Recommendations

Both are about the dreariness of working life (amongst other things), told in a humoruous way. Both are quite entertaining, despite the low production value compared to prime-time Kdramas.

Many reasons revolve around the protagonist:
- protagonist of low(er) status takes on the role of the emperor
- falls in love with empress
- initially happy-go-lucky
- idealistic, wants uphold justice/equality for the people
- naive in his actions to achieve ideals, suffers because of it
- struggles with harsh reality of palace politics and human nature
- struggles with reality that he can't create a happy ending for everyone

The rest is pretty standard for almost any historical drama:
- fight for throne
- power struggle between different groups of nobles
- revenge
- assassination
- deception
- etc

The main leads in both stories time travel to different eras- meeting prominent historical characters e.g. the Qin Emperor. Love transcends lifetimes storylines with alike magical elements e.g. immortals.

They're both about the experience of ethnic Koreans living in Japan. Go is essentially a coming-of-age movie, while Our Homeland is more of a family drama.

Both female leads are bullied at school because their fathers were accused of murder. "A Stray Goat" is a lot darker though.

The main character in both series are doctors and their work is a major focus. A lot of the issues that the main characters have to deal with in their interpersonal relationships are similar.

Finding love while dealing with strained family relationships, job hardships and fighting a serious illness.

People who are connected by past events and situations are destined to meet. Organ transplants cause unexplainable familiarities.

Both the dramas is focused on a child with leukemia and on his efforts to not let people around them worry.

I find that a lot of the situational drama in My Strange Hero to be eerily similar to the drama in School 2013. Lots of pulled heartstrings for all the students in both dramas' "wildflower" class. Where My Strange Hero has a strong lead romance, School 2013 instead focuses on one of the greatest bromances of all time. Both dramas are a great watch overall.

Attractive leads with out of this world chemistry.
The quality of the acting is unusually high and intense, from every character.

This movie has aged very, very well, probably due to it's stellar ageless performances and cinematography.
There are moment of explicit content, but it's all necessary and beautifully made.

Beautiful love story, nicely filmed and comprehensive, the chemistry wasn't only there, it was thick enough to cut with a knife.
Nothing seems forced in either movie, you easily forget that they're acting.

Trespassing into a research facility, a 21 century woman chef and her scientist friend are coincidently transported back in time into the bodies of past protagonists at the very instand they comitted suicide

After an accident, the soul of a 21 century woman traveling back into another time/paralele universe into the body of a dying woman. But is the Korean version of the c-drama "Scarlet Heart". Like "Palace" (Gong) It is a melodrama.