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The similarity here is that both involves cooking. The involvement of characters with the kitchen, dishes and food is very much prominent in both the dramas. The main plot revolves around the dedication of the mains for their profession, cooking.

A love/hate relationship .In both the dramas, a commoner gets involved with a public figure. gradually the romance begins.

Both intensely focuses on Chinese Military training, operations and various other aspects. The army prospect is well portrayed in both of them.

Both focus on crime solving using psychological methods. Plus, both has romance plots with yet with more focus on crime.

Both are high school where the male leads seem to be unapproachable due to their respective appearances, yet they are very gentle as a person.

Eyes of Dawn focuses on the Japenese side of the Sino-Japanese war from 1938 onward. It adds another perspective to what was going on at the time.
This drama also touchs on the fighting after the sino-Japanese war in China.

Want to see a love story before the Korean pennisula got divided? Well Eyes of Dawn has just that. And later cross border and idology divide are shown in the drama.

Same director and writer. The 2nd lead in Sandglass is the same actor as the main in Eyes of Dawn. There is also a lot of actor sharing in the casting.

Theres is subplot in Eyes of Dawn about government spys. There are also a lot of action scenes and explosives. Both also feature foriegn locations.

if mu ze was you favorite character in make my heart smile you should definitely watch! heyi (the actor for mu ze) is the lead and his characters best friend has a similar personality to mu ze. plus heyis character and the fl also have to change themselves a bit in order to keep big secrets about themselves just like wei mian. its a cute romance between best friends and has lots of cute moments like in this show <3 but also some drama w jealous classmates and old friends coming back into the picture.

Although GTB has rom-com in it, the story line is basically the same in both dramas.

Rich boy vs Poor girl

Both goes to the same university.

Both ML are rebellious but falls very hard for their FL.

ML´s mother is against the FL and want to separate the two of them. She is the cause to much angst between mainleads.

In both dramas FL breaks up with ML , both ML then gets into accidents and gets amnesia. Causing them to forget FL.

In both dramas ML dates SFL after their amnesia.

It's season 2 of this show and its prequel; it's interesting to see the evolution of the show in the 3 seasons

Both movies were about sport and make it to national team and make the country proud. Hardship, poverty, hash competition, encouraging coach.

Both drama have gender bender romance with excellent casting choices for the fls. In both drama the fl had to hide her gender in order to survive(well not so much in one case but superstition is a peculiar thing) and becomes an aide to the ml. Bickering and falling in love kind of dramas

Both were related to Winter sport. Both strong female leads. Train hard. Roller coaster ride. Supporting team mate. Bitter sweet story.