- They somewhat fall into the healing type of genre with a little bit of melodramatic/mystery elements.
- Both leads have temporary amnesia due to a car accident, which leads them to a completely different life.
- Both leads are smart and passionate about their jobs.
- Both dramas include cute little children that act as the lead's sidekick.
- Both leads' romantic interests happened to be single parents.
- Both drama setting are in village with a close-knit neighbourhood - very heart warming.
Both shows feature a terribly tempered and high demanding mother. Although, in the Good Bad Mother, as the title reveals, the mother is the main character. This allows for her character to grow and become more likeable.
Both shows have some sweet romance.
If you like the crime story in this show, look no further. The Good Bad Mother is about a single mother raising her son to become a promising lawyer, all while she runs her pig farm. Unfortunately, her ways of parenting has severed the relationship with her son. While she tries to reconnect with her son, her son sets up a plan to officially end their mother-son relationship. One day, her son gets into a car accident and becomes his 7-year old self. Not being able to move his body and having lost his memories, his mother starts caring for him. While he gets better, she finds out about the secrets he kept from her. Was that car accident really an accident?
Both shows are about a single mother, are set in a small town/on the country side, contain some sweet romance, contain a crime mistery.
Both dramas focus on mending their relationships with their mothers.
IDWTBWY is about fl understanding her mother by time travelling while TGBM is about the mother understanding ml when he gets an accident.
Young Soon is a single mother and pig farmer who raised her son Kang Ho alone. Despite her love for him, her strict parenting caused Kang Ho to view her as a bad mother. As an adult, Kang Ho became a cold-hearted prosecutor and kept his distance from his mother. However, an unexpected accident caused him to return to his hometown and start over with Young Soon. Kang Ho's childhood friend Mi Joo, known for her warm heart and strong sense of justice, also reconnected with him after his accident, leading to a transformative experience for her.