to adjust to their work place, Misaeng is more about trainees learning the in and out of the company they intern in and the subsequent struggles they'll encounter.

Both these dramas center on a group of young korean women. While Age of Youth centers more on personnal drama unfolding of the characters personnal lives, we can see the characters of The Best Moment To Quit Your struggle in the professional world.

The Best Moment To Quit Your Job is slower-paced than Age of Youth and has no element of comedy.

Both these dramas center on a group of young korean women. While Age of Youth centers more on personnal drama unfolding of the characters personnal lives, we can see the characters of The Best Moment To Quit Your struggle in the professional world.

The Best Moment To Quit Your Job is slower-paced than Age of Youth and has no element of comedy.

Both are slice-of-life drama centering on a cute, slightly wacky and naive young woman, a non-nonsense, newly-arrived male lead and other more secondary protagonists whose life gets unravelled through the drama.

While Drinking Solo centers on the civil servant field (we follow students aspiring to pass the civil servant examination and their teachers), A Poem A Day takes place in the medical field and is about a team of physical therapists.

These dramas center on a bunch of roommates in an urban setting (there is romance, drama, comedy...)

While EW centers on a bunch of guys friends who are part of the entertainment world and who run a guesthouse, AoY and its sequel centers on a group of college going girls who room together in a nice flat.

These dramas center on a bunch of roommates in an urban setting (there is romance, drama, comedy...)

While EW centers on a bunch of guys friends who are part of the entertainment world and who run a guesthouse, AoY and its sequel centers on a group of college going girls who room together in a nice flat.

Both dramas deal with the posh youth of Seoul.
Rich heir boy vs cinderella type girl and all the family drama all around.

These dramas are reminiscent of the Gossip Girl series.

In each drama, their is a girl with very good qualifications who ends up moving in a socially awakward -yet accomplished- man.
This living arrangement will lead to a marriage of convenience.