Recommendations

Both use BIOGRAPHICAL STORYTELLING, Showing almost whole lives of leads.

#CharacterGrowth

#Biography

In both there is 1970/80s Nostalgia!

Both have
Themes of: Youth, dreams, romance, poverty, hardship


When Life Gives You Tangerines events happen in longer time period (1960s - 2000s), not just end of 70s like in Girls Generation 1979.

Both span 40+ Years and use biographical style storytelling. Lots of character growth because storyline lasts so long.

WLGYT is from 1960s to 2020s.

MG is from 1980s to 2020s.

Both are crime dramas with MEDICAL INVESTIGATIONS' point of view.
Both have a FORENSIC EXPERT as a Main Lead.

Forensic examiner helping police detective/ prosecutor teams

The detective work is started with the forensic expert visiting the crime scene

They have the same tortured female lead that life goes hard on and are resilient about it. The story involves the ML loving from a far unconditionally and doing everything they can to make the female lead life better even without them knowing.

I'm adding this recommendation only for those who've already seen LBC.
If you haven't watched it yet, believe me, you're not missing out. Don't waste your time and go watch something else.

P10L is like a younger, better, more polished distant cousin of LBC in a sense that they're both quite typical cliche university setting romance dramas with multipe main leads and multipe couples.

-same mellow vibes
-stress free
-mature leads
-beautiful cinematography
-leads are not afraid of commitment once they're together

Last Meal Universe is a crack comedy similar to Ossan's Love Thailand. They both feature romance between men.

Underrated and unknown kpop boy groups compete to win a spot in the public eye with extravagant, eye catching performances

A survival show where kpop trainees compete with their singing, dancing and performance skills to debut and realise their dream

The dramas Love Endures and Northward have similarities about friendship from childhood to adulthood. One friend becomes a key figure in their friendship, Ma Siyi (Northward) and Yi Fei (Love Endures). The characters are similar and their family relationships are close. Ma Siyi and Yi Fei who live with their grandmother. The closeness of friendship in Hangtian City (Love Endures) and Hua Street (Northward) and romance of Main Leads

They are fairly different, but as I have been watching them both at the same time, I saw some similarities in the love story:
Both dramas have a couple who fell in love while young, where he seemed to have fallen first/hardest. Then there was a painful breakup/separation and years of no contact, before rather accidentally getting back in touch with each other.
In both dramas the FL has some emotional scars/traumas, and the ML is "green flag" and whole-heartedly in love.

Go Back Lover has more typical troupes and stereotypical scheming characters, whereas The First Frost is more believable, solemn and realistic in the character gallery and storylines.

In other words I won't really compare them, but if you like green flag MLs, falling back into love or healing love stories, both of these might suit you.

Ink - Pa are the side couple in the parent drama "Bad buddy"

This is a spin-off episode of Ink - Pa n can be watched as a standalone.

Both are Thai BL series that is about a bodyguard romance. In My Golden Blood, it is supernatural themed as the vampire acts as a bodyguard to protect a person with a valuable blood type from other vampires while in KinnPorsche, a fighter is hired as a bodyguard to protect a mafia's son.

Earth -Mix 's drama - Cupid's Last Wish is the parent drama of this spin-off episode......

Both are enjoyable.....