- Both about a couple trying to make a movie.
- Similarly, ML is a passionate movie enthusiast who wants to direct a film, where as the FL just wants to support him, but later realizes she has also become passionate about making movies.
- ML, who had the initial dream, later ends but giving it up, whereas the FL becomes successful.
- They end up reuniting after years of estrangement to make the movie they wrote together.
- Similarly, ML is a passionate movie enthusiast who wants to direct a film, where as the FL just wants to support him, but later realizes she has also become passionate about making movies.
- ML, who had the initial dream, later ends but giving it up, whereas the FL becomes successful.
- They end up reuniting after years of estrangement to make the movie they wrote together.
Not the same plot or theme, but Reply has Choi Taek who's also a genius Baduk player. In Reply, you can see the dilemmas of being an "undefeatable" Baduk player to going on a slump and then making a comeback.
- shows the impact of having AIDS as a girl in China.
- Female Lead is bullied at school.
- Both have problematic mothers.
- Female Lead is bullied at school.
- Both have problematic mothers.

