Both are great shows with loveabke leads. HPL is about a fan girls obsessed with an idol and her BF who is sweetly her fanboy. ALML has an actual idol starring in it and he’s turning me into his fangirl. ALML is my current obsession. I’m fangirling that show the way I’m fangirling Ryan Gold from HPL. Both are great romantic showst. Where HPL is sweet; ALML is visually stunning with great acting, storytelling and direction.

Both shows on the surface seem to be fluffy sweet romantic comedies, but they both also carry much deeper meaning and life lessons. Both male leads become anti social due to childhood traumas that manifest into mental disorders. Both female leads help them to slowly open up and learn to join the world and socialize again. Both shows involve a bunch of lovable hodgepodge group of people who come together to form a family for the main leads who are orphans and alone in the world. Both shows will leave you feeling all warm and fuzzy and glad you watched and stuck with both bunches of lovable characters.

Both are very sweet romantic comedies. Both male leads have eccentric anti-social behaviors at first, but after they meet the sweet, naive, lovable female leads they start to soften up and become amazing SOs. 30b17 has a more serious social message and life lessons, but most of the show is light and funny. Both couples end up falling in love after living together. Both shows will give you second male lead syndrome and both shows will launch them into first male leads because of how lovable they were in these shows. Both shows have time jumps though most people will be very happy with the one in 30b17. Both are sweet love stories with very funny quirky characters. Both shows are about very artistically talented leads. They will both leave you with very warm fuzzy feelings.

Both shows are for the most part funny romantic comedies, but they both also have amazing life lessons and messages. Both shows have very direct female leads who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds to the male leads, though Seo Ri from 30b17 is much gentler in her approach. Both female leads are super kind, but are not afraid to give others a piece of their mind. Though Seo Ri is much more naive and inexperienced and sometimes isn't aware that she's being manipulated, but in her own funny way she takes care of herself and her sweetness doesn't prevent her from showing her temper when it's called for. Both shows have super romantic and sad moments and LOL moments. Both couples have great chemistry, though 30b17 couple is more naive puppy love and take longer to develop but the payoff is so worth the wait. Sung Hoon is in Oh My Venus and he goes on to have one of the cutest sweetest love stories with Shin Hye Sun from 30b17 right after he did OMV in a lovable family show called Five Children/Five is Enough.

Both are adorable endearing feel good shows where the couples are so sweet that you can get cavities from watching them. Though Louie is always super sweet from beginning to the end and Woo Jin was a kind person when he was young, but a trauma made him hard and avoid others, they both eventually become super sweet BFs. Both couples have great chemistry and both shows leave you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. They are my two top warm-hearted, light funny romantic comedies. Both female leads are looking for a beloved missing relative and end up finding the male leads instead and they form their own makeshift family.

Both are very warmhearted romantic comedies with the leads who are friends first before they fall in love. Both are great shows about friends who are like family who are very supportive and kind to one another. Both are slow burn love stories, but once the fireworks begin, it burns pretty brightly and both become some of the sweetest love stories out there with both male leads who support the female leads in her pursuit of her dreams. Also there's a strong womance element in both shows where the women/girls are super kind to each other and in 30b17 there are no female love rivals. Both female leads speak their minds and though Kim Bok Joo is very strong physically, Seo Ri may seem naive and weak on the outside, she's actually a very strong willed person and overcomes a great amount of tragedies yet she doesn't let them destroy her sense of optimism. Nor does Seo Ri like Kim Bok Joo let setbacks prevent her from pursuing her dreams.

Both shows are lovable feel good romantic comedies that most people will want to watch again and again. Though 30b17 doesn't have any evil characters, just very tough traumatic circumstances that the main couple have to overcome. Both have male leads who suffer from PTSD due to a traumatic accident that they blame themselves for. Both couples are connected through a childhood accident but meet unaware of this fact as adults. Both male leads are perceived by everyone around them as odd, antisocial and harsh, but eventually they learn to soften their behavior due to their love for the plucky female leads. Both female leads are orphans who have to go through a lot of hardships because they are alone in the world without family support and end up creating a new family with the men they meet. I love Shin Hye Sun as much as I love Ha Ji Won as an actress. Though Ha Ji Won has had many more shows where she's the lead, Shin Hye Sun makes me root for her the same way Ha Ji Won does and I end up looking for other shows of hers to watch in the same way.

Both are light, funny romantic comedies with moments that will pull at your heartstrings and make you cry. The male leads are outwardly cold but are secretly softies inside. Both female leads are very naive for their chronological ages because Mi Nyeo from YB grew up in a nunnery and Seo Ri from 30b17 devoted most of her childhood to playing the violin before falling into a coma when she was seventeen years old for thirteen years due to an accident. Both stories revolve around music, Kpop for YB and classical music for 30b17, both in their own ways make both genres of music sound really enjoyable. Both stories involve the couples falling in love while living together and both stories involve the leads looking for very important missing relatives. Both OSTs are great. Both shows will make you laugh, cry and root for the lovable characters.

Both are two of the cutest romantic comedies out there. Both have swoony male leads who start out as cold but warm up to be the most adorable BFs ever. Both have hilarious female leads who do physical comedy really well. Both will make you LOL and both couples have amazing chemistry though 30b17 couple is much more innocent due to their emotional ages. Funny coincidence, both female leads also acted together in Legend of the Blue Sea when Shin Hye Sun was still a second lead actress.

For those who love Shin Hye Sun and loved her character and acting in Stranger/Secret Forest and would like to see more of her work and be amazed by her acting range.

They are both romantic comedies with very sympathetic female leads who have to go through a lot of hardships to achieve their dreams. 30b17 is much lighter and is more comedic in tone and though the main male lead is also not very nice to the female lead at first, it was more coldness than the bullying that occurred in BOF. Both have great looking swoony male leads who start out as harsh and cold and eventually warm up due to the lovable and plucky female leads. Both have very caring second male leads who are always there for the female lead characters and were basically her first friends in the new world she found herself in. Both first and second male leads have very close relationships that get tested because they fell in love with the same girl though in BOF they both knew of their rivalry, in 30b17 only one guy knew that he was in a love triangle but both second leads had a moment of having to choose between their love for the girl or the guy.

Both Shows:

- Directed by the same PD.
- Have great life lessons and powerful messages.
- Great OSTs and wonderful love stories with great humor and heart.
- Both couples are very cute with great chemistry
- Both couples are connected through a childhood traumas/accidents