I'm pretty sure anyone who has watched Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha was reminded of it while watching Welcome to Samdal-ri simply because they're both healing romance dramas set in a seaside village. They also both feature a female lead who moves from Seoul to the countryside after facing some difficulties in her career.
both leads in both shows are childhood friends. i found both of the shows to be very healing and comedic as well.
While Welcome to Samdal-ri is sweeter, Our Beloved Summer gives the same vibes.
The males characters in both shows are adorable and heartwarming.
The female characters in both shows are no-nonsense career women.
Both are second chance romances.
ML and FL in Our beloved summer bicker a bit more than Samdal and young pil.
These two are perfect examples of romcoms.
Because they both are swoonworthy, heartfelt drama containing so much love for nature, people and yourself. These dramas give relief and reassurance to people to start afresh and just peaceful to wounded hearts.
Both dramas have rural setting while also showcasing city life. In both drama couple are mature and loved each other in past both drama has ambitious femal lead
Both dramas have stories of childhood friends turning lovers and daily life stories (slice of life) of the different families in the same town/neighbourhood.
Both dramas are set in the summer in the countryside. Both dramas have three siblings who make “trouble” for their parents, each with their own stories. Each drama has the one sibling who seems to be normal but makes the most trouble amongst the three. One sibling in each falls for the local guy, though the personalities and background of the MLs are different.
Entrambi sono ambientati in piccoli villaggi lontani dalla città, con degli abitanti pettegoli e ficcanaso che sanno sempre tutto di tutti. In più i due protagonisti erano amici in passato, nonostante poi gli sviluppi delle relazioni hanno dinamiche e situazioni diverse.
Same like Jo Sam Dal, Kiew, the ML in this story had to return to his hometown due to a misfortune. Everyone in the village calls him by his old nickname which he hates.
He who was a country boy before, changed when he got bullied in the city. Then, he grew up as a total city boy who dislikes the village lifestyle.
His return to his hometown teaches him a lot of life lessons and heals his soul through hardwork, family bond, friendship, and romance.
The FL decides to visit a province in the countryside to fulfill her late bestfriend’s wish to travel there together with her.
She worked as a Hotel Front Office Manager in the city, so the ML asked for her help regarding his tourism business in the village.
The whole experience she gets there heals her broken soul. This drama also revolves around tourism and business management.
In this Thai drama, the FL is a city girl who visits a rural village to take her nephew to live with her in the city, after her brother and sister-in-law’s death.
There, she encounters the ML, the brother of her late sister-in-law who is also the owner of a coffee estate in the village. His decision not to let his nephew follow her forces her to stay there and convince his family.
While staying there, she does whatever it takes to successfully bring her nephew with her despite the ML’s fight against her plan.
Romance
Falling in love
Slow burn
Lovers
Love story
Comedy
Cute
Heartwarming slice of life
Melodrama
Dramatic
their relationship is kinda similar bc in the present we see them struggle with their relationship and theyre not in sync they fight and we see flashbacks when their relationship was good so in both cases we wondered what went wrong in their relationship and throughout the series we see the reasons of why the relationship failed and we see how they reconcile again and that they always have loved each other its just that the circumstances prevented them from resolving their conflict and basically miscommunication between the two
Healing
Emotional
Wholesome
Friendship
Romance
Drama
Melodrama
Thrilling
Intriguing
Similar themes
Same kind of Theme, but in Wood job you have a perspective from a youth, so things are less dense and many times kind of funny.
But the connection that he finds in the countryside is very well explored with a light touch of romance.