Pasta (2010)

Both drama Male leads are chef in profession .
Both male leads train female lead for better cooking skils.
Both dramas have cute romantic scenes.
Both dramas have happy ending

After a year of working at a neighbourhood Italian restaurant, Ban Shogo, an enthusiastic, cocky young college student from Fukuoka, comes to Tokyo to perfect his cooking skills as a chef in Italian cuisine. He discovers he has much to learn and has to continually prove himself to the very competitive, quick and efficient staff at the upscale Italian restaurant.

Both:
Food themed rom-coms
Same writer
Similar humor
Set in a restaurant (one is Italian and one is Asian)
Good focus on food
New boss trying to take over the old staff
ML is a skilled hot-tempered chef, with an ex
FL is kindhearted
Charming main cast and
Shinning supporting cast
Heartfelt, feel-good dramas

The romances in these two dramas remind me of each other. In Pasta, the shared passion is food - in Nodame, it's music.

Plucky girl has great potential but lacks technical skill. Girl falls for anti-social, rude guy that is tops in his field. Quirky girl wears down rough exterior of guy and brings out the best in his personality thus making him a better (and less anti-social) person.

1. Not only do both star "The Voice" as the male lead, but they feature some familiar supporting characters.

2. They have the same director so the production quality feels the same.

3. The indie band Every Single Day produced the music/ OST for both.

they have the same background story. The head chef/boss doesn't permit office/kitchen romance and in the end the boss falls for an employee. :)

"Jun Kissa Inyeon" is a fantasy love story set in a retro coffee shop on the outskirts of a shopping mall and the story of the handsome Korean master Si Woo and the people who visit the place.

In both dramas they deal with food and romance.

Ikeda Yoshimi, a 28-year-old editor of a literary magazine who loves otome games and loves good-looking guys, will be in charge of a gourmet magazine even though she is not good at eating with ultra-small meals. However, she notices that when she eats with good-looking men, her appetite increases, and she pursues "good-looking rice" to improve her small meals.

Both shows take place in the kitchen; an Italian restaurant for Pasta, and a run down coffee shop for Coffee Prince. In Pasta, a brand new cook falls for the head chef who has a no kitchen romance policy and has even fired two other employees for this, while in Coffee Prince, a rich reluctant manager of a small coffee shop pretends to be gay to avoid his grandmother's matchmaking sessions, only to fall for one of his employees who he thinks is a man, but is really a girl disguising her gender to make a living working in an all male establishment. Both also have the phenomenal actor Lee Sun Gyun

A girl returns home from Paris and opens up a small patisserie with no name in a alley. There is no menu and everyday she only makes 3 types of desserts based on her mood each day. Naturally her business is not doing so well. No one knows of her past and why she appears to be so cold towards everyone holding onto some dark secret within her. One day a bright young man coincidentally enters the shop, refusing to leave and eventually becoming a staff in the store. Through his arrival, the whole atmosphere of the store changes. Will this man be able to open up her heart and let her face her past?

Gangster Patisserie. The adaptation will involve a female Japanese college student who runs away to Taiwan and gets involved with a reformed young hoodlum who just got out of jail after five years. Turns out his old gangster boss lost his wife to an illness and has decided to turn over a new leaf and become a legit businessman by starting a bakery that employs all his former gang members. His beloved deceased wife's daughter from her previous marriage is the Japanese girl and she arrives in Taiwan looking for her mom, and ends up living with her step father, who dreams of being a master baker but sucks big time at baking. The entire gang of misfits all live and work together, and heartwarming hilarity ensues.

Even though the settings are different, I found many similarities between the two dramas:

- A cold, selfish but brilliant man becomes in charge of a group of people
- A sweet, warm-hearted girl falls in love with him
- A kinder second lead pines after the girl
- The dramas concentrate on the lives of the group of people also rather than just the main couple (more so in Beethoven's Virus, I think).
- Main lead makes decisions for the group that others don't approve of, causes drama
- Main lead slowly earns the trust of the members creating a more united team

The only major difference I saw was that there wasn't as much of an emphasis on romance in Beethoven's Virus as there was in Pasta.

Both dramas are about Italian food and has somewhat similar points on saving the restaurant.