Monthly House (2021)

The couple have chemistry and you will be in for a chill drama with lots of sweet and funny scenes as well.

Both dramas mainly focus on the real estate business.
It is a story about the romance of a man who 'buys' a house and a woman who 'lives' in the house. Na Young-won is an editor of the monthly living magazine 'House'. Yu Ja-seong is the representative. The series tells the stories of the editors through House Magazine.

Myung Soo Hyun is the Screenwriter of both! which explains why both are very similar in one aspect which is comedy! the best thing about both shows is the unique traits of each characters which makes the interactions between them hilarious. both got that repetitive gags going on throughout the drama

-ML is FL's boss
-Narcissistic ML
-Grumpy and sunshine trope
-At the beginning, ML looks down on FL all the time
-At first ML values money the most
-Cohabitation
-'Single since birth' MLs
-Both FL and ML fall at the same time, but ML falls way harder
-Supper whipped ML
-ML is mean to everyone except FL

- Both are rom-com centered.
- Both have Boss-Employee romance set-up.
- MLs have similar personality.
- I won't say FLs are similar but both seems very dedicated towards the work they've assigned.

This is a short story, but it has the same lead ( Kim Ji Suk and Jung So Min) as Monthly Magazine Home.

Both are dramas about real estate. You get to see some really cool houses and properties throughout both dramas.

- Both dramas are romcoms centered around a magazine-based workplace
- In both, the ML is the FL's boss and they've met each other previously
- The ML is a tsundere to the compassionate, persevering (and endearingly quirky, lol) FL
- The SML is a more bubbly character who also works with the FL

Edit: The wrap-up of MMH was disappointing. Nowhere near as wholesome as SWP, which I now feel certain in saying is superior of the two.

-Both Office Romance
-ML's are both cold towards FL but secretly protect her
-Funny office staff side Characters
-Both ML's are landlords to FL's
-Cute ROM-COM
-Both dramas main couple has to work closely together
-FL'S have similar personalities
-enemies to lovers
-height difference

Both have:
- 2 lovers after 1 girl (typical but common)
- Male leads are the boss and rich
- ML and FL clash and discover they will be working together
- FL as an anonymous blogger & ML knows their true identity but FL doesn’t know ML knows (hope that makes sense Lol)
- Photography/artistic focus pertinent to the main career/job displayed in drama
- Typical office cast but FUNNIER office cast in Home Magazine

- Both drama has workplace theme in Magazine
- Romance Comedy drama
- Both drama has Jung Gun Joo as main role

Both have:
- Rich ML who’s the boss
- Mean male lead who will eventually soften up with Female Lead
- FUNNY office co-workers / supporting cast

Different:
- FL in Home Magazine is stranger to ML in the beginning
- FL in Secretary Kim has known Male Lead for years so they have a better foundation

- Jung So Min is the main girl in both of them
- Both main guys are somehow related to real estate (In MMH he's a real estate mogul, while in BTIMFL he just owns a home)
- Main girl is jealous they own a home in both dramas, and ends up renting from them
- Both main guys are stingy (MMH because he worked hard to get his money and in BTIMFL because he owes money on the mortgage of the house)
- Both main guys have more standoff-ish personalities
- Both are lighthearted romance dramas

Similarities:
- Ongoing dramas in 2nd half of 2021
- Theme of drama revolves around a magazine
- Magazine in Home Magazine deals with home purchasing
- Magazine in Kanojo wa Kirei datta deals with fashion (it is remake of K-Drama, She Was Pretty I believe)
- FL struggles financially which leads them to the job the ML works at
- ML and FL met once before before meeting at workplace

Difference:
- Identity remains hidden in Kanojo wa Kirei datta
- Identity of both leads revealed to each other in very beginning as the my meet again

Similarities -
--> both MLs are wealthy but have a cold/narcissistic (sort of) personality
--> both MLs are CEOs at their workplace and are bossy and very particular in the workplace
--> both MLs are inexperienced in terms of dating and are secretly very innocent
--> both MLs are bothered by FL, who is not that financially well-off
--> both FLs begin working under ML
--> both MLs and FLs had an embarrassing encounter with one another before working together
--> both MLs yell and reprimand the FLs b/c they bother them but slowly MLs develop feelings for FL
--> MLs and FLs start cohabiting at some point in the drama
--> FLs are liked by two guys

Differences -
--> Clean with Passion is about a cleaning company while Monthly House is about a real estate magazine company
--> Clean with Passion is on the more cliche side, it can get a bit sappy at times (not a bad thing tho)
--> Monthly House takes cliches and makes them a bit more original
--> ML in Clean with Passion has OCD which makes him unapproachable and cold
--> ML in Monthly House is a workaholic and a bit of a materialist, which makes him unapproachable and cold
--> There is a classic love triangle in Clean w/ Passion while Monthly House it's a bit more complicated (almost a love square/ they may be hinting a love pentagon)
--> Monthly House spends more time exploring the stories of the other workers at the magazine company, while there isn't as much in Clean w/ Passion.